Sharing a similar name with 20,000 other names of Americans on the terrorist watch list is causing nightmares to the namesakes, including children, who have been detained and questioned. Federal agencies and airlines said they are fixing the problem of false positives through the Secure Flight program, but it has been delayed because of concerns that the federal government will gain access to passenger manifests ahead.

A minivan slammed into a horse-drawn buggy in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on Sunday injuring four people, officials said. A family of seven was rear-ended by Dodge Caravan minivan. The man and three of his children were injured in the crash, with two boys and one girl airlifted to a hospital. The wife and two other children, along with the minivan's driver, were not injured.

A family of bobcats has moved into one of the many foreclosed houses in an upscale community in Southern California. According to the Los Angeles Times, neighbors in the Tuscany Hills community spotted the felines lounging around and on the Spanish-style house and called authorities thinking the cats were mountain lions. When authorities arrived, they found two adult bobcats and three kittens living in the spacious house.

Britain's Queen Victoria's stocking have sold at auction for a staggering $16,000. The black and white silk stockings, which bear the royal crest, fetched 40 times their list price when they were bought by David Alcock. Alcock, a bidder from North Wales, bought the legwear for Nottingham's Ruddington Framework Knitters' Museum - in honor of his late father-in-law Jack Smirfitt, who was a curator at the museum.

A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting he involved his children in killing the family cat. Danield J. Collins from Indiana forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet. The 39-year-old pleaded guilty to a felony count of animal cruelty and two felony counts of neglect of a dependent. In exchange, the state dropped three other felony charges, The Star Press reports.