The UAW bargained Detroit’s automakers in contract talks to cover elective abortions as part of their health care benefits package. The final package that members will vote on does not contain the controversial measure.

Former Phillipine President Corazon Aquino’s youngest daughter, Kris Aquino, has accused her ex-lover of pointing a gun at her head and giving her a sexually transmitted disease. Kris Aquino is a 32-year-old television talk and game show host and actress.

A high school custodian in New York was arrested Wednesday for secretly taking photographs of girls changing their clothes in a locker room. Alert employees at the Eckerd drug store where he went to have the film developed turned the suspect in.

Mike Rennie of Kirkland, Washington, has been named champion wood screwer at the Puyallup fair and will go on to the national championship in Phoenix this November. If Rennie can win the championship and screw 5 screws in less than 6.5 seconds he will become a millionaire.

A Michigan woman will appear in court Thursday on charges she threw her baby out of a second story window. The mother claims the 7-month-old baby reared up and sailed out of the window on its own. The infant since has been placed with a foster family.

To protest drastic budget and salary cuts, police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are threatening to beg for money with tin cups at intersections and ‘work to the rule,’ which would tie up more officers by following work rules meticulously. Budget commissioners have approved cuts to the police force, took away raises, imposed a hiring freeze, required four days off without pay, left open the possibility longevity pay will be slashed and closed the jail.

Doctor Erich Ritter, a yoga instructor who believed yoga and special breathing techniques would protect him from shark attacks, suffered massive blood loss when an 350 pound bull shark tore a chunk out of his leg. Prior to the attack Ritter had explained that because of his abilities to read the body language of sharks he had never been nipped.