A New York City woman is organizing a 30th birthday party on July 7, 2006, at which she will take off a dress she has worn every day for the past year. Dancer, choreographer and party planner Alex Martin first put on a homemade brown dress on July 7, 2005. At the launch of her project, she wrote in her blog she would "through snowballs in it (wearing additional clothing layers in cold weather for health & safety), garden in it, rehearse in it, travel in it, dance in it, cook in it, prune my pear trees in it, drink wine in it, sing my baby to sleep in it. "

Richmond, VA (AHN)-An eighth-grader was suspended from school for a day and kicked off the baseball team for eating a staff member's cookie. According to the AP report, Jeremy Maitland was in the Hungary Creek Middle School kitchen one day last month filling a water cooler for a baseball game when he ate a cookie after someone knocked over a cookie jar and he tried to pick them up.

Gary, Indiana (AHN)-A male student who has worn women's clothes to school all year was turned away from his high school prom because he was wearing a dress.

An Oregon man files a $1. 6 million lawsuit against his neighbor after he ran over his dog. Reuters reports Raymond Weaver ran over the 13-year-old dog with a pick-up lorry in 2004. The dog, named Grizz, had to be euthanized by his owner, Mark Greenup.

Atlanta, GA (AHN)-The runaway bride who generated a media storm with her phony tale of abduction and the groom who took her back have broken up for good.