Four Boy Scout leaders were killed in a freak electrocution accident, late Monday afternoon, during the opening ceremony of the Boy Scouts of America's annual Jamboree.

One other leader and a contract worker were injured and are listed in stable condition at a local hospital.

Police discovered 300 cats, a third of which were dead, in the Virginia home of an elderly woman after neighbors complained of a stench coming from the house.

The house, less than a mile from late President George Washington's historic Mount Vernon estate, looks neat from the outside with manicured lawns and bright flowers, but inside it was overflowing with wild cats, feces and urine.

Police discovered 300 cats, a third of which were dead, in the Virginia home of an elderly woman after neighbors complained of a stench coming from the house.

The house, less than a mile from late President George Washington's historic Mount Vernon estate, looks neat from the outside with manicured lawns and bright flowers, but inside it was overflowing with wild cats, feces and urine.

Southeastern Virginia firefighters have collected more than 1,300 movie DVDs in an effort to provide soldiers in Iraq some recreational relief.

Chesapeake firefighter Mark Snyder organized the drive after his brother, an Army chaplain, exchanged an e-mail mentioning the idea of a morale boost amongst GI's fighting the War in Iraq.

A Seattle man undergoing emergency heart surgery went up in flames on the operating table after alcohol that was poured on his skin was ignited by surgical instruments. The patient later died due to heart failure and not of injuries relating to the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason. Although it happened in October 2003, it has only now been revealed after an anonymous letter was sent to the media. The letter mentioned the incident as evidence of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.