Spencer's Gift shops is in hot water after selling x-rated Christmas decorations. The "Pornaments" depict characters such as reindeer and snowman in a variety of sexual poses.

What makes a sandwich a sandwich? Could one define the nature of a burrito as simply a Mexican sandwich? A Worchester judge presiding over a legal dispute between Panera Bread Co. and Qdoba Mexican Grill answered these tough culinary questions last week. Panera, a bakery and sandwich making food chain, filed suit against the owners of the White City Shopping Mall for allowing a burrito making business to open shop in the same facility. Panera and the mall had signed a lease agreement in 2001 barring rental space from any other sandwich shop. According to Panera, burritos are sandwiches.

A woman is suing the J. C. Penny Co. following a clash with a legless store mannequin that allegedly left her with a cracked tooth, bleeding scalp and recurring shoulder pain. The lawsuit filed in Orange County Superior Court seeks unspecified damages. Diana Newton, 51, of Westminster in her lawsuit has claimed the incident happened nearly a year ago when she was shopping for a blouse in women's department at company's Westminster Mall store. The only one in her size was on the mannequin, and as a salesclerk was removing the garment, the dummy's arm eventually flew off hitting her head.

California dispatchers say only a third of 911 calls are for real emergencies. Some of the more ridiculous calls include people who can't find their cars at the mall, lost their keys, are stuck in traffic and want to know what's holding them up, or have a baby that won't stop crying. California Highway Patrol dispatcher Dennis Kirchner tells The Associated Press, "People have called because they went through the drive-thru and their order was wrong. . . People call because they're lost. "

According to officials, a woman had to be taken to the hospital on Wednesday after paramedics freed her from a shopping mall restroom toilet seat. Paramedics used fingernail polish remover to "unstick" her from the seat. Investigators believe that a cement compound had been placed on the seat by someone at the mall.