Much to the disappointment of local residents, the state Department of Natural Resources has cut down willow trees lining the Mazomanie nude beach on the Wisconsin River, a step that will put an end to ongoing sexual activity and provide more sunlight for nesting turtles. Officials say the wooded area was used for sexual recreation. Even the nudists like the idea of a little more openness. Naturist Action Committee executive director Bob Morton says overt sexual activity jeopardizes access to the beach.

Wine bottles featuring labels painted by Britain's Prince Charles have been sold for $15,000 at an auction. The bottles went under the hammer at New York auction house Sotheby's on Thursday.

A woman was making coffee in the kitchen of her daughter's New Jersey home Sunday morning when she looked out the window and found herself face to face with a 211-pound black bear. Lorraine Grossman's shocked scream was enough to send the bear scurrying up a 40-foot-tall tree. "I was making a pot of coffee, and I turned around and there he was in the window looking at me," Grossman said, according to AP. "For a minute I didn't realize there was a glass between him and me. "

Now that Christmas is over, what can be a better place than somebody else's backyard to keep the used trees and that too if they are 37 in number. Instead of a witty punch line that's what actually happened with an Allentown woman. On a very usual morning, Carol Lopez woke up to find an unusual number of Christmas tree trunks surrounding her aboveground backyard pool.

A wooden dining table which experts have authenticated to have been made of wood dating back to the time of cavemen, is up for sale in London, England for over $13,000. The table comes with a certificate of authenticity that it had been made from a 30,000-year-old wood from a Kauri tree. The wood has been carbon-dated to determine its age, it was said.