Officials said Wednesday that police officers were now trying to uncover details regarding the series of suicides in a Welsh town which were believed to be linked to an internet online network. The death of a 17-year-old teenage girl heightened the alert of police because in over a year, there have been six young men who took their own lives in the area.

With barely three weeks to go before the nation celebrates Halloween, an Oregon man claimed the record for the largest pumpkin in the annual pumpkin weigh-off with a gigantic gourd that came it at 1,524 pounds. With his giant pumpkin, Thad Starr, of Pleasant Hill, Ore. , is set to receive get $6 a pound, for a total of $9,144.

Google said Thursday it will give $30 million to the first company that can land a rover on the moon and transmit a gigabyte of data. The contest is a joint offer of the Internet giant and the X Prize Foundation. The contest has a 2014 deadline. To earn at least $20 million, a company must meet contest requirements by 2012. Google also provides a $5 million prize for second place and $5 million for the team the goes beyond what is expected of them.

Police arrested a 42-year-old woman Tuesday after neighbors complained she was disturbing them with chants around a self-built bonfire nearly 10 feet from her home at midnight. According to police reports, Brenna K. Barney, who was found clad only in a T-shirt and underwear, yelling chants in her backyard while wearing headphones. She even smelled of alcohol and told police the neighbors were infringing on her religious beliefs since she was performing a Wiccan ritual under the new moon.

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.