A father who wanted to teach his 14-year-old son a lesson and made him wear a large sandwich-board sign saying, "I abused and sold drugs. " As the teenager walked up and down the sidewalk Wednesday in front of Cedar Bluff Middle School, the father told WATE-TV, "I'm not out here doing this to humiliate my son. "

Looks like former Spice Girl and ultimate 'Footballer's Wife' Victoria 'Posh' Spice can't get a break. The former singer and aspiring fashion icon hasn't even started her All-American campaign just yet, and already a designer is trying to persuade her to stay put in England. New t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan "Free Becks, Keep Posh" have already gone on sale in an attempt to have soccer star David Beckham come to America sans his pouty wife.

A Canadian woman and her 1-year-old dog ended up in the hospital with almost identical symptoms after the two ate the same moist pet food that was recalled in North America some time back. In an attempt to trick her terrier into trying a new kind of food, Elaine Larabie ate it herself and suffered from "embarrassing" symptoms including foaming at the mouth, problems urinating, vomiting and loss of appetite.

An environmental group in Australia has captured a "monster" toad that weighs 2 pounds, is 8 inches long toad and is among the largest specimens ever captured in the northern city of Darwin, Australia. Graeme Sawyer, the coordinator of the group FrogWatch, said, "It's huge, to put it mildly" adding that the male frog is almost the size of a football. It is twice the weight of an average cane frog and almost one-third longer and heavier than the previous biggest a female captured in the middle of Darwin.

New Mexico on Tuesday declared the "bolo" tie as the official neckwear of the southwestern U. S. state. Bolo ties consist of a piece of a cord fastened with an ornamental bar or clasp. It's "our bipartisan fashion statement," Gov. Bill Richardson said as he signed the measure into law, according to the Associated Press reports.