AP - A Forest Lake woman has her mom's ashes back. Last month, a thief burglarized Michele Siedow's home and stole her mother's ashes. Two days after news media reported the theft, Siedow received the cremains in the mail, in a padded manila envelope.

Police in suburban Detroit are looking for a 6-foot-tall glass of Guinness

AP - Amy and Jim Albert's truck handled a special delivery when it broke down on the way to a hospital. A pregnant Amy was having painful contractions when the couple left their home on Wednesday. But they had to pull over about 45 minutes from the hospital when their truck died.

AP - With Easter approaching, a church in western Ohio plans to help people fill up and also hopes to help fill their spiritual needs.

AP - Police in suburban Detroit are looking for a 6-foot-tall glass of Guinness. Don't worry, it's work-related. A green, pint-glass-shaped Guinness costume has been reported stolen from an Eastpointe resident's garage.

Reuters - The Florida Senate wants public school students to pull up their pants.

AP - Danbury officials have been notified they are being sued by a student who was awakened in class by a teacher who made a loud noise. Documents filed with the Town Clerk, a prelude to a lawsuit, claim that a sleeping student suffered hearing damage when his teacher woke him up by slamming her hand down on the boy's desk in December.

AP - Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all? That's the situation city officials in Tamarac are facing. No voters showed up Wednesday night to cast a ballot in an annexation referendum for an unincorporated Broward County community.

Police in suburban Detroit are looking for a 6-foot-tall glass of Guinness. Don't worry, it's work-related.

AP - A mouse intent on flying to Atlanta prompted officials to ground a plane for more than five hours Thursday in Des Moines. A flight attendant spotted the mouse before passengers boarded the 5:50 a.m. Atlantic Southeast Airlines flight. About 30 passengers were kept waiting at the gate until the plane finally left about 11:30 a.m.

A 35-year-old woman who sat on her boyfriend's toilet for so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time he called police had a phobia about leaving the bathroom, the boyfriend said.

Reuters - A Macedonian court convicted a bear of theft and damage for stealing honey from a beekeeper who fought off the attacks with thumping "turbo-folk" music.

Reuters - Little-known Australian Tony Carolan sacked his caddie en route to claiming a share of the first-round lead at the inaugural Ballantine's Championship on Thursday.

Reuters - The self-declared heir to Russia's imperial throne on Thursday congratulated Dmitry Medvedev on his election win and urged the future Kremlin leader to fulfil Russia's destiny as a great world power.

Reuters - Alligators can stealthily manoeuvre through the water leaving nary a ripple, despite having neither fins nor flippers like other adept swimmers. Instead, they use special muscles to shift the position of their lungs, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

Amy and Jim Albert's truck handled a special delivery when it broke down on the way to a hospital

Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all?

Every vote counts. But what happens when there are no votes at all?

No matter what the cameras say, some drivers are refusing to pay dozens of $40 speeding fines. Who? Police officers.

For guys who park in front of the TV during college basketball's March Madness, the Oregon Urology Institute has a suggestion: Why not use that time to recover from a vasectomy?