Local officials in a town near Pittsburgh are accusing a reverend and his wife of running a swingers sex club in a house of worship.

John and Kim Ondrick of Huntingdon Township facilitate nature worship at the Church for Spiritual Humanism, located in a residential area.

Twenty-six new or revitalized public schools will open in Chicago Tuesday, including a pilot textbook-free school at the former Austin High building. Students at the Virtual Opportunities Inside a School Environment will have personal laptops where they could watch and participate in online lessons that feature animation, videos and tests.

Aside from the school electronic notebooks, the students will also receive home computers they could use to submit assignments, papers and confirm their attendance or converse with the teacher.

A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting he involved his children in killing the family cat. Danield J. Collins from Indiana forced his 7-year-old daughter to kill the family cat by holding a knife in her hand and making her stab the pet.

The 39-year-old pleaded guilty to a felony count of animal cruelty and two felony counts of neglect of a dependent. In exchange, the state dropped three other felony charges, The Star Press reports.

Two men have successfully sailed from California to Hawaii in a raft made of plastic bottles and Cessna airplane parts.

Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Joel Paschal built their raft, which they named "Junk," out of 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna 310 fuselage. The purpose of their journey was to bring attention to the massive amount of plastic floating at sea.

A Tokyo man was arrested by authorities after seeking medical treatment for a snake bite from one of the 51 venomous snakes he was illegally keeping in his apartment.

Nobukazu Kashiwagi, a 41-year-old port worker, was bitten on his finger by an eastern green mamba as he tried to feed it.