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Many high school students in South Carolina will have to say "I love you" on their own time. A growing number of high schools in the state are banning Valentine's Day gift deliveries during school hours.
The Arkansas Department of Correction has reprimanded one of its math instructors, saying he substituted units of cocaine and methamphetamine while testing inmates on their multiplication skills.
The small town of Palmer, Alaska, has not had panties and briefs since the early 1990s. That's not to suggest the locals are not wearing underwear. They are, or so they assure us, and this being cold, cold Alaska, we're inclined to take their word for it.
Apparently it's not just on Valentine's Day that people manage to say, "I love you." Nearly three-quarters of Americans — not counting those who live alone — say "I love you" at least once a day, according to a new poll.
A Bakersfield thief saw baskets brimming with stuffed animals, silk-petaled roses and heart-shaped boxes of chocolate displayed in a store window. Moved, perhaps, by tender feelings that could not wait for morning, he smashed the window at 3:58 a.m., and ran off with three of the Valentine specials.
A prominent Israeli rabbi has proposed hanging bags of pig fat in buses to deter Muslim suicide bombers who may want to avoid contact with an "unclean" animal.
If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093. The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros.
Faced with growing demand for exorcisms, Catholic Church leaders in the Italian city of Genoa have created a taskforce of doctors and priests to determine when the devil is at work and when psychiatric help is needed.
Frustrated actors have a new outlet for their creative urges that until now was only available to their singing cousins — Movieoke, Karaoke's cinematic sibling.
