A daredevil hopes to propel himself across a southern Colorado canyon using a jet pack powered by hydrogen peroxide.

The Albuquerque Police Department has turned to the want ads for snitches. An ad this week in the alternative newspaper The Alibi asks "people who hang out with crooks" to do part-time work for the police.

An Arkansas man has been sentenced to prison for fatally shooting a stylist who was taking too long to braid his hair.

Six Shiba Inu puppies belonging to a San Francisco couple are leaving the Web after winning the hearts of millions of Internet surfers. About 4 million people are believed to have watched the pups, the New York Post reported.

The head of the Swedish post office has agreed to go without pay for his entire time in the position, repaying anything he has already been paid. Lars Nordstrom had come under fire after the newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported that he was being paid twice as much as his predecessor as chief executive officer of Posten, The Local reported. Nordstrom, who receives more than $500,000 in an annual pension from his years as head of a state-owned bank, and other income from directorships, was being paid 900,000 kronor ($106,000) a month.

Here's some food for thought: If you have nude photos of your wife on your cell phone, hang onto it.

A Sydney architectural firm suggests converting some of the area's 360,000 swimming pools into mother-in-law apartments -- draining them first. Nobbs Radford Architects' proposal was the runner-up in the Architecture Australia Prize for Unbuilt Work, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

A jaguar from Mexico recently had dental work done at the zoo in Phoenix by a father-son team.

Residents along mailman Steve Padgett's route in Apex, N.C., say he's their hero for refusing to deliver at least seven years' worth of junk mail. Padgett, 58, was given probation this week in federal court for failing to deliver pizza fliers, menu advertisements and store discount notices. Padgett, who has diabetes and heart problems, said he started burying the junk mail in his yard and hiding it in his garage because he was overwhelmed by the amount of direct advertising mail he was supposed to deliver, said his attorney, noting not one customer on Padgett's route ever complained of missing the junk mail. Padgett's secret was discovered when a utility worker noticed bins of mail stacking up in his yard and reported him, the Los Angeles Times said Saturday.

Encouraged by police, residents of a Washington neighborhood have started an e-mail campaign to keep a teenage robbery suspect in custody. The teenager has been arrested three times for a string of 21 robberies in Columbia Heights in which he allegedly knocked down people to steal their money, iPods and cell phones, The Washington Post reported Saturday. The suspect, whose most recent arrest was Friday, allegedly committed more crimes soon after being released following earlier arrests, said Edward Delgado, a city police inspector who sent an e-mail bulletin to residents of Columbia Heights pleading for them to inundate City Attorney Peter Nickles with calls and e-mails demanding the teen remain in custody, the Post reported. I am concerned that if this person is released again he may commit more robberies or, worse, harm one of you, Delgado said in his e-mail to residents.

A Chinese college student who wanted to hug a panda bear climbed into its pen, but instead of getting a cuddle he was mauled by the animal, officials said.

A woman gave birth to a baby girl Friday at a San Leandro, Calif., railway station, a Bay Area Rapid Transit spokesman said. BART spokesman Linton Johnson said the woman, who was accompanied by her 2-year-old child, went into labor at about 7 a.m.

An Essendon, Australia, crossing guard said he was fired after 15 years because of his smoking, even though he kept the habit away from children. Garry Macnamara, who said he has been smoking for about 50 years, said he received a letter three weeks ago from the Moonee Valley City Council informing him of his removal as a crossing supervisor at St.

Britain's Royal Mail said a postal carrier has been arrested after he allegedly kept mail meant for hundreds of Ipswich, England, residents. The Royal Mail said it opened an investigation with Suffolk Police after residents of two Ipswich streets complained about mail going missing, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. The 36-year-old mail carrier was arrested and a raid on a property tied to the case discovered a significant number of letters and parcels dating back as far as four years, the Royal Mail said. We can confirm a postman has been arrested in Ipswich over allegations of theft and delay of the mail following the recovery of a significant number of items at an address in the town, a Royal Mail spokeswoman said.

A Cavendish, England, man said he jumped in his car and chased a truck for 20 miles after the truck clipped the overhanging roof of his home. Wynn Evans, 63, said he was making a cup of tea in his 500-year-old home when he heard the almighty thud of the truck striking the overhang.

A British police helicopter pilot and two police observers reported they nearly collided with an unidentified flying object over Birmingham, England. The pilot and the observers aboard the copter told the Airprox Board -- the body charged with recording such close calls and reporting them to military and air traffic control authorities -- that the aircraft had to swerve to avoid a collision with the object at an altitude of about 1,500 feet, The Daily Mail reported Friday. The trio described the object as a small aircraft with continuous blue-green lights.

The owner of a London community center said a girl's 16th birthday party was ruined by about 60 gate crashing thugs who learned about the event on Facebook. Daniel Sisilu, owner of the London Baba Foundation community center, said a group of about 30 teenagers tried to force their way into the party at about 10 p.m.

The Spanish coast guard found two sailors after a boat owner's wife called emergency services in London, officials said. Louise Patel said she called the emergency number 999 from her London home after she hadn't heard from her husband, Jayesh, for more than 24 hours, The Daily Mail reported Friday. Patel said she had last heard from her husband and his friend, a Belgian whose name was not released, when they reported rough waters during their journey from Majorca, an island off Spain, to the mainland Spanish port in Tarragona in Jayesh Patel's 44-foot motorboat. Louise Patel was put in contact with the Thames Coastguard, which passed the information on to the International Coastguard Liaison Station in Falmouth, England. The station alerted the Spanish coast guard, which deployed ships, helicopters and Spanish air force jets to find the missing sailors. Spanish authorities said the pair were found adrift in a life raft 60 hours after they had been reported missing.

A student magazine at Britain's Cambridge University has raised controversy by publishing a topless picture of a female undergraduate. Vivid Magazine, which has a distribution of more than 5,000 including students from all of the university's 31 colleges, printed the photo of the blond student, whose name was not printed, wearing only a black lacy thong and stockings while straddling the historic Clare College bridge, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. The photograph is believed to mark the first time a Cambridge student has appeared topless in a university publication. I can't believe she agreed to pose for the magazine.

Police have arrested a man suspected of leaving greasy, graphic imprints on the windows of stores, churches and schools in a small Nebraska town. A 35-year-old man was caught in the act by police early Wednesday morning, Cherry County Attorney Eric Scott said...