Cops in Richland, Wash., took a bite out of crime in record time after learning that a delivery truck full of doughnuts had been hijacked.

Minutes after an all-points bulletin was issued, an officer spotted the bakery truck and stopped it after a brief slow-speed chase.

Police reported all the doughnuts – sugar, glazed and cream-filled – were intact.

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Lawyers in Columbus, Ohio, are appealing a murder verdict – because there were no butts about it.

They claim the 2003 verdict that sent Phillip Elmore to death row for killing his girlfriend should be overturned because the jury had been barred from smoking during deliberations.

They contend the ban made nicotine-craving jurors antsy and “predisposed” to render a quick verdict.

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A massage therapist in Lindstrom, Minn., could lose her state license – for having sexual relations with her husband.

Here’s the rub: Her husband was a client she started dating two months after he stopped seeing her professionally, and Minnesota law bans massage therapists from having sex with former clients for two years.

“There’s no harm, no victim,” insists her husband. “What’s this about?”

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An 88-year-old farmer in a remote village in western India has just become the father of a baby boy, says he has sex daily and wants more kids.

“I don’t want to live to 100, but as long as I live, I should be able to enjoy sex,” says Virmaram Jat, who claims he stays young by drinking camel milk and taking walks.

He and his wife – his third, who is 45 years his junior – share their home with his first wife, who is 85.

The chances of getting a seat on Tokyo’s crowded trains have improved for Japanese women – if they’re pregnant.

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Tokyo rail companies are giving expectant mothers badges that announce, “There’s a baby in my belly,” in a bid to get other passengers to offer them seats. No proof of pregnancy is required.

The move comes as Japan, faced with a dwindling birthrate, searches for ways to encourage women to have babies.