A Maryland-based emergency service dispatcher was placed on administrative leave with pay after he fell asleep while on duty and began snoring during an emergency call.

A man who apparently shot five people during a botched robbery in rural Douglass Township, Penn., was killed at a friend's house in Philadelphia following an extended manhunt.

What's worse than a story about how a group of children were fined $500 by Montgomery County for operating a lemonade stand without a permit outside the site of this weekend's US Open? How about the fact that they were going to donate their proceeds to a pediatric cancer-fighting charity? Don't worry, though, because all the middle-aged men charging $50 to park on their lawns are doing just fine. [via WUSA]