■ UNITED STATES
Presidential doubles nabbed
Two robbers dressed as former US presidents Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon last month during two bank heists in Kentucky, police in Tennessee said. William Hendrick, 57, and Richard Parrott, 58, were arrested on Wednesday. The pair, who were convicted of bank robbery in Florida in the 1980s, face federal armed bank robbery charges. Police said the pair may be fans of an old Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves movie in which robbers wore masks of presidents Reagan, Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Lyndon Johnson. "I don't know if these guys were sitting around watching Point Break before the first robbery," Bowling Green police officer Barry Pruitt said.
■ UNITED STATES
Anti-gay broadcast panned
Authorities in the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, are trying to figure out who broadcast a biblical message against homosexuals over the public announcement system at the international airport. Broward County Mayor Josephus Eggelletion personally apologized on Friday for the incident that prompted a male couple to issue a complaint. Someone "entered the PA system in our airport and through that PA system they uttered a statement that's found in Leviticus 20:13," Eggelletion said. The verse states: "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death."
■ CANADA
Cat terrifies mailwoman
Neither rain, sleet nor snow can stop Canada Post's trusted carriers from delivering the mail, but a cuddly house cat seems to have done just that. Reports said a Winnipeg couple was refused mail delivery this week because their cat terrifies the mailwoman. Canada Post spokeswoman Kathi Neal said the eight-year-old black cat has "growled and leapt up to try to scratch the mail carrier's face" on three occasions in the past six months. "I don't think it's really the devil in disguise [as newspapers have quipped in headlines], but cats can be every bit as dangerous as dogs, and are sometimes very territorial," Neal said.
■ UNITED STATES
Six-legged calf born
A days-old black Angus calf romps about a central Nebraska farm just like any other -- only this one romps with six legs. "He's a real freak," said Brian Slocum, who said the calf was born last Sunday to one of his cows. "I've never seen anything like this before."The two extra appendages -- one a front leg, the other a back -- extend from the calf's pelvic area. The calf also has organs for both sexes. David Smith, a veterinary specialist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, said the calf's twin sexes indicate the embryos for what might have been fraternal twins likely fused during development, producing one calf with extra parts.
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