In an attempt to collect life insurance policies and earn more money, an owner of an Ohio funeral home filed false death certificates of the people. Police charged Brent Peters, owner of the Mader-Peters Funeral Home in Circleville, Ohio for filing false certificates of many people; some of them even alive. State officials are currently going through death certificates filed in recent years to determine if any of the supposed deceased are still alive.

A survey conducted by an insurance and financial services group has shown that the majority of U. S. drivers do everything ranging from eating and reading to writing grocery lists and nursing babies when behind the wheel. Thirty-one percent of respondents admitted to day dreaming, and 14 percent of the surveyed drivers said they took advantage of time spent driving to discipline their children. The survey, conducted by Nationwide Mutual Insurance on more than 1,200 American drivers, showed that the majority of American drivers do all sorts of outlandish things while driving - including changing clothes, balancing a checkbook and even shaving.

Public offices in Britain have been told to stick black tapes on their desks to encourage efficiency and to remind civil servants where to put their keyboard and pens. The project will cost the government over $13 million. But union officials are complaining against the program and described it as "madness. " The union said, "It's demoralizing and demeaning. "

The Christmas season might be the time for everyone to take a break from their jobs, but not for robbers and thieves in Lake Clarke Shores, Florida. Surpassing its normal limit of only a dozen robberies per year, the place has seen 14 house robberies in the last month.

Vandals have destroyed an estimated $10,000 in sod, and possibly the livelihood of a family-owned business that has been farming since 1868. David Motz, owner of Motz Turf Farms, near Newtown in Ohio, says, an acre and a half of recently seeded grass, which is sold to developers and landscapers, was vandalized.