As the saying goes, father knows best, but unfortunately not in every case. A Polish father has been questioned by police in Warsaw for allegedly giving his young sons lessons on how to drink and smoke. Mariusz Lechniak, 35, claims that he only wanted to teach his sons the lessons they needed in order to become real men, ranging from 2 years old to 8.

A Clinton man has been accused of drunken driving after he tried to perform unsuccessful driving tricks with his sports utility vehicle onto the ice-covered Mississippi River near Sabula. According to officials with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, Steven A. Parker, 51, is accused of driving his car off a boat ramp to do "doughnuts" on Sunday. Unfortunately the ice broke and his vehicle sank in 4 feet of water, about 30 feet from shore.

Dogs have been known as man's best friends for decades, and Matt Carcerano's 16-month-old dog, Bella, has lived up to it. Bella, a mix of poodle and Labrador retriever, saved her master life by timely waking him up and alerting him on a house fire. Carcerano was sound asleep Monday night when Bella tried getting his attention by a mix of "growl, whimper and bark. "

he pet tabby cat of an Australian family of four saved the household from a house fire by alerting and clawing at the owner's face. Alert Timmy the tabby made the move by rousing his unidentified owner when a mattress suddenly caught fire as the family slept. "The cat was probably the best smoke alarm system . . . it was clawing at the occupant's face and got him up and out of bed," Cairns fire service spokesman Robert White-Macfarlane told media.

A U. S. military nurse who cared for Saddam Hussein in jail threw light on the softer side of the person deemed responsible for taking the lives of hundreds of people. The nurse said Hussein actually saved bread crusts to feed birds and was a very cooperative person. Master Sgt. Robert Ellis cared for the disgraced leader from January 2004 until August 2005 at Camp Cropper. Ellis said Hussein also watered weeds in a jail garden and drank coffee while smoking cigars to keep his blood pressure down.