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Although people might flush all sorts of things down drains, sewer lines are not always goldmines for maintenance workers who slosh around in the water. A refrigerator door, caseloads of carrots and a baby alligator are some of the things they have found floating in area sewers.
Hungry elephants have gone on the rampage in eastern Thailand, ransacking villagers' plantations and forcing sugarcane trucks to stop so they can raid their goods.
Those who study shoppers' behavior and crowd dynamics say the suburbanization of America, human nature and the way sales are structured — to create a heightened sense of urgency while offering limited amounts of bargain merchandise for limited times — can foster pandemonium.
An Israeli human rights group accused the national postal authority of violation of privacy for having published letters addressed to God on its web site.
Nursery rhyme classics such as Jack and Jill or 10 Little Monkeys could leave children with a seriously warped view of the consequences of head injuries, a pair of Halifax researchers are arguing in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
A dog from Middlesex County is probably feeling like a lucky pooch — though she smelled like trash, after being rescued from among 40 tons of household waste in the back of a garbage trailer.
A landscape painting by nineteenth century American romantic painter Martin Johnson Heade was sold at auction for just over $1 million on after being stashed away in an attic for over 60 years.
The Seattle City Council voted to approve legislation that would allow drivers to sport rhinestone capes, blue suede shoes or whatever other appropriate costume they wish.
A federal judge is to resume hearing testimony in a case involving an angry lawyer who doused urine on office equipment in retaliation against a co-worker.
