Excitement, enthusiasm, and national pride are running high among local Chinese in anticipation of the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games, a survey released Monday revealed.

The survey 'Project 2008 Poll, conducted for public relations and advertising company Ogilvy in China and Milward Brown ACSR, showed that 74 percent of Chinese were "excited or very excited" about China hosting its first Olympics and a high degree of "national pride" in the games, prevails among 72 percent who said they were proud of China.

A 48-year old woman accused of digging up her ex-boyfriend's grave and stealing his ashes has pleaded not guilty Wednesday to felony vandalism, according to prosecutors.

According to Athens County sheriff's Lt. Darrell Cogar, Martha LaFollete, lived with Roger Barber in Roseville for five years until his death last November.

A woman from Athens became an accidental car thief when she drove home a car thinking it to be her daughter's, only to realize later that it belonged to someone else. A shocked Charlie Vansant called the police when he couldn't find his gray Toyota Camry in his school's parking lot.

The woman, Kate Anderson mistook the car for her daughter's and used her daughter's key to drive the car off.

A State Representative, R-Texas is battling with a Connecticut restaurant owner who claims the birthplace of the burger.

Betty Brown, R-Texas, proposed a resolution naming Athens, Texas the birthplace of the hamburger. She said a resident of the town owned a luncheonette in the 1880s, which sold the first hamburger.

After getting suspicious that they smelled methamphetamine cooking, deputies knocked on the door of the house the odor was coming from. When they asked the man who answered the door what was going on, he immediately replied, "You know what's going on - I'm cooking meth."

According to McMinn County Sheriff's Department, Herman Scott Swafford was arrested after the search revealed a glass bottle with a plastic 20-ounce soda bottle attached to it with red electrical tape and a hot plate with the heat turned on.