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Saturday was an unlucky day for the Gillan brothers. The two Monroe County brothers — Kevin and William Gillan — were in accidents at the same city intersection seven hours apart on Saturday.
A German confessed to killing and eating a willing victim in a case that could make legal history, telling a shocked courtroom the experience was "like taking communion" in a religious service.
The story goes that former Gov. Jane Hull was at a citizenship ceremony. After the oath, she handed out voter registration forms to the newly minted citizens. But half of them returned the forms, saying they were already registered to vote.
One of the most suspenseful moments told of President Bush's covert Thanksgiving trip — that a British Airways pilot spotted Air Force One as it secretly made its way to Baghdad — has not been confirmed by any BA captains in the air that day.
A five-month study has concluded that the mysterious crop circles that appeared in a Solano County wheat field in June were not the work of four teenage boys who claimed they made them as a hoax.
A woman who faked test scores to pose her son as one of the most intellectually gifted children in the world has been sentenced to four days in jail for fraud.
All it took for Stewart Bubar to retain his seat on the Board of Education in the Los Angeles suburb of Culver City was 1,141 votes and one white marble.
Several civil rights groups have filed a discrimination complaint trying to get a small community in southeast Texas to remove a racial slur from its city maps by changing the name of its "Jap Road."
An 8,440-square-foot monkey hospital, located at the Lopburi Zoo, has operating, examination, treatment and admittance rooms. The $45,000 center was built with loans and donations from animal lovers.
At his age, Fred Hale Sr. doesn't mind getting a year older. Hale, recognized as the oldest man in America, celebrated his 113th birthday quietly with four generations of descendants at his side.
