A 21-year-old man wolfed down 4. 8 pounds of turkey in 12 minutes at an annual turkey-eating contest Wednesday, beating out the 2nd-place winner by a full pound. Now Patrick Bertoletti says he doesn't want to eat any turkey on Thanksgiving and that he's going to dine on venison instead. Bertoletti, a 190-pound culinary student from Chicago, said he devoured the turkey breast first.

Specialty beverage maker Jones Soda Co. will soon offer new green pea flavored soda to add to its roster of flavors like fish taco and salmon. Green pea is only one of the unique sodas being offered by the company alongside with turkey and gravy, dinner roll, sweet potato and antacid flavor. These flavors will be marketed as part of their $10 to $15 "holiday pack" of bottled drinks to be distributed nationwide.

The name of a two-year-old boy was listed on the country's list of wanted suspects. He was briefly banned from getting on a plane bound for Turkey. The details on the toddler's passport had been the same as those in an arrest warrant, even the date of birth.

The Fort Myers Beach Council voted 4-1 in favor of allowing the Surf Club bar to make use of the name Turkey Testicle Festival. Councilman Charles Meador said this year's festival will be the fourth and cited more than 12 other cities that allow annual events with the word "testicle. "

Frenchman Serge Girard on Tuesday completed an epic 260-day run from Paris to Tokyo, making him the sole runner to have raced the distance across all continents. The 52-year-old insurance worker also breaks the previous world record of the longest journey without a full day of rest. Girard was greeted by a small crowd and his three children, when he arrived at a hotel in Tokyo. He ran about 45 miles a day, guided by satellite through the Global Positioning System, to complete the 11,840 miles journey in over eight months. Girard set off his marathon from Paris on December 18.