■ UNITED STATES
Centenarian rides in sidecar
Evelyn Warburton rode to her 100th birthday party on Saturday in a motorcycle sidecar. She sported a black leather jacket, a helmet and a pair of sunglasses for the 10-minute ride from her home in Lightstreet, Pennsylvania, to her granddaughter's house in Berwick. "It was fun today," Warburton said. Her chauffeur on the green 2000 Harley-Davidson Ultra was George Crawford, a friend who had been offering to take her to church on his motorcycle for several years. Warburton finally accepted Crawford's offer of a ride to her party. She had actually turned 100 on Thursday.
■ UNITED STATES
Bathroom draws tourists
When tourists ask for the bathroom in the Minneapolis, Minnesota, airport lately, it is usually not because they have to go. It is because they want to see the stall made famous by US Senator Larry Craig's arrest in a sex sting. "It's become a tourist attraction," said Karen Evans, information specialist at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. "People are taking pictures." Craig was arrested June 11 by a Minneapolis airport police officer. The Idaho Republican pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Just 15 minutes into her shift on Friday, Evans said she had been asked directions to the new tourist attraction four times.
■ UNITED STATES
Student defender arrested
A student government president in Pennsylvania was charged with drunken driving just weeks after saying the media had unfairly portrayed students as irresponsible. Christopher Bevan, 21, was pulled over last weekend after a campus police officer said he saw the Bloomsburg University student driving more than 80kph in a 24kph zone. A breath test showed Bevan's blood-alcohol level was .147 percent, authorities said, well over the legal limit. Bevan recently wrote a letter to the Press Enterprise of Bloomsburg about media coverage of the college's annual Block Party, an event critics have described as rowdy and alcohol-fueled. The stories have "painted BU students with a broad and negative brush and are both inaccurate and extremely unfair," Bevan wrote.
■ ZAMBIA
Resurrection investigated
Police on Sunday ordered a forensic probe into a bizarre report that a woman believed to have died and been buried 11 years ago has reappeared in the capital Lusaka. Police Chief Emphraim Mateyo said that he has ordered the exhumation of Grace following claims by her parents and relatives to the police that she had resurrected. "We want to establish the truth. We shall exhume the body ... and carry out tests," Mateyo said. The police boss said the story grew more complicated because two couples were also claiming to be Grace's parents.
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