Takeru Kobayashi captured his sixth straight title at the Nathan's Famous Hot Dogs Independence Day eating contest at Coney Island boardwalk Tuesday afternoon. Kobayashi set a new record by downing 53 3/4 dogs, winning the Yellow Mustard belt. Kobayashi set the record two years ago by eating 53 1/2 of Nathan's best. According to the Associated Press, the famed eater once ate 17. 7 pounds of pan-seared cow brains to win $25,000.

A woman who was making additional income by growing chicken and selling eggs to supplement her disability income was constrained after complaints of crowing roosters from disturbed neighbors. The northwest Arkansas community of Rogers came up with new laws and restrictions in keeping birds at home in the city limits.

Two store clerks will spend six months in jail and one will remain on house arrest for two years after playing practical jokes on unsuspecting customers. Anthony Mesa and another clerk, who work in a Deland convenience store, urinated in a Mountain Dew bottle and put it back in the refrigerator for sale. They also put eggs in beer cartons.

A convenience store clerk in Florida is facing prison time after a nasty practical joke. Anthony Mesa urinated in a bottle of Mountain Dew, which a customer later drank. Now Mesa faces six months in jail, after pleading no contest in court.

Ian Mucklejohn is the UK's first man to have his own children without having a female partner. The 58-year-old businessman decided to contact an American egg donor, have her eggs fertilized with his sperm in California and pay a surrogate to carry the babies. If he had done it in the UK, it would have been illegal.