A fugitive is fatally shot by a deputy after trying to escape from custody, breaking through the window of a patrol car and attempting to commandeer a school bus loaded with children. On Friday, Deven Lepierro was accused of stealing from a Wal-Mart store and deputies later discovered he was a parolee wanted on two felony warrants.

A woman decided to honor the more than 216,000 people who died in last year's tsunami by building a toothpick memorial. "I remember thinking these people are going to become statistics, and I just felt I needed to see something other than a number in a newspaper article," says Nancy Lawson, 56, of Lawrence, Kansas.

Thousands of angry bees attack and kill a South African woman after her vehicle hits an electricity substation containing their hive. Paul Nel, spokesman for Netcare 911, a private paramedic and ambulance service says, "The car crashed into an electrical substation in Johannesburg which housed a bee hive. It was 10-years old and had in excess of a million bees and they just went wild. The people managed to stumble out of the car, but they were just overcome by bees. "

A gorilla at Zoo Atlanta has given birth to twins which marks only the sixth time it's occurred in a North American zoo since 1966. Zoo officials say Kuchi, a 21-year-old female western lowland gorilla, became a proud mother to twins on Monday. The proud Papa is Taz, whose lineage continues with the newest silverback offspring of Zoo Atlanta.

Captive chimpanzees fail to help others in their social group, even when it causes no inconvenience, according to a Nature journal study. Helpfulness is prevalent in humans, even when it may harm the helper's own interests to aid another. Unlike other human-like attributes shown by chimps like tool use and maybe rudimentary language skills, helpfulness is not prevalent.