A suspicious package at a post office next to the Smithsonian's National Postal Museum turned out to be a false alarm. The police called for the evacuation of the site for several hours after a postal worker noted a foul smelling package that no one came to claim. The package also did not have any postage or address.

A four-year-old boy has become pen pals with Britain's Queen Elizabeth. Tom Stancombe started exchanging letters with the monarch after he released a balloon, carrying his name and address, at a school fete and it landed in the grounds of Windsor Castle. The queen spotted the balloon and asked her personal assistant, Angela Kelly, to write a letter on her behalf.

Authorities in Waukesha, WI, have taken a man into custody who they say liked to smell girls' shoes and had stored as many as 1,500 pairs at his home after stealing them from various schools in the area. The man was arrested after a surveillance video showed him entering North High School on May 20 and leaving in a vehicle. Investigators traced the vehicle to a Kenosha address, which led to the man in question. Police records showed that the man was convicted of a similar shoe burglary at Kenosha Tremper High School in 2005.

An Oregon mother looking for a jacket on the online auction site, eBay, found one that looked exactly like the one her daughter lost at school. Why? It was the same jacket. In January, the mother of a third grade student in Hillsboro, Oregon visited her daughter's school more than once to try and find a missing Columbia Sportswear jacket.

A Pasco County man, who fled the accident scene soon after his van crashed into the lawn, was recognized by the shoe that he left behind. The accident took place at 1:34 a. m. about 100 miles west of Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom when a Ford van smashed into the bathroom of a house in suburban Holiday. However, the van's driver immediately fled from their front lawn, leaving a shoe behind. Residents Sandy McCombie and her fiance Michael Toth called the Florida Highway Patrol to investigate the matter.