LOS ANGELES, California -  Carrie Prejean has filed a lawsuit against Miss California USA officials who stripped her of her title, accusing them of libel and religious discrimination for her views on same-sex marriage.   More…

DHAKA, Bangladesh -  Biman Bangladesh Airlines said a flight from the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, to London was delayed for 10 hours due to clogged toilets.  Airline officials said workers spent two hours  clearing the plane’s five toilets, which were clogged with paper cups and other garbage flushed by passengers.  More…

CRESTVIEW  - An Alabama man was accused of  theft after skipping out on a $188 bar bill at the Crestview Hooters.  When the server went back to his table after presenting the ticket, he was gone. Police found the perpetrator lying on his back, on the floor, under the  bed.  More…

TRENTON, New Jersey -  A New Jersey social studies teacher has been charged with accepting cash from students looking to improve their grades. Thirty-year-old Megan Laboy is accused of collecting more than $1,400 from Colts Neck High School students during the 2008-09 school year.   More…

CHARLESTON, West Virginia -  No helmets. No pads. No game. Two days before St. Paul’s College was supposed to open the 2009 football season, the Tigers canceled Saturday’s contest with West Virginia Wesleyan. The reason, West Virginia Wesleyan athletic director Ken Tyler said Friday, was a lack of equipment. Tyler said St. Paul’s AD Leroy Bacote called him with the news Thursday, less than 24 hours before the Wesleyan team was scheduled to travel 341 miles to play the game in South Hill, Virginia.  More…

Texas -  Blano residents tell the tabloid that 60-year-old Duvall, who hasn’t acted since 2002, flashes her car lights in a bid to communicate with extra-terrestrials and “wanders around town… looking dishevelled, strange and totally crazy.” Another local says, “She mutters to herself and talks about aliens living in her body.”  More…

TAMPA, Florida -  Police say it took two hours to get a drunk man out of his home, where he armed and barricaded himself after refusing to pay his cab fare. Andrew Jason Hickey, 22, took a United Cab to his home, according to the Tampa Police Department. There, he refused to pay the $6 fare. Hickey then went inside and came back out with a handgun, and threatened to shoot the driver.  More…

France - When rescue workers arrived, Diana was conscious, uttering, “My God” and “Leave me alone” to the  paparazzi. Although she had suffered internal injuries, she did not arrive at the Parisian hospital for 110 minutes - too late for the surgery that could have saved her life. Diana’s last hour — in cardiac arrest and bleeding to death — was spent in a mobile medical unit parked a few hundred yards from Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, where an emergency team followed French protocol and administered treatment at the scene of the accident and en route to the hospital. More…