A Daytona Beach, Fla., police officer was fired for demanding free coffee from a Starbucks and threatening to respond slowly if employees didn't give him a free latte.

Although Starbucks has a policy of giving police officers free regular coffee, it doesn't hand out specialty coffees without charge.

A woman found a suspicious package in her backyard here on Sunday. Police identified the package as a brand new hand grenade, belonging to the Canadian Army.

According to Reuters, the woman called police after she found the package; she delivered it to the local police station where she was directed to carefully place it on the lawn.

A 16-year-old girl survived being struck by lightning and won lottery the following day.

BreAnna Helsel was at her family's Blanchard home was watching thunderstorms on June 6. Rain was entering through an open kitchen window and just as she was about to close the window, she got hit by lightning.

A 92-year-old man has been barred from marrying a 17-year-old Egyptian girl.

Even though the parents of the girl accepted the offer of the 92-year-old Arab man from a Gulf state, the ministry of justice stopped the marriage from taking place on the grounds of a law that prohibits marriages between people with age spans of 25 years or more.

A local substitute teacher was terminated from his post here after being accused of performing "wizardry."

According to Jim Piculas, a substitute teacher at the Rushe Middle School in Pasco County, he was removed from his post last January, with officials bearing their accusations on a disappearing-toothpick act that he performed for his students a week before.