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A western Pennsylvania woman who honked at hunters because she was upset they were in a tree stand that had been her late grandson's will be cited for illegally scaring deer.
Mistake No. 1: Impersonating a police officer. Mistake No. 2: Making a traffic stop. Mistake No. 3: Stopping an off-duty state trooper. Shalom Gelbman, 22, of New Square, N.Y., made all three mistakes.
Richard Ogust found his calling in Chinatown. There, he met Empress, a black-and-orange diamondback terrapin trapped in a tank at an all-you-can-eat buffet. A decade after Ogust paid $20 to liberate Empress, his Manhattan loft is filled with 80 species of turtles — more than the Bronx Zoo.
After years of painstaking research, French historians say they have solved one of the country's most enduring mysteries. They claim a pickled and shrunken heart that has roamed Europe for more than two centuries belonged to Louis XVII, the Boy King, son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
The strange case of Lovie Herman puzzled doctors for more than a decade. Dr. Alex J. McIntosh, Herman's attending physician, certified that his patient had succumbed "due to stomach trouble caused by lizards in the stomach poisoning the entire system."
A hoax email doing the rounds appears to be attempting a different kind of denial of service — flooding the telephone number of a police force in the UK with unnecessary calls.
Students and professors wrapping up the semester at Indiana University's School of Law in Indianapolis are hotly debating the dean's decision to remove a 12-foot tree after complaints that it was a religious display, then replace it with an exhibit featuring two smaller trees and a sleigh.
In touching tribute to a faithful friend, flowers regularly appear at the foot of a grave which is marked simply "Ben". But who places the fresh flowers that appear overnight on the grave in the grounds of Mottram Hall is a mystery — because Ben was a dog and has been dead for 110 years.
