RANTS

»Recent investigation uncovered that the police chief of Fostoria, Ohio and the department's police dog have criminal justice degrees from the same online school.

»A 21-year-old man in Indiana was arrested for attempting to cash in a $50,000 check from God.

RAVES

»British physicist Stephen Hawking is set to experience zero-gravity weighlessness this April at NASA in a step towards a potential space trip.

»A Florida teen who had a case of the hiccups, as many as 50 a minute, that lasted 38 days woke up on Thursday hiccup-free.