New evidence that smoking can be life-threatening:

A 47-year-old Texas man was just sentenced to 60 years in prison. His DNA was linked to a cigar stub left behind in a 1998 convenience-store stickup.

The smoked perp, Charles Ray Drewery of Baytown, had dropped the butt on the store counter when he emptied the till.

If you’re hairless in Helena and you’re a sportsman, you’re gonna have to put it in writing.

Montana’s official Web site asks applicants for hunting and fishing licenses to indicate their hair color – and the options listed are blond, black, gray, white, red, brown and “bald.”

Some people refer to jail as “the joint.” But in Milwaukee, the county jail has become known as a strip joint.

That’s because of the wild late-night strip shows held in a maximum security pod holding the toughest inmates.

A sheriff’s deputy has been accused of opening the blinds between the pod’s male and female units so the men could watch the women undressing and flashing – to music piped through the intercom system.

Arizona twins conceived from frozen sperm 10 months after their father’s death are eligible to collect Social Security survivors benefits, according to a federal appeals-court ruling.

Federal officials had argued that the twins, who are now 7 years old, did not qualify for benefits because they didn’t exist when their father, Robert Netting, died of cancer.

In ruling against the government, the judge noted that “developing reproductive technology has outpaced federal and state laws.”

Talk about being dethroned.

Thieves stole a public toilet off a city street in Gomel, Belarus, and loaded it onto a tractor-trailer – not knowing a man was inside, sitting on it.

The hapless fellow eventually broke out of the purloined potty, jumped off the truck and contacted police, who flushed out the loo-ny looters.