BANGOR, Maine A man and woman who told troopers they were speeding to catch a flight when they were clocked driving 108 mph ended up in jail a second time - this time on charges of unruly behavior aboard an airplane, officials said. (More)

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. Chick-fil-A restaurant founder S. Truett Cathy has decided two girls accused of causing $30,000 in damage to his home should be punished with a writing assignment instead of charges. (More)

DILLON, S.C. A suspected thief trying to steal $10 worth of copper got himself into a stinky situation when he was trapped under a trash bin at a county landfill for 12 hours, sheriff's deputies said. (More)

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. A Bakersfield woman faces charges that she counterfeited money and identification cards after her 10-year-old son turned her in to authorities. (More)

DEL RIO, Texas The residents of this border town are facing a stinky and growing problem these days: skunks. Eddie Ortega, the director of Del Rio's Community Health Service Center, said there's an unusually high number of the malodorous creatures running around these days. (More)

BLACKWOOD, N.J. A 44-pound cat found lumbering around New Jersey was abandoned by a woman who said her home was foreclosed, an animal shelter official said Thursday. (More)

KELSO, Wash. Some RV owner is apparently dumping his sewage in the parking lot of the Cowlitz County Hall of Justice parking lot in Kelso. It happened first last summer, but when it happened again this month the county thought there might be a leak in sewer lines. (More)

CANEY, Kan. A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them. (More)

PELHAM MANOR, N.Y. Police say someone has stolen more than 1,000 gallons of gasoline from a station in New York's Westchester County. Authorities said Thursday that the gas apparently was filched from five pumps sometime last weekend in Pelham Manor. (More)

IOWA CITY, Iowa An alcohol-fueled argument between two friends degenerated into a fight in which one man bit off the other man's nose, police said. (More)

BLACKWOOD, N.J. A 44-pound cat found lumbering around New Jersey was abandoned by a woman who said her home was foreclosed, an animal shelter official said Thursday. (More)

CANEY, Kan. A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them. (More)

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. Yes, Michael Wax stank. He's the first to admit it. The 440-pound New York City man said he was playing poker in an Atlantic City casino for 17 hours Tuesday and didn't have time to clean up. He understands why grossed-out gamblers complained about his body odor, but said he didn't deserve stinky treatment from the casino that asked him to leave. (More)

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. A Bakersfield woman faces charges that she counterfeited money and identification cards after her 10-year-old son turned her in to authorities. (More)

PEEKSKILL, N.Y. Police say two drunken friends crashed their pickup truck into a parked car in New York City's northern suburbs and then drove down the street and crashed it again. Peekskill Detective Sgt. Eric Johansen said he's "never seen anything like it." (More)

FORT WORTH, Texas The third time was an alarm for a Cadillac driver apparently loading up on free gas while posing as a stranded motorist. A police officer became suspicious the third time he saw the same man stopped on the side of a road next to his Cadillac with the hood up, said Charles Gonzalez, the area's neighborhood police officer. (More)

WINFIELD, W.Va. The McHenrys are quite accustomed to strangers knocking on the door of their Putnam County home. Commuters, truck drivers, even delivery people will frequently show up on their doorstep and ask to sneak a peek inside. (More)

BOSSIER CITY, La. Talk about coffee to go. A man trying to rob a Bossier City convenience store about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday got coffee and cleaning fluid thrown at him by the clerk. Police said the clerk at a Circle K store was at the coffee maker when a man walked up, showed a knife and demanded money. (More)

JACKSON, Mich. It wasn't exactly a high-speed pursuit. A police officer riding a Segway arrested an 18-year-old Jackson woman early Tuesday morning for drunken driving. (More)

NEW YORK New York City doorman Richie Randazzo had said he wouldn't quit his day job after winning a $5 million lottery, and he didn't. He got fired. (More)

OLYMPIA, Wash. Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire is taking it as a compliment: She was turned away from a bar in the state capital because she couldn't prove she's of legal age to drink. (More)

LONDON Her majesty would not be amused. A pair of Queen Victoria's bloomers, with a 50-inch waist, were snapped up for $9,000 by a Canadian buyer at a central England auction Wednesday. (More)

SAN JOSE, Calif. Maybe he thought it would make his car fly. (More)

GAUHATI, India A lawmaker said he sacrificed more than 200 goats and four buffaloes at a temple in northeastern India to thank a goddess for delivering victory to the prime minister's government last week. (More)

DECATUR, Ga. Other museums might have more or flashier items to display. But only the mini-museum of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation can boast of possessing such an other-world oddity as the monkey from Mars. (More)