"Drugs and Sex For Sale, 24/7. " That's what the large orange sign says in bold black letters that hangs outside one angry landlord's building. The small print underneath says, "Please help us, call Cincinnati City Council. "Fed up with blatant drug dealing and prostitution in his neighborhood, apartment building owner John Wallen put up the $400 sign in an effort to get authorities to crack down on the criminal activity on Churchill Street in Cincinnati, where his building of six units is down to one tenant. He told the Cincinnati Enquirer that the heavy crime at night is driving his tenants away.

A female Eastern box turtle called Turtle No. 72 has led Washington police to a well-tended marijuana garden in Rock Creek Park. The turtle is one of 135 wired animals with a small radio transmitter on its shell to provide scientists data on turtle movements. The six-inch turtle wanders through 50 acres near the District-Maryland boundary.

Police, with the approval of wildlife experts, have shot a black bear that accidentally stuck a plastic jug on its head when the animal strayed into the community of Frazee during the town's turkey festival. In a statement issued Wednesday, a bear expert at the Department of Natural Resources said they allowed police to kill the bear on Saturday because the animal came close to people. An estimated 1,500 people were in Frazee to celebrate Turkey Day.

Two women in their 70s were sentenced to life imprisonment in Los Angeles Superior Court Tuesday for killing two homeless men to collect the victims' $2. 8 million life insurance money. Helen Golay, 77, and Olga Rutterschmidt, 75, received the sentence from Judge David Wesley. A jury convicted the septuagenarians dubbed the "Black Widows" in April for running over Paul Vados, 73, in 1999 and Kenneth McDavid, 50, in 2005.

Parents watching a schoolboy rugby match Sunday were angry and appalled after hardcore pornography interrupted the scheduled programming. The Prime Channel, a free broadcast station, was showing a Grass Roots Rugby show when they claim a distribution fault caused the "inappropriate material," from a pay-per-view channel to be aired on the wrong station.