Soggy tale at an end

A BRIT who swam across the Detroit River, pictured, from Canada to try to deliver handmade books before Christmas has won his release after two months in US custody. Although refusing to speak in court, Christopher Sagajllo said in a letter: “Four of the recipients were in the United States, and I believed they needed to be delivered before Christmas. “I felt that if I did not do what was, I believe, required of me, that something terrible would happen to me in the future.”

Days before his swim, the 56-year-old was turned away by US border officials because he had been deported to the UK in 2010 after overstaying a visit... by seven years.

TENNESSEE’S Robert Goddard is regretting being so well organised. The 49-year-old dropped his journal while on the job.

Unfortunately for Goddard, it revealed a list of houses he burgled and those he was planning to do.

Prosecutors said his notebook also contained clues to this identity through messages from his daughter and her address.

WORKERS digging a swimming pool got out of their depth after unearthing what they thought was a dangerous discovery in Charleston, South Carolina.

Fearing they’d hit upon a Civil War cannonball, it turned out to be a wooden buoy.

THE US Department of Justice has awarded more than $1million to Hookers For Jesus group, a Nevada non-profit organisation.

THE Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles has removed the parallel parking part of a driving test.

DONS at Colorado State University have got approval to offer a cannabis-related degree.

“It’s a rigorous degree geared toward the increasing demand coming about because of the cannabis industry,” College of Science and Mathematics dean David Lehmpuhl, pictured, said. “We’re not procannabis or anti-cannabis.

“What we’re about will be the science, and training students to look at that science.”

Talk about higher education.