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"Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin snapped back at critics who have accused him of endangering his month-old son's life by holding him while hand-feeding a crocodile, saying that he would even do it again.
With those New Year's diet and exercise resolutions fresh in your mind, it might be important to know that it's a myth that people who work out eat better.
For years, there have been rumors among the homeless downtown that a drifter in North Beach was sleeping in the gutter while he had all the money he needed in the bank. It's true.
A 7-year-old boy had to be rescued with the help of a locksmith after crawling into a supermarket's stuffed animal game machine while his father talked on the telephone.
James Paul Egan allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven at gunpoint, then ran into the backyard of a nearby house and threw out all his incriminating articles: the bandanna, the gloves, the hat, a .357-caliber Magnum handgun, and the jacket he'd been wearing — with his county jail property identification card in the pocket.
A man who disrupted services at a suburban St. Louis church after claiming he was Jesus later drove a car into the building's lobby doors. No one was injured.
Walking the dog isn't as simple as it once was at the Central Dakota Humane Society. The shelter now requires volunteer dog walkers to take a class on how to train and handle the animals, before they're allowed to grab a leash.
What Dean Wittstruck found in his field looked to be the leftovers of one very happy New Year's Eve party. What it turned out to be were balloons from a college football game — some 900 miles away.
After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose has finally come clean and publicly admitted for the first time that he bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds.
A man trying to prove that Doritos snack chips are dangerous will have to do it without the help of a retired University of Pittsburgh chemistry professor.
Following a weekend of bad publicity, Steve Irwin and his family retreated from the media spotlight and the public outrage he provoked by hand-feeding a crocodile while holding his infant son.
Residents who openly bought and sold hashish at a famous hippie enclave in Copenhagen abruptly demolished their booths, trying to head off a Danish government crackdown on illegal drug sales.
A wee dachshund from Rosemount earned the nickname Railroad Joe recently, after running away from owners Tom and Cindy Caruth. The stubby-legged dog took up life on the tracks and made a legend of himself by getting run over by freight trains at least three times in five days — twice by the same conductor.
Princess Anne will send her dog to an animal psychologist to avoid having it euthanized after it attacked a royal maid and fatally mauled one of Queen Elizabeth II's beloved corgis.
