ven before the votes are tallied and winners announced, this year's midterm congressional elections already proved that in the wild world of politics, anything is possible. For example, on Tuesday, a Louisville, Kentucky poll worker was arrested and charged with assault and interfering with an election for allegedly choking a voter and pushing the voter out the door.

Ice cream maker Good Humor has partnered with pet food producer Pedigree to produce ice cream sandwiches for dogs. The Pedigree Ice Cream Sandwich Treats for Dogs will be dairy-based with the same texture as ice cream, but only 1 percent lactose because many pooches are lactose intolerant.

The invention of Welshman Howard Stapleton of a device which claims to repel teenagers, has won this year's peace prize at the Ig Nobels - a spoof version of the real Nobel prizes. According to the BBC, the device makes a high-pitched noise that is annoying to teenagers but is inaudible to adults.

The IgNobel, a humorous take on the Nobel prizes, was awarded to research work on stinky feet, a study on the sound of fingernails on a blackboard and a device that repels teen-agers with an annoying high-pitched hum to name a few. "The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honour the imaginative -- and spur people's interest in science, medicine and technology," said Marc Abrahams, editor of the science humor magazine "Annals of Improbable Research," which sponsors the awards.

An Ohio auto dealer apologized to anyone they offended after proposing an advertisement proclaiming "jihad" on the US auto market. The Ohio Chapter Council on American-Islamic Relations is expected to offer the Mitsubishi dealership a form of cultural or sensitivity awareness counseling after the incident.