On Tuesday, the annual Bulwer-Lytton literary parody prize went to an opening sentence containing a burrito, an angel and a shovel. Retired mechanical designer Jim Guigli of California was proclaimed winner of the contest, which challenges entrants to submit their worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel.

A woman whose heel was cut with a pumice stone while getting a pedicure in a Fort Worth salon in July died in February due to a staph infection that triggered a heart attack. Now her children are suing for unspecified damages. The three teenage children of Kimberly Jackson filed a lawsuit last week, claiming Angel Nails did not follow state regulations for disinfecting the whirlpool and instruments.

A Philippine judge who claimed to see future and admitted consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs has asked for his job back after being fired by the country's Supreme Court. Florentino Floro, a trial judge in the capital's Malabon northern suburb, was sacked last month and fined 40,000 pesos ($780) after a three-year investigation found he was incompetent, had shown bias in a case he was trying and had criticized court procedure, a ruling showed.

Mexican police arrest a soldier who shot and killed two lower-ranking men for refusing to clean their base. Police spokesman Angel Lopez tells Reuters that Alonso German shot the two subordinates at an army base near Cancun.

A stray bullet strikes and kills a little girl during her birthday party in a Chicago neighborhood. The shot 10-year-old Siretha White in her aunt's first floor apartment as she celebrated her birthday with family.