A RETIRED police officer has filed a lawsuit against the New York Department of Motor Vehicles in an attempt to keep his vanity licence plates that read GETOSAMA.

A US university student accused of shoving a pumpkin pie into the face of a shopping mall Santa Claus has been charged with assault.

A FERAL cat that spent 19 days with a peanut butter jar stuck on its head will be named Survivor by the family that finally caught it and removed the jar.