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Most GOP candidates are doing their best to stay away from George W. Bush, and it appeared that at a tee-ball game hosted by Bush on Wednesday that one of the children invited to the game wanted to do the same.

A man on an American Airlines flight stripped then tried to open an emergency exit, forcing the plane make an unscheduled landing.

An upstate New York man says he's still upbeat despite losing the same leg twice. Scott Listemann told the Poughkeepsie Journal that he laughs about losing his foot and lower leg "both the first time and the second time."

Four gang members who beat and stabbed a Modesto, Calif., man while he was sleeping then apologized to him as he lay bleeding when they realized the 32-year-old was not their intended victim.

As I wrote first in April, and then earlier this month, the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco wants to rename the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility as the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

A group of French artists, commissioned for an exhibit to examine the early relationship between mother and infant, have designed a line of jewelry made out of ... breast milk.

Landon Wilburn, 11, grew tired of speeders zipping through his subdivision, so after growing hoarse shouting at them, he decided to take matters -or a toy radar gun - into his own hands.

A judge has ordered a 19-year-old man to write an apology to a the city of Saratoga Springs in New York for dressing in an offensive costume at a high school graduation.

Members of a family from Burbank, Ill., say they went to a funeral home to view their 91-year-old grandmother's body but found another woman's body in her casket.

The owners of a golden retriever from Wallingford, Connecticut taught the dog to dive to the bottom of their pool.

A man claims that he was nearly cut when he found a knife baked into the bun of a cold-cut 12-inch sandwich he bought at a Subway restaurant in New York City.John Agnesini said he knew his lunch didn't taste ...

A Tampa bride-to-be who defied doctors' expectations after being told she had a year to live four years ago has celebrated another victory -- she and her fiancee won a $100,000 dream wedding.

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Someday, when a boy named Dixon and Willoughby Partin asks how he got his 24-letter name, he'll learn it came with a hundred bucks worth of gasoline.

A woman accused of planting a dead lab rat in restaurant food and demanding $500,000 to keep quiet was charged Monday with one felony count of extortion.

A koala is resting after getting struck by a car and dragged for seven miles. The 3-year-old animal is in good shape, adapting to its new nickname, 'Lucky Grills.'

A series of ads, timed to run with London's "Gay Pride" week, which ended last Saturday, have caused quite a stir.

The ads promoted the "gay beaches" of South Carolina, along with its Civil War plantations. Ads for Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. didn't elicit any reaction, but South Carolina ...

A British disabled man, ordered to move out of his home to make way for developers, is believed to have cut off his own head with a chainsaw, police said.

Calendars features hotties - whether male or female - are quite popular. Not very popular with the Mormon Church however, at least not when missionaries are involved.

In China, you have to make the best of any situation. There is little help available and no matter what happens, you have to put food on the table.