Offbeat News

Hustler founder Larry Flynt has finished filming an X-rated film about VP candidate Sarah Palin, with a stand-in look-alike, according to the New York Daily News.

A seven-year-old boy broke into the Alice Springs Reptile Center in central Australia by jumping the fence, and then proceeded to feed both live --- and dead animals --- to a crocodile. Apparently the boy's small size prevented the zoo's security system from detecting him. He was, however, caught on camera.

Confirming that Coca-Cola actually is a spermicide and fertile strippers make more money were among the oddball scientific achievements that took home a 2008 Ig Nobel Prize given every year by the Annals of ...

CAPLEN, Texas (AP) -- A paleontologist whose beachfront home in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size tooth in the debris.

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) -- A court in Kazakhstan has dropped drunken-driving charges against a man who admits he had a few drinks before he was arrested.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a Fort Myers man shot himself in the arm after his girlfriend refused to have sex with him.

Morgan has flown gliders and airplanes for decades throughout the Eastern Sierra, where the pieces of Fossett's borrowed plane were found this week, and he's come to fear the downdraft of wind coming off the ...

A South Korean actress dogged by Internet rumours over the suicide of an actor has apparently taken her own life, police said Thursday.

A Russian chef has authored the first-of-its-kind cookbook containing a collection of ... testicle recipes.

A 19-year-old Oxford man founding laying in the road Sept. 6 with his pants around his ankles is fortunate to be alive after ingesting a common, yet toxic, ornamental flower used by some to get high and cause ... [The best part of that story is pretty much in that sentence. Yes, he was high but how did his pants get so low? We'll probably never know. -ed.]

All over the world, people practice numerous wedding customs that have been passed on through many generations. Although each has a long history of meaning and significance, many just seem strange and out of place in today’s culture.

A A truck carrying 5,000 condoms, 800 HIV tests and a 23-foot inflatable prophylactic has disappeared from outside a home in Mexico City.

A New York man was charged with DWI after being stopped Saturday in Glens Falls for blowing his car's horn too much.

Times have been tough for banks everywhere, but a San Diego-area Wells Fargo branch had an especially difficult day this week.

KATY PERRY'S saucy song I Kissed A Girl has got three Texan cheerleaders suspended from performing at schools sports games.

A laptop thief got caught - after the computer owner tracked him remotely. Jose Caceres said he used a remote access program to log on every day and watch his computer being used, and then tipped off police, ...

With a winning bid of just $1.75, a Chicago woman has won an auction for an abandoned home in Saginaw.

A Croatian man and his wife escaped death from a hit man's bullet after he caught the projectile with his false teeth.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) --A golden retriever who was 400 miles from his Atlanta home booked a trip back by simply looking pathetic outside of a Florida travel agency.

New York police said a man has confessed to stealing from 12 churches and is suspected in at least two other church burglaries.