McKay's Blog

A Pennsylvania man was jailed on charges of reckless endangerment and resisting arrest after police say he passed out drunk while cooking, causing a small fire that forced the evacuation of his public housing apartment building. Avery McCall was arrested about 3 a.m. Tuesday at his apartment in the Solomon Homes public housing complex in Johnstown. Firefighters had to use a pass key to enter the smoky apartment, where they found McCall on the couch as food burned on his stove. Nobody was hurt in the fire.

Two goldfish have survived 134 days since a devastating earthquake hit New Zealand without any pet food or electricity to power their tank filter. The goldfish, named Shaggy and Daphne after characters in the TV show "Scooby Doo," were in a 26-gallon tank in the reception area at Quantum Chartered Accountants in Christchurch when the earthquake struck, killing 181 people. Experts say bacteria may have kept the water clean enough to sustain life and the fish may have eaten algae growing in the tank. They may also have gleaned some nutrition from other sources - six fish were originally in the tank; two were found alive, one was found dead, and there was no trace of the other three.

A former Texas jail guard faces up to 20 years in prison for smuggling tacos packed with hacksaw blades to an inmate facing murder charges. Alfred Casas, 31, was found guilty in a Bexar County courtroom this week of two counts of bribery and one count of providing an implement for escape. Prosecutors said Casas smuggled the two loaded tacos into the jail in exchange for two bottles of Xanax provided by the girlfriend of the inmate, Jacob Keller. Casas said he thought the tacos were packed with chorizo and eggs, not blades, when he gave them to Keller in 2009. The hacksaw blade, along with a length of rope and an inmate jumpsuit dyed to resemble street clothes, was found in the inmate's cell during a surprise inspection.