The Livingston County American Red Cross honored a 2-year old English Mastiff, who according to them had donated blood more than 20 times. The donations of the dog, named Lurch, had reportedly been of great help to the organization, as it had even aided in the recovery of a dog that ingested rat poison.

Jerry Morgan noticed that the front windows of his neighbor's house in Parker City was shattered, and was shocked to see blood all over the walls. Thinking that a murder had occurred, Morgan phoned the local authorities for assistance.

An unconventional artist who became notorious for turning the Trevi Fountain in Rome into a surreal pool of blood two weeks ago, mounted another protest action, this time using more than a million multi-colored plastic balls which he released from the top of Rome's famous Spanish Steps. "This was an artistic gesture to demonstrate the problems we have in Italy and to do so, I used art," Graziano Cecchini said of his latest stunt. "Both the Left and the Right are telling us so many lies and I and the Italians have had enough. They have broken our balls and hence this live art display. "

A Michigan man attempting to shoplift from a local store stuffed a number of hunting knives down his pants, tripped while trying to flee the store, and stabbed himself. The 26-year old suspect, who was said to have attempted to steal $300 worth of knives from the Knapp's Corner Meijer store, sustained puncture wounds to his abdomen, said officials. Recounting the incident, police said that the man got into a scuffle with the security guards, resulting in him falling on the knives.

A misunderstood witchcraft ritual could have caused the deaths of two teenage girls, police said. Police charged Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. with two counts for the first-degree murder of his stepdaughters after authorities arrived Sunday at his burning home in Sioux City, Iowa, and found the girls in their second-story bedroom and blood on Harris, police said Monday.