A 65-year-old man's pinky was bitten off by another man during an altercation at vigils of pro- and anti-healthcare reforms in Ventura County, California Wednesday night.

Witnesses told police that the two men were from opposing groups of demonstrators. The older man hit the other man, who retaliated by biting off his pinky.

Tuesday marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The 226 million websites now dotting the World Wide Web was an offshoot of an experiment by 20 UCLA engineers, who passed meaningless data from two computers 15 feet apart through a grey cable connection on September 2, 1969. Those two computers were the earliest network then called Advanced Research Projects Agency Network or ARPANET.

California is holding a garage sale of sorts. The novel move to unload the cash strapped state's unnecessary items begins on Friday with deals galore for savvy shoppers looking to aid the Grizzly bear state.

The event, being held in the capital at a Sacramento warehouse, is being called the Great California Garage Sale, and according to state officials is the largest surplus sale since the state last rolled out its surplus of governmental goods shortly after Schwarzenegger was elected in 2004.

A small, single-engine Piper Comanche 260 made an emergency landing on U.S. Highway 101 in California, narrowly avoiding any fatalities.

The small plane suffered an engine failure and landed among incoming cars, crashing into three vehicles. The plane was only carrying a married couple, according to local reports.

A suspect in the murder of a model in Los Angeles, California was found dead inside a motel in Hope, British Columbia.

The victim, 28-year old California swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore, was found on Aug. 15 severely mutilated with her fingers and teeth removed, which made it difficult for the police to establish her identity. The police, though, was able to identify her corpse through the serial number on her breast implant.