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A former jewelry company worker is accused of stealing diamonds worth about $500,000 from her employer by slipping away with them one at a time over several years.
A mystery man named "Ted" who buys lunch for strangers and sprinkles his name around on stickers, signboards and even a farmer's field appears to be the creation of United Airlines' new low-cost carrier.
Petrarch, the Italian poet and humanist who so inspired Shakespeare's verse, is to be exhumed from his grave more than 600 years after his death to establish his medical history and what he really looked like.
Several chain stores are refusing home-printed Internet discount coupons in some states because of what the grocery industry says is a surge in forgeries.
The Federal Trade Commission has taken action against a company that it alleges was exploiting a security hole in Microsoft's Messenger Service utility to send full-screen pop-up ads to consumers advertising software that would block the very same pop-up ads.
Don't kiss and tell — and certainly don't tell the police in Moscow, where city authorities are reportedly considering levying fines for public displays of affection.
To reverse the rising toll of death from highway collisions with deer, either the deer or the drivers will have to change behavior, according to a new report. It will probably have to be the deer, the researchers found.
Rock music played lead in giving Hungarian baby boomers the resolve to bring down their communist state, says one of those reformers who today is a government official.
McDonald's says it deserves a break from the unflattering way the latest Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary depicts its job opportunities. Among some 10,000 new additions to an updated version released in June was the term "McJob," defined as "low paying and dead-end work."
Five police officers assigned to protect a power plant from possible terrorism went fishing at a nearby lake instead, and were once seen in uniform cleaning the fish they had just caught, according to disciplinary records.
