Four inmates, including the leader of a violent gang that abducted and killed the son of a former Honduran president, escaped from prison on Tuesday. According to Rafael Castro, the inmates all used makeshift saws to cut the bars to their cells and used the sound of the rain to disguise the noise of the escape. However, he also stated that some of the guards may have helped in the escape.

The Boy Scouts of America have presented their highest honor to U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld accepted, saying, "I'm very honored to accept scouting's Silver Buffalo Award. Since its earliest days, the Boy Scouts have cultivated leadership and good citizenship, a service that has been recognized since the United States Congress first chartered the Boy Scouts back in 1916. "

A San Diego man has lost over 100 pounds on a walk across the country, an effort he undertook to help battle the severe eating disorder and serious depression he has been dealing with for 15 years, the results of his guilt over accidentally killing two elderly pedestrians. "It threw me into a tailspin. In the three years after the accident I gained 150 pounds," Steve Vaught, 40, says. "When something like that happens, you lose the ability to care about anything. You don't put value on anything, because you know it can end at any second. "

For one second only in the small hours of Thursday morning, clocks and calendars will combine to form a perfect sequence of numbers. At three seconds past 1:02 am precisely, the digital time and date will spell 01:02:03, 04/05/06.

Her $1. 7 million dollar verdict made international headlines, now a woman who claims she was spanked by her co-workers is telling her story on television. Janet Orlando said she is scheduled to appear on "Good Morning America," "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and a late-night talk show in the next several weeks.