NOT AN URBAN LEGEND Wednesday, April 16

A county official in Portland, Ore., said his office gets "20 to 30 calls" annually about rats in toilets. In March, Daniel Powers reported he spotted the "little guy with beady eyes" looking up at him. The problem is more severe in India, where an …

THE SIN OF SLOTH Wednesday, April 16

People sometimes stage ruses to avoid unpleasant tasks, like the student who calls in a bomb threat when he's not studied for an exam, but Dwayne Yeager's motivation was just laziness. Yeager, 31, called cops in Brandon, Fla., in March, reporting a …

PEE AT YOUR OWN RISK Wednesday, April 16

In December, at a Home Depot in Banks County, Ga., yet another prankster put glue on a restroom toilet seat, trapping an unwary shopper seeking to relieve herself. Twelve days after the incident, the victim told WSB-TV she was still in pain. …

STORE NOT REWARDS ON EARTH Wednesday, April 16

Among the $43 million worth of "renovations" the former German "Bishop of Bling," Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, ordered spent on his home and office before he was forcibly retired by Pope Francis in March: a 6-foot-deep fish tank with koi, at …

NO SMALL INJURY Wednesday, April 16

News site MedPageToday.com is keeping tabs on the eventual unveiling of new, obscure, minutely detailed billing codes for doctors to report diagnoses and treatments to insurance companies, and among the latest to be part of the medical landscape are …

CHEEKY PEEKS Wednesday, April 16

"Jane Doe," the second of two victims of reckless, anal-oriented medical and law-enforcement drug searches reported in NOTW in January, has filed A lawsuit to be compensated for the repeated, nonconsensual probes and tests ordered by U.S. Customs & …

IN RECOVERY Wednesday, April 16

"It's my favorite time of day." Sam scrolls through his iPhone, taps the song he wants and turns the volume all the way up. Thrashing pop-punk guitar riffs come blaring through a mini-speaker he's rigged to dangle from the rearview mirror of his …

TODD SNIDER WANTS TO MELT YOUR BRAIN Tuesday, April 15

Jaxsons Take Downtown; Less Than Jake, DJ Kemit and New Coke arrive, and Earth lovers just want to keep Fort Clinch State Park clean

BESTEST KIDS ISSUE EVER! Tuesday, April 15

Our directory of summer camps, events and activities will reduce the misdemeanor tote among Northeast Floridian youth

CODE ENFORCEMENT BLUES Tuesday, April 15

Green Cove Springs views Ida McDaniel as a scofflaw. She sees herself as a 
working-class woman just trying to get by