After pulling over a 1997 Ford Explorer that was drifting between lanes on I-90, the trooper discovered the driver and passenger were naked.

State troopers say the situation demonstrates that drinking and driving isn’t only deadly, it can also be embarrassing.

The passenger, a 20-year-old Seattle woman, retrieved a shirt and tried to hide alcohol containers, but the driver made no attempt to cover up.

Both were instructed to put their clothes on. The driver, a 19-year-old Seattle man, was submitted to field sobriety tests and arrested for DUI and “embracing while driving.”

Who would have thought microwave popcorn could lead to building evacuations? I mean, we’re not talking about bombs, we’re talking about popcorn…soon-to-be named weapon of mass destruction in Seattle.

The Fleets and Facilities Department of Seattle issued a note to Employees at Civic Center Buildings saying that there have been several evacuations in recent years due smoke alarms being tripped by burning popcorn.

The note continued by saying that there has also been several evacuations at City Hall and Seattle Municipal Tower because of burnt popcorn.

The problem has reached such proportions that if it continues the FFDS will issue a microwave popcorn ban in downtown City buildings.

The man, surnamed Wang, had been summoned to a hospital by the neighbor of a family of a deceased patient and went there to offer the family funeral services, the report said.

However, Wang became furious when he found that a business foe was already dressing the corpse in the emergency room. The family had not called the business rival, the report said.

Wang ordered his opposition to leave but the man refused, saying his firm had an agreement with the hospital allowing it to handle all the funeral business.

The two began to fight for the body while the dead man’s family was still in grief over the death, the report said.

Wang then produced a nunchakus and hit his opponent in the face, which caused light injuries to the upper lip.

Wang was placed under arrest, the report said.

The funeral business is a huge-profit industry in China and complaints are always reported for high prices on cremation, funeral services and cemetery real estate.

Mok and Lai had apparently been “plucked from obscurity” as part of a cunning King Bhumibol Adulyadej plan to use strays as police dogs. They were deployed at said airport close to the border with Laos and Myanmar, but quickly attracted numerous complaints from the public due to their uninhibited behaviour.

Mok’s former handler, Police Lieutenant Colonel Jakapop Kamhon, explained: “Both were just as good as foreign dogs trained for use in drug missions. But they were stray dogs, so their manners were worse than those of foreign breeds.

“He [Mok] liked to pee on luggage while searching for drugs inside. He also liked to hold on to women’s legs.”

Republican Sen. Charles Bishop claimed that Democratic Sen. Lowell Barron called him a “son of a (expletive)” in the Senate chamber on Thursday.

“I responded to his comment with my right hand,” Bishop said.

Alabama Public Television tape captured the punch.

“I was raised in the woods of Arkansas and people don’t say that about your mom,” Bishop said.

Barron denied saying that to Bishop. He said the Jasper senator used an expletive to him and he was trying to get away when he was hit by Bishop on the side of the head near an ear. He said he had not decided if he would file charges.

“I would like to finish today in a productive manner. I will evaluate the situation tomorrow on what I may do,” Barron said Thursday.

After the punch, Barron went into a closed-door meeting with other Democrats. Sen. Vivian Figures went into the meeting carrying first aid supplies, but she said he was not hurt.

The fight came on the final day of the 2007 regular session of the Legislature. Republican senators were using delaying tactics to force Democratic leadership to bring up an election reform bill to ban transfers between political action committees.

Barron is chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, which sets the chamber’s work agenda, and Republicans were angry that he had not put the election reform bill in a position to come up for debate.

The Senate had just taken a recess Thursday afternoon when Bishop approached the chair where Barron was sitting. Moments later security officers and others rushed to separate the two senators.

The Senate later considered censuring Bishop and expelling him from the chamber for the remainder of the day, but Bishop said that wasn’t necessary and walked out of the Capitol, saying he was going home.

“I love every one of you. Most of all I love this chamber. I’m going home and you all have a good day,” Bishop said.

Members of the Alabama House said the incident makes the entire Legislature look bad.