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A one-legged British woman was convicted of parking in a spot for the disabled despite her apparent handicap.

It's more than a month before Halloween, but if you heard some howling in the 3600 block of Snell Avenue in San Jose late Tuesday night, it wasn't a nightmare.

A company that owns a Brooklyn Bushwick building has been accused of allowing dead cats to decompose on the Troutman Street property to "stink out" the tenants.

A town that's home to a puzzle and game company gathered together Sunday to go for a world record for the world's largest jigsaw puzzle.

Sep 28, 2008 11:38 pm US/Eastern Mathematicians at UCLA have discovered a 13 million-digit prime number, a long-sought milestone that makes them eligible for a $100,000 prize.

A Chinese farmer who claimed to have taken photos of a rare tiger was sentenced to two and a half years in prison on Saturday for faking the pictures, a court official and state media said.

Democrats watching the presidential campaign may find it hard to swallow a glass of the syrah Palin.

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A Swiss daredevil crossed the English Channel strapped to a homemade jet-propelled wing Friday, parachuting into a field near the white cliffs of Dover after a 10-minute solo flight.

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Police say a bank teller in Long Island, New York, had a simple question for a would-be robber: Are you serious? The skeptical teller's question was apparently enough to spook the female suspect, who fled the ...

This undated photo released by Duke Wheeler shows a corn maze rendering of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at Wheeler Farms in Whitehouse near Toledo, Ohio.

A bomb scare at the Philadelphia Phillies ball park Wednesday ended with exploding hot dogs and authorities pointing the finger at a suspect ... The Phillie Phanatic.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- A man who was hit by a truck near the city's downtown was also slapped with a citation.

Louisiana State Representative John LaBruzzo (R-Metairie) has a different idea for combating poverty. His idea: pay poor men and women to be sterilized. He would pay $1,000 to women to have their Fallopian tubes tied and $500 to poor men if they have a vasectomy.

A Tempe, Ariz, car crash that injured two people was caused by fraternity members vomiting milk from a campus bridge onto the road below, police said.

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP)-Ice cream made from breast milk? That's what the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream to consider making.

A German dentist is being investigated for overpowering a female patient in her home and yanking out two dental bridges because of her unpaid bill.

SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A West Virginia man who police said passed gas and fanned it toward a patrolman has been charged with battery on a police officer.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A former pastor has been sentenced to 17 months in prison for stealing his church's hurricane relief funds.