ROCK HILL, South Carolina (AP) – A South Carolina woman found out fast food won’t make your car go fast. The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to police after she took her car to a Rock Hill mechanic last week because it would suddenly stop running.

Police said a mechanic found a cheeseburger and pickle inside the car’s gas tank. The woman told officers she had no idea how it happened.

Investigators said the damage cost about $1,000 to repair.

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Man reunited with gun

TERRELL, Texas (AP) – A rural east Texas man has been reunited with his long-lost gun more than two decades after it was stolen. Kauffman County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Pat Laney says Bruce Garner received his H&R nine-shot revolver at an upbeat property hearing Thursday morning.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, burglars took the gun from Garner’s home in Terrell soon after he moved there in June 1989. Terrell is about 30 miles east of Dallas.

The thieves were never caught. But deputies found the firearm at a pawn shop and traced it to Garner.

Garner says he’s astounded that he was able to get his favorite dispatch gun back. The 59-year-old leathersmith says he once used it to hunt and trap to make money.

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Woman catches 4 million mosquitoes

TAIPEI (AFP) – A Taiwanese woman has taken a sizeable bite out of Taiwan’s mosquito population, and won a $3,000 cash prize, by catching around 4 million of the bloodsuckers in just one month.

Huang Yu-yen, from southern Taiwan’s Yunlin county, beat 72 rivals with a catch weighing in at more than 1.5 kilograms (3lbs, 5oz), competition organizers Imbictus International, a company that makes insect traps, said.

The haul was more than double that of her nearest rival.

The company has sent an application to Guinness World Records asking that Huang be recognized as the world’s leading killer of the pest.

Mosquitoes have been a major public health hazard in Taiwan, especially as carriers of malaria until its official eradication on the island in 1965. They are still responsible for the spread of dengue fever.

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Guilty of faking funerals

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A former Los Angeles mortuary employee has been convicted of defrauding insurers by staging a fake funeral and attempting to cover it up by cremating a mannequin and cow parts she placed in the casket.

The US attorney’s office said 67-year-old Jean Crump was found guilty of two counts of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud.