1. While excavating a residential sewer main in Vicksburg, Miss., a Roto-Rooter crew dug up a live Civil War cannon shell believed to be leftover from the 1863 siege of Vicksburg. An Army Ordnance disposal team was called to remove it.
2. Bruce Shockley and his crew rescued a cat, Angel, from a Greensboro, N.C., storm sewer. The cat had jumped from her elderly owner's arms into the sewer, became disoriented and couldn't get out. Angel spent 24 hours underground before the crew excavated through earth and concrete to rescue her.