Jeffrey Francis Cullen, a Vietnam war veteran, was sentenced to five months in prison and was put on five years of intensive probation after a Mohave County Judge found him guilty of aggravated assault against firefighters. The incident dates back to August last year when a fire crew went to Cullen's home to extinguish an alleged tree fire reported by him but instead found a cat stuck on the tree and Cullen demanding to rescue it. According to police reports, Cullen, 59, told firefighters he had wanted a cat rescued from his tree and knew they would only respond to a fire call.

Reading erotic literature was an extensive social activity in eighteenth century, according to a new study. A Ph. D. candidate at the University of Leeds conducted the study. The study rejected findings of previous studies which suggested that erotic texts were read in solitude, saying that the erotic texts were read aloud everywhere from alehouses to coffee shops.

Employees at the Evergreen Aviation Museum, Oregon were shell shocked when a man broke inside the museum and smashed the glass window to adorn a World War II military uniform on display. Gerald Joseph Lahey then assaulted two employees by punching and biting them on Monday. McMinnville police have booked transient Lahey into the Yamhill County Jail on two counts of fourth-degree assault and one count each of first-degree criminal mischief, second-degree burglary, third-degree robbery and resisting arrest.

Canada is the most popular country in the world, according to a BBC World service poll of 12 heavy-hitting nations. Britain, China, France, India, Iran, Israel, Japan, North Korea, Russia, Venezuela and the U. S. were also contenders for the "best" nation poll, but Canada roped the majority of the 28,000 respondents from 27 countries into saying something nice about it.