JANUARY 1. Women accused of 'hot dog' prostitution 2. Boy thanks teacher with Steelers gift 3. Students told stripping is career choice 4. Pennsylvania woman charged with bigamy 5. Woman eats 6-pound burger in 3 hours

FEBRUARY 1. Alaska woman charged in genital amputation 2. Music industry sues 83-year-old dead woman 3. Male genital snow sculpture shocks drivers 4. Docs work on monk who glued eyes shut 5. Report: Transvestite's sex organ severed

MARCH 1. Ex-N.C. dentist charged in semen case 2. Colo. man charged with rampage on flight 3. Woman eating chili bites into human finger 4. Woman sells her name on eBay for $15K 5. In Sweden, portly police denied entrance

APRIL 1. Va. woman gets stuck in bathtub for 5 days 2. Error puts strippers on public access TV 3. School suspends 2 over 'Vagina' buttons 4. Man saves chicken with mouth-to-beak 5. Two pit bulls rescue woman from red chow

MAY 1. Hawaii evicts woman living in lava tube 2. Brothers, 3 and 5, take van for joyride 3. Cops: Man tries to pay for pizza with pot 4. 'Whore College' offers hands-on training 5. Woman arrested at job interview

JUNE 1. Oregon cat born with two faces 2. E-mail embarrasses 119 failing students 3. Peeping Tom pulled from outhouse tank 4. Drivers get tickets after meters installed 5. Teen charged after vomiting on teacher

JULY 1. Strippers arrested in alleged spanking 2. Va. teen nudist law challenge reinstated 3. Jogging in park OK but no sex please 4. Hawaiian teen recovering from fish attack 5. Man lights himself on fire to propose

AUGUST 1. Strip club owner raises ire with new sign 2. Ga. pilots forget to put down landing gear 3. 3 wives greet British man after surgery 4. Man nabbed at Wal-Mart for handcuff prank 5. Golf outing allegedly involves strippers

SEPTEMBER 1. Real estate prices force realtors to bolt 2. Chinese eatery sold donkey in tiger urine 3. Topless women take on nudity law 4. Nude swimmers abandon Loch Ness swim 5. Sky-diving grandmother, 85, keeps promise

OCTOBER 1. Python bursts after trying to eat gator 2. Ind. girl brings gun, pot to school 3. Malaysian who pulled jet with hair dies 4. Bridesmaids ripped off at two weddings 5. Woman sees husband off to war, gets fired

NOVEMBER 1. World's Ugliest Dog dies at 14 2. Two drunken moose invade home for elderly 3. Man kills buck with bare hands in bedroom 4. Police hit man in genitals with Taser 5. Man sues after using glue-covered toilet

DECEMBER 1. Minn. high school bans 'bondage' pants 2. Anchorwoman accepts proposal on air 3. Double-mouthed fish pulled from Neb. lake 4. Pa. community celebrates Festivus 5. U. Penn. student in trouble over photos