An 18-year-old man is accused of plotting his mother's death with three others so he could have access to her money to buy his girlfriend breast implants. According to the Denver Channel, Nikita Weis hired two young men for a total of $7,000 to kill his mother and dispose of her body. However, when the victim, Hyun Weis, was attacked Thursday in her home with a small souvenir baseball bat, she was able to escape after using the panic button on her key chain to set off her car alarm, causing the assailant to flee.

The U. S. Mint unveiled on Monday four new designs for the penny to celebrate the bicentennial of President Abraham Lincoln's birth. It also marks the 100th anniversary of the production of the Lincoln cent. The first redesigned penny will roll out Feb. 12, 2009. The remaining three designs will be released every three months after.

Local officials in a town near Pittsburgh are accusing a reverend and his wife of running a swingers sex club in a house of worship. John and Kim Ondrick of Huntingdon Township facilitate nature worship at the Church for Spiritual Humanism, located in a residential area.

Authorities don't know why two men were stealing pallets of flour from a milling company in Albany, New York. But Horizon Milling authorities reportedly became suspicious after their inventory came up missing tens of thousands of dollars worth of flour over a period of several months.

Bowing to pressure from major Canadian political parties, TV networks excluded Green Party Leader Elizabeth May from television debates. The only party which rooted for May's inclusion was the Liberal Party. Network officials from CBC, Radio-Canada, TVA, Global and CTV said the leaders of the parties hinted of a pullout if May will be included in the line-up slated Oct. 1 and 2.