A Washington state man out on bail in the shooting death of his teen girlfriend was arrested again — for digging up her tombstone and replacing it with one listing his name.

James Radtke, 25, also spelled out her name in Taco Bell wrappers on the ground by the grave.

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The Little Mermaid would be proud.

Tibetan Buddhists in Gloucester, Mass., set 534 live lobsters free. after a ceremony that included spritzing the crustaceans with blessed water and cutting the bands that kept their claws in check before letting them go, one by one, into the ocean.

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A Beatrice, Neb., woman who wanted to avoid a probation hearing because she wasn’t sober enough asked two of her buddies to stab her, and they did.

Jessalyn Stierwalt, 21, told the truth while was hospitalized with shoulder and stomach wounds.

She was later charged with conspiracy to commit assault. Her friends were arrested as well.

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A man driving through northern Washington state found a 16-foot-long python dead on the side of the road, brought it to a relative’s house and skinned it himself.

Lino Silva, of Sedro-Woolley, Wash., says watching the Discovery Channel helped him figure out how to skin the snake, but he’s going to enlist a taxidermist to help him turn the skin into a jacket.

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This famously faithful furry friend was just a publicity hound.

The legend of Greyfriars Bobby — the Skye Terrier renowned for keeping a 14-year watch over his master’s grave in Scotland in the 1800s — wasn’t mourning for his owner at all, a historian believes.

Jan Bondeson thinks the dog’s story was a stunt drummed up by business owners looking to draw tourists.