March 10

A 32-year-old Kentucky woman who said she didn't know that she was pregnant delivered her newborn son on the floor of her laundry room by herself and even cut the umbilical cord. Kelly Bottom said that she also picked up her other son from school and stopped in at the baby's grandmother's house to show her the infant before going to the hospital last Thursday. Mother and baby were discharged from the hospital Monday after checking in Thursday night.

March 9

Police in Wichita, Kansas, are investigating an odd crime that involves drugs, assault and Monopoly money. It started as a routine traffic stop Thursday evening. When police pulled over the car they found a 33-year-old man bleeding from the head and telling an unusual story. The victim said a couple of weeks ago he bought several hundred dollars of crack-cocaine with Monopoly money and now the dealer was ready for pay back. The man said that the guy from whom he had bought the drugs was upset and invited him over to his house and upon arrival struck him in the head several times. The victim was able to get away and escape serious injury.

March 8

In Colorado, a long-running argument over a favorite McDonald's parking spot has resulted in an assault conviction. A Colorado jury on Friday convicted 52-year-old Vernon Brandt (of Loveland) of felony third-degree assault for a 2008 fight with 85-year-old Richard Albers. On the day of the assault, Albers walked up to Brandt's truck because Brandt was blocking the spot Albers has been using almost every morning for 16 years. Albers tapped on Brandt's door, and Brandt then swung open his truck door, knocking Albers to the ground. Brandt then allegedly got out of his car, grabbed Albers and threatened to fight him. Prosecutors said the men had argued over the spot before.

March 5

A Western Massachusetts funeral home is trying "bring life" to business with a chili cook-off, a murder-mystery show and free limo rides to couples on their 50th anniversaries. Terry Probst, the new managing partner of the Devanny-Condron Funeral Home in Pittsfield, hopes the events will remind people that the funeral home is a center for community life. He said if customers know that the funeral home also can be the setting for other, happier activities, they might take some comfort in the place later when dark times come. Among other other events sponsored by the funeral home are an art walk, a visit by the Easter Bunny, and monthly birthday cakes to the Pittsfield Senior Center.

March 4

A New Jersey family said a police officer asked them to cover up portions of their snow sculpture -- a nude tribute to the Venus de Milo. An officer visited the home of Elisa Gonzalez, who built the snow sculpture with her daughter and son last week, on an anonymous complaint "of a naked snow woman." Gonzalez said the officer told the family he appreciated the armless replica of the ancient Greek statue. However, she said the officer asked the family to put clothes on the sculpture. Gonzalez said they put a green bikini top and a blue sarong on Venus.

March 3

A nightclub partier was detained by German police after they caught trying to snort drugs off the top of their unmarked patrol car. The 26-year-old was lining up the powdered drugs on the roof of the car in a nightclub parking lot when the two police officers surprised him. The man had no idea the vehicle belonged to the police, and it was coincidence that the officers -- who were walking by their parked car -- discovered him just as he was about to take the drugs.

March 2

In Florida a man allegedly called 911 more than 200 times over three days. Authorities say Timothy Todd Lawrence spoke only to female dispatchers, and made sexually explicit remarks to one of them. He told dispatchers he did not need emergency assistance. Lawrence allegedly made 151 calls on February 13 between 2am and 10:52am alone. He continued the calls over the next few days.

March 1

A sheriff's deputy in Panama City Beach, Florida, rounded up a group of men wearing "Speedos, dresses and other costumes" — including panty hose — Saturday after a manager at Kmart complained the troupe was disrupting business. The deputy wrote in his report: "Upon my arrival I found a male attempting to leave the store. He was wearing a Speedo and sneakers." The deputy wrote that he instructed that man to wait at the front entrance "while I rounded up the other individuals." He eventually got them all in one place. One of them, an 18-year-old man, "was wearing a white dress with red panty hose along with red lipstick."

February 26

An 89-year-old British man said he was outraged when employees at a store asked him to remove his cap because of security concerns. Robert Broughton said he entered the convenience store to pick up milk and bread and was told by workers that he would have to remove his hat because of a new store security policy. A store spokesman said all headgear was banned from the store following a recent incident involving a man in a hoodie.

February 25

Store owners in a Scottsdale, Arizona, neighborhood said a mysterious odor has been bothering employees and customers for months. Business owners near Hayden and Indian Bend roads said the rotten-egg-like smell has been a persistent problem for months and plumbers hired by the stores have been unable to find anything wrong with the area's sewers. One business owner says he sometimes has to light ten candles to try and cover the smell. The business owners said they are lobbying the owner of the shopping center to do something about the smell.