AP - A family of five got lucky as they drove down a busy Anchorage street — their car hit a snow bank. That allowed emergency responders to rescue them Wednesday morning from poisonous carbon monoxide fumes that had seeped into the vehicle, causing the driver to pass out.

AP - A little housecleaning nearly cost the Rev. Walter Hermanns a seat at Sunday's National Football Conference championship game. Hermanns, who has multiple sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, was getting some help from a friend last Friday when he asked him to take care of a stack of papers left in a bin for shredding.

AP - Pullman police said a WSU student was arrested twice the same night for smoking marijuana. The 20-year-old was arrested Tuesday night with two other men for smoking in a parking lot, police said. They were cited, fingerprinted and released shortly after midnight.

Reuters - U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur came to a House committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Reuters - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has lent his presidential jet to fly fans to watch the national team's opening African Nations Cup game in Ghana, the Sports Ministry said on Thursday.

AP - Stacie Warren wasn't satisfied with one husband, so police say she married again and again. Warren, 33, was cited last week on a second charge of bigamy for having three husbands. State police said Warren married Frank Gray last year while she already was married to two other men.

Reuters - The declining number of dark sheep among a wild herd in Scotland comes down to genes, researchers said on Thursday.

Reuters - Proving boomerangs really do come back, an Australian town was Thursday celebrating the return of a boomerang stolen from an outback museum by an American tourist 25 years ago.

Reuters - Russia's military Thursday offered compensation to a homeowner after a small rocket veered off course and hit his country house outside Moscow.

A little housecleaning nearly cost the Rev. Walter Hermanns a seat at Sunday's National Football Conference championship game.

A man who wrote a vulgar message on the memo line of a check he used to pay a $5 parking ticket has apologized in writing, leading police to drop a disorderly conduct charge against him.

Fluffy, a 24-foot python billed as the largest snake in captivity, is staying put to lure visitors into the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

Fluffy, a 24-foot python billed as the largest snake in captivity, is staying put to lure visitors into the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

A man who wrote a vulgar message on the memo line of a check he used to pay a $5 parking ticket has apologized in writing, leading police to drop a disorderly conduct charge against him.

Fluffy, a 24-foot python billed as the largest snake in captivity, is staying put to lure visitors into the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

A man who wrote a vulgar message on the memo line of a check he used to pay a $5 parking ticket has apologized in writing, leading police to drop a disorderly conduct charge against him.

Reuters - A Berlin burglar's break-in took an unexpected turn when he stumbled upon a corpse and felt compelled to call the police.

Reuters - Two reporters and a director at public broadcaster NHK are being investigated by Japan's securities watchdog for suspected insider trading using information from an internal editing system, Kyodo news agency reported NHK as saying on Thursday.

Reuters - Beijing's crackdown on corruption has reached the supposedly non-profit-making China Sexology Association whose business activities have come under investigation, state media said on Thursday.

Reuters - Russia's military on Thursday offered compensation to a homeowner after a small rocket veered off course and hit his country house outside Moscow.