A Santa Cruz, Calif., man says he mistakenly received a copy of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” four days before its official release – and sent it back.

Thorin Brentmar could have sold it for a bundle on eBay, or at least read it, but contacted publisher Scholastic Press, which hailed him for his honesty.

It took 25 rolls of duct tape and four weeks of work, but two Forrest City, Ark., teens earned $2,500 college scholarships after donning formal wear made from the adhesive to their prom.

Krystal Long’s dress, a two-piece design, was inspired by Pablo Picasso’s painting “Girl Before a Mirror,” and Casey Isringhouse wore a tuxedo with similar patterns.

They were selected from more than 260 couples in the contest run by Duck brand tape.

It must be something in the water.

An elderly robber has hit three southern California banks in the past week, brandishing a gun and ordering tellers to hand over the money.

Last year, a man dubbed the Old Timer Bandit was killed after leading police on a pursuit after a series of bank heists in the San Gabriel Valley.

A rooster in a chicken coop in Somerset, England, fought off a fox that made a daring raid on the hens.

Rooster Cogburn – named for John Wayne’s character in “True Grit” – pecked and scratched at the fox until it ran away.

“There was a yelp and I saw the fox limping off. And the rooster was strutting around like a boxer after a fight and crowing,” owner Tim Stone said.

The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum, located in a Plano, Texas, strip mall, isn’t much to see – but there’s a lot of people who want to see it.

“People are afraid of seeing cockroaches running across their kitchen at night – but their guard drops when they see them wearing a tutu or a bikini,” said exterminator Michael Bohdan.

Bohdan leads tours of decaying Styrofoam-based scenes featuring roaches in celebrity get-ups and once even appeared on the “The Tonight Show” with Johnny Carson.