A firm formed by Silicon Valley executives is trying to produce in commercial quantity genetically-modified bug waste that is similar to crude oil but cheaper, cleaner and renewable. LS9 Inc. is planning to build by 2011 demonstration-scale and commercial-scale plants that will produce the so-called Oil 2. 0, which is composed of excrement from altered industrial yeast or nonpathogenic strains of E. coli bacteria. So far, the company's laboratory can produce the biofuel in small amounts, enough to fill a beaker, but has yet to test a 264-gallon (1,000-liter) fermenting machine that can produce the equivalent of one barrel of the fuel per week.

A local convenience store was hit by two robberies in the same night, with the same clerk on duty during both incidents. Tommy Gutierrez behind the counter, was victimized twice when separate robbers barged into the Shell Station on Monroe NW between 9:45 p. m. and midnight Sunday.

A Croatian TV journalist spent $50,000 for dental treatment just to keep his viewer-winning smile which he claims made him famous. Damir Matkovic said he was forced to spent that huge amount after he discover he was suffering from periodontitis - a condition where the gums become inflamed and can lead to tooth loss.

Fishermen in the Philippines on Sunday threatened to launch a "fish strike" if the government of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo failed to stop the oil companies from raising and overpricing the prices of petroleum products in the country. "If fish strikes across the country are necessary to compel the Macapagal-Arroyo government and the oil mafia composed Petron, Shell and Caltex to stop, rollback and put an end to corporate practices of price manipulation and overpricing, then we will call our colleagues to go on a nationwide fish holiday," the fisherfolk alliance Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas said in a press statement.

A 6-year-old boy nearly died of asphyxiation when he was found entangled in his family's Halloween spider web display. Cade Hampton's mother, Dawn, described finding her son trapped in the family's fake nylon-made spider web unable to breathe.