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A woman charged with causing a fatal car crash in 1999 says that she couldn't have been behind the wheel because she was performing a sex act on the driver at the time.
An impatient Sicilian farmer leapt behind the wheel of an ambulance to get his sick mother to hospital faster but was charged with theft and kidnapping for his pains.
A California Court of Appeals panel rejected a lawsuit against several airlines, including American and Southwest, by the Tall Club of Silicon Valley which sought preferential seating in roomier exit rows for men at least 6 foot, 2 inches and women at least 5 foot, 10 inches.
A foul-mouthed parrot, which blurts out expletives and pecks people when she's angry, is to be removed from a Royal Navy ship to spare any embarrassment during a visit by the Queen.
A yellow Labrador retriever led a South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper to nearly $100,000 in cash duct-taped into a spare tire as the team made a routine traffic stop along Interstate 90 in western South Dakota.
Police who pulled over a pickup truck because its load was blocking the view of a temporary license plate in the rear window discovered it was carrying 900 pounds of marijuana.
America's rarest silver dollar — and possibly its most famous stolen coin — was discovered in a box with filled with miscellaneous coins by a Maine librarian who wasn't even a collector.
For a 73-year-old Canadian man, 20 months in a smoke-free jail looked just too long, so instead he took 24 months in a prison where he can smoke cigarettes.
A 6-year-old girl thought to have died in a fire as an infant has been found alive after being raised by a woman who may have set the blaze and abducted the baby.
The barley grown by Saskatchewan farmers may not be an aphrodisiac, but a Molson beer ad campaign in the United States is turning the Canadian farm crowd on.
A German hunter stabbed a wild boar to death in a stairwell after the beast rammed through the bolted front door of an apartment building and stormed up to the sixth floor.
A bride driving to a wedding chapel to meet her future husband was injured in a roadway accident, but that didn't halt the wedding plans. It just moved the ceremony into the emergency room.
