A California men's prison hopes to keep inmates from returning to crime by training them for undersea construction and dam. The marine technology training program is taught to prisoners serving 14 months to 4 years sentences. Ironically, the California Institution for Men is landlocked and located on a stretch of former farmland some 40 miles east of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa vetoed the city council's decision to award a black fire fighter $2. 7 million after he said his co-workers mixed his spaghetti with dog food. Furthermore, Fire Fighter Tennie Pierce said he suffered retaliation from the other fire fighters after he reported the incident, saying the other men barked at him and asked him how dog food tasted. He sued the department in 2005.

Gourmet food on an airplane? It's happening more and more as chefs and hotels are teaming up with airlines to create in-flight meals. Various airlines have found top chefs to help them out.

Devoted baseball fans will have the ability to have their cremated ashes placed in urns that sport the logo of their favorite franchise as soon as next season, sources report. Major League Baseball and a leading maker of funeral products are to begin working together to promote a new line of MLB urns, promising to take the seventh-inning stretch into eternity for those interested in the product. Next season, fans of the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and Los Angeles Dodgers, will be able to purchase urns bearing their teams colors and insignia.

The prediction is in: The 300 millionth American will be a Latino baby boy born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-Immigrant mother, according to demographer William Frey. The U. S. Census Bureau also made a prediction -- that the 300 millionth American will be born by 7:46 am on Tuesday.