Pushy Prisoner Wednesday, May 15

John Leopold, former Anne Arundel County, Md., executive, serving 30 days in jail for illegally forcing his government security detail and another employee to run personal errands, apparently wasted no time in March showing a similar attitude toward …

Guessing Where Gangs Will Grapple Wednesday, May 15

California street gangs stage fights whose locations can be accurately predicted using the same algorithm anthropologists use to predict where lions and hyenas will fight in the wild to protect their territories. A UCLA researcher, using the …

Outlawing Animal Abuse Videos Wednesday, May 15

Animal-rights activists have had success in recent years making covert videos of abuses on farms and in slaughterhouses, showing defenseless animals cruelly mistreated in patterns unlikely to be caught by government inspectors making orderly, rare …

Pennies for Your Dimes? Wednesday, May 15

Carl Bellenir, 48, was arrested in San Luis Obispo, Calif., in February after he'd successfully cashed in, at a Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, several rolls of pennies stuffed into rolls labeled for dimes. Bellenir apparently didn't realize the rolls …

Too Sexy for Riyadh Wednesday, May 15

In April, a newspaper in the capital city of Riyadh reported three men from the United Arab Emirates were booted from a religious festival by Saudi morality police because they were thought to be "too handsome" and would make Saudi women improperly …

My Three Wives Wednesday, May 15

Another Saudi daily reported in April that a schoolteacher agreed to marry her suitor, on the provision that the man take two of her colleagues as extra wives. (Saudi Arabia allows men as many as four.) The item stated the woman rented three …

Super Sword-wielding Mormon Wednesday, May 15

Kent Hendrix heroically rushed to the aid of a female neighbor being assaulted by an acquaintance on their residential street in Millcreek, Utah, in April and scared the man off (though he soon turned himself in). Hendrix is a bishop in the Church …

Predicting Baby's Potty Tuesday, May 14

Caribou Baby, a Brooklyn, N.Y., "eco-friendly maternity, baby and lifestyle store," has recently hosted gatherings at which parents exchange tips on "elimination communication" — the weaning of infants without benefit of diapers (as reported in …

Wind in No Rush Tuesday, May 14

In March, Washington, D.C.'s WRC-TV reported a woman from the Maryland suburbs showed a reporter a traffic citation she'd just gotten, ticketing her for driving in the left lane on I-95 in Laurel while going only 63 mph — compared to the posted …

70-year-old Twin Prostitutes Retire Wednesday, May 8

In March, twin sisters Louise and Martine Fokkens, 70, announced their joint retirement after more than 50 years each on the job as Amsterdam prostitutes. In February, the minimum age for …