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Officials disciplined students who papered their nearly all-white high school with posters advocating a white student from South Africa for the school's "Distinguished African American Student Award."
The Louisiana state Senate's top staffer said that he accidentally forwarded a mass e-mail to lawmakers and staff that included vulgar jokes and a sexually explicit video.
A flight attendant's variation on the "eenie, meenie, minnie moe" rhyme to encourage passengers to hurry and find their seats left two black women on the Southwest Airlines flight feeling humiliated and degraded, their attorney said as trial of their lawsuit began.
When the American Family Association posted an online poll last month asking its constituents their position on gay marriage, it thought it was engaging in a straightforward exercise. But the AFA never counted on the power of the Internet.
Frustrated in their efforts to raise money to save a deteriorating lighthouse off the coast of Maine, a group of lighthouse fanciers seceded from the Union last year, declaring the Boon Island Lighthouse and the two acres of rock on which it stands the independent Republic of Boon Island.
Two men convicted of plotting what would have been Britain's biggest robbery lost their bid for a legal appeal, even though the judge in their trial admitted falling asleep during the closing arguments.
A 46-year-old man armed with a tree branch robbed just over 1,000 euros ($1,260) from a customer at a bank in suburban Lisbon but was forcibly subdued by other bank clients before he could escape.
Russian theatre-goers are to be allowed to vote with their wallets in an experiment that will allow them to reclaim part of the price of the ticket if they decide they did not like the performance.
An international team of doctors hopes to operate in the Dominican Republic to remove an undeveloped second head from a baby girl born with one of the world's rarest birth defects, caused when a conjoined twin fails to develop in the womb.
Bidding on a widely ridiculed argyle sweater belonging to Democratic presidential contender Wesley Clark reached $12,600 dollars on Internet site eBay, three days after it was put up for auction.
A woman who bought the winning ticket on a shopping trip for a Valentine's Day card agreed in a Nassau County courtroom to give her estranged husband — who is suffering from terminal lung cancer — a share of the winnings as part of their divorce settlement.
A South African reptile enthusiast investigating a call from a man he thought "had been drinking", found a metre-long (3.3 ft) Nile crocodile lazing in the pool of a Pretoria suburb.
A 412-pound trucker who says he was fired for being unable to fit into a smaller tractor assigned to him got an apology and a right-sized rig from the company, resolving a flap both sides passed off as a big misunderstanding.
Failed Santa or self-made Grinch? A promoter and the FBI took very different views of how thousands of area school kids came to show up at an arena for a nonexistent Christmas pageant.
Dutch officials plan to shoot hundreds of wild rabbits which have nibbled through a prison's underground alarm, phone and power cables and tried to tunnel under its walls.
How to solve the knotty problem of making the World Economic Forum less stuffy? Easy — tell the world's movers and shakers in attendance to lose their neckties.
The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro has dropped a pioneering plan to mail contraceptives to women in poor neighbourhoods for free after the mayor consulted the Roman Catholic archbishop.
Councilwoman Julie Ruiz Raber was sued by an opponent for alleged electioneering after she delivered cookies to nearly every poll worker in Carson on election day.
A team of Romanian and U.S. doctors say they have successfully removed a tumor weighing 175 pounds (80 kilograms) from a woman patient in an operation lasting 10 hours.
