Tamara B. Tootle, a teacher at Ernest Ward Middle School, Pensacola, FL pleaded no contest to six felony counts of third-degree bribery resulting from her daily one dollar charge for students to skip her gym class. Not only has Tootle lost her teaching certificate, but she will serve three-hundred hours of community service.

"Spaceship Earth," a million dollar sculpture honoring environmentalist David Brower on the campus of a Georgia public college, has reportedly collapsed and broke into pieces. It was made for the purpose of reminding the future generations of the Earth's fragility and ironically collapsed just three months after its unveiling. The 175-ton massive spaceship with phrase "our fragile craft" was still visible amid the debris at Kennesaw State University.

Welcome to your new condo. Oh, and don't mind the long line to the soup kitchen. New multi-million dollar condos are being built over a church, homeless shelter, and soup kitchen. Since 1865, the First Congregational Church of Christ has dug its roots into the ground at 10th and G Street NW serving the community and it's not going anywhere.

Holland is experiencing an increase in incoming tourism from the US -- a market that decreased after 9/11. This year will be the first since before 2001 that the country will welcome it's one-millionth visitor from the US. Conrad van Tiggelen, Director, NBTC North America said, "Despite the exchange rate concerns, with the dollar in a renewed slide against the Euro, visitors from the USA are back to the levels of 2000. "

A 15-pound lobster was released into the water after living in the lobster tank at Angelica's Restaurant in Bethlehem for a month. The restaurant's owner, Fred Cunha, had bought Monstro from a fishing boat in mid-October. Monstro is 37 inches and has 15-inch claws. Cunha estimates that he is 50 years old. A lobster so large and old is no ordinary thing.