Bolton is accused of trying to kill a resident at his boarding house by hammering a sharpened wooden cross into his chest as he slept. Airport police, suspecting drugs, conducted a search when they noticed unusual bulges around Astorga's groin. In his underwear were several tube socks stuffed with nine dead lizards and three live ones, including a Nile monitor lizard, a water monitor and several geckos. W orkers at an Australian seafood wholesaler were shocked to find a human head inside a giant fish they were preparing for sale. The 97-pound flowery cod was caught by a trawler and had been delivered to the wholesaler for butchering.
Authorities suspect the head belonged to a fisherman on the ship who had fallen overboard.
A n underground group known as the Animal Liberation Front broke into a mink farm in northeast Iowa and tried to free 14,000 animals, but 4,000 of the minks decided to stay put. The rest were found swarming the farm and a nearby highway, where hundreds were killed by passing cars. R aining mice . H elp wanted. Wrestlers must jump into a pool, grab a 7-foot alligator by the tail, drag it to the shore and pry open its jaw.