People are paying $7 to see Chicago's garbage and sewage sites in tour called "Down in the Dumps". The nearly three-hour bus tour of the far South Side includes water treatment plant, recycling center and landfills. It is a chance for residents, environmentalists and visitors to learn more about what happens to garbage once it leaves their trash cans.

A Seattle entrepreneur says he's found an inexpensive, highly visible tool to plug his website- an innovation he calls "bum-vertising. "Ben Rogovy, a 22-year-old University of Washington graduate, sees the homeless and panhandlers as an untapped labor force, which he says he's putting to work.

An unusually high concentration of jellyfish has caused a large amount of discomfort along Spain's Mediterranean coast this summer, according to officials. The Red Cross says lifeguards have treated almost 11,000 people for stings on beaches so far this season in the northeastern region of Catalonia alone; twice the number from the same period last year, when the jellyfish count had already begun to rise.

A 12-year-old girl collapses at a Disney World water park Thursday and later dies. Authorities at the Orange County Sheriff's Office report the girl was in the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon when lifeguards noticed her lying on a ledge, out of the water.

The trial of an 11-year-old girl arrested on a deadly weapon charge is scheduled to begin Wednesday after her attorney and prosecutors are unable to agree on a plea bargain. Authorities arrested Maribel Cuevas, 11, in April after she threw a two-pound rock at a neighborhood boy who had hit her with a water balloon. The boy suffered a severe gash in his forehead when the rock hit him. Cuevas was sent to Fresno's juvenile hall for five days and also spent a month under house arrest after police reported she resisted arrest and assaulted an officer.