When Mike Hammer, former editor of boy magazines Maxim and Stuff, launches the new Shock Magazine, it may be a bit more than you're used to. Hammer calls the photo-driven magazine, "Life magazine for the new millennium," and will give daring readers "an uncensored view of the world around them. "

At Northwestern University, one teacher is putting pornography on the required reading list. English lecturer Bill Savage will feature a pornographic novel in his Spring Quarter literature class; "Genius, Gender and Tradition. "

A British man is using an unconventional way to get rid of his mother-in-law. He is selling her on eBay. Steve Owen, 42, put his 50-year-old mother-in-law, Caroline Allen, on the web site under the "Collectibles and Weird Stuff" category, describing her condition as "used".

A toddler got stuck in one of the classic toy machines where you have to maneuver a claw over the item you want, and hope it catches it. According to reports, a 3-year-old boy crawled through the toy discharge chute in the Toy Chest claw machine at Godfathers Pizza at 600 West Oakland Avenue in Austin.

Police say a dog fell from a freeway overpass and crashed through a car windshield, injuring, and eventually killing, the driver. Charles G. Jetchick, 81, died Wednesday of injuries suffered in the accident in suburban Detroit. Another passenger suffered minor injuries.