The U-K Telegraph reports that English cops are getting too fat for their own police cars.

That's causing problems like not having room in the back for suspects, and losing insurance coverage. Amazingly, not many folks are suggesting that officers lose weight to solve the problem.
 
Instead, ideas range from increasing weight limits to upgrading from the standard Ford Focus squad car. One political party leans towards rewarding cops who meet fitness standards while punishing the chubby ones with desk duty.

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According to www.relix.com, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead – Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann – are plotting an April-May 2009 tour.
 
The group is also planning a second Deadheads For Obama concert in support of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, likely to be held in Pennsylvania in mid-October.

It looks like Lindsay Lohan's dabble with lesbianism may soon be over. According to The Mail, Linds has been "bombarding" Olympic champion Michael Phelps with text messages, hoping she can snag a date with him.
 
Sources say Lindsay first started texting Phelps while he was competing in Beijing, and then she called him several times when he was in London last week.
 
"At first he thought it was a joke when she got in touch," said a source. "But she's since been phoning and texting constantly. It's become a running joke in his camp...Phelps is certainly flattered by all the attention but it's not clear how seriously he's taking it all."

Well, maybe he's not taking things too seriously because he's got his eye on another gal. According to The National Enquirer, Phelps has already planned a first date with country star Carrie Underwood.

The two reportedly started texting each other after Michael heard that Carrie thought he was "cute." Sources say that when the pair finally gets together, they won't be going out for a meal. He reportedly texted her, "I'm not sure you'd want to see me eat. It might not make a great first impression."

Outside Osaka, Japan, farmers are claiming to have doubled the size of their tomatoes by a relatively simple, uncomplicated and totally un agricultural method: singing Frank Sinatra songs to their plants.

Yoshito Tsuda tells the Mainichi Daily News that "Strangers in the Night" has doubled the size of his crops, and that the tomatoes are especially crazy about Frank's love songs.