A booming real estate market has Canadian marijuana growers looking toward cheaper land in northern Ontario as a way to cut down on costs. In the past two weeks, police say they have made two massive pot busts in sparsely populated towns in northern Ontario, a region better known for its mining, timber and paper mills.

Fearing more violence after Genoa's demotion from Italy's top division for game fixing, police are keeping a close eye on ferry terminals and train stations. Violence breaks out early Tuesday after Italy's highest soccer tribunal decides to relegate Genoa to the third division.

An 80-year-old Italian retiree, who lived alone with seven cats and was adopted by a family, after placing an ad in the classifieds begging for company, skipped out on them, leaving behind a dentist's bill for $2,860. Since taking off, Angelozzi has sent the family two checks to cover the cost; checks later discovered to be stolen from another family that had also taken in the con artist.

Legislators in Texas on Tuesday decided to prohibit 'sexually suggestive' performances in schools by enacting a law, reports AFP. The State of Texas is known for its Dallas Cowboy football cheerleaders. The law will eventually ban dance schedules of school cheerleaders and drill teams. Some politicians felt that that the sports events have become like "something out of strip club. " According to AFP reports, the legislators are particularly annoyed with exposed midriffs and wearing of shorter shorts and skirts. "Some of them are just downright vulgar, something you would see at an adult club or something," AFP quoted Joe Deshotel, a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives, as saying.

A meteor shower Sunday night resulted in frantic phone calls to police departments all over New England. Calls were made from people who mistook the bright lights of the shower for crashing planes. The lights came from the Lyrid Meteor Shower, which was scheduled to be visible to the naked eye between April 20 and April 25. Reports indicate the shower was seen as far north as Portland, Maine and far south as Long Island. "Some witnesses apparently mistook the meteor shower for a plane crashing in Connecticut," the FAA's Holly Baker said. Firefighters in Branford, Conn. , responded to several reports of a possible plane crash in Long Island Sound in the Thimble Island area, but a search did not turn up anything and was called off a short while later.