If a local ballot initiative passes in Eureka Springs this November, people can smoke the green, green grass of home and not be in the jailhouse now. To the surprise of pot enthusiasts statewide, local leaders of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws have been able to gather enough signatures in this Bible Belt, small tourist economy based town, to put on the election ballot a proposed change in the catagory for minor marijuana offences.

South African Christians seeking a quick spiritual boost will be able to download the entire bible on to their mobile telephones phones from Wednesday as part of a drive to modernize the scriptures. Rev. Gerrit Kritzinger, chief executive of the Bible Society in South Africa, said in a statement, "The Virtual Bible will enable the Bible Society to supply the Bible to every modern cell phone user in a fast and affordable format. "

Three Mexican shark fishermen claim that they survived more than nine months at sea in a small boat by eating raw fish and drinking rain water as they drifted thousands of miles across the Pacific Ocean. The fishermen said they left their home town of San Blas on Mexico's Pacific coast last October to fish for sharks. But due to some mechanical problems at the boat and adverse winds they were blown towards the sea.

A Virginia man who had gone to drop off his trash at the Route 41 dump bin was caught to his surprise when he found a 188-year-old King James Bible along with other books in a box meant for disposal. The man, who's fending off offers approaching $1,000, says the price offered for the ancient Bible is not realistic and thus would "hold on to it for now. " In an interview with the Danville Register and Bee, electrician Michael Hoskins, who discovered the rare, ancient Bible, said, "I go up there all the time to drop off my household trash, and there it was. There were three or four boxes of books leaning up against the concrete wall behind the Dumpsters. "