A Nevada Board of Education member was chastised during a public meeting for dangling a piece of jewelry in front of his giggling new wife, who was sitting next to him.

“I will entertain my wife. I love my wife,” said board member Greg Nance.

When a deputy attorney general urged Nance to behave properly, Nance replied that there was no law against his wife sitting next to him at meetings.

“Therefore, bite me!” Nance told the official.

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A 20-year-old New Jersey woman who got behind the wheel while drunk, and then fled the scene after smashing her car into a utility pole, was caught by cops who tracked her using personal papers left at the crash scene, police said.

But before she could be arrested for that smashup, the unidentified woman crashed into a stone wall about two miles from the original accident.

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Mattel is issuing the first-ever Elvis and Priscilla Presley dolls – dressed in the same garb they wore on their 1967 wedding day.

“Elvis” has a black paisley-print tux, while “Priscilla” wears a white chiffon and satin gown.

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Facing a recall vote, Bolivian President Evo Morales got some help from a potentially powerful source: witch doctors.

One witch doctor in the capital city of La Paz set fire to a dried llama fetus at the behest of a client, one of several who are lobbying the spirit of Mother Earth for the president’s political survival.

It must have worked – Morales overwhelmingly beat back the recall effort.

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A 700-pound Mexican man, previously considered the world’s heaviest person, was raised by a forklift onto a truck to visit a lake for the first trip outside of his home in five months.

Manuel Uribe has lost 550 pounds in two years, but is still unable to walk.