New York, NY -- Holy cow! The latest trend in U.S. churches and synagogues is to allow members to bring their pets in for religious rites. "The Wall Street Journal" reports the animal perks include giving communion to dogs and cats, holding funerals for pets and even overseeing "bark mitzvahs" for pooches who are coming of age.

BIG SPRING, Texas - A Texas father landed in the slammer for getting drunk and making his 11-year-old son drive him home from a bar. "The Houston Chronicle" reports a state trooper pulled over the lad, who was barely tall enough to see over the wheel, when he spotted the car weaving through traffic. It's a good thing the officer stepped in, because the father and son had a 200-mile trip ahead of them.

VANCOUVER, B.C. -- Health officials in Vancouver are having a cow. According to the "Calgary Sun," Investigators fear that human remains may have been in meat processed for human consumption at a pig farm operated by accused serial murderer Robert Pickton. Luckily, none of it was sold commercially; Pickton gave his pork to friends and family.

PORTERDALE, Ga. -- The Georgia woman who tried to pay her Wal-Mart bill with a phony $1 million bill insists she thought the money was real. Alice Pike told the "Atlanta Journal-Constitution" that she got the bogus bill from her estranged hubby and figured it was real since he was a coin collector.

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