Manure love

According to this man nothing says "I love you" like a half-mile wide heart made out of manure. A southern Minnesota man gifted the Valentine's Day to his 37 year old wife for Valentines day yesterday. Bruce Andersland told the Press that he started the project in their farm field about 12 miles southwest of Albert Lea with his tractor and manure spreader on Wednesday and finished Thursday. His wife, Beth, said it is the biggest and most original Valentine she has ever received.

Painful Release

The governor of the US-administered Northern Mariana Islands is feeling the heat after ordering the temporary release of a jailed suspect to give him a massage. Benigno R Fitial, the most senior politician there, demanded Chinese masseuse, Qing Mei Cheng, be set free to treat him for back pain. The masseuse was taken from the local prison, where she was being held on people smuggling charges, to the governor's mansion before being returned to jail."I made this request because this was an unusual situation where I needed to address the extraordinary pain I was experiencing," Fitial said in a statement.

Magic spys

The CIA hired America's most famous magician to write a manual on the arts of trickery, concealment and secret communication during the Cold War.
John Mulholland was paid $3,000 for tips on slipping a pill into the drink of the unsuspecting, tying shoelaces to give uncover signals and on the "surreptitious removal of objects." His guidance was part of a CIA effort, called MK-ULTRA, developed to counter Soviet mind-control and interrogation techniques. It involved dosing suspects with LSD, dropping depilatory powder into Fidel Castro's boots, or planting an explosive in his cigar.

Facebook Hero

A New York teenager narrowly avoided a 25-year jail term for armed robbery thanks to a Facebook status update he posted about pancakes. Rodney Bradford was held by police for 13 days, accused of breaking into a Brooklyn residence, but was able to corroborate his alibi thanks a posting to his Facebook page that showed what he was doing at the time of the crime. Bradford's comment, teasing his girlfriend about not having joined him to eat pancakes and accompanied by a time-stamp, was probably instrumental in the district attorney's decision to drop the charges, his lawyer Robert Reuland said