A woman faces federal charges after baggage screeners in Florida found a human skull in her luggage. The woman told customs officials she obtained the head in Haiti to "use as part of her voodoo beliefs. " And she said it's meant to "ward off evil spirits. " Myrlene Severe is charged with smuggling the head into the US without proper documentation, as well as failing to declare the head and transporting hazardous materials.

Police have a suspect in a case of four bank robberies, including a Halloween crime which kept the tradition going, when the robber wore a costume. Police Detective Samuel Costello says that Vanessa Molina is in police custody, along with her boyfriend, Donald Jefferson, 36.

A woman dressed as a witch robbed a bank and vanished in the smoke of an exploding security dye pack, then apparently reappeared in street clothes and held up another bank, police said. The first robbery was reported when a woman wearing a shiny purple witch hat, cloak and long blond wig handed the teller a note indicating she had a weapon and demanding cash, Lacey police Lt. Phil Comstock says.

Dutch tax authorities allow a woman to withhold the 2,210 euros it cost her to take a one-year course in witchcraft. Reuters

Indian police force about 200 pornography watchers to do sit-ups in public to embarass them and discourage them from watching the illegally screened smut. Newspaper reports indicate police raided a cinema in the Balasore district in the eastern state of Orissa, forcing audience members, some as young as 17, to do 10 sit-ups each in a public square, under the watchful eyes of onlookers.