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• Legally blind man, 78, bowls perfect game
  A 78-year-old legally blind man nicknamed "The Hammer" has bowled a perfect game. Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa, nailed 12 consecutive strikes and reached 300 on Saturday night during league play.

• Utah men say they drove to 48 states, more than 7,000 miles
  Three men say they drove to 48 states in less than five days, ending their journey in the Four Corners area of southeastern Utah. The Four Corners destination allowed them to quickly hit four states - Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona.

• Packaged pythons cause scare at German post office
  A trio of packaged pythons has caused a scare at a German post office. Police in Darmstadt say the snakes were stuffed into a parcel that was handed in for mailing to eastern Germany. It contained two tiger pythons and an albino tiger python of more than 3 feet in length.

• Driver gets in wreck, sees his home catch fire, gets ticket
  One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went up in flames. Then he got a traffic ticket.

• 'Funeral Day Burglar' found guilty of 10 counts in Mo.
  A burglar who authorities say used the obituary pages to select his targets was convicted of 10 counts Friday.

• Man finds Ill. woman's wallet that had been stolen in 1973
  Sandy Baumberger says she never expected to see her wallet again when it was stolen 35 years ago.

• Judge bans 4 shoplifters from Pa. malls, calls them locusts
  Likening them to a "plague of locusts," a judge has banned four women from Pennsylvania malls after they pleaded guilty to stealing.

• Woman donates kidney to her former English teacher
  Twenty-two years after graduating from high school, Angie Collins is now her former English teacher's favorite student.

• Omaha man says this was his second self-tracheotomy
  The 55-year-old Omaha man who performed a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife says he did the same thing to himself two years ago.

• Suspect surrenders after cop yells 'Taser, Taser, Taser'
  Just the threat of a jolt stopped a man in his tracks. A Salt Lake City police officer couldn't catch up to a 32-year-old man until he yelled, "Taser, Taser, Taser."

• Iguana causes power outage for 20,000 in Florida
  Power has been restored to 20,000 people in north Broward County, after an iguana caused a short circuit. The critter came in contact with some high-voltage equipment, which triggered Thursday's outage.

• Gorilla celebrates her 55th birthday with frozen cake
  Jenny, recognized as the world's oldest living gorilla in captivity, celebrated her 55th birthday Thursday with a four-layer frozen fruit cake and banana leaf wrapped treats at her wooded home in the Dallas Zoo.

• Minn. driver kills dog, then sues owners for damage
  The driver of a 1997 Honda Civic that struck and killed a dog near Cloquet is suing the dog's owners for damage done to his vehicle. Jeffery Ely was driving on the night of Jan. 4 when Fester, a miniature pinscher, squeezed past owner Nikki Munthe as she was letting in her other dog and ran out onto the road. Ely's car struck Fester, killing the 13-pound dog instantly.

• Woman files claim, saying dog feces ruined family outing
  A New York woman has filed a $100 claim against Norwalk saying a family outing to the Maritime Aquarium was ruined by dog feces. The woman claims her child's shoes, along with the entire outing, were ruined when her 1-year-old stepped in dog feces outside the Maritime Garage.

• Police: Victims' own photo helped cops nail robbery suspect
  Police say they had no trouble tracking down a robbery suspect, because the victims had taken his picture while chatting with him at a bar a short time before the theft.

• Man finds check from 1971 after Arkansas tornadoes
  Tornadoes that tore through Arkansas last week picked up homes, cars and everything in between - including a check from 1971.

• Officials investigate severed bear paws found in Calif.
  Officials want to know how a pair of severed bear paws wound up in a Southern California neighborhood.

• In Cuba it's close, but no giant cigar
  Looks like it will be close, but no giant cigar, for Cuba's stogie-rolling king Jose Castelar. The 64-year-old former world-record holder has teamed up with five assistants, using nearly 93 pounds (42 kilograms) of top-quality tobacco to assemble a 98-foot (30-meter) cigar.

• City wants to split Florida into 2 states
  One city commission wants to divide Florida into two states: North Florida and South Florida. The North Lauderdale City Commission says in a resolution that it's not confident in state leaders when it comes to collecting and spending their own money.

• Cops trap man in lie when he identifies himself as felon
  A male who lied to Sheboygan police to hide his unpaid traffic citations almost got himself into far more serious trouble. Police said they stopped a vehicle Saturday for improper registration. One passenger identified himself to police, who ran a check on that name.

• Ill. man seeks to reclaim continuous exercise record
  Until last summer, 50-year-old George Hood of Aurora held the world record for continuous exercise by a human being - 111 hours, 11 minutes and 11 seconds on a stationary bicycle.

• Gas price protest singer arrested at Ind. convenience store
  A man with a guitar and a megaphone climbed atop a convenience store roof to serenade commuters with his musical protest of high gasoline prices - until police halted the impromptu concert.

• Chocolate breath odor helps officer nab shoplifting suspect
  It was the odor of chocolate on the suspect's breath that gave away a 15-year-old boy accused of shoplifting candy bars in Bremerton. An officer responding to the shoplifting report Friday night caught up with the suspect on a bicycle.

• Students claim police chief who shot himself was careless
  The police chief who shot himself in the ankle was waving a loaded pistol and being careless, according to two students who were attending his class to qualify for a concealed-weapons permit. "We were told the gun is the chief's personal sidearm, but it looked to me like he didn't know anything about the gun," Lewis Walker said.

• Okla. man sues Armstrong Foundation over pet collars
  A Tulsa businessman who uses the phrases "Barkstrong" and "Purrstrong" on his animal charity's pet collars has sued the Lance Armstrong Foundation in a trademark dispute.