MIAMI (AP) – A woman has been charged with calling in a bomb threat to keep her boss from missing a flight.

Based on the arrest report, 31-year-old woman was charged with making a false report of planting a bomb. Miami International Airport officials received a call and an e-mail Wednesday claiming that a bomb was on an American Airlines plane. Police searched the specified aircraft but didn’t find a bomb.

Investigators tracked the e-mail to the woman’s computer.

During questioning, the woman reportedly told police that her boss was booked on the flight to Honduras, but she had caused him to be late for the flight. She thought the bomb threat would give her boss time to make it.

Deer crashes private party

LIMA, Ohio (AP) – A man in Ohio said he had to do some running of his own while watching football on TV when a deer came crashing in through a window.

Jeff Berger said he managed to get out of the way when the animal charged at him Sunday evening inside his fiancee’s house in Lima in northwest Ohio. The deer jumped on the living room sofa Berger had been lying on.

The deer, which authorities said appeared to be a doe, smashed through a patio window making a noise that led Berger to fear that someone was trying to break in to kill him and fiancee Marianne Tate.

Bank robber arrives late

WAUKESHA, Wisconsin (AP) – Maybe the bank robber needed the money to buy a watch. It would seem he needed one after arriving six minutes after the Guardian Credit Union in Waukesha closed for the day.

According to police, a man wearing a ski mask entered the first set of doors at 5:36 p.m. Wednesday with a gun, apparently not realizing the bank was closed.

The second set of doors was locked and police were called but the man left before they arrived.

Waukesha Police Sgt. Jerry Habanek told The Freeman in Waukesha that police are reviewing security tapes and investigating the case. He said the robber could have planned poorly or possibly had another reason, like getting tied up in traffic.

Customer smashes appliances

WINONA, Minn. (AP) – A man used a hammer to leave a path of destruction at a Target store in Winona.

Police said the 39-year-old man smashed big-screen televisions and destroyed other electronics Saturday evening before taking a swing at an officer.

The Winona Daily News reported customers ran from the store as the man swung his hammer. One witness said the man had a “glazed look” in his eyes and was “walking like Frankenstein.”

Officers chased the man through the store and used a Taser gun to subdue him. He was taken to Winona Health for a behavioral evaluation.

Littell wins ‘Bad Sex Award’

LONDON (Reuters) – Jonathan Littell, who won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for “The Kindly Ones,” has picked up another prize for the same work -- the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award.

Among the literary heavyweights nominated for the award this year were Philip Roth for “The Humbling,” John Banville for “The Infinites” and Paul Theroux for “A Dead Hand.”