Grandma's House

Researchers said pine is especially effective for alertness and scents such as strawberry helped reduce road rage.

A man landscaping his garden in eastern England has unearthed a major hoard of tools and weapons dating back nearly 3 000 years, an archaeologist revealed on Tuesday.

The hoard is among the largest finds in Britain from the late Bronze Age, consisting of 145 items including spear and axe heads, swords and metal working tools.

Some of the thousands of Australians who flocked to Turkey's Anzac Cove to commemorate their war dead were reportedly outraged when Australian organisers of the ceremony played the Bee Gees' hit song "Stayin' Alive."

City officials are perplexed over the discovery of mysterious chunks of flesh that have been clogging up city water lines. A month ago, city officials sent a hunk of meaty-fatty tissue to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources for identification.

Krauel said drinking water was not affected by the blockages and is safe to drink. Chlorine levels have been temporarily increased as a precaution, he said.

A herd of buffalo somehow got loose and wandered around an upscale neighborhood Tuesday, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners before officers managed to corral them in a tennis court.

The officers used lounge chairs beside the tennis court as shields and formed a human chain to corral the wayward buffalo. One buffalo was seen leaping over one of the tennis nets in an effort to evade capture.

The golfers -- Harold Parris, Rothermund and Tom Lindon -- arrived at the par-3 12th hole shortly before noon one day, and it was Parris' turn to tee off first, said Lindon, 77, a resident of Sea Pines.

There were two alligators near the green on Robber's Row golf course when Parris, who happened to be golfing without his glasses that day, teed off. The ball bounced once about 2 feet before landing directly on one of the reptiles' tails, Lindon said.

"Unbelievable," Lindon said with a laugh. "It was one of the funniest things I had ever seen. The alligator didn't move an inch."

A worker at a slaughterhouse east of the city accidentally shot a co-worker in the leg Wednesday when the intended target, a pig, bumped into the weapon.

Dog owners in Turin will be fined up to 500 euros ($650) if they don't walk their pets at least three times a day, under a new law from the city's council.

People will also be banned from dyeing their pets' fur or "any form of animal mutilation" for merely aesthetic motives such as docking dogs' tails, under the law about to be passed in the northern Italian city.

A 17-year-old Eastside youth was arrested this week on suspicion of arranging the theft of his $50,000 BMW so he could collect the insurance money to upgrade to a pricier Bentley, police said.

The California Supreme Court is putting to pasture a lawsuit brought by an animal rights group alleging the California Milk Producers Advisory Board is falsely advertising that California's cows are happy.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued here in December 2002 alleging the board's advertising was false and misleading. The ads show cows grazing in green pastures with the slogan, "Great cheese comes from happy cows. Happy cows come from California."

The animal rights group said it may never be known whether cows are happy, but said cows live in deplorable conditions, are repeatedly milked and impregnated before being slaughtered.

Bo Bice started out with a rock band called "Purge", then moved on to "Blue Suede Nickel", and then to "Sugar Money". Three songs are available online from Bo Bice's bands. "My Blessed Blues", "Someday", and "My Wish" can be downloaded at Garageband.com.

The American Idol bio for Bo Bice also notes that Bo "has opened for Blackfoot and Warrant, and has performed live and recorded with Jonny Neal of the Allman Brothers."

A stuffed film-prop-turned-college-mascot was found suspended from a chapel ceiling at Milligan College.

The 1-ton buffalo was found dangling from a chain Wednesday after it was stolen from the college field house Easter weekend. A broken horn from the animal was left on the chapel baptistery.

According to the suit, filed by the St. Louis firm of Anderson & Associates, the store "allowed wild birds to enter the Gardening area in which customers travel ... (and) that said wild birds created a dangerous condition."

Nichols claims the bird caused injuries to her head, brain, neck, muscles, bones, nerves, discs, ligaments, as well leading to the loss of neurological functions and cognitive skills.

Her attorney, Zane T. Cagle, said "the bird was described to us as being about the size of a robin or pigeon."

A sign on his back read "This is for charity, I'm not crazy" to alert confused passersby.

A man was beaten to death after catching his wife's lover living in a closet in their home, police said Tuesday. Rafael DeJesus Rocha-Perez, 35, was charged with homicide in the slaying of 44-year-old Jeffrey A. Freeman over the weekend... Freeman's wife had allowed Rocha-Perez to live in a closet of the Freemans' four-bedroom home for about a month without her husband's knowledge, police said. On Sunday, her husband heard Rocha-Perez snoring and discovered him, authorities said.

Freeman ordered his wife to get the man out of the house while he went for a walk, authorities said. Martha Freeman told authorities that when her husband returned, Rocha-Perez confronted him with a shotgun, forced him into a bathroom and bludgeoned him.

A golden Labrador survived a 100-foot fall down a cliff after another dog — a black Labrador — ran to get help from the first dog's owner, coast guard officials said.

The golden Labrador named Lacey became trapped after slipping down a rocky slope Monday near South Stack, in Holyhead, north Wales.

The black Labrador, named Sheena, spotted her lying in a pool of water at the bottom of a gully and raced to fetch Lacey's owner, barking to gain attention and directing her to the stricken animal.

Jean Collop was woken in the early hours after hearing a noise. She went outside in her nightdress and saw the intruder near a skylight.

"I politely told him not to move," said Mrs Collop, who is in her late 60s and lives in Wadebridge, Cornwall. "I grabbed the first thing that came to hand, one of my garden gnomes, and hurled it at him, and hit him.

"He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."

A 911 dispatcher was reprimanded for responding to a mother's plea for help with an unruly child by saying: "OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?"

"I admit what I did. It was stupid, it was inexcusable and I'm sorry," said dispatcher Mike Forbess.

The duck, a brown mallard with white markings, has had several names suggested by Treasury Department people, including "Quacks Reform," "T-Bill," and "Duck Cheney."

“It is sad,” said Capt. Scott Logan of the Halifax Regional Fire Service. “Chances are they won’t recover any of the beer.”

“I had a tear in my eye, actually, when I was watching it,” said Halifax Regional Police Const. Mark Hobeck. “It was full of beer. We were hoping a Hostess truck full of pretzels would come by, but no such luck.”

Kurdish leader Talabani named Iraq's president

The newly elected Iraqi parliament chose Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as its new interim president Wednesday, taking one of the last steps toward forming Iraq's first democratically elected government in half a century.

A 36-year-old woman with severe hypertension has been fitted with a pacemaker-like implant that, in limited trials in Europe, has shown promise in controlling wayward blood pressure through electronic stimulation of neck-artery nerves.

Surgeons at the University of Rochester Medical Center inserted a battery powered pulse generator under Lawrence's collarbone along with tiny wires running up each side of her neck that stimulate nerves in the carotid arteries that play a role in regulating blood pressure.

After the operation, which lasted a few hours, her systolic blood-pressure reading dropped from about 210 millimeters to about 160, Sloand said.

Officials at Forbes Regional Hospital in Monroeville said they got about three times as many calls as expected a day after they announced that equipment used for colon exams might not have been cleaned properly.

The $8,000 caricature, which stood in protest of the possible location of the village’s proposed sewage treatment plant, was snatched early Tuesday morning.

Don Allen, the group’s president, thinks the theft was politically motivated since the sewer plant has surfaced as a campaign issue in the testy village president’s race

An alert Greenwood Village police officer is credited with a large marijuana bust after noticing a suspicious vehicle parking in a handicapped spot at a local motel.

The unidentified officer saw the parked vehicle Wednesday evening and talked to two females in the car. While talking to them, he noticed that the steering column had been damaged.

The officer called in the license plate and it came back as stolen out of New Mexico, police said. When he took the two females into custody for auto theft, he said one of them mentioned there were drugs in the vehicle.

A K-9 unit from Arapahoe County uncovered 265 pounds of marijuana in the car, with a street value of $525,000, police said.