The University of Virginia Tech has hosted a rare viewing of a "corpse flower" in bloom. Hundreds lined up to see the Indonesian Amorphophallus titanum, which blooms only once every few years, and produces a stench which can be smelled over a hundred yards away.

According to officials, about 300 pot plants were discovered when firefighters were responding to calls that smoke was coming out of the house. Orange County fire captain Stephen Miller stated the smoke was coming from the garage wall, where someone had illegally tapped into a power source.

A woman who was making additional income by growing chicken and selling eggs to supplement her disability income was constrained after complaints of crowing roosters from disturbed neighbors. The northwest Arkansas community of Rogers came up with new laws and restrictions in keeping birds at home in the city limits.

Highlighting the importance of animals, the newly seated Mayor of Montana city has come up with an innovative idea, "The Goat Experiment. " The experiment aimed at removing undesirable native weeds is seen as an alternative to chemicals. Allyson Adams has deployed nearly 200 goats which had been brought from Conrad to eat weeds that threaten Virginia City's native plants.

When an alligator bit an elderly woman, she fought back with a garden hose. Constance Gittles, 74, of south Punta Gorda was watering plants on Tuesday when she was bitten just above her ankle by a six foot long alligator. Gittles said, "I just whacked him in the snout with the nozzle. After that, he took off. "