Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton

With lots of stretching and reaching toward blue, red, yellow and green circles, some 450 high school students played Twister on 180 mats in what they hope will set a world record for the largest Twister game board.

Sunday's night attempt took place during a conference held over the weekend by North Dakota DECA, a high school business club.

State DECA adviser Kevin Reisenauer, of Bismarck, was confident. "We will break the record." The students won't know for sure until officials at Guinness World Records review a video of the attempt.

The mats formed a Twister board measuring 4,699 square feet. The current Twister board record was set in April 2005 in the Netherlands, at 2,453 square feet.

Stop! ...Or My Mom Will Shoot.

Jacksonville authorities say a mother pulled out a gun at a school bus stop because her son was being bullied.

The police report says 40-year-old Johnna Briggs pointed the gun at other students getting off the bus and said, "Does anyone have something to say?"

Her son was being bullied on the school bus and authorities say she wanted to put an end to it.

Briggs is charged with improper exhibition of a firearm, a misdemeanor.

Gaylord The Ostrich

Timothy McKevitt has been sentenced to five months in jail and three years probation for killing an ostrich in San Mateo County. He will also have to pay $5,000 in restitution for killing Gaylord the ostrich.

Authorities say McKevitt and his friend Jonathan Porter and a few others were drinking on Halloween last year and decided to trespass on a ranch.

Gaylord the ostrich apparently grew incensed and attacked and injured both men.

Porter and McKevitt later returned to the ranch with a rifle and shotgun and killed Gaylord.

T For Temple U!

Temple 16 NIU 15

What A Hit!

Steve Downie hit on Dean McAmmond

'Finger In Defiance'

William Joseph Galloway wrecked his pickup after leading deputies on a 115-mph chase and tossing beer cans out the window. So authorities weren't thrilled with the 26-year-old man's next move: swigging beer and giving them the middle finger.

Authorities said he told them "he was going to die fighting and swinging." But a Taser shock ended that threat.

Troopers and St. Johns County deputies said they watched the driver throw beer cans from the truck as it weaved in traffic at high speeds and in heavy rainfall. The pickup then spun off the road and crashed into a tree.

"The suspect rolled down his window and drank from a beer can while displaying his middle finger in defiance," the report said.

When Galloway would not get out of the truck and started to reach for his glove box, a deputy fired a 15-second Taser stun gun burst, the report said.

Galloway told deputies he would have fought them all if he had not been jolted with the Taser, the report said.

Master Baiter

Southwest Airlines said it will apologize to a passenger who was told he would be removed from a flight if he didn't change clothes, the second time in recent months the budget carrier has been forced to do so.

Joe Winiecki, of Largo, Florida, boarded a Southwest flight in Columbus, Ohio, wearing a fictional fishing shop T-shirt which featured the words, "Master Baiter."

Winiecki, who was traveling home, said he was in his seat when an employee told him he had to change his T-shirt, turn it inside out, or get off the plane.

Winiecki protested that the airline was infringing on his right to free speech, but changed his shirt fearing he would miss the flight and a day's work.

Ted "The Iceman" Jackson

For Neil,

Too Close for Comfort - MUNROE!!!

Fuckin' On New Years Eve (Or Was It Christmas?)

Kayla, daughter of Jenna and William Cotton, was born Tuesday, which was Oct. 2 , the same date her brothers were born on. Ayden Cotton arrived on Oct. 2, 2003; Logan was born Oct. 2, 2006.

Based on that history, the parents said they had a feeling their baby daughter would come a couple of days past her Sept. 30 due date. Sure enough, Jenna Cotton, 23, began having contractions early Tuesday, hours before a planned birthday party for the boys.

The 7-pound, 8-ounce Kayla was born at 7:07 p.m. Tuesday.
The odds of a family having three children born on the same date in different years are about 7.5 in 1 million, said Bill Notz, a statistics professor at Ohio State University.