Two grannies in northeastern Pennsylvania - who were apparently not satisfied with living off monthly Social Security checks - were busted by local police for allegedly running a cash-cow heroin operation that raked in $10,000 per week.

Siblings Elizabeth Grube, 70, and Elaine Volkert, 65, of Stroud Township were freed on their own recognizance after being arrested and charged with possession of heroin with intent to deliver. Julio Checo, 28, of Allentown, was also arrested on charges of allegedly supplying large quantities of heroin to the sisters, but he is still in jail unless he posts a $75,000 bail.

The White House apologized late Monday for triggering panic among New Yorkers when a Boeing 747 that serves as the president's plane flew near skyscrapers with fighter jets on its tail. The flyover, which the Federal Aviation Administration ordered New York Police officials to keep secret, was done to take new photos of Air Force One.

Buildings were evacuated earlier the same day as fear gripped New York, the site of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil on Sept. 11, 2001, and the plane used as Air Force One flew around Manhattan trailed by two F-16 jets.

A federal judge denied permission to disgraced former Governor Rod Blagojevich to travel to Costa Rica to participate in NBC's reality TV show, "I'm a Celebrity ... Get me Out of Here!"

Calling it a "bad idea" to modify the terms of Blagojevich's bail on political corruption charge, U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel ruled against Blagojevich's request, citing the seriousness of the charges and the potential for a flight risk.

An Atlanta man accused of twisting a Delta Air Line flight attendant's arm to get to the airplane's lavatory on flight from Honduras faces federal charges of interfering with a flight crew, the FBI said Wednesday.

Joao Correa, 43, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution he desperately needed to use the bathroom after eating something bad in Honduras, but was being blocked by a beverage cart. When he asked if he could use the lavatory in business class, he was told no.

Police have arrested a man who they say tried to rob a pharmacy using a syringe filled with what he claimed was the AIDS virus.

According to reports, the man walked into a west Tampa pharmacy on Thursday and ordered the clerk to give him Oxycodone pills. His hands were in his pockets, but the man said he had a hypodermic syringe filled with the virus. After employees argued with him, he ran off.