An 18-year-old Petaluma man was severely injured by shrapnel from a pipe-bomb that exploded in a porta-potty near a baseball field on the Fourth of July.

The victim lost a great deal of blood from the wound in his back.

Jordan's Prince Feisal thinks softball has the power to advance women's rights in the Middle East. The 45-year-old royal - who is the younger brother of King Abdullah - has spoken out in favor of including the sport in the 2016 Olympics, after it was dropped after the 2008 Games.

Feisal thinks the ball game should be reinstated as an official Olympic Sport because it promotes equality of the sexes.

Angelina Jolie is the most powerful celebrity in the world. The 34-year-old actress topped the annual poll by Forbes magazine, knocking U.S. talk show host Oprah Winfrey - who has held the top spot for the past two years - into second place.

Explaining that the magazine took into account earnings as well as fame, Forbes senior editor Matthew Miller said: "In addition to nearly doubling her earnings in the past year, from $15 million to $27 million, Angelina Jolie is the most famous star on the planet."

An 18-year-old man is accused of plotting his mother's death with three others so he could have access to her money to buy his girlfriend breast implants.

According to the Denver Channel, Nikita Weis hired two young men for a total of $7,000 to kill his mother and dispose of her body. However, when the victim, Hyun Weis, was attacked Thursday in her home with a small souvenir baseball bat, she was able to escape after using the panic button on her key chain to set off her car alarm, causing the assailant to flee.

A judge declared a hung jury Friday in the case of a man killing his girlfriend's cat in a drunken state of rage.

After deliberating for five days, a jury was dismissed when the judge decided they were unable to decide unanimously whether to convict the former New York Mets minor league baseball player and actor of aggravated animal cruelty.