A man who sent a message in a bottle out to sea received a reply - berating him for littering. Not exactly the response he was looking for. "I kind of felt like no good deed goes unpunished," Harvey Bennett said to the East Hampton Star.

Peace activist Cindy Sheehan, who is best known for the vigil held last summer outside President Bush's Crawford ranch, has said she would consider running against California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Sheehan said her run for Feinstein's seat would be in protest of the lawmaker's support of the President and of the war in Iraq.

A Buffalo, N. Y. , man has been reunited with his 1958 Sloan High School class ring that had been on the bottom of Lake Erie for 47 years. Ron Witkowski lost his 1958 Sloan High School ring in an embarrassing fashion. Witkowski -- then 17 -- and a buddy were swimming at Sherkston-Elco Beach in Ontario when his friend lost his contact lenses. A week later, the two teens decided to drop Witkowski's ring in the water in the same spot to track where the current might have carried the lenses. They never found the ring or the lenses.

A Buffalo, N. Y. , man has been reunited with his 1958 Sloan High School class ring that had been on the bottom of Lake Erie for 47 years. Ron Witkowski lost his 1958 Sloan High School ring in an embarrassing fashion. Witkowski -- then 17 -- and a buddy were swimming at Sherkston-Elco Beach in Ontario when his friend lost his contact lenses. A week later, the two teens decided to drop Witkowski's ring in the water in the same spot to track where the current might have carried the lenses. They never found the ring or the lenses.

A 50-year-old Milwaukee man is in critical condition after a mob of young people beat him for honking his horn to get them to stop blocking the street. At least 15 people about 16 to 23 years old dragged the man out of his car on Tuesday, and kicked and punched him. One attacker even climbed on top of the car and jumped on the victim's head, said one witness to police.