Police report that a church secretary set her church ablaze. A spokesman with the Mountain Home Police Department says that Polly A. Warford, 65, confessed to setting multiple fires in the Green Valley Missionary Baptist Church.

A school in London is trying to teach student more than the 3 R's -- it has banned children from raising their hands in class and teachers from calling on students with their hands raised. The principal, Andrew Buck, said it is always the same children who wave their arms in the air, while the rest of the class sits back. When teachers try to involve less-adventurous pupils by choosing them instead, that leads to feelings of victimization, the Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.

A federal appeals court upholds the city's ban on pet racing pigeons, rejecting claims by some enthusiasts the ordinance is unconstitutional. According to the American Racing Pigeon Union, the ban makes Chicago the only large U. S. city outlawing pet pigeons.

Two flags that flew from the convertible President Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963 sold at an auction Saturday for $450,000. The American flag and banner bearing the presidential seal were among the most-sought items at the three-day auction of memorabilia from the lives of John and Jacqueline Kennedy. Guernsey's auction house in New York declined to identify the buyer. The auction, which concluded Saturday, included a wide array of items from restaurant bills to campaign posters and buttons to crayons used by a young Caroline Kennedy. According to the New York Daily News, some items went for as little as $120 on Thursday, and a number of lots - such as a 1950 Kiwanis Club certificate - failed to sell.

Two flags that flew from the convertible President Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated in Dallas in 1963 sold at an auction Saturday for $450,000. The American flag and banner bearing the presidential seal were among the most-sought items at the three-day auction of memorabilia from the lives of John and Jacqueline Kennedy. Guernsey's auction house in New York declined to identify the buyer. The auction, which concluded Saturday, included a wide array of items from restaurant bills to campaign posters and buttons to crayons used by a young Caroline Kennedy. According to the New York Daily News, some items went for as little as $120 on Thursday, and a number of lots - such as a 1950 Kiwanis Club certificate - failed to sell.