PATNA, India (Reuters) – Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
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BOONTON, N.J. – Police in northern New Jersey needed pepper spray to thwart a groundhog on the attack. Boonton resident Alex Scotttold police the rodent chased him when he entered his garage and tried to get his truck. Police Sgt. Mike Danyo and Officer Paul Ryan said the groundhog went on the attack when they arrived.
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OCEAN CITY, N.J. — Each year on the boardwalk, thousands of french fries are consumed by beachgoers, snatched by seagulls or tossed in the trash at the end of the day.

But once a year, the truly lucky ones become art.
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A Buckinghamshire man diagnosed with terminal cancer is to collect a second winning payout of £5,000 after betting he would stay alive.
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Had Bob Skipper never left his job as Multnomah County sheriff, he could be disabled, out of shape, rusty with the trigger finger and still keep his gig.

But because Skipper had retired 13 years before returning last summer to clean up the scandalized sheriff’s office, the agency that certifies police officers says he must go through a four-month basic training for new recruits or step down.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The world’s fanciest whiskers are coming to Alaska so their owners can strut their manly stuff in a land that has long appreciated furry faces.
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GRANVILLE, Ohio — Candy makers Greg and Socrates Goumas are opening a new store and are armed with their grandfather’s secret recipes, but so is their older brother – and he’s moving in 100 feet away. When George Goumas returned to Ohio from Sanibel Island, Fla., to run his family’s candy business, he had his mother’s blessing – filling the prodigal son role – but he squeezed out his brothers, long the chief chocolatiers at Goumas Candyland.
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