Some of the earliest and most important paintings of the Western Desert art movement were stolen from the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory on Tuesday. Seven pieces of aboriginal paintings, valued at more than $460,000, were recovered hours later after the thief apparently changed his mind and dumped them in a park, police said.

Anna Falco, a 53-year old woman from Woodbridge, won the jackpot at the Casino Rama, allowing her to celebrate Easter wealthier by $8. 7 million. Falco bet $2. 93 each spin to get the jackpot and she had already spent $195 when she made the hit of a lifetime.

A number of Gloucestershire villagers are petitioning the village parish council for a grant to help them get a donkey aimed at helping them trek their way from a shopping mall all the way to their residences atop a steep hill. According to a local newspaper, around 30 residents from Rack Hill in Chalford are complaining they cannot reach their homes by car. They say they are fed up with carrying their groceries up to their 100-yard high community on top of a hill.

Anna Plumstead didn't know that her attic in Wiscasset,Me. held a very priceless treasure: A rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence delivered to her town in 1776 as part of a campaign to spread the message of independence throughout the original 13 coloniesThe copy, printed in Salem Massachusetts in 1776, was discovered after Plumstead died in 1994. The document changed hands through a series of auctions after finally ending up with a private collector from Virginia who paid $475,000 for it in 2001.

Gold Coast police on Sunday said they have fined a parent caught providing alcohol to a teenager during end-of-the-term school celebrations in Queensland, Australia. Queensland Police spokeswoman Melanie Loy said the parent, a woman, was slapped with a $600 fine.