Houston, TX -- Tongues are wagging about a sexy new statistic -- the number of Americans engaging in oral sex has increased 5 percent from 74 to 79 percent over the last three years. According to the Adam & Eve Sex Stat, the biggest increase in oral sex came from women, from 66 percent in 2001 to 76 percent nowadays.

WAUWATOSA, Wisc. -- Macho hip hoppers are snapping up ladies' pink tennis shoes to hop on the latest color trend for urban gear. Most shoe manufacturers don't make pink sneakers for men, and the masculine run on the color is causing some ladies' styles to sell out in larger sizes. One shoe clerk tells the "Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" he's tired of disappointing women with size 11 feet when he has to confess, "Ma'am, we don't have your size. We sold it to a young man."

ST. LOUIS -- Don't drink and drive a lawn mower. That's the lesson one St. Louis man learned after he was arrested while tooling around the streets on a ride-on lawn mower under the influence of booze. Paul Schwarztrauber Jr. also had his young daughter on his lap during the drive, reports the "St. Louis Post Dispatch."

HAZLETON, Pa. -- Politics is a dirty business -- especially in Pennsylvania, where state legislators have voted on a state soil. The state voted 177 to 22 to make Hazelton -- named after the town the local dirt comes from -- but some legislators are saying the state is wasting its time and should move on to more important matters.

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