A rare, endangered turtle was saved from likely boiling in a Chinese soup pot after wildlife officers and a microchip worked to save it from an ugly fate. Poachers nabbed the animal, belonging to a species known as "royal turtle" in Cambodia; its name inherited from the practice of feeding its eggs to kings, from a Cambodian river two months ago, and smuggled it across Vietnam's border on a motorbike, along with a horde of other common turtles.

A 76-year-old woman is arrested by Jacksonville authorities for selling crack cocaine. The woman is booked on charges of possession and sale of a controlled substance. Allegedly, the woman was selling crack using her purse. She would put the drugs inside and lower them by rope from her second-floor window. The suspect, Minnie Perlotte Collins, who has no previous record in Jacksonville, is accused of selling $20 worth of crack in a police sting and has since been released on $10,000 bail. Police say they found a gun and ammunition in Collins' house, as well as a purse attached to a rope next to her bed.

A handful of women on Northwestern University's national championship women's lacrosse team have found themselves in the middle of a national fashion don't. A photo taken of the NCAA champs revealed four of the nine women in the front row wore flip-flop sandals along with their appropriate dress and skirt attire.

Internet betting sites suggest that U. S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, will be confirmed as the next justice for the U. S. Supreme Court. Dublin-based Tradesports. com, on Wednesday, put the odds that Gonzales will replace O'Connor at 9 to 1, while Emilio Garza, a U. S. Appeals Court judge, was the favorite at 4 to 1.

Police discovered 300 cats, a third of which were dead, in the Virginia home of an elderly woman after neighbors complained of a stench coming from the house. The house, less than a mile from late President George Washington's historic Mount Vernon estate, looks neat from the outside with manicured lawns and bright flowers, but inside it was overflowing with wild cats, feces and urine.