A pregnant woman, due to give birth to twins any day, rushed into a blazing building to rescue a paralyzed woman trapped in her apartment.

Jessica Bates, 22, of Albion, Mich., pulled neighbor Barbara Wellman to safety by dragging her wheelchair by its footrests.

“I knew it was a risk to myself, but I couldn’t leave her,” she said.

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A woman and her father won the top three daily prizes in the West Virginia state lottery.

Charity Guiddy of Charleston won two $25,000 prizes, using a set of family birth dates. Her dad, Paul, claimed a third $25,000 with the same numbers – which he had noticed on an old lottery ticket she left in his car.

It was the second time Charity hit the jackpot in her state’s lottery. Five years ago she won $25,000 with a different set of numbers.

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After almost three weeks on the lam, a runaway bear has returned to his enclosure at a resort in the Canadian Rockies.

An official at the Kicking Horse Mountain Resort in Golden, B.C., said the 4-year-old black bear apparently didn’t want to continue foraging for food.

“We feel now that mating season is over, his urge to escape will be minimized,” the official added.

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Tribal law can be pretty tough in Sabah state on Malaysia’s Borneo island.

A native who secretly married a second wife was fined a buffalo and a pig – even though he agreed to dissolve his second marriage and return to his first wife and kids.

A local judge noted that a man generally wouldn’t have been punished for taking a second wife, “but in this case he did not get the permission of the first wife.” What a bigamess.

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He wants to say “I moo.”

A Russian farmer has e-mailed President Vladimir Putin seeking permission to marry a cow – of the four-legged variety.

“All the girls have left our small village and moved to the city, so I cannot find a woman to be with. But I see the solution to the problem,” he wrote Putin.

“I love animals very much and want to ask when we will be allowed in Russia to marry domestic animals, such as cows.”