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U.S. District Judge Lee R. West's telephone has not stopped ringing since he sided with telemarketers seeking to block a popular national do-not-call list.
The ace of spades? Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld gets the honor in a new French deck of cards. President Bush is the king of diamonds and Osama bin Laden the joker.
Tagging bottles of pills with tiny transmitters may one day help keep counterfeits out of the drug supply, but until that or other protective technology arrives, patients must watch for fake medicines, a Food and Drug Administration official said.
Call it Ted's excellent adventure, with a high-tech twist: A cat with an ID microchip implanted under his skin was returned to his owner 10 years after he jumped out a window and vanished.
The actress has filed a lawsuit in federal court that seeks $15 million from the cosmetics firm Caudalie for running an ad campaign that says the "Chicago" Oscar-winner "was spotted buying the complete Caudalie range of skincare" and had used the company's anti-aging spa in Las Vegas.
Palm Mortuary has begun offering funeral backdrops with giant playing cards, oversized dice and a towering slot machine to memorialize the dearly departed in the gambling capital of the world.
A woman in Minnesota went to pull the shade closed on a sliding-glass door only to find a 300-pound black bear sitting on her deck furniture and calmly licking bird seed from a feeder.
A Capitol Police sergeant was fired after playing a video containing violence and nudity for his 30 officers, at least some of whom said they were offended.
This week's insert of Sports Illustrated on Campus has been left out of the Brigham Young University student newspaper because it contained pictures of bare-bottomed runners.
A downtown merchant wanted to draw city officials' attention to the dead tree outside his store. He got it. Keith Howarth hung at least 50 brassieres from the branches of the tree outside Noir Leather, an avant-garde clothing store and longtime fixture in this Detroit suburb.
Driving at crazy speeds with screeching tires and blaring horns may be a national sport in Italy, but new license rules mean manic drivers may soon become an endangered species.
An Australian judge has thrown out a case against a man caught using a mobile phone while driving a horse and carriage, saying police who brought the charges "look a bit silly."
The Federal Trade Commission is moving ahead with its national do-not-call registry, confident that a judge's ruling sidetracking the anti-telemarketing list will be thrown out by Congress or the courts.
The State Department shut down several computer systems on Tuesday and part of Wednesday to contain the spread of a virus discovered on one of its unclassified computer networks.
