A Florida town is threatening to lock up anybody who bares more than one-third of his or her buttocks in public.

Women would also have to cover at least one-quarter of their breasts, under an ordinance approved by the Daytona Beach Board of Commissioners.

Bob Kunst, an independent candidate for governor, slammed the board, saying, “The policing of this thing is insane when we’re dealing with things like terrorism.”

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A young Pennsylvania man who mowed down crop fields with his car has been sentenced to community service: shoveling manure on a farm.

“I want him to see exactly what that farmer went through to grow those crops,” Lebanon County Judge Bradford Charles said of 19-year-old Jason Theirwechter, who pleaded guilty to drunken driving and vandalism.

The judge told Theirwechter, “Someone else put his own sweat and blood into creating it, and you destroyed it maliciously. I want you to experience how difficult it is to grow crops for a living.”

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A Los Angeles deejay may face jail for encouraging a 17-year-old fan to walk naked in public so he could win concert tickets.

Authorities are deciding whether to file charges against Joe Grande of KPWR-FM, known for getting listeners to perform the “dare of the day.”

The teen took up one of Grande’s challenges and exposed himself to a kids on a school bus and to families driving to school at an intersection in the San Fernando Valley.

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Everybody admits that Lake St. Claire in Michigan is a good lake – but some folks want it declared a Great Lake.

Officials in suburban Detroit’s Macomb County want the U.S.-Canadian border lake reclassified as the sixth Great Lake, joining Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario.

Great Lakes status would bring federal funding, but the campaign won’t be easy. In 1998, a drive to classify Lake Champlain as a Great Lake went nowhere.

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A horse led himself to water – and nearly drowned.

Police in Barrington Hills, Ill., said the gelding escaped from a yard, wandered over to a neighbor’s pool, fell in and became entangled in the plastic sheet that was covering it.

Firefighters and cops used harnesses and a backhoe to rescue the horse.