CLAY CITY, Ky. (AP) -- Two central Kentucky men were rewarded with an arrest after police said one of them implicated himself while trying to collect money offered for information about the case. Powell County Sheriff Danny Rogers told the Lexington Herald-Leader that 20-year-old man tried to cash in on a reward posted by the owner of McKinney's Food Mart in Clay City after a Feb. 4 burglary in which 17 carton of cigarettes were taken....

TAYLOR, Mich. (AP) -- A buck is all it will take to buy a bungalow in one Detroit suburb. That's what Taylor officials are asking for a two-story Arts and Crafts-Style home built in 1926 that features four bedrooms and two bathrooms....

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- State police said a western Pennsylvania woman faked a report that she was a hit-and-run victim because she was afraid she'd get fired for being late to work. Courtni Roberts, 20, faces a preliminary hearing March 31 on a charge of making false reports to police on Feb. 5....

ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) -- Nothing says "I love you" like a half-mile wide heart made out of manure. A southern Minnesota man created the Valentine's Day gift for his wife of 37 years in their farm field about 12 miles southwest of Albert Lea. Bruce Andersland told the Alberta Lea Tribune that he started the project with his tractor and manure spreader Wednesday and finished Thursday....

BOSTON (AP) -- Boston officials said the owners of thousands of vehicles ticketed or towed during a snowstorm that never was won't have to pay a cent. With forecasters predicting up to a foot of snow on Wednesday, the city declared a snow emergency, which requires main thoroughfares to be free of vehicles to allow plows to fully clear the streets....

NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) -- Police responding to a report of a suspicious man carrying a gun instead found two legs sticking out of a homemade igloo. New Castle County police said the legs belong to Delaware teen who was arrested Wednesday after he was found to be carrying a survival knife, a hammer, 7.5 grams of marijuana and two marijuana pipes....

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A Sioux Falls man faces an aggravated assault charge after allegedly attacking a snow plow driver. Authorities said a 64-year-old man told officers the plow driver had knocked over the mailbox at his home west of the city Tuesday afternoon. He allegedly punched the driver in the foot and threatened him with pepper spray....

COLLEGEDALE, Tenn. (AP) -- An East Tennessee grandfather has been charged with endangerment after police said they stopped him while he was driving, drinking and holding his grandson in his arms. WRCB in Chattanooga reported the man was stopped because his van had a broken tail light. The station says surveillance video then shows the driver exit the van holding a 2-year-old....

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) -- A Cedar Rapids woman was accused of arranging her daughter's effort at prostitution. Mary J. Doolin was arrested Wednesday in connection with a Sept. 29 incident in Coralville. Police said Doolin sent her daughter to meet an undercover officer who had contacted her during a prostitution investigation. According to police, Doolin's daughter, 37-year-old Debra Voshell, was later charged with pandering....

LILBURN, Ga. (AP) -- Police in Georgia say a 23-year-old man grabbed a baseball bat inside of a Wal-Mart and smashed 29 flat-screen televisions. Police in Lilburn near Atlanta have charged Westley Strellis with 29 counts of criminal damage to property in the second degree. Witnesses tell police he grabbed a metal baseball bat from the sporting goods section Wednesday, walked to the electronics department and destroyed the TVs on display....

LILBURN, Ga. (AP) -- Police are investigating what may have caused a man to walk into a Wal-Mart and destroy 29 flat-screen televisions. Police charged a 23-year-old man with 29 counts of criminal damage to property in the second degree. Just after noon Wednesday, authorities said the suspect walked into the Wal-Mart in Lilburn. Witnesses told police he grabbed a metal baseball bat from the sporting goods section, walked to the electronics department and destroyed the TVs on display....

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) -- A Connecticut school cafeteria worker and a 13-year-old girl face criminal charges after police said a food fight turned into a real fight. Waterbury police said the fifth-grader at Gilmartin Elementary School threw vegetables at 55-year-old lunch aide Rosa Robles last Thursday, and Robles responded by throwing vegetables in the girl's face. Police said a fight broke out when the girl punched Robles in the face. Authorities said both suffered cut lips, and the g...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Baraboo man was accused of repeatedly shocking a male dance instructor with a stun gun, claiming the instructor was a "sinner" who "defiles married women." A Dane County prosecutor said the suspect, 59, hastily arranged a dance lesson at the instructor's Madison home and showed up with a stun gun and sledgehammer last Friday. The criminal complaint said the man told a detective that his church does not condone touching while dancing and that he was going to scare...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Brooklyn woman said a mugger stole a doggie coat right off the back of her mild-mannered terrier. Donna McPherson said she tied up Lexie, her 10-year-old Westie, outside a Park Slope supermarket "for two minutes" while she bought milk. She heard a "funny bark." When McPherson went outside, she found the little white dog shivering. His green wool coat, with leather trim and belt, were nowhere in sight....

MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif. (AP) -- Manhattan Beach police have arrested a man they claim tried to buy urine from boys at an elementary school. Sgt. Brian Brown said an 18-year-old man was arrested on Monday for investigation of annoying children. He remained jailed Wednesday on $150,000 bail. Authorities believe the man walked into a restroom at Pacific Elementary School last week and offered two boys several dollars to urinate in a cup. School officials said they refused....

JUPITER, Fla. (AP) -- A man accidentally shot himself in the leg shortly after leaving a Jupiter gun store. Police said the unidentified man went to Chuck's Guns and Ammo Monday afternoon, looking for batteries for the laser sight on a small handgun. When the man was back in his car, the gun accidentally fired, hitting him in the leg....

SAUQUOIT, N.Y. (AP) -- An 11-year-old boy faces assault and weapon charges for trying to stab a classmate with a pencil over a math problem. Police in New Hartford, 80 miles west of Albany, said the boy was mad because a classmate kept trying to help him in math class on Monday. When the would-be helper wouldn't back off, police said the boy lashed out with a sharp pencil and inflicted a scratch treated by the school nurse....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles County prosecutors are looking into a complaint that the mayor of Carson cuts off public speakers at City Council meetings if he doesn't like what they're saying. David Demerjian of the district attorney's office said the complaint claims that Mayor Jim Dear hits the mute button on speakers before the three-minute time limit is up....

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities say a drunken man stole an ambulance from a Wisconsin ski area with the patient and paramedics still inside. The Dane County Sheriff's Department says emergency responders were treating a patient in the back of the ambulance at the Tyrol Basin Ski and Snowboard Area in Mount Horeb on Monday night. They say a 24-year-old Illinois man got into the vehicle and drove it around the parking lot....

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) -- A Roanoke man claims sheriff's deputies beat him in the city jail because of his burping. Thomas Scott Vandegrift made the allegations in a federal lawsuit filed last week against several deputies, the city, the sheriff's office and the sheriff. According to the lawsuit, the deputies were annoyed by Vandegrift's burping, which was caused by acid reflux....