A computer error caused a Cincinnati area service station to sell gas for a-dollar-40 instead of four-dollars-and-10-cents, leading to a major traffic jam. Vehicles clogged the area around a Marathon station in suburban SycamoreTownship while the bargain was available for roughly three hours on Tuesday, until HamiltonCounty sheriff's deputies persuaded the station to shut down. Tiffany Smith waited in line for two hours to take advantage of the deal. She says these days, her family has to decide between buying food or buying gas, and the fuel price glitch would allow her to do both. The store clerk said he didn't know how to fix the problem and was having trouble reaching his store manager. --Originally reported by The Associated Press.

A Ypsilanti, Michigan man is accused of stabbing his mother in the back with a dinner fork and clubbing another woman over the head with 10 pounds of frozen chicken. Frederick McKaney, 40, also faces a charge of resisting police officers who responded to a reported assault late Monday night. Assistant Prosecutor Mark Blumer said, "He stabbed his mother in the back of the neck when she refused to give him money, and then he attacked a neighbor woman with a chicken." McKaney apparently went to his mother's house early Sunday, woke her at 3 a-m and demanded cash. Blumer said that a day after he stabbed his mother, McKaney was riding a bicycle when he encountered two women talking on the sidewalk on Woodbridge. "He said something nasty to them and they responded in kind. He jumped off his bike and hit one woman over the head with 10 pounds of chicken." The woman was treated at FooteHospital, with a wound on her head being closed by five staples. --Originally reported by The Jackson Citizen Patriot.

Last year, North Carolina state officials notified nearly 10-thousand holders of license plates with the letter combination W-T-F that they could get a replacement at no charge after officials learned that the combination is a common acronym in text messaging for a vulgar phrase, "What the [bleep]." But while tracking down the errant plates, no one at the Division of Motor Vehicles checked their own Web site. "W-T-F-5505" is shown as a sample of a personalized plate. D-M-V Commissioner Bill Gore said, "I can't believe it. Obviously, I didn't know it was there." --Originally reported by Raleigh News and Observer.

First it was a proposed ban on plastic bags. Now, a member of the influential Madison, Wisconsin Plan Commission wants to ban the restaurant drive-through -- or at least restrict the ubiquitous symbol of America's auto-centric lifestyle. Eric Sundquist, who was appointed to the citizen panel, says, "Given the concern about all the carbon going into the atmosphere, I'm not sure we should be building more places for people to sit idling in their cars. Sundquist notes that several cities in Canada have recently moved to ban the drive-through coffee shop or stand-alone fast food restaurant. --Originally reported by The Capital Times.