A 350-year-old statue of a saint and former pope, stolen from an Italian church in 1990, has been found in the home of a Charlotte, NC, couple who had no idea it was hot, officials said.

The intricately carved bust of St. Innocent will be returned to the church in Naples, officials said.

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There’s a reason why city fathers in Santa Fe, NM, couldn’t find a time capsule marking the city’s 350th anniversary: It was never planted.

The committee planning the city’s 400th-anniver- sary celebrations had been searching for the location of the 150-pound steel tube, which was prepared in 1960.

They finally found out what happened after reading old articles in the local newspaper, which reported in 1964 that the time-capsule project had never been completed due to economic problems.

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A 61-year-old Michigan man is suing his former employer, claiming he was fired from a sales job because of his waistline.

Patrick J. Ronayne’s lawsuit seeks more than $25,000 from Winston Golf and Winston Manufacturing, claiming he was let go because “he was not a ‘flat belly.’ ”

The employer said Ronayne was released because of his performance.

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A bowling-alley brawl broke out in Rocklin, Calif., and it was all over a question of etiquette.

Two groups arrived at a lane at the same time and couldn’t agree who should go first. One man lost a tooth in the fight when he was hit with a ball.

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Norm Coleman and Al Franken are still neck-and-neck in the Minnesota’s Senate race, so they might as well be that close on a bobblehead doll.

The Saint Paul Saints minor-league baseball team will give away 2,500 two-faced dolls depicting both candidates. Each doll will be dressed like the Count from “Sesame Street.” It’s called the “Re-Count.”