An Illinois woman recently got her high school class ring back after more than two decades. Laura Durham of Belvidere, Ill. , remembers taking off the class ring, and several others, just before she got into a car accident in July 1984. The jewelry was later discovered by Bob Windsor, who worked at the salvage yard in South Beloit, Ill. , where Durham's car was taken after the crash. He added the rings to his coin collection, intending to find the owner someday.

To mark the centennial celebration of Filipino migration to the United States, San Fernando Mayor Oscar Rodriguez said a limited set of 12 lanterns will be designed with gems and unveiled at the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, California on October 21. The lanterns will be designed by renowned Filipino fashion designer Marisse "Marigonz" Gonzales.

Scientists have always believed that women show no signs of peaked fertility to the opposite sex, as other animals often do. A new study may prove that belief wrong. A study of college women showed that women tend to show more skin and dress more fashionably when they are ovulating. They also wore more flashy jewelry during this time.

According to Discovery News, new evidence shows that Christopher Columbus traded cheap brass shoelace tags for gold when he and his crew arrived in Cuba. Lead researcher Marcos Martinón-Torres claims that Columbus and his crew knew what they were doing when they ended up getting the better end of the deal. Gold was fairly in abundance in Cuba at the time.

According to a report by the Sun-Sentinel, a 17-year-old teenage boy was arrested for the alleged theft of vehicle burglaries in Broward County, Florida, as undercover detectives saw him driving around a gas station that had already reported 10 vehicle burglaries over the last few days. The police found several identification cards of other individuals, jewelry and a couple of PDAs in the car that the teenager was driving, which was also reported as stolen.