Police jailed a western Pennsylvania man who was allegedly digging up a marijuana plant in his yard as officers arrived to arrest him on unrelated theft charges.

A 19-year-old woman was accused of taking $7 in change from a car parked at a police station  in Florida.

• Coffee break pays off for Minnesota deputies

Police arrested a North Pole woman accused of shoving her friend out of a moving vehicle.

Officials accuse a 51-year-old San Antonio grandmother of phoning a bomb threat to an elementary school that wouldn't let her visit her grandchildren.

• Pa. man fires cannonball into neighbor's home

Officials say an emaciated-looking Nubian goat wandered onto the property of a nursing home in the Bronx, where two other goats were discovered in July.

• Utah officers use Tasers to subdue escaped bull
• Union says firefighters had to bathe elephant
• Another 4-year-old girl hurt by deer at Mass. zoo

A Montana police officer who wrote on his Facebook page that there should be a law allowing police to take people to jail for being "stupid" has resigned.

A college professor on a crusade to change the way a Los Angeles-area weatherman uses weather terminology has to leave him alone or face six months in jail.

Authorities in eastern Pennsylvania say they have identified a suspected bank robber using the wallet he left behind.

An Arizona man was arrested after authorities say they watched a video of him apparently trying to feed a kitten to a python and later killing the feline by drop-kicking it.

• Mich. man with more than 100 dogs charged
• SoCal man admits letting animals kill each other

National American University is no longer suing a California pornography company that used a name the school thought was too similar: Naughty American University.

The national debt is so large, it doesn't even fit on most calculators. A real estate developer was concerned that no one in government, nor most Americans, had ever seen the number, so he made a new calculator.

Lincoln police said a 12-year-old boy was drunk when he stole a car, hit three objects and tried to flee. But a 41-year-old neighbor chased down the boy, tackled him and held him for police.

• Woman, 86, trapped in crashed car for 2 days

An FDA test shows that either a frog or a toad was in a Florida man's can of Diet Pepsi before he opened it.

• Fla. deputy helps raccoon with head stuck in jar

A former inmate in Florida was injured while trying to sneak back into jail as Sylvester Jiles suffered severe cuts from barbed wire while trying to climb a 12-foot fence.

• Vermont man admits stealing neighbor's electricity

A Florida man born without arms says a Tampa bank would not let him cash a check because he couldn't provide a thumbprint.

As the reigning table tennis world champion with two Olympic silver medals under his belt, China's Wang Hao almost had it all -- except a girlfriend.

• German court lets boy be named 'Djehad' -- holy war

Police say a 20-year-old upstate New York man was in trouble after trying to impress his girlfriend by telling her he had capsized his boat while fishing on Lake Ontario.

Stinky city bus riders soon could get soaked. The Honolulu City Council is considering a bill that would impose up to a $500 fine and/or up to six months in jail for public transit passengers convicted of being too smelly.

• Md. police say man tried to pay for gas with pot