St. Joseph resident Lori Felzien had to face one of the most embarrassing situations of her life when her sixth-grade son dialed the number printed on a bookmark he received during a health lesson and it connected to a hardcore sex hotline. The teen handed over the phone to his mother saying, "Mom, listen to this. " Felzien then immediately contacted authorities at Bessie Ellison Elementary School who distributed those HIV/AIDS - awareness bookmarks.

A mysterious 18-inch ice chunk fell from the sky and crushed the upper portion of a car belonging to a man from Florida. The roof of the Ford Mustang, owned by Andre Ravage, 20, was crushed down to its seats on Sunday. Ravage's neighbor Raymond Rodriguez was changing a tire when the strange chunk fell from the sky. "I was scared," AP quotes Rodriguez as saying who was only a foot away. "It's crazy, man. "

Damon Mootoo heard so many horror stories about New York that he refused to ask for directions when he got lost. The man, who was new to the city, remained lost for five days. Mootoo, 32, was shivering on a sidewalk begging for water when Michael Bharath took notice. He made Mootoo a sandwich and drove him back to his brother's house in South Jamaica, Queens where he was staying.

A State Representative, R-Texas is battling with a Connecticut restaurant owner who claims the birthplace of the burger. Betty Brown, R-Texas, proposed a resolution naming Athens, Texas the birthplace of the hamburger. She said a resident of the town owned a luncheonette in the 1880s, which sold the first hamburger.

he hopes of Henry Valer, a breeder registered with the American Kennel Club, were dashed last Thursday when some thieves broke into his apartment and stole four English bulldog puppies. According to the city police, the four canines, three males and one female, were fathered by Cherokee Legend Rock, a male bulldog and last year's best of breed winner at the Westminster Dog Show. Valer told the police that when he returned home from work on Thursday, he found his apartment door kicked open and the 5-week-old puppies valued at a total of $10,000 missing.