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Amy, an indoor pig owned by Lori Stock, goes through agility training intended for dogs at the Family Dog Training Center in Kent., Wash.(Photo: JOSHUA LEWIS/KOMO-TV)

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KENT, Wash. – One student in a suburban Seattle dog agility class is drawing a lot of attention, and not just for her athletic skills. Amy is a pig.

Amid the barking of corgis, collies and Labradors, visitors will sometimes hear a snort. And there's Amy, jumping through the hoop, balancing on the teeter-totter, retrieving the dumbbell and zipping through the play tunnel.

Lori Stock owns 5-month-old Amy and says her indoor pig is a quick learner and very motivated by food rewards.

KOMO reports that Amy has already graduated from puppy manners class and has moved on to agility and obedience at the Family Dog Training Center in Kent.

Training center president Kathy Lang says that's a first, though she recalls a pygmy goat did attend several training classes.

No charges for woman who threw bacon into police station

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. – A judge has dismissed charges against a Massachusetts woman who threw uncooked bacon and sausage inside a police station while saying she was there to "feed the piggies."

Lindsey McNamara, of Ashland, was charged with disorderly conduct and malicious destruction of property after the Dec. 26 incident, which was caught on video surveillance.

McNamara, 24, entered the Framingham station with a box of meat and started throwing it and smearing it on the dispatch window, police say.

A judge Wednesday dismissed the destruction charge, saying police had provided little evidence that McNamara had damaged anything.

The MetroWest Daily News reports that the judge said the charge could be restored if police can prove damage.

The disorderly conduct charge will be dismissed upon payment of $150 in court costs.

Veterinarians and support staff work to remove three broken or decayed teeth from Boris, a 29-year-old polar bear, at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Wash. (Photo: INGRID BARRENTINE/POINT DEFIANCE ZOO AND AQUARIUM)

Boris the polar bear gets 3 teeth pulled

TACOMA, Wash. – Boris the 29-year-old polar bear is eating only soft foods for a while after having surgery to remove three broken or decayed teeth at a Washington state zoo.

The 880-pound bear who lives at the Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington, didn't have to sit in a dentist's chair for the procedure. Boris sprawled out on a table as veterinarians and support staff extracted his problem teeth Feb. 6.

The zoo says Boris is one of the oldest polar bears in North American zoos. He's lived nearly twice as long as polar bears in the wild.

Boris came to the zoo in 2002 after he was rescued from a traveling circus. He's one of three polar bears at the facility's Arctic tundra exhibit.

2 sleeping in trash bin get emptied into garbage truck

TAMPA, Fla. – A man and woman who were intoxicated had to be rescued after falling asleep in a trash bin that was later emptied into a garbage truck, authorities say.

Hillsborough County Sheriff's officials say the couple had been sleeping in a bin outside a convenience store near Tampa early Feb. 11. When the dumpster was emptied into the back of the garbage truck, they started screaming and banging on the sides of the truck.

Rescue crews were called just after 5 a.m. They removed Donald L. Jordan, 37, and Lisa Sirbella, 49, from the truck. They were taken to Tampa General Hospital after complaining of back pain.

Deputies originally believed they were homeless, but learned they were highly intoxicated after hanging out at a nearby casino.

Water manager faces discipline for urinating in reservoir

SAN FRANCISCO – A water manager is facing discipline after he was caught urinating in an empty reservoir that supplies drinking water for the San Francisco Bay Area.

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission spokesman Tyrone Jue said Feb. 9 that the agency confirmed anonymous complaints that maintenance planner Martin Sanchez had urinated in the 674-million-gallon reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills early last month.

The reservoir had been drained for maintenance, and officials say public health wasn't in danger.

Sanchez, who is paid $111,000 annually, was in line for a promotion before the incident. He now faces a maximum penalty of a weeklong suspension without pay.

A message left with Jue seeking comment from Sanchez wasn't immediately returned.

San Francisco's water comes mostly from Sierra Nevada runoff.

Last year, a 19-year-old Portland, Oregon, man was cited for public urination and trespassing after he was accused of urinating in a 35-million-gallon city reservoir.

After learning of the incident, Portland officials began dumping water into the sewer system, but the process was slowed by heavy rains. As a result, they diverted the water to an empty reservoir and used the supply for nondrinking purposes.

It was the second time in less than three years Portland has emptied a reservoir because of to concerns that someone had urinated in the water.

Winking congressman steals spotlight in House floor speech

WASHINGTON – A Maryland congressman has taken the photo bomb to the next level.

Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., 58, was caught on C-SPAN winking and grinning behind a fellow lawmaker speaking from the floor of the House of Representatives on Tuesday. A video of the winks was making the rounds on national news sites and blogs Thursday.

The video shows Harris purposefully sitting behind Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., as he speaks from the floor. Harris looks directly at the camera, winks, grins, and then starts texting on a cellphone. He winks again 30 seconds later, and continues to grin and text for another minute.

Harris' spokesman, Chris Meekins, says the congressman was winking at and texting with his mother, saying she "gets a big kick when she sees her son" on C-SPAN.

2 deer stuck together; police use stun gun to free 1

SHOREWOOD, Minn. – Police in the western Twin Cities used a stun gun to free a live buck that was stuck to a dead deer.

South Lake Minnetonka Police were called to the strange sight at a home in Shorewood on the morning of Feb. 8. The antlers of the two bucks were locked together. One of the deer was dead and the other was thrashing around, trying to break free.

After assessing the situation, officers shot the live deer with a Taser as residents helped saw off its antler.

Patrol officer Ricky Syhre, who was at the scene, tells the Star Tribune the bucks probably were stuck together for hours.

The officers spoke with wildlife agencies about how they might safely untangle the bucks.

When the deer came to, it ran off.

Suspect apprehended after posting Greyhound bus selfie

PITTSBURGH – Police caught up to a man trying to flee assault charges because he posted a selfie on Facebook while sitting on a Greyhound bus out of town, a police chief said Feb. 10.

"We like it when dumb criminals assist us in our investigation," Ambridge police Chief James Mann told the Beaver County Times, which first reported the arrest.

Mann said the suspect, Donald Harrison, 22, had been living in the borough about 20 miles northwest of Pittsburgh when he was charged with assaulting a woman and refusing to let her leave her apartment after an argument on Jan. 24.

An hour after the woman called police, police learned that Harrison, who is originally from Spartansburg, South Carolina, posted the Facebook message, "IT'S TIME TO LEAVE PA."

Police couldn't find him right away, but Mann said the woman called him Feb. 8 after she noticed the Facebook selfie with the message saying, "OMW TO SPARTANSBURG SC SAY A PRAYER FOR ME."

Mann said the picture appeared to show Harrison sitting in a bus or airplane and, acting on a hunch, he called the Greyhound bus terminal in Pittsburgh and learned a bus to Spartansburg had left 15 minutes earlier. After learning it would stop in Youngstown, Ohio, Mann explained the situation to Greyhound and arranged for Youngstown police to arrest Harrison on a warrant he faxed them.

"I guess when the bus pulled in they instructed the driver to keep the door shut until police got there, and the rest is history," Mann said. "We've been on 'World's Dumbest Criminals' for a couple of things, but his actions certainly qualifies for another episode" of the reality show on truTV.

The show focuses on the dumb but funny things criminal suspects sometimes do that get themselves caught. But Mann said there's nothing funny about what Harrison allegedly did to the victim.

Among other things, Harrison body-slammed her several times during the 12-hour ordeal before he left, and she has several fractured vertebrae, Mann said.

As a result, police expect to add a charge of aggravated assault when he is extradited from Ohio later this week.

Harrison was charged with simple assault, unlawful restraint and reckless endangerment, among other charges.

A large truck towing an even bigger boat broke down in downtown Boston, snarling traffic in the heart of the city’s Financial District on Feb. 11. (Photo: JEN GRYGIEL/AP)

43-foot yacht blocks traffic in snow-clogged downtown Boston

BOSTON – This was one hull of a traffic jam.

A large truck towing an even bigger boat broke down in downtown Boston, snarling traffic in the heart of the city's bustling Financial District.

WCVB-TV reports the 43-foot yacht Maggie Mae was being hauled Feb. 11 to the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center for the New England Boat Show that starts Feb. 14 when the truck stalled.

Boston's narrow streets are tighter than usual because of heavy snow accumulation over the past two weeks.

Workers eventually got the truck and boat out of the congested neighborhood.

Middle school students given 'Fifty Shades of Grey' puzzles

MONESSEN, Pa. – Parents in a Pennsylvania school district are turning 50 shades of red over word search puzzles given to middle school students based on an erotic novel and movie.

The students in Monessen were given puzzles based on "Fifty Shades of Grey" that contained terms including "spanking," "submissive," "leather cuffs" and "bondage." Other words on the list were more explicit.

Parent James Carter complained about it at the Feb. 10 school board meeting, saying he tried to question the school's principal and dean of students, but they refused to talk when he insisted on recording their conversation.

"I wanted to record the conversation because a lot of parents had questions about it, and I was denied that," Carter told the board.

Monessen district officials said at the meeting that they couldn't discuss the issue because they just learned about it Monday. Superintendent Leanne Spazak said the circumstances of the puzzle are under investigation.

One school board member who didn't attend the meeting told WTAE-TV that the puzzle was a big mistake.

"It was a huge but unintentional error and collected from the five students involved as soon as it was realized," Roberta Bergstedt wrote in an email. "Unfortunately one copy was taken by a student who then posted it on social media."

The movie opens in theaters Friday. It's based on a best-selling book by E L James about a college student and her torrid affair with a 27-year-old billionaire with a penchant for bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism.

75-year-old man tackles suspect, threatens to break his arm

WASHINGTON – A 75-year-old man helped in the arrest of a shoplifting suspect at a Pennsylvania mall by tackling him and threatening to break his arm if he tried to escape.

Charlie Burton, of Fombell, says he was a vendor at the Washington Crown Center mall for a gun show when he saw an officer struggling with the suspect, Jonathan Fekete Jr., 29.

Police say Fekete was trying to get away after taking $200 worth of clothes from a Macy's store Saturday.

Burton says he ran over to help, grabbed the man's arms and forced him down. Burton says, "He started hollering his arm hurt, and I said, 'Quit struggling or I'll break the thing.' "

Fekete is in jail.

Police: Man took $500 from bank drive-up left by another

CLEARFIELD, Pa. – A Pennsylvania man hoping to pass a fraudulent check instead stole $500 when he found that much money left behind by another customer at a drive-up bank window, police say.

Randy Gillen Jr., 28, was in the Clearfield County Jail on Feb. 9, awaiting a Feb. 11 preliminary hearing.

Police tell WJAC-TV that the Clearfield man hoped to cash a bogus $1,900 check at CNB Bank, but instead drove away when he saw the money left behind in the carrier tube from the previous customer on Jan. 29.

Police say Gillen later tried to pass the bad check at another bank, and was rebuffed before Clearfield police found him Feb. 4, hiding in his girlfriend's closet.

Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., right, winks and grins behind Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., as he speaks from the floor of the House of Representatives. (Photo: C-SPAN/AP)

Montana lawmaker says yoga pants should be illegal

HELENA, Mont. – A Montana legislative panel moved to kill an indecent exposure bill Feb. 11 after the lawmaker who introduced it said yoga pants should be illegal.

Members of the House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to table House Bill 365, which Rep. David Moore introduced Feb. 10.

The proposal would have expanded the definition of indecent exposure to include garments that give the appearance of a person's buttocks, genitals, pelvis or female nipple.

The Republican from Missoula said he wouldn't have a problem with people being arrested for wearing such provocative clothing such as tight-fitting beige garments. Moore also said yoga pants should be illegal.

Although members of the committee giggled about the bill, no discussion was allowed before a voice vote to table it.

Moore and retired professor Walt Hill drafted HB 365 after last year's Bare as you Dare bicycle event outraged some residents last summer. Fearing that denying organizers an event permit would breach free speech, city officials allowed participants, many of them completely nude, to ride through downtown Missoula on Aug. 17.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1991 that state prohibitions on public nudity are constitutional given that nudity itself is not an expression. Bare as you Dare organizers call the event a celebration of body image and bicyclists' right to use public roads.

Currently, a person convicted of indecent exposure three times in Montana can be sentenced to life in jail and up to $10,000.

Hapless romantic? Name a roach after your ex for Valentine's

NEW YORK – This Valentine's Day, name a Madagascar hissing cockroach after your ex — or mother-in-law — or a loved one who's an incredibly good sport.

The Name-a-Roach program was first launched at the Bronx Zoo in 2011. Apparently people are still coming out to participate.

The zoo said Feb. 9 that thousands of "hopeless" — or perhaps hapless — "romantics" have taken advantage of the strange sweetheart deal.

Each lucky recipient is emailed a colorful certificate. The $10 goes to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

The zoo's website features a jarring glamour shot — a 2-inch-wide roach image, resplendent amid the rose petals.

Among the selling points: the creature's "surprisingly high tolerance for radiation."

The headline: "Seal it with a Hiss."

Romania's foreign ministry summons diplomat after rude notes

BUCHAREST, Romania – The Romanian foreign ministry has summoned a diplomat to Bucharest after its embassy in Paris sent out invitations to a reception containing rude remarks about the guests.

The embassy had emailed invitations to a reception to mark the Feb. 10 visit by President Klaus Iohannis, but inadvertently attached a spreadsheet that described some of the guests as "undesirable" and another as "ghastly."

Last week the ministry said the embassy had apologized, saying the annotations were personal remarks, but the furor did not go away.

In a second statement Feb. 9, the ministry said one diplomat had been summoned to Bucharest and another had been given a warning.

Ambassador to France Bogdan Mazuru wrote a letter of apology to the Romanian writer who exposed the gaffe but did not personally have a rude description.

Think pink? UK campaign bus to draw women voters backfires

LONDON – Britain's Labour Party has launched an election campaign targeting women voters but its chosen vehicle, a bright pink bus, has backfired even before it hit the road.

The bus's color has drawn scorn and ridicule, with some calling it patronizing and sexist. Critics on Twitter compared it to a Barbie van or a bachelorette party limo.

The opposition party, which says it will highlight policies on issues such as childcare and domestic violence, hopes the bus will promote its "woman to woman" campaign and draw millions of women who didn't vote in the last election.

Reacting to the backlash Feb. 11, Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman said the idea was to make the bus "look conspicuous," not patronizing. "Well it doesn't have big eyelashes on the front," she added.

Police: Man arrested in bizarre Nevada road-rage incident

SPARKS, Nev. – A Nevada man has been arrested on allegations that he shot another man in a bizarre road-rage incident that ended with the victim driving himself to the hospital in the suspect's pickup.

Sparks police say Cesar Romero, 20, has been booked on several charges including assault with a deadly weapon.

Witnesses told police the victim was driving an Audi on Feb. 10 when Romero allegedly ran him off a suburban street in a Toyota pickup truck.

Police say Romero shot the man in the chest. They say the victim eventually wrestled the gun away from Romero and struck him in the head with a baseball bat before taking Romero's truck and driving himself to the hospital.

Neither man sustained life-threatening injuries.

Romero fled on foot but soon was apprehended. Police say they found a handgun in his truck.

Emergency services deduce 'banana' in pine tree is geocache

LINCOLN, Neb. – Emergency personnel and a bomb disposal specialist have determined that a suspicious "banana" hanging in a pine tree in Nebraska is simply a harmless geocache.

The Lincoln Journal Star reports that a utility worker spotted the device wrapped in yellow tape and attached to a wire on Feb. 10 in northeast Lincoln.

The worker called 911. Police, firefighters and a bomb technician determined the "banana" wasn't a bomb, but a prize hunted by people on geocaching quests.

Geocachers across the world use global positioning devices to track and find the hidden objects.

Lincoln fire investigator Chuck Schweitzer says city bomb technicians have been out on similar calls through the years as geocaching has grown in popularity.

— Compiled by Paul H. Rowe

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