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Car hits Palestinian boys who had been throwing rocks

Two stone-throwing Palestinian boys were injured after being hit by a car driven by a Jewish settler leader in East Jerusalem, officials have said. Imran Mansur, 11, broke his leg after being thrown into the air and bouncing off the car windscreen. Iyad Gheit, 10, had to have glass removed from his arm. David Be'eri said he accidentally hit them when trying to escape the assault.

The incident was photographed by journalists, who were in the area in case of unrest after Friday prayers. Silwan, just south of Jerusalem's Old City, has been the scene of regular clashes between hardline settlers and local Palestinians.

A Jerusalem police spokesman said: "We have opened an investigation into the driver of the vehicle and we will check all the footage." Mr Be'eri has been questioned by the police and released on bail. He is the local leader of Elad, a right-wing group that supports increased Jewish settlement in the Old City and occupied East Jerusalem.

Elad spokesman Udi Ragones said: "His car was surrounded with tens of people with rocks, when they started throwing them, and he hit them when he tried to flee from the area. It seems that they were lying in wait and the ambush was planned with rocks. It may have even been a lynch situation. He felt his life was in danger," he added.

Police responding to burglar alarm kill family dog then leave nice note on door

Mary Kate Hallock arrived at her Oakland hills home after running errands Tuesday and found a blue note fluttering on her front door. "Oakland police responded to your residence to investigate a burglar alarm," the handwritten note read. "While circling the rear perimeter, lab advanced on officers in a threatening manner before being shot and killed."

"Lab" was Gloria, an 11-year-old, arthritic yellow Labrador Hallock's family had owned since she was a puppy. Oakland police shot Gloria three times with a 40-caliber Glock handgun in the family's backyard while responding to a false burglar alarm at the property. The dog, police said, growled and barked at them.

"I probably read that note 10 times," Hallock, an Oakland preschool teacher, said Thursday. "I was incredulous. Gloria's never bit anyone. She's just a gentle old dog, a classic Lab, always wagging her tail."

Oakland police defended the shooting as a necessary action. "My heart goes out to the family," said police spokesman Jeff Thomason. "We never want to go into a situation where we hurt a family pet, but in the course of doing our job, sometimes we have to make split-second decisions."

Man bought skeleton for Halloween at yard sale discovers it is real

A Hillsborough County, Florida man thought he was buying a Halloween decoration when he spent $8 for a box of bones at a yard sale in Brandon. But when he and his wife got the box home, they realized it was an actual human skeleton. "I got looking at it and thought, gosh, this is the real thing," recalled Judith Fletcher, wife of Mitchell Fletcher, the retiree who bought the box of bones.

The couple called the Hillsborough County Sheriff's office. Detectives took the mystery bones to the medical examiner's office. Experts there determined it's a professionally prepared human anatomical skeleton, the kind used in college and university medical courses, like the example pictured here. They estimate it's worth more than $3,000.

"We did find a serial number on the femur," says sheriff's spokesperson Cristal Bermudez Nunez. She says detectives are contacting colleges and universities who may be missing a skeleton. The Fletchers can't remember the exact address where they attended the yard sale. They told deputies it was somewhere on Parsons Avenue in Brandon.

State law says individuals can't own human skeletons, so the Fletchers won't get their blockbuster find returned. "If I see any more, I'll report them to the sheriff's office," said Mitchell. "But I don't want them." The Fletchers say they will continue to search for deals at yard sales. "But, I don't know about anything that would be that spectacular," added Judith. "It's hard to top a human skeleton."

Man bites police dog

A West Haven man thought to be high on drugs is accused of biting a police dog and punching a police officer in the face. The incident happened in the area of 72 Elm Street in West Haven on Thursday at around 2:30am.

Police say Ofc. Scott Bloom was on patrol with his K-9 named Onyx when he spotted the suspect, Roderick Lewis, walking with his pants falling down. Lewis then removed his jacket and approached Ofc. Bloom and repeatedly yelled, "I need a bag of dust." Dust is street slang for angel dust or PCP.

That's when police say Lewis reached into his waistband. Ofc. Bloom grabbed his arm and Lewis told him, "You're not stronger than me" and punched the officer in his face. Onyx deployed himself from the police cruiser and tried to assist Ofc. Bloom. During the struggle Onyx yelped and Ofc. Bloom says he saw Lewis biting the dog on its right side.

Lewis was finally taken into custody and transported to Milford Hospital for treatment of his injuries and possible drug use. Ofc. Bloom and Onyx were also treated for minor injuries. Lewis has been charged with assault on a police officer, disorderly conduct and cruelty to animals.