A local convenience store was hit by two robberies in the same night, with the same clerk on duty during both incidents. Tommy Gutierrez behind the counter, was victimized twice when separate robbers barged into the Shell Station on Monroe NW between 9:45 p. m. and midnight Sunday.

On July 5, the first special flight that will allow passengers to fly in their birthday suit, naked that is, will take off from Erfurt in Southeast Germany to its destination in the island of Usedom off Baltic Sea. "All the passengers will fly naked, but they are only allowed to undress once they are in the plane. But then they will be able to enjoy the hour-long flight in the way God intended," Enrico Hess, the founder of the travel company OssiUrlaub, has been quoted as saying.

A transgender woman slapped a Catholic hospital with a lawsuit after she was denied breast-enlargement surgery. She is suing the hospital for charges of discrimination, because of her sex-change operation. Charlene Hastings, 57, recounted that upon going to Seton Medical Center to inquire about the surgery, she was blatantly told, "God made you a man. " She said that the surgical coordinator said that their facilities were not to be used to assist transgender surgeries.

A 77-year old man found himself stuck upside-down in his septic tank, in what he described as the worst Christmas Eve he had ever experienced. "It wasn't good, I'll tell you what," said Robert Schoff, recalling how his head was in the tank and his feet were kicking in the air.

A man from Washington went to the extreme of dramatizing his protest against what he called the commercialization of Christmas by nailing Santa Claus to a 15-foot crucifix in front of his house. Art Conrad even took a photo of his crucified Santa to adorn the Christmas cards he sent to friends and relatives with a message, "Santa died for your MasterCard. "Conrad said, "Santa has been perverted from who he started out to be. Now he's the person being used by corporations to get us to buy more stuff. ''