Residents of Parshall, ND, are unfazed by an unarmed booster rocket for an intercontinental ballistic missile that was left lying in a ditch when a truck overturned.

“We talked about the oil boom, weddings, everything under the sun,” resident Arlene Zacher said. “But nobody ever mentioned that missile. I guess that shows that people aren’t worried.”

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Bounce, bounce, bounce . . . for 24 hours.

That was what eight boys in Flat Rock, Mich., did to break a world record at the Bounce-a-Lot entertainment center southwest of Detroit.

The kids, ages 8 to 11, bounced two at a time, in shifts, in an inflatable castle, hoping to break the mark of 19 hours and 24 minutes. Guinness must still authenticate the feat.

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The US Postal Service has ended a long tradition of delivering to Maine’s Sutton Island by private ferry service and leaving mail in a marked, dock-side trash can.

Postal officials got wind of the practice and halted it because it provides no security. Now residents will have to make a two-mile ocean journey to the post office in Northeast Harbor.

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A Cincinnati landlord is so exasperated by crime outside his building that he’s posted a large sign announcing, “Drugs & Sex For Sale 24/7.”

John Wallen says most tenants have fled his apartment building because of drugs and prostitution on the street.

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A group of artists, writers and intellectuals has launched The School of Life in London, designed to help working stiffs too busy for the finer things of life – such as art, books and travel.

Operating out of a small shop in the arty district of Bloomsbury, the school describes itself as a “[pharmacy] for the mind” that plans to dispense “cultural solutions to everyday ailments.” Among courses being offered later this year are instruction in life, love, work, family and politics.