The city beaches in Fort Lauderdale, Florida will soon be equipped with high-tech automated toilets that welcome its users with a polite greeting and also soothe them with light music during the process. The computerized toilets are expected to cost between $250,000 and $350,000 for a single-toilet restroom. The city commissioners voted Tuesday in favor of paying $25,259 to an engineering firm to design the site.

A capuchin monkey is under the custody of the Montgomery County Division of Animal Control and Humane Treatment in Maryland, after authorities seized the animal from a woman who was raising the baby as her own. Elyse Gazewitz says her 1-year-old, 18-inch monkey, Armani, was like a baby to her and has been battling the state for custody. A Maryland law forbids possessing a "nonhuman primate," including monkeys, as a pet.

A woman has sued a hospital and two doctors after giving birth to a baby girl despite having an abortion. In the lawsuit filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Jennifer Raper, 45, claims that the physicians failed to end her pregnancy and now were responsible for the financial burden of raising her daughter. Raper decided to have an abortion when she found out she was pregnant in March 2004. Therefore, on April 9, 2004 she went to Planned Parenthood, where Dr. Allison Bryant performed the procedure on her, but it "was not done properly, causing the plaintiff to remain pregnant," said the complaint, according to the Boston Globe.

A two-year-old girl's temper tantrum got her and her family removed from their flight home to Boston from Fort. Myers, Fla. An Airtran spokeswoman said Elly Kulesza was climbing under her seat, hitting her parents and refused to buckle up during boarding. She said Airtran was only following Federal Aviation Administration rules that say children age 2 and older must have their own seat and be buckled into their seat by take-off.

The American Kennel Club(R) announced on Monday that the Yorkshire Terrier, fondly called the "Yorkie" by millions of enthusiasts, has taken the number two spot as the most popular purebred dog in America. The Yorkshire Terrier beat out the beloved Golden Retriever and the iconic German Shepherd Dog to become the second most popular purebred dog in America according to AKC(R) registration figures. The Labrador Retriever is the most popular purebred dog in the country once again -- a spot it has held since 1991.