British couple get married in supermarket

LONDON -- Instead of walking down the aisle, the bride -- and her 11 bridesmaids -- glided up a supermarket escalator. Scores of shoppers filling up their grocery carts in a store in the northern English town of York paused to watch Saturday as Jill Piggott, 42, and Pete Freeman, 54, tied the knot. The couple, who became the first Britons to officially marry in a supermarket, chose the location where they met when Freeman was shopping and Piggott was working the checkout aisle. The bride made her grand entrance up the store's escalator, wearing a strapless white gown, and was accompanied by the bridal party through the menswear and underwear sections to the ceremony in the shoe department.

Man with bad fake mustache robs bank

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- The man needed a shave and a make-up artist. A man wearing a fake mustache that might have been made from construction paper Friday robbed a Bank of Albuquerque branch of an undisclosed amount of money. Implying he had a gun, the man took money from two tellers and then fled. The FBI was looking for the man described as being in his late 20s or early 30s, about 5-foot-6 in height and weighing about 160 pounds. He had a beard of several days growth and was possibly wearing contact lenses that made his eyes "noticeably" blue, the FBI said. He also was wearing a tan baseball cap with some type of logo, a dark shirt, dark flannel jacket and blue jeans.

'Lost' signs force village to change its name

LONDON --Exasperated at having souvenir hunters steal their road sign, residents of Lost -- population, less than two dozen -- have changed the Scottish hamlet's name to Lost Farm. At least five road signs have disappeared in recent years from the village. Mark Skilling, principal engineer for Aberdeenshire Council, said Friday, "It's infuriating. The hamlet is very popular because of its name." Lost, whose name comes from the Celtic word for "inn," is 40 miles west of Aberdeen, in the Cairngorm mountains of northeast Scotland. Aside from the remote location, thousands of tourists have found Lost every summer since it was mentioned in guidebooks several years ago.

Cops caught issuing tickets as a contest

PORTERDALE, Ga. -- A contest between two police officers in a small Georgia town to see which one could issue the most traffic tickets was stopped by a judge who overheard the apparent winner talking about it, the mayor said. Part-time Porterdale police officers Erin Cox and Frank Jackson wrote about 150 tickets in January, which was significantly higher than in previous months, Mayor Paul Oeland said. The contest was revealed when city court Judge C. David Strickland overheard the officers talking about it recently. Oeland, a lawyer, said "They would make a traffic stop for a legitimate reason and then try to find anything else they could possibly write a ticket for." The mayor added: "It is not anything that we as a city support." Both officers were asked to resign by Friday by city manager Tom Fox, Oeland said.

Library OKs cell phones, bans wooden shoes

HOLLAND, Mich. -- If there was any question about this west Michigan community's Dutch heritage, consider that it's now OK to have a cell phone in the city library -- but wooden shoes remain banned. The Herrick District Library Board voted Thursday to reverse its ban on cell phones, while deciding to keep the traditional Dutch shoes off-limits. Library director Tom Genson said that in the past, staff members have had to tell patrons to remove the shoes when they were too noisy. A similar policy has been adopted for cell phones.

-- From wire reports