By DAVID K. LI, Wire Services
May 12, 2008
A woman recently paid off a parking ticket - from Sept. 1, 1976.
Cops in Calumet, Mich., received a $20 bill, the old ticket, and a note reading: "I always had good intentions of paying it.
"I put it aside, and every once in a while, I would come across it and said, 'Someday, I'm going to pay it.' Now I think it's time."
There was no return address listed. The parking ticket was for $1 for a meter violation.
Wisconsin is still top cheese.
Despite a spirited run by California, a trade publication says Wisconsin will be the No. 1 dairy state for a long time.
Ten years ago, the Madison-based Cheese Reporter forecasted that California - with its "Happy Cow" campaign - would pass Wisconsin by 2005, then amended that prediction to 2010. But now the trade pub claims California won't catch Wisconsin "anytime soon."
The feds are hunting down a vandal in Colorado. His description: a square yellow head; last seen wearing square pants.
The US Forest Service is looking for the mischiefmaker who painted a 10-foot-tall "SpongeBob" on the chimney of a cabin in Pike National Forest.
Cops in Harrisburg, Pa., thought they had pulled over a drunk driver.
Instead, they'd collared a 9-year-old boy, who was behind the wheel with a drunken adult passenger.
The boy and adult are related, police said. The man was taken into custody, while the child was returned to the custody of relatives.
A sizable number of young Europeans believe booze and drugs will fuel a better sex life.
One-third of men and 23 percent of women ages 16 to 35 said they drank or took drugs to increase their chance of having sex, according to a study published by BMC Public Health.
