Patients around the world relying on a little feel-good pain relief from nibbling on marijuana-laced snacks baked at a California factory will be out of luck because federal agents closed it down. Drug Enforcement Administration officials said agents raided the Tainted Inc. factory in Oakland on Wednesday and arrested several people. They also seized 460 marijuana plants along with a variety of pot-laced products intended for medical users of the drug. Those products included such things as barbecue sauce, chocolate-covered pretzels, candy bars, cookies, marshmallow pies, ice cream, peanut butter, jelly, energy drinks and "Rice Krispy treats. "

Two would-be burglars, who picked the Antioch Police Department K-9 team's training session building for robbery, are now behind the bars. In an attempt to steal copper wiring from the same building, 26-year-old James Ayers of Bethel Island and 38-year-old Frederick Guilliee of Antioch, California entered the 40,000-square-foot building at about 6 p. m. Tuesday, police said.

In an attempt to avoid paying his pending loans, an ex-convict prefers to be behind the bars. Salvatore Gramagna was arrested for slapping a police officer who asked him not to smoke in an area of Milan's Linate airport.

Though many women would agree that they are obsessed about clothes without any argument, now there is a survey to prove the fact. A recent poll conducted by a Canadian marketing company has found that women are far more clothes-conscious than men are. Almost 40 percent of the women questioned agreed they own five or more pairs of black shoes and considered it "OK," while only 15 percent of men agree. When the women were asked about the number of outfits they would need for a weekend away, sixty-seven percent of them said they would pack three or four, matched by 44 percent of men.

A lovelorn Australian farmer who headed to West Africa last month seeking a love match is glad to be home, albeit without his bride by his side. Des Gregor, 56, went to Mali to pick up the bride he had met over the Internet and pocket the promised dowry of $85,000 in gold bars to marry her.