A prosthetic leg used by war hero Douglas Bader is being sold at an auction along with 42 pieces of his memorabilia. Phillip Knapper, from the auction house, said they expect the mementos belonging to the late war hero who became famous for continuing to fly for the RAF despite losing both legs in a plane crash to fetch over $200,000.

A state representative-elect, carrying a Bible and was just sworn into office, kicked a photographer who took a picture of him during a prayer in the statehouse. Douglas Bruce visited the House floor as a guest of a fellow Colorado Springs Republican Rep. Kent Lambert on Monday morning.

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.

A Japanese plane landed on the wrong runway where another plane was to take off in Osaka, Japan while a Taiwanese plane with a faulty speedometer returned to an airport in the country's southern island of Kyushu 30 minutes after takeoff. The two near-accidents did not cause any harm, but authorities are investigating the separate incidents and reviewing airport safety procedures. According to Japan Today, miscommunication between the pilot and air traffic controllers caused the All Nippon Airways (ANA) Flight 448 with 165 passengers to land on a 3,000-meter runway at Itami Airport in Osaka. At the same time, a Japan Airlines (JAL) Corp. McDonnell Douglas MD-87 passanger plane was to take off from the runway where the ANA plane was landing. But the pilot of the JAL Flight 2441 with 147 passengers and crew saw the incoming ANA plane and decided not to fly.

Angered by another lawsuit he considers inappropriate, Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers has sued God last week. Chambers says he's trying to make the point that anybody can file a lawsuit against anybody. Chambers says in his lawsuit that God has made terroristic threats against the senator and his constituents and thus can be sued in Douglas County because He's everywhere.