Reminiscent of the Y2K jitters that agitated the world at the change of the millenium eight years ago, a similar scenario is taking place in some gas stations across the country that still use mechanical pumps. Their gas pumps lack gears to register a sale beyond $3. 99 a gallon. Gas prices, however, have exceeded $4 a gallon.

The FBI arrested charged a teenager flight attendant on Thursday for setting fire in the bathroom of a Northwest/Compass flight, leading to an emergency landing. Eder H. Rojas, 19 was angry at having work at a particular route. He set fire inside a paper towel compartment in the rear bathroom of the plane. He was carrying a lighter with him which he managed to smuggle past security. It is this same lighter that he used to set fire to the extra paper tissues he had secured before boarding.

A gray seal was spotted Saturday morning, walking along the streets of eastern Maine, passing in front of several houses and a horse pasture, then wondered onto one of the highways. Suspected to have come from Whiting Bay, the seal reportedly got on Route 189 in Washington County. It then ran into trouble upon getting on the highway, with its body shape preventing it from proper mobility on the asphalt. Drivers who spotted the animal stopped.

A man posing as a Catholic priest was apprehended at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport after a routine body check found the man to be carrying 7 lbs of cocaine under his robes. According to Dutch police, they got suspicious of the man whose identity had been withheld when they spotted him in line at a different gate after initially refusing to undergo a routine body check "for religious reasons. "

Mobile phone use, while driving, slows down vehicular speed by about 2 miles per hour, according to a new study released by David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah. "The distracted driver tends to drive slower and have delayed reactions," Strayer found. "People kind of get stuck behind that person and it makes everyone pay the price of that distracted driver. "