Des Moines law bans dancing after 2 a.m.

Nobody's ever been cited under it, though, because everybody has to get up early the next morning and feed the hogs.

Mugs shot(s) alert!

Kansascity.com is featuring a photo gallery of memorable mug shots -- mostly celebrities behaving badly.

But watch for other gems like the cow-suit lady (left), the joker and the full-body mug of the firefighter in a string bikini.

(If you read CSKC on the regular, more than one of these will probably seem familiar...)

| Sara Shepherd

Man shows up naked for dentist appointment

Police said he was also five days late.

| Sara Shepherd

Beware the Oostburg ogler

Police in Wisconsin said a 13-year-old Oostburg girl was walking at South Ninth Street and DeMaster Road when the man pulled his SUV to the side of the road next to her. He then got out and stood about four feet away while eyeing her and licking his lips.

| Sara Shepherd

Hat tip: Thank you, JUNGLE JIM!

One more Fourth of July story

Except this one is about why the fireworks did not go off. 

Ira Roberts' land dispute with the Raintree Lake Property Owners Association caused him to cancel an annual show at his community lake. But Lee's Summit officials approved the show anyway and bought $5,000 worth of fireworks.

And as usual a few thousand people showed up at Raintree Lake on the holiday, irate and insisting that the show must go on. Roberts believes he was being bullied.

“I’ll tell everyone I’m sorry. Even though all those years, nobody ever told me, ‘Thank you’ for letting the fireworks go off.”

|Meredith Rodriguez

Even spy chiefs must learn the harsh realities of social networking

The newly appointed U.K spy chief's wife posted family vacation photos, details on their children and the location of their London home on Facebook.

A newspaper brought it to the government's attention before she took them down. Some think it was a lapse in security judgement. Others disregard the incident as a mild embarassment.

"It's not a state secret that he wears Speedo swimming trunks," said Foreign Secretary David Miliband. "For goodness' sake, let's grow up."

|Meredith Rodriguez

German man uses flamethrower to kill weeds, burns down his home

Actually, flamethrowers ARE a common tool for killing weeds, but usually when the weeds are stuck between pavement cracks.

Return to the river's edge

Midtown Miscreant, another KC blogger, takes a look back on one of his old posts about a haunting crime.

AZ county shoots 50+ dogs belonging to jailed man

The man was going to be in jail for a month and wouldn't be able to take care of his dogs. Not that he'd been doing such an awesome job -- authorities say many of the dogs were wild or deathly sick. So animal-control put them down, which has made some animal-rights activists angry. They argue the dogs should have been euthanized with chemicals. Then there's this:

Some of the dead dogs were at the home when Harvey (the inmate) returned. He said he also was shocked to find carcasses inside the home. Kartchner (the county health director) said his officers couldn't remove some of the dogs because they were under debris or in the midst of dog and human feces. He denied any dogs were left inside.

When do religious beliefs trump a kid's medical condition?

The AP has a good feature about laws that let families refuse medical treatment for their kids because it conflicts with their faith. By one count, about 274 U.S. kids have died since 1975 because they didn't get medical treatment on religious grounds.

The story notes that, while there are laws in most states that allow for religious exemptions, but those are mostly for well-known faiths like Christian Science or Jehovah's Witnesses. We're starting to see more cases like Daniel Hauser's. Hauser, the Minnesota boy who was ordered to take chemo, follows an Internet-based religious group.