Off The Wire

Mattel Inc. sued to stop a husband-and-wife stripper team in Dayton, Ohio, from using the stage names Barbie and Ken.

George E.J. Carr needed only one vote when he ran unopposed for a county Democratic Central Committee in Ohio, but he didn't get it - not even his own.

Anthony Ross Accardo, son of Anthony ``Big Tuna'' Accardo who is a reputed mob gambling czar in Chicago, won half the $5.9 million jackpot in the Illinois State Lottery on a $1 bet.

A San Francisco cab driver who pinned a mugger against a wall with his car until police arrived has been sued by the robber, who said he suffered a leg injury.

Bangladesh police arrested nearly 100 people and at least 150 were injured in clashes between police and students protesting for the right to cheat on college entrance exams.

Homer Simpson, the boneheaded cartoon dad on TV's ``The Simpsons'' who works at a nuclear plant, has been hailed as a candidate for upper management by employees of the real-life San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.

Regulars at the West Overton Museum, which exhibits farm and industrial implements in Scottdale, Pa., protested when a display of a stuffed two-headed calf was removed.

Max, a 2-year-old cat owned by Jennifer Woodbury in Augusta, Maine, received an invitation to the President's Dinner, a GOP fund-raiser that President Bush will attend in Washington, D.C., on June 12.

Police in Arlington, Texas, believe a Lhasa apso twice placed 911 emergency calls from the dog's owner's house.