BOW, N.H. (AP) - Authorities say a man driving a pickup truck in New Hampshire had a coughing fit and lost consciousness, leading to a fiery crash. WMUR-TV reported the truck crashed on Interstate 93 in Bow, N.H., on Monday morning. Emergency workers said the driver had a coughing fit and lost consciousness. His pickup truck went off the highway, hit a pole and then caught fire.

A state trooper witnessed the crash and stopped to help. The driver suffered bumps, bruises and possibly broken ribs.

Officials said a gun in the truck was discharging because of the heat of the fire.

FISHKILL, N.Y. (AP) - Police said two men were injured after they became trapped under a golf car at a country club in suburban New York when their vehicle flipped over during a "weird little wind event."

Police say strong winds were to blame for the mishap at the Beekman Country club in East Fishkill, about 66 miles north of Manhattan. Both men suffered head injuries and abrasions, but refused treatment.

Police Sgt. Kevin Keefe says the two golfers and witnesses reported seeing a funnel cloud. He says, "What we had was a weird little wind event."

National Weather Service meteorologist Joe Villani said the dry, sunny conditions could have led to the formation of a "dust devil." He said they can

SYDNEY (AP) - A pet dog swept off a sailboat in choppy seas off Australia was found alive four months later on a remote island - and returned to her family, who'd thought she was dead. The 4-year-old blue heeler, named Sophie Tucker, was captured by rangers last week on St. Bees Island in northern Queensland state, nearly 6 miles from where she was washed off the sailboat in November, owner Jan Griffith said.

Rangers initially thought they'd captured a wild dog, but friends who heard about the canine contacted Griffith and suggested it might be Sophie.

Last Tuesday, Griffith and her husband met the rangers' boat as it arrived back on the mainland and were shocked to find their long-lost pet on board.

"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told Monday's Daily Mercury newspaper. "She wriggled around like a mad thing."

The dog had been spotted by several people on both St. Bees and nearby Keswick Island, leading Griffith to believe she swam back and forth between the two, which are separated by a narrow channel.

Queensland wildlife official Steve Fisher said three rangers trapped Sophie in a cage, using dog food as bait.

"The day Sophie was trapped she was nervous because she'd been separated from human contact," Fisher said. "But after a while she settled down."

Sophie appeared to have survived by eating goats, as rangers found several baby goat carcasses around the island, Griffith said. This week, the plucky pup was back to her usual diet of ground meat and dog biscuits.

CHILTON, Wis. (AP) - A man faces an arson charge after telling authorities he wasn't thinking when he decided to use gasoline for cleaning up his apartment, and then tossed a lit cigarette into a pile of gas-soaked cushions and clothes. A criminal complaint filed Monday quoted a 47-year-old man as saying he knew gasoline is flammable and never should have used it.

The complaint said that when the fire began Friday, he didn't pull the fire alarm but instead shouted "fire" a couple times and walked to the Menasha police department for an ambulance to take him to the hospital where he was treated for burns.

Firefighters said the blaze extensively damaged the apartment and caused heavy smoke damage throughout the building, putting tenants of 11 other units out of their homes.

NEW YORK (AP) - He's lucky she said yes - and he's also lucky the diamond engagement ring he dropped on the Brooklyn Bridge didn't end up in the river.

Don Walling fumbled the ring as he proposed to his girlfriend on the pedestrian walkway of the New York City bridge. But he valiantly shimmied down to the lower span - where car traffic travels - and found the bauble. It was slightly bent, but the diamonds were still in place.

A police van that patrols the bridge stopped traffic to let him retrieve it.

The Coram resident and girlfriend Gina Pellicani plan to get married on April 24, 2010, the anniversary of the day they started dating four years ago.