A California woman has her gold necklace back months after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.
Updated: 5:03 pm
Remember the pig hidden within the decal on the doors of some Vermont State Police cruisers?
Updated: 5:03 pm
Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors the equivalent of 22 cents each to see a roughly 40-foot whale shark he bought from a fisherman.
Updated: 5:02 pm
A 20-year-old college student tried to throw glitter on Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney as he greeted supporters in Denver following Colorado's caucuses.
Feb 08, 2012 | 11:24 pm
Carlos Delfino scored a season-high 25 points against his former team, Drew Gooden had 20 points and 14 rebounds and the Milwaukee Bucks snapped a three-game losing streak, beating the Toronto Raptors 105-99 on Wednesday night.
Feb 08, 2012 | 8:50 pm
The former mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has pleaded guilty to stealing a commercial food mixer from the local school district so he could make dough for his home pizza oven.
Feb 08, 2012 | 8:46 pm
A mother in central China has given birth to a 15.52 pound (7.04 kilogram) baby, possibly the largest newborn on record since the country's founding in 1949.
Updated: 5:03 pm
A spat over forgetting to wish his wife a happy birthday landed a South Florida man in jail on domestic violence charges.
Updated: 5:01 pm
One Pennsylvania college student's attempt to boost his failing grades didn't get him an A for effort. It got him probation.
Updated: 5:03 pm
Authorities in Alaska say a man threatened to teach "crackheads" how to make "electromagnetic distortion devices" unless the state paid him $85,000.
Feb 07, 2012 | 10:32 pm
People aren't quite done piling on New England Patriots receiver Wes Welker for a dropped fourth-quarter pass that helped the New York Giants win the Super Bowl.
Feb 07, 2012 | 8:57 pm
A Butte man who told officers he instigated a police chase because he always wanted to try it, found out it'll cost him a $1,000 fine to go with his tire damage.
Feb 06, 2012 | 11:40 am
Authorities say a helicopter encountered mechanical problems before making an emergency landing at an elementary school playground in a Modesto, Calif., neighborhood.
Feb 05, 2012 | 8:35 pm
A Chicago college is offering a class on the Occupy movement.
Feb 05, 2012 | 12:20 pm
Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.
Feb 03, 2012 | 11:22 pm
Champis the bunny doesn't only hop _ he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job.
Feb 03, 2012 | 11:40 am
A woman who called the wrong number when she suffered a stroke still found help a couple of time zones away.
Feb 03, 2012 | 11:00 am
A runaway elk can't go home to Pennsylvania, even if it wanted to.
Feb 03, 2012 | 5:47 am
A 250-pound man with a history of jumping on the backs of student athletes in the Pacific Northwest has pleaded guilty to assault.
Feb 02, 2012 | 9:31 pm
A 55-year-old Montana man who says he "always wanted" to be part of a police chase can check that off his bucket list.
Feb 02, 2012 | 8:40 pm
Two police officers were cleared of wrongdoing Thursday for using pepper spray and a baton on a dozen spectators performing a traditional Polynesian war dance after a Utah high school's losing football game.
Feb 02, 2012 | 6:32 pm
They say you can't take it with you when you die, but that's not necessarily true for the wealthiest Americans _ like Donald Trump.
Feb 02, 2012 | 8:21 am
With 120 lions, tigers and other big cats on the grounds, the owner of a Colorado refuge didn't think he needed a security system.
Feb 01, 2012 | 11:51 pm
A woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.
Feb 01, 2012 | 8:53 pm
A woman's speeding got her a warning from an Ohio state trooper but wasn't enough to keep her grandchild from being born in her car.
Feb 01, 2012 | 10:13 am
Employees of an Australian bus company have been given a 15 million Australian dollar ($16 million) share of the proceeds of the business sale as a thank-you for their loyalty, an executive and a newspaper said Wednesday.
Feb 01, 2012 | 6:48 am
A large seabird found in the back of a pickup truck in Los Angeles has been released to begin its long flight home across the Pacific.
Jan 31, 2012 | 10:43 pm
A jury has convicted a New York prison inmate of falsely filing tax returns seeking $890 million in refunds.
Jan 27, 2012 | 6:15 pm
A federal judge on Friday sentenced "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore to 6 1/2 years in prison for his infamous two-year, international crime spree of break-ins, and boat and plane thefts that ended in 2010.
Jan 27, 2012 | 5:10 pm
People use all sorts of ways to try to predict the winner of the Super Bowl: comparing regular season records, judging who looked stronger in the post-season run-up to the big game, or watching the betting lines from Las Vegas oddsmakers.
Jan 26, 2012 | 5:22 pm
The Museum of London is displaying a coin found by the River Thames that may have been used nearly 2,000 years ago as a "brothel token" in Roman London.
Jan 26, 2012 | 8:09 am
A restroom rip-off in central Ohio has automatic flushers disappearing from the bathrooms at restaurants and other businesses.
Jan 26, 2012 | 6:33 am
A 19-year-old college student accused of swiping a doughnut in Wyoming is going to be paying a pretty penny for that pastry.
Jan 25, 2012 | 10:34 pm
A Cleveland Clinic women's health specialist has made a house call at the zoo to demonstrate how to fit an orangutan with a newer brand of implanted birth-control device.
Jan 25, 2012 | 5:44 pm
An embarrassing misspelling of "school" is gone from the street outside a New York City school building.
Jan 25, 2012 | 3:35 pm
Most people can't wait to leave jail, but one northern Arizona inmate has been charged with trespassing after refusing to leave the Coconino County lockup.
Jan 25, 2012 | 2:57 pm
Authorities say a Massachusetts woman bought $64 worth of soda using a stolen welfare benefits card, then immediately fed the full cans into the supermarket's automated redemption machine for the nickel deposit.
Jan 24, 2012 | 9:14 am
A Tennessee police department says it has fired an officer after 17 years on the force because he repeatedly smoked cigarettes inside the precinct in violation of the city's no smoking policy.
Jan 23, 2012 | 4:22 pm
An 85-year-old Alaska woman used a grain shovel to fend off an agitated moose that was stomping her husband.
Jan 23, 2012 | 4:17 pm
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