■ UNITED STATES
Man pulled from chimney
Firefighters had to tear though a wall to rescue a man who became stuck while trying to climb through a chimney into a home. Alejandro Valencio said that he was drunk when he climbed down the chimney about 3:30am on Tuesday to see a woman who lived in the home. "Everyone do stupid things sometimes when they're drunk," he said. The woman, Connie Deweese, said she had known Valencio for about seven or eight months but told him to stay away. She said she locked the door to her home, but "somehow he got to the roof." "I've dated a lot of psychos in my life, but nobody like that," Deweese said.
■ UNITED STATES
Anchor in breast brouhaha
A television station in Kentucky apologized to viewers after an Internet video showed a longtime weather anchor clowning around in front of a computer graphic of a woman's breast. WBKO-TV said on its Web site that it has reprimanded weather anchor Chris Allen for "acting in a juvenile and unprofessional manner." Rick McCue, station general manager, said Allen remains an employee. The tape was never aired and was stolen by a former employee, who posted it on the Internet, the station said. The video showed Allen next to a giant graphic of a woman's body in profile under the text "Breast Milk Donors." A grinning Allen appears to lick the nipple and squeeze the breast while making honking noises.
■ MEXICO
Bush `cockiest': Vicente Fox
US President George W. Bush "is the cockiest guy I have ever met," former Mexican president Vicente Fox says in an autobiography. Fox, who left office in December after a six-year term, worked closely with Bush on immigration and trade in the pair's first year in office in 2001. Fox, a conservative and a rancher like Bush, said in his book Revolution of Hope that their first meeting in 1996 left a mark. "My first impression of George W. Bush was one of total self-confidence. He is quite simply the cockiest guy I have ever met in my life," Fox wrote.
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