A lot of Southerners think they're still fighting the Civil War -- and some are still paying for it. Residents of Alabama still pay a tax funding the Alabama Confederate Soldiers Home, even...
It's one hell of a way to take the plunge. A Texas woman talked her fiancé into going bungee jumping in tandem with her in a Dallas amusement park because she felt he needed to overcome his fear...
A congressman's Twitter was hacked -- no lie, no joke, for real! A cyber-vandal broke into the account of freshman Rep. Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), replacing his photo with an image of a naked man. ...
The best parking pass in Atlanta might be a cop's badge. The city's Police Department is investigating two officers videotaped forcing drivers to move cars from illegal spots -- only to take the...
A book that's full of "poo" is being flushed out of a Texas library. The kindergarten son of Randy and Tammy Harris was suspended for a day after calling another pupil a "poo poo head" -- a term...
Inmates in the Polk County jail may get three free meals a day -- but they better find their own underwear. Sheriff Grady Judd has stopped giving jailbirds free skivvies as part of their...
When a California man tried to cash a check from a church account, the store clerk had a suspicion the guy wasn't a member of the congregation -- mainly because of the words "F--K YOU" tattooed...
Other cities have official birds, flowers and insects. It somehow seems appropriate that Washington, DC, now has an official cocktail. The City Council yesterday proclaimed it the rickey, a...
When Richard Bombain got a ticket for driving without a license, he wasn't worried. The Gary, Ind., man knew he had a great excuse -- officials wouldn't give him a license because he's legally...
She's got them dead to rights. An Oviedo, Fla., woman who has two mortgages with one bank is suing it -- claiming it destroyed her credit rating after it became convinced she was dead. The bank...
Everything's bigger in Texas -- even babies. Janet Johnson of Longview has given birth to a 16-pound, 1-ounce, boy. And the proud mom believes that JaMichael Brown may be among the biggest...
An Arizona man has been sentenced to three months in prison for auto-cide. Lauriano Lovato, of Kingman, was so angry at his Camaro for not starting that he pumped two rounds through its...
There's nothing like mistaken identity in the Internet age. A Florida man was swamped with angry phone calls from strangers who think he was a juror on the Casey Anthony case. But Doug Bliss,...
Forty years after her funeral, Lula Cora Hood is back in her family's lives. The Illinois woman vanished in 1970. When cops found bones they believed were hers, her family held the funeral. ...
These moms should have stuck to bake sales. Three former members of an LA-area PTA have been accused of raising money for themselves by organizing a $14 million Ponzi scheme They allegedly...
Schools in Illinois have cut down to just two "R's." State education officials have decided to save money -- some $2.4 million a year, according to some estimates -- by eliminating standardized...
Out, damned pot! A South African professor wants to exhume Shakespeare's bones to determine if the bard was a stoner who liked to take a toke. Francis Thackery previously found 24 pipes in...
A sex fiend's creepy behavior became a lesson in what not to do online for some North Carolina schoolchildren. He was caught propositioning a sheriff's officer just as the lawman was giving an...
This guy needs a better imagination. Inmate Kyle Richards, 21, is suing the state of Michigan, claiming that a jailhouse porn ban amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. In his handwritten...
This nutjob's the one who's out of line -- or maybe it's just an extreme case of obsessive-compulsive disorder. A Jacksonville, Fla., guy mailing a package allegedly used a gun to threaten a man...
Cops questioned and then arrested a West Virginia man who allegedly stole thousands of dollars in copper phone wires after they noticed that the kind of heavy-duty rope he was using as a belt is...
What's worse than swimming with the fishes? A group of bathers in Massachusetts just found out. After a 36-year-old woman drowned in a public pool in Fall River, no one spotted her body for two...
This probably isn't how Jet Li rehearses. A Wisconsin man was arrested for reckless endangerment when he wildly swung his sword through a wall and into a neighbor's apartment. The kook said...
It probably never occurred to Thomas Jefferson, but a Yankee fan from New Jersey says that under the First Amendment, nobody can keep him from naming his new bar Buck Foston's. Larry Blatterfein...
He's still making history. Former President George W. Bush was among hundreds of Texas Ranger fans who set a new Guinness world record for the most people wearing sunglasses in the dark. While...
What a grave mistake! A Tennessee man's body is being exhumed -- to retrieve dentures that belong to someone else. Kenneth Ray Manis, 76, passed away earlier this month in Chattanooga, and...
The late-night Alaskan sun wasn't bright enough for these visitors. The 106th annual Midnight Sun baseball game in Fairbanks had to be suspended for the first time after the visiting team from...
A man sneaked onto an Arizona Air Force base dressed as a two-star general just to go shopping at the base commissary. He pulled off two illegal shopping trips before his phony brass was...
Making a bogus doomsday prediction can make you rich in America -- but in Taiwan, it can get you fined. Phony "prophet" Wang Chao-hung found that out the hard way when he claimed the island...
She sure can hold a grudge. A 68-year-old California woman spent six years in prison for shooting her neighbor in the leg. After she was released, she was promptly rearrested when she again...
A yearbook from a California high school is getting an XXX rating. One candid shot shows a teenager sticking his hand up the dress of a 15-year-old girl at the school in Big Bear Lake. Students...
The country's busiest cat burglar has stolen more than 600 pieces of loot from homes in San Mateo, Calif. Dusty the klepto-kitty has grabbed items including gloves, a Giants cap and even the top...
A judge at an ultra-religious court in Jerusalem sentenced a dog to death by stoning -- saying the pooch was a reincarnated lawyer who dissed other judges two decades ago. The hound recently...
This was worth the read. A Maine elementary-school principal in a hippo ballerina costume danced on the school roof after students met her reading challenge. The South Portland students...
Oops! A Phoenix SWAT-team sniper wound up shooting a hostage after the hostage taker swapped clothes with her at gunpoint. The victim is in critical condition but expected to live, while the...
It's pretty easy to gross out the nice folks in Portland, Ore. After a drunk 21-year-old man was caught peeing in the city's water reservoir, officials were so skeeved that they decided to dump...
This protective kid is pretty good with a blade. A 9-year-old Milwaukee grade-schooler sprang into action when she saw her mom's ex-lover holding a knife to the woman's throat. The girl...
Talk about getting rushed out of a restaurant. The owner of three Marie Callender's restaurants in Washington state declared bankruptcy and ordered managers to shut down immediately, in...
A Miami newspaper is feeling some heat today. In one of the most embarrassing mistakes since 1948, when the Chicago Tribune proclaimed "Dewey Defeats Truman," yesterday's Miami Herald ran an ad...
TSA agents pulled a 29-year-old mentally handicapped man out of line because he was armed -- with a toy plastic hammer. Detroit airport officers confiscated the toy from Drew Mandy, who has the...
There was no goodwill for grandma. Workers at a Fenton, Mich., Goodwill thrift store sifting through donated items found a box labeled "grandma's ashes" with a marble urn inside. Store...
Here's one from bizarro world. A guy carrying an animal carcass rang the doorbell of a Hoquiam, Wash., resident. The resident asked, "Why are you carrying a dead weasel?" The guy answers,...
A 66-year-old woman who said she wanted to shower "poor Mexican women" with gifts went into a randomly selected discount store in San Diego and paid for a $5,000 shopping spree for 50 señoras and...
Women at a new courthouse near Columbus, Ohio, are wearing long pants these days after realizing a glass staircase has become a haven for peepers who look up their skirts. Judge Julie Lynch says...
Have you seen this ass? Cops in Baltimore released a photo of a bank bandit's butt -- hoping someone can identify it. When the robber jumped a counter, his baggy pants dropped and a security...
Blimey! She's become a Brit. Karen Butler of Toledo, Ore. -- who's never been anywhere in Europe -- underwent dental surgery and woke up speaking with a British accent. After doing some online...
No one showed up for a class reunion at upstate Parish HS. But you can forgive the wayward students from the Class of 1936, because only four of the 20 grads are still alive. Parish HS alum...
They must be really bored in this corner of Utah. Dale Price of American Fork dresses up in a different costume every morning and goes outside to wave goodbye to his teenage son leaving for...
For customer loyalty like this, she better get the biggest toaster ever. A 100-year-old Ohio woman has held the same bank account since 1913. June Gregg's dad opened it for her at Huntington...
When police in Independence, Mo., found an alligator lurking in some weeds, they shot it twice -- only to find out that it was fake. The gunned-down gator turned out to be a concrete statue put...
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