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Robber Held Up
A man walked into a Michigan bank with a gun and ended up saving it from being robbed. The man was a customer who has a concealed-weapon permit. He took action when would-be bank robber Joseph Webster pretended to have a bomb and demanded a teller give him money. The customer held Webster at gunpoint until police arrived. Webster is jailed on a $100,000 cash bond and could face up to life imprisonment if he's convicted on armed robbery and habitual offender charges.

India-Delayed Flights
It's monsoon season in India, but heavy rains aren't to blame for delaying flights at New Delhi's main airport on Monday. Officials say jackals, lizards and raptors descended on a runway looking to dry off and warm up after the first monsoon rains hit India's capital. Their appearance on the runway forced authorities to stop planes from taking off and landing for about an hour. An airport spokesman says animal welfare crews cleared the runway of wildlife that included monitor lizards measuring as long as three feet.

Thailand-Transvestite Restrooms
Some students at a secondary school in rural Thailand are asking school officials to redecorate their bathrooms by painting the doors pink and planting purple flowers nearby. But it's not the girls' or boys' rooms. It's the new transvestites' bathroom they'd like to have redone. A survey determined that more than 200 of the school's 2,600 students consider themselves transvestites. So authorities decided to set up restrooms to accommodate them. They're marked by a sign with an image of a human figure split into half a man in blue and half a woman in red.

Escaped Monkeys

Ten monkeys are on the loose in Florida. Officials say they have caught five of the 15 monkeys that escaped a facility in Polk County. But they're still trying to round up the other ten. The director of the preserve is confident that the animals will be captured soon because trappers know where they are living. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says the monkeys apparently escaped their island home by swimming across a pond -- something they're not supposed to be able to do. The monkeys escaped April 19th at the soon-to-be-open Safari Wild preserve. Officials say the social but calm Patas monkeys are of no threat to people, but the search will continue until the remaining monkeys are captured.

Tree-Sitter Standoff

Tree-sitters at the University of California, Berkeley, are continuing to protest campus plans for a new sports center. The plan would mean cutting down the oak grove where protesters have been perching for months. School officials say one female tree-sitter allegedly bit an arborist and was taken into custody by police. Authorities say they won't try to yank protesters out of the trees, but they've begun sending in teams to cut supply lines and dismantle some living structures. A campus spokesman says "the university has been tolerant and that tolerance is coming to an end,'' adding "we're really hoping that at some point there'll be an outbreak of common sense.''

Aquarium Mural

The world's largest aquarium has its very own Michelangelo. An Italian artist is near completion of an aquatic mural on the expansive ceiling at the entrance to the Georgia Aquarium. The 3,000-square-foot mural is an ocean scene with many of the creatures visitors can find at the aquarium, a whale shark, a beluga whale, schools of fish and a sea turtle. The painting even features dolphins, which the aquarium is adding to its roster in 2010. The artist has been working on the mural after hours for the last few weeks. He's scheduled to complete the painting this month.

Costa Rica-Banana Defense

Two men caught with $372,000 in cash near the Costa Rica-Panama border are telling police they just wanted to buy some bananas. Police say the two appeared to be nervous when their car was stopped by police over the weekend. So officials searched the vehicle and found the cash in a briefcase. The men apparently told officials they were banana brokers. But police are holding them on possible money laundering charges. Bananas cost about $1.65 a pound in Costa Rica.

Easy Pinch

A 30-year-old man is in custody after calling police to admit he had just held up a convenience store in Springfield, Missouri. Less than an hour after the holdup yesterday, officials say a man called 911, admitting he staged the robbery "because the voices in his head told him to.'' The store's cashier reportedly said the man threatened him with a broken bottle, took cash from the register, then fled. Police arrested the suspected thief at a pay phone, and officers found all the cash in his vehicle.

Mount Baldy

People who climb the south side of a nearly 130-foot-high sand dune near Lake Michigan in Indiana are risking a $50 ticket. Officials have closed a section of Mount Baldy in Michigan City to help the growth of grasses that will slow the pace at which the dune is moving inland. But chief ranger Mike Bremer says putting a fence around that side was not enough. Hence, the $50 fine. He says the 100,000 visitors every beach season are still allowed to scale the side facing the beach, but must come down the same way they came up. The reason? Bremer says "every time someone goes up or down that slope, they are literally moving hundreds of pounds of sand.''

Zoo-Reversible Vasectomy

Scientists at the U.S. National Zoo have reversed a vasectomy on an endangered horse. It's the first-known operation of its kind on an endangered species. Veterinarians say the surgery was performed on a Przewalski horse named Minnesota. The horses are native to China and Mongolia and were declared extinct in the wild in 1970. One of the surgeons who helped with the horse surgery pioneered reversible vasectomies in 13,000 humans. He calls this case an "interesting turnaround,'' because humans actually became the "test animal.'' The 20-year-old horse had a vasectomy in 1999. Experts say a vasectomy may be performed on an endangered animal because of space constraints, the size of the species or if an animal has already produced many offspring.

Diesel Theft

A gas station in Burbank, California, is missing 4,000 gallons of diesel fuel. Police say the station's owner reported the gas missing Friday. When the station opened around 5 a.m., workers found the underground diesel tanks had been drained. The tanks were apparently not locked, but a special device is needed to open them. There's no video footage of what happened, but officials say whoever stole the fuel must've been driving a tanker truck.

Crouching Lion-Fine
Something stinks around the old Crouching Lion Inn in Honolulu, and it's not the service. The Environmental Protection Agency is fining the former owners of the restaurant $42,000 for failing to close its large capacity cesspools. The director of the EPA's water division for the region says over three years have passed since regulations required large cesspools be closed. Cesspools discharge raw sewage into the ground, polluting groundwater, streams and the ocean. Large capacity cesspools are those in apartment buildings or in public places serving more than 20 people per day. Crouching Lion's new owners plan to reopen the restaurant on June 28.