A Nevada official confirms two ducks found in a pool outside a Las Vegas Strip casino have tested positive for West Nile Virus.

Anette Rink, Nevada Department of Agriculture director of animal disease and food safety says, "It's my understanding that the birds were picked up in a pool at a Strip casino."

A team of scientists from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, have found large quantities of a cocaine by-product in a river in northern Italy.

Led by Dr. Ettore Zuccato, the team tested the chemical benzoylecgonine (BE), a by-product of cocaine metabolism produced by the urine of drug users.

Former screen star, Zsa Zsa Gabor, is making a miraculous recovery from the stroke she suffered last month, and is slowly beginning to walk again.

The 88-year-old actress has been hospitalized since a car wreck in Los Angeles in 2002; but is starting to walk with a cane just weeks after undergoing surgery to clear a blocked artery.

Oregon's teacher standards board votes to publicly reprimand a science teacher and football coach accused of licking the bleeding wounds of several students.

The board also votes to place Scott Reed on two years probation.

New York Governor, Republican George Pataki, vetoes legislation Thursday that would have allowed pharmacists to dispense the so-called "morning-after pill" without prescriptions.

Pataki announced his disapproval of the measure not requiring minors to see a physician, saying, "We can do better."