A 14-year-old area girl twice found rocks rather than rock-and-roll when purchasing an iPod at local Target stores. Regan Ritter discovered the rock-filled iPod packaging after seeking to buy the digital media device for her birthday. At Forth Worth, Ritter used her mom's $350 Target credit card. After returning it, the store offered a credit at a Grand Prairie Target. At the Grand Prairie store, Ritter and her mom opened an iPod video package in front of store personnel and again found a package full of rocks.

An Applebee's restaurant accidentally served a 2-year-old boy a margarita in a children's sippy cup. It was the second such incident at an Applebee's franchise in as many years. Kim Mayorga noticed her son making faces and pushing his cup, of what was supposed to be apple juice, away. When she opened the cup, she was hit with the smell of tequila and Triple Sec.

Kim Mayorga was freaked out when she discovered her two-year-old son was served a margarita instead of the apple juice she ordered at an area restaurant. The incident happened Monday, when Kim was dining with her three children and father at an Applebee's restaurant and she noticed her toddler son making funny faces and pushing away his favorite drink - apple juice. It took no time for Kim to understand the cause of her son's strange behavior. When she opened the lid of the sippy cup she knew right away what had happened.

Thailand on Friday holds the tenth annual Miss Tiffany Universe pageant. The beauty contest which brings on stage the most beautiful transvestites from all over the nation, is one of the country's most watched event with millions of viewers. Started as a transsexual cabaret in Pattaya, a resort town about 68 miles southeast of Bangkok, the show has evolved into a full fledged national competition, whose winner like any traditional beauty contest is beset with loads of prizes and contracts with advertising firms.

A Calvert woman credits her two-year-old golden retriever with saving her life. According to Debbie Parkhurst, 45, the dog apparently performed a canine version of the Heimlich maneuver that helped to dislodge a piece of apple stuck in her windpipe. Recalling the Friday afternoon's incident to Cecil Whig, Parkhurst said she was eating an apple at her home when a piece lodged in her trachea. She attempted to perform the Heimlich maneuver on herself but it didn't help, so she began beating on her chest.