Officers from at least four separate public security branches, cordoned several blocks near a Bellingham medical office building Thursday morning in response to an emergency call about a man carrying an assault rifle. To everyone's relief the grave situation turned out to be a case of mistaken identity, after it appeared that the woman who had called a 911 dispatcher had falsely identified the prosthetic leg as an assault rifle. According to police, the woman called 911 to report of a man entering the Chestnut Professional Building with an assault rifle.

A small Texas town is worried that a cabinet maker who happens to have two wives and two dozen children will soon be their neighbor. Samuel Fischer is a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- a denounced offshoot of the Mormon Church. Warren Jeffs, leader of the FCJC, currently awaits trial on charges he married off teenaged brides to older men.

A real estate agent and her prospective clients literally ran out of one the houses in Janesville, Wisconsin when they found a homeowner's two-week old dead body in the bedroom. Linda Chabucos-Galow, a real estate agent with Shorewest, was standing in the dining room when her clients Justin and Colleen McKeen decide to check out a new house Monday night.

Inmates at a Kansas' prison now have to work out the methods for the economic use of toilet papers. The crisis has arisen from a prison's previously dormant policy which limits inmates to one roll at a time to stop unnecessary wastage. Under the policy, a prisoner at Hutchinson Correctional Facility will be restricted to four rolls of the 1,000 single-ply sheet toilet paper each month. Other than that, inmates will also be limited to three bars of hand soap, one tube of toothpaste and one comb each month.

Maintenance workers responding to a complaint about a clogged toilet at the Palace of Justice, Spain found 30 pounds of hashish caught in a pipe was responsible for the blockage. The drug-filled drainage pipe was located Friday in a restroom used by prisoners inside the building that houses courtrooms and jail cells, in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the coast of Morocco.