When two guys in cowboy garb offered the sheriff's deputies doughnuts, and then the deputies investigated a burglary involving ...

AP - The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute will pay volunteers as much as $4,000 to be bitten by mosquitoes infected with malaria. Scientists say no lives are in danger because the volunteers can be cured. The institute is testing which vaccines work fastest.

AP - When wintery weather strikes, police don't spend all their time dealing with motorists who can't adapt. On Tuesday in Springdale, an alarm sounded at 5 a.m. at a Papa John's Pizza outlet. Police saw that the door had been forced, but a better clue was on the ground — footprints in the snow.

A die-hard NASCAR fan's friends took his ashes to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway and had a driver take him for a spin.

AP - When two guys in cowboy garb offered the sheriff's deputies doughnuts, and then the deputies investigated a burglary involving doughnuts and the prints of cowboy boots, it didn't take Sherlock Holmes to crack the case.

AP - Big George Helms had tickets for last weekend's NASCAR race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but died before he got to use them. He still made it to the track, though.

Reuters - A Finnish court on Wednesday dismissed charges against the prime minister's former girlfriend, who wrote a kiss and tell autobiography about their brief affair.

Reuters - HANOVER, Germany (Reuters)- She may be Germany's most prominent woman, but Chancellor Angela Merkel found Vodafone's new image search software could not identify her.

When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion they wore nail polish to their first news conference. But it's the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart right now.

Juan Pablo di Pace didn't mind that a Royal Opera House poster showed him naked. He didn't even mind the air brushing.

Reuters - Few Hungarians thought they'd ever see Lenin in Budapest again.

Parents use nail polish to tell the difference between identical triplet boys

In the past year three severed human right feet, still wearing trainers, have washed ashore in the same bit of Canada.

Reuters - The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

AP - Travelers using Denver International Airport's free Wi-Fi service cannot visit Internet sites that airport officials consider provocative.

AP - Juan Pablo di Pace didn't mind that a Royal Opera House poster showed him naked. He didn't even mind the air brushing.

Voters in two southern Vermont towns approved articles to have police arrest President Bush and Vice President Cheney if they ...

Reuters - A Finnish court on Wednesday dismissed charges against the prime minister's former girlfriend, who wrote a kiss and tell autobiography about their brief affair.

Reuters - Earplugs may not be the most glamorous fashion item around, but a charity for the deaf has asked designers to pitch suggestions to make them hip enough for young clubbers at risk of long-term hearing damage.

When Robert Kadera's teenage son was running late for a tennis date near their northern Illinois home, Kadera came up with a novel way to avoid 45 minutes' worth of traffic -- fly.