The following stories have been hand selected by the assignment desk at News4.
KITTY IN THE COUCH
The mysterious mewing in Vickie Mendenhall's home started about the time she bought a used couch for $27. After days of searching for the source of the noise, she found a very hungry calico cat living in her sofa. (MSNBC)
SOCCER SPAMMERS
A campaign to convince Maryland legislators to approve a deal to bring D.C. United to Prince George's County crashed lawmakers servers, Gazette.net reported. The county and the team worked on a plan to build a soccer stadium, but Maryland's House and Senate still must approve a bill allowing the Maryland Stadium Authority to negotiate with the team. A D.C. United request that the county sell bonds to help pay for the stadium concerns some lawmakers. (NBCWashington.com)
A STRANGE ARRANGEMENT
A New York City funeral director is offering a deal to die for. Peter Dohanich put an ad on Craigslist seeking a reliable contractor to fix up his apartment in exchange for a full service funeral. Dohanich, who is licensed in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, says he wants a contractor to build a sitting room off the living room of his ground floor apartment. (USA Today)
I SPECIFICALLY SAID XANEX AND CREAM
Police said a woman has been arrested for allegedly slipping some tranquilizers into her boss's coffee because she felt "he needed to chill out." Police said the 24-year-old woman admitted to detectives that she slipped the drugs into veterinarian John Duckett's drink. Officers said Duckett knew something was wrong shortly after drinking some of the coffee Tuesday morning. (SFGate.com)