· Police in Forrest City, Arkansas, arrested a woman for public intoxication after she reportedly demanded an officer return the can of compressed air she was inhaling "so she could finish getting high." Officers arrested the 46-year-old woman on Monday after officers received a call about a woman "huffing a can of air" inside a car parked at a Wal-Mart store. Police say the woman was slow to react to questions from officers. When the officer again asked her what she was doing, he said "she wouldn't say anything except that she wanted her can back so she could finish getting high," according to police. The woman was booked on the charge and later released.
· Swiss police can be excused for fearing the worst. Acting on emergency calls Monday night, they hurried to a rural road in northern Switzerland where horrified motorists reported a long trail of blood - what they believed was evidence of a brutal crime. A police statement Tuesday said officers followed the blood for 12 miles to the town of Kuettigen only to find that a butcher's supply van had spilled its cargo. A barrel of pork blood had overturned inside. The van had been headed for a local sausage factory.
· Texas police are looking for a suspect after a holdup man ran up against an uncooperative convenience store clerk in an overnight robbery try. Police spokesman Lt. Paul Henderson said the man walked into a 7-Eleven in west Fort Worth about 3:20 a.m. Monday and demanded the cash from the clerk's register. According to Henderson, the clerk answered, "No. Either shoot me or leave my store." Henderson said the man cursed at the 30-year-old clerk and left on foot. Detectives are checking the store's security cameras for images of the suspect.
