LIVERMORE, Calif., May 5 (UPI) -- A 107-year-old light bulb in California has been deemed by Guinness World Records and Ripley's Believe It Or Not as the word's longest-ever burning bulb.

The low-watt rarity has been burning nonstop in the Livermore, Calif., Station No. 6 firehouse since 1901, the Los Angles Times reported Monday.

"This fragile thing that wasn't meant to last has outlived the company that made it, people who first screwed it in, people who have written about it and who have kept watch over it," said Edward Meyer of Ripley Entertainment.

The bulb even has its own web-cam and a Web site named centennialbulb.org, which is viewed a million times each year, The Times said.

It is reported many people think the bulb has burned so long because it is never switched off.

Police: Mom shot daughter on $1 bet

SHEBOYGAN, Wis., May 5 (UPI) -- Police in Sheboygan, Wis., say an 8-year-old girl was shot in the leg by her BB gun-wielding mother as part of a $1 bet the parent made with her boyfriend.

Angelique Vandeberg, 28, was charged with a felony count of intentional child abuse after her daughter told her school councilor Vandeberg shot her in the leg with a BB gun after her boyfriend bet her $1 she wouldn't do it, the Sheboygan Press reported Monday.

The girl said both adults had been drinking heavily before the incident. The school councilor said a circular bruise that appeared to be consistent with a BB gun-inflicted injury remained visible on the child's leg days after the alleged incident.

"In my time as a prosecutor I've seen alcohol influence people to do some strange things," Sheboygan County District Attorney Joe DeCecco said of the case. "When people are not in the state of mind to think right, you get strange things happening."

Vandeberg could face up to three years in prison if convicted.

Pastor blesses motorcycles

KENOSHA, Wis., May 5 (UPI) -- A Harley Davidson-riding minister in Wisconsin has led a convoy of motorcyclists in a blessing over their preferred mode of transport.

Pastor Mark Jaramillo of St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Kenosha led the 19th annual bike blessing event of the Lake Shore Chapter of the Harley Owners Group, the Kenosha News reported Monday.

Jaramillo led the bikers in a ride from Lake Shore Harley-Davidson in Libertyville, Ill., to the parking lot of his church, where he and other religious figures blessed the bikes in groups of two or three.

The pastor said he found motorcycle riding to be its own religious experience.

"You get to ride with people who have the same passion you do," Jaramillo said. "Some people see me (riding) and say, 'You're a pastor. What are you doing?' I say I'm doing it because I'm a pastor and I love life."

"A ride is about finding God in manners you never thought about," Jaramillo told his fellow bikers. "And I hope you do find God on the road this year."

Hospital billed man after wife's death

SEATTLE, May 5 (UPI) -- A Seattle man says a hospital repeatedly sent him bills claiming his wife had undergone a pricey procedure four months after her death.

Thomas Smailus, whose wife Melanie died of leukemia in February 2007, said he called to complain after receiving a $2,700 bill from the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance for a procedure dated June 2007, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Monday.

Smailus said a billing department representative told him the matter would be investigated, but he received a second bill for the same procedure and amount a few months later. He said he made a second call, but the bills continued to arrive.

The Post-Intelligencer said it contacted the alliance Friday to inquire about the case and Smailus was contacted later in the day and told the charges had been removed from his account. A hospital spokesman said the bill was for the search for a bone marrow donor to perform a transplant for Smailus' wife and the workers performing the search were not made aware of Melanie Smailus' death until months afterward.

"I'd hope institutions would have mechanisms in place to allow internal employees to fix these problems before they impact the customer," Smailus said.