Police arrest Mich. man for car wash vacuum sex
THOMAS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after “receiving sexual favors from a vacuum” at a car wash.

The Saginaw News reports the 29-year-old Swan Creek Township man was arrested Thursday in Saginaw County’s Thomas Township, about 90 miles northwest of Detroit.

Cops: Teen hired pair to kill his mom for money

FOUNTAIN, Colo. – A Colorado teenager hired men to kill his mother so he could use her money to get breast implants for his girlfriend, police said.

Montana grizzly bear was relocated for soothing the ‘rumbly in his tumbly’

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Far from the Hundred Acre Wood, a Montana grizzly bear was relocated for soothing the ‘rumbly in his tumbly’ by stealing honey from commercial hives.

State bear management specialist Mike Madel says it was surprising that the 4 1/2-year-old bear had wandered as far away as Simms, about 20 miles east of the Rocky Mountain Front.

In the fall, black and grizzly bears are constantly searching for food before they den for the winter. Madel figures that’s what brought the bear to the Simms area.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.

The group found the 46th known Mersenne prime last month on a network of 75 computers running Windows XP. The number was verified by a different computer system running a different algorithm.

World’s shortest man, leggiest woman meet

LONDON (AP) — Trafalgar Square routinely serves as a stage for mimes, jugglers and other acts, but the tourist attraction drew an exceptionally curious crowd Tuesday when the shortest man who can walk met the woman with the longest legs.

He Pingping, of China, was born with a type of dwarfism. He, 20, stands precisely 2 feet 5.37 inches tall.

The pair met to publicize the release of “Guinness World Records 2009.” This year’s version of the popular book is due out Wednesday.

He called Svetlana Pankratova’s legs “very beautiful.”

Pankratova, 36, who is Russian but lives in Spain, has legs that are nearly 52 inches long, or more than 4 feet long.

Burglar wakes men with spice rub, sausage attack

Fresno County authorities have arrested a man they say broke into the home of two farmworkers, rubbed one with spices and whacked the other with a sausage before fleeing.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. – The body of a toddler found in the trunk of his mother’s car may have been there for months as she drove around town, evaded questions about him and was even arrested, police said.

Modesto man tries to amputate own arm

Police say a man tried to cut off his own arm at a restaurant in Modesto, Calif., because he thought he had injected air into a vein while shooting cocaine and feared he would die unless he took drastic action.

Authorities say 33-year-old Michael Lasiter rushed into the Denny’s restaurant late Friday and started stabbing himself in one arm with a butter knife he grabbed from a table.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican has warned journalists who will travel with Pope Benedict to Lourdes next month not to put the revered water from the shrine in their hand luggage on the papal plane or it may be confiscated.

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.

Caua Felipe Massaneiro survived a 30-foot (10-meter) fall because his diaper snagged on a security spike embedded in the concrete wall around his apartment building in the northeastern Brazilian city of Recife.