NAPLES, Fla. - An X-ray marked the spot for southwest Florida police who say a teenager swallowed a $16 pair of earrings after taking them from a JCPenney store at a mall.

MIAMI - Max Rameau delivers his sales pitch like a pro. "All tile floor!" he says during a recent showing. "And the living room, wow! It has great blinds."

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A B.C. man who fibbed about an insurance fraud just wouldn't let his conscience get the better of him.

ATHENS, Greece - This month, the movie camera collection of retired postman Dimitris Pistiolas made it into the Guinness World Records - for the eighth time.

A Wisconsin radio station had to make two contestants an offer they couldn't refuse in order to get them to quit a game to win a new car.

A Long Island Democratic supporter says he's been driven to hide his OBAMA vanity license plates inside his car because people kept trying to steal them.

Lifelong Red Sox fans can now take their love of the team to the next level - eternity.

After fine-tuning their talents in prison, they're moving beyond a captive audience.

A mugging quickly turned bizarre when the robber and his victim squared off at a gas station using a most unusual weapon: Squeegees.

CHICAGO - Won't kiss on the first date? How about waiting until marriage?

Want an example of the change Barack Obama is bringing?

A suspected robber in Surrey, B.C., could face hard time for his latest crime, but you can bet he won't be taking his punishment sitting down.

PARIS - A French appeals court says Voodoo dolls of President Nicolas Sarkozy may remain on sale, but must carry a notice saying that pricking them harms the president's dignity.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. - The Christmas ornaments for sale at the Miller Park Zoo's gift shop are partly manufactured by reindeer. Honest!

California authorities got a shock of their own when they discovered that a drunken driving suspect they had just stunned with a Taser was completely naked.

MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A standoff at a New Jersey bank is over after police learned a "person" seen inside was actually a full-size cardboard figure.

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Better to be the main attraction than the main dish.

VICTORIA, B.C. - B.C.'s oldest living forester has some advice for people suffering through the current slump in the forest sector.

MONTERREY, Mexico - A driver in Mexico got himself into a sticky situation when he pulled over to help a woman whose pickup appeared to be broken down by the highway.

TOKYO - Japanese zookeepers have wondered for a while why two polar bears that they had hoped would mate have shown little interest in each other.

A man is in a northern New Mexico jail, accused of driving drunk and leading police on a chase that finally ended with him running over himself.

APPLETON, Wis. - An 84-year-old man hit with a $3,000 quarterly water bill for leaky pipes won't have to pay a dime, thanks to the generosity of others.

NEW YORK - It's billed as the world's most expensive, most beautiful new book.

AUSTIN, Texas - Two men will serve prison time in a scheme to smuggle deer from Minnesota to Texas for trophy hunts.

LONDON - It's not quite the Nobel Prize but John Updike has a new literary accolade - laureate of bad sex.

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - Everyone seems to want one but apparently a lot of Americans aren't sure what exactly a "bailout" is.

Stopped. Cold turkey.

What's in a name? A little extra cash, if the name is that of Italy's wartime Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini or his wife.

A thief caught on camera stealing expensive equipment picked the wrong target if wanted to keep a low profile: a billboard company that has plastered his image around New Zealand's largest city seeking his capture.

EDMONTON - As Kevin Taft prepares to ride off into the sunset of his political career, he's lassœd one last challenge.