A man in Minnesota explained to authorities that his dog turned on a gas burner, starting a fire, while trying to get to pizza left on his stove. The man was able to extinguish the blaze before firefighters arrived.

A man was arrested in Oregon Wednesday on a charge of threatening to kill the president. The man had mailed a letter containing the threat and also enclosed a white powder that resembled anthrax. The white powder turned out to be laundry detergent.

New York Yankees catcher Jorge Posada says he urinates on his hands during winter and spring training to keep them hard. Posada joins Chicago Cubs player Moises Alou as an advocate of the unusual skin conditioning practice.

A German man who punctured around 2,000 car tires in a 16-month crime spree to three and a half years in prison Wednesday. The culprit was caught after police assigned a special team to the case.

A truck in Milwaukee spilled monkey droppings and algae across the junction of two highways Tuesday, closing the roads. The monkey feces and algae had been removed from a moat at the Milwaukee County Zoo.

Police divers in Buffalo, New York, searching for a car containing a man’s body stumbled upon another car with two bodies inside. Both cars had become submerged in two separate accidents that occured around the same time.

A teenage worker at zoo in Thailand died Saturday after being mauled by tigers in front of shocked tourists. The worker was trying to make a tiger sit by hitting it with a stick when the attack occurred.