o Utah schoolboys started out building a fort, but wound up netting a fortune. The teens were in the woods near their homes when they found a discarded backpack. When they looked inside, they...
s first ride in a plane proved memorable, to say the least. Steven Lynn, of Bay, Ark., chartered a light plane to fly over his home so he could take aerial photos. What he saw was two crooks...
Who says there's no such thing as a free lunch? Residents of Walton Hills, Ohio, can get one by winning the "There Ought to Be a Law" contest. GOP State Rep. Marlene Anielski will invite the...
Poor babies! Two grown children raised in a $1.5 million home in suburban Chicago sued their mom for "bad mothering," charging her with outrages like telling her 7-year-old son she'd call the...
re's more proof that cruise vacations really "suck." Holland Cruise Lines is cashing in on the vampire craze by offering a week-long trip to Alaska for the undead and those who love them --...
r owners have a message for lawmakers in Michigan: We’ll kick your butts. Outraged that the state Legislature has banned smoking in bars -- while keeping it legal in the state Capitol -- 500...
at a pair of Bozos. Two robbers who were dressed up as clowns held up a fake-jewelry store in Denver. The dopey duo apparently didn’t realize that the store sold nothing but cheap costume jewelry...
ther, you should have saved the wine for Mass. A Catholic priest in Sacramento, Calif., is in hot water with the local bishop after he showed up at a baptism ceremony stinking drunk. The reeking...
e’s a real-life Nancy Drew. A 12-year-old Atlanta girl who attended “Junior District Attorney Camp” decided cops weren’t looking hard enough when they reported no signs of forced entry at her...
is kid has new respect for Santa Claus. An 8-year-old boy from West Valley City, Utah, got stuck in a chimney for six hours. Stephen Hopkins had gone to his friend’s house for a drink, but when...
blind journalist can add another job to his résumé -- film critic. Tommy Edison, a traffic reporter for Star 99.9 in Connecticut, has launched blindfilmcritic.com, where he’ll review flicks, with...
is idea isn’t exactly picture perfect. The Amish in Illinois will be able to get state-issued ID cards that don’t include their pictures. The group, which eschews modern conveniences, asked for...
good deed goes unpunished. Ever since Tracy Lundeen, 31, helped classmate Shawn Moul with his homework when they were in middle school 17 years ago, Moul has been stalking the Seattle woman by...
Don't tweet and eat. When Allison Matsu put up a mid-meal Twitter post saying her waiter was a jerk, the manager of the Down House restaurant read the message and kicked her out. Matsu...
A woman in Salem, Ore., is fighting cancer -- and city hall. Jan Cline's battle -- which included raising money for treatments by conducting garage sales -- ran afoul of bureaucrats who shut...
Anthony Weiner probably didn't think things could get any worse after he was forced to resign from Congress in disgrace. But now he's suffered the ultimate insult -- he's been erased from the...
A convenience store in Columbus, Ohio, has some new allies in its battle with undesirables who harass its customers: Mozart, Beethoven and Bach. Employees say fewer loiterers have been hassling...
They still make phone books? Sheriff's deputies in Sonoma County, Calif., feared women were being chased by kidnappers. But it turned out to be workers distributing phone books out of a van...
Chicago cops arrested a 10-year-old boy -- for train robbery. The preteen was among a group of 10-to-14-year- olds who burst into a Green Line train last week and ripped a cellphone out of a...
This penny-pincher wound up getting pinched. An "extreme couponer" from Arkansas was arrested for stealing 185 unsold Sunday newspapers left outside a grocery that were destined for...
You're never too old to be a desperate housewife. Like so many of her Orange County, Calif., neighbors, Marie Kolstad has decided to get breast implants to look sexier. Kolstad happens to be 83...
Smokey the Bear has ignited a political brushfire in Ohio. A retiree who does the voice for a robot version of Smokey at the Ohio State Fair was fired after he made a joke about Republican US...
Former high-school classmates of Cheri Taylor in Kennewick, Wash., were horrified to read in a notice about an upcoming reunion that she had been murdered. None more so than Cheri herself. "I'm...
Some TV personalities get butterflies in their stomachs. This weatherman got a moth in his mouth. Wes Hohenstein, of WNCN in Raleigh, NC, was in the midst of his report when he suddenly...
She was a golf "buff." City officials and Elks Lodge leaders in Woodward, Okla., were not amused by a female volunteer who stripped naked during a golf charity event. Woodward City Manager...
A Washington state man out on bail in the shooting death of his teen girlfriend was arrested again -- for digging up her tombstone and replacing it with one listing his name. James Radtke, 25,...
When a heartless pawnshop refused to return a stolen guitar to an elderly woman, some Florida cops saved the day. Victim Joseph Belloise, 67, couldn't afford the $250 that under state law the...
It was a sweltering day in Galveston, Tex. -- and the beach was covered with snow. A man out for a stroll on the sand spotted a burlap bag, took it home and discovered it contained 55 pounds of...
Cornell University wants to keep students at the high-pressure Ivy League school from killing themselves -- so it asked upstate Ithaca town officials for permission to install suicide nets under...
From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of San Diego. The Marines have chased off an army of invaders from a beach right here in the United States. The "enemy" was a battalion of nudists...
Do you take this woman to be your lawfully wedded wife? If yes, press "enter." If no, press "delete." A computer has conducted the wedding of Miguel Hanson and Diana Wesley of Houston. The...
Some role model he is! Osceola County, Fla., sheriff's deputies are looking for a bandit who dressed like SpongeBob SquarePants as he robbed a 7-Eleven near Orlando. The suspect didn't...
Maybe the culprit just couldn't find any bread. A Seattle resident returned home to find much of his home, and even his dog, smeared in peanut butter and jelly -- and someone had vomited in his...
South Carolina is legalizing moonshine. Thanks to a loophole in the state's micro-distillery laws, entrepreneurs are able to sell a legal version of the traditional illicit hooch. One startup...
nt to wake up in a city that never sleeps? Forget New York, New York — and move to Cairo. A new study finds that the Egyptian capital, where activity peaks at 1 a.m., comes in first on the list of...
A mountain lion amazingly strolled more than 1,500 miles from the Black Hills of North Dakota to Connecticut -- where its record-setting cat walk tragically ended in an encounter with an SUV on a...
A sentence that massacres little birds -- and the English language -- has won top honors in an annual bad-writing contest. Sue Fondrie, of Oshkosh, Wis., won the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction...
It's certainly more interesting than "George Washington Slept Here." New Hampshire has put up an official highway plaque to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Betty and Barney Hill's close...
Don't give up the space bar! That could be the new battle cry for America's cyberwarriors who remotely operate drones. The Navy's new unmanned aircraft has a small problem -- it can...
This story's no crock. A 12-foot-long alligator was found hanging out on a street corner in Palm Beach, Fla., spurred by the hot weather to come out looking for food, wildlife officials said. ...
It's so hot that crooks have taken to stealing swimming pools. One overheated gang of thieves in Richmond Hills, Texas, dismantled and carted away an above-ground swimming pool from a family's...
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...
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