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A Minnesota mother and her 18-year-old son are accused of stealing nearly $5,000 in frozen gopher feet and selling them for a bounty. More>>
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch meticulously planned his own funeral, but his tombstone has the wrong birth date. More>>
Thailand's Buddhism body said it is monitoring monks nationwide for any inappropriate behavior after a video showed monks using luxurious personal items while flying on a private jet. More>>
A well-traveled cat named "Mata Hairi" will soon be reunited with her owner after spending nearly 10 months traveling thousands of miles with a hitchhiker who rescued her from the rain. More>>
This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes. More>>
Four central Pennsylvania residents said they used only a rope and a flashlight during a wild chase to rescue a young bear whose head had been stuck in a plastic jar for at least 11 days. More>>
Some New Jersey bus commuters apparently have gotten an unexpected tour of the New York metro area they'd rather forget. More>>
Award-winning chef Charlie Trotter is being sued by two New York wine collectors who say he sold them a bottle of wine for more than $46,000 that wasn't what it said on the label. More>>
Parking is such a precious commodity in Boston that one woman was willing to pay $560,000 for two off-street spaces near her home. More>>
A production company making a documentary about the song "Happy Birthday to You" is challenging the copyright to the famous jingle. More>>
A 22-year-old Connecticut man who wrote obscenities and "Tyranny" on his speeding ticket payment claims in a federal lawsuit that his free speech rights were violated when he was arrested. More>>
A librarian in a small upstate New York village is back on the job two weeks after she was fired for closing the library 40 minutes early amid a tornado warning. More>>
Wanted: A jester. Wallflowers need not apply. More>>
A Philadelphia man has offered a little gator aid - calling animal control authorities to help rescue a juvenile alligator he found near a sewer grate on his street. More>>
Hindsight will soon be punishable by a $25 fine in this Jersey Shore resort. More>>
The Chicago Blackhawks can boast of some mighty beasts among their supporters: two massive bronze lions that guard the Art Institute of Chicago. More>>
Drug traffickers back in Colombia must be going bananas over how their shipment ended up at Danish supermarkets and not on the streets. More>>
Andy Warhol's art doesn't often conjure warm and fuzzy images - but a proposed tribute to him just might. More>>
A Missouri woman is accused of trying to scare children by approaching them with a chain saw while wearing a ski mask. More>>
Thai police found 14 albino lions imported from Africa and hundreds of other protected animals in a warehouse near Bangkok and have arrested a pet shop owner. More>>
On a tropical island where most people live in huts, assailants armed with guns, machetes and axes stormed the wooden house by night. They set the building on fire and took away four female relatives to be tortured. Their... More>>
A Texas couple has fulfilled a lifelong dream by visiting Maine to watch the state Legislature at work. Seriously. More>>
Every dog has its day, but few canines get a motorcade on their return home. More>>
Not even Chewbacca and his light saber get a free pass with airport security before being cleared to travel. More>>
Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work. More>>
A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was suspicious. When he heard two women were spotted near a Lancaster, Calif., intersection, and one of them was holding an alligator, he didn't buy it. More>>
A Pennsylvania doctor on a guided fishing trip in southwestern Montana went home with an amazing tale of hauling in a 25-pound lunker - a baby moose she helped rescue from a rushing river. More>>
Officials at a small school district in upstate New York say an "honest mistake" led to students being identified in the yearbook as "Creepy smile kid" and "Some tall guy." More>>
Passengers on a recent run of a popular historic railroad in southwest Colorado got a bit more scenery than they paid for: More than a dozen revelers partying on a nearby beach doffed their clothes to greet the train. More>>
An aspiring half-marathon runner in Minnesota attributed her unbearable back pain to a two-hour training session. A day later, she was cradling a newborn. More>>
Authorities say a burglar's decision to knock back a couple of beers during a break-in at an upstate New York home led to his arrest. More>>
Bob Edwards was born before the first Model T rolled out of Henry Ford's factory in Detroit. He learned to drive in a French car that had a lever instead of a steering wheel. And he's still on the road, only now in a... More>>
A New Mexico city commission agreed to allow a Canadian studio to search a landfill where old, terrible Atari games are rumored to be buried. More>>
A Texas banker is upping the ante to $1 million for whoever solves a tricky problem that's been dogging mathematicians since the 1980s. More>>
A 7-foot alligator found in an Ohio man's basement is malnourished, has bone disease from a lack of sun for 15 years and was being taunted by teenagers on a regular basis, authorities said Tuesday. More>>
Inmates at Russia's prisons have been known to bribe guards to obtain cellphones. But using cats as couriers? More>>
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