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A western Michigan school district told a teacher activated for military duty that he must cover the cost of a substitute during part of his absence and give the district some of his military pay.
It's been four months since newly designed, color-filled $20s began circulating, and early results suggest counterfeiters are having a harder time faking them.
A father facing drug charges argues a trooper made an unconstitutional search by changing his son's apparently soiled diaper and finding a bag of crack hidden inside.
Finnish Internet security company F-Secure said that due to human error at its London office thousands of its customers in Britain had received emails from the company infected by a virus.
Canada has issued a patent for a futuristic commercial jet design that would protect passengers in an emergency by breaking apart and letting the sections parachute gently to the ground.
Mom always said being late to class would cost you. Now, school officials here have decided just how much. Students at Lehi High School could be fined $5 if they are found outside of class after the final bell rings.
A Los Angeles lawyer who claims he was thrown out of Las Vegas last year because he was too lucky has sued MGM Mirage in a bid to force the casino to warn prospective gamblers that they can be barred for winning too much.
A man who keeps a cougar and three African wild cats as pets must find somewhere else for the animals until his neighbors' lawsuit is settled, a judge ruled.
German police said they arrested a flasher in the western university town of Bielefeld who stumbled over his dropped trousers during an aborted attempt to flee.
Saudi Arabia's Education Ministry has recalled one million notebooks from schools around the kingdom because they contain mistakes including references to the "Persian Gulf."
While the groundhog may receive more media attention, some Hoosiers say it's skunks that are the true heralds of the coming of spring. And if the smelly critters are to be believed, it's here.
Two Australian sheep farmers have produced the world's finest wool, a mere 11.9 microns thick or about one-fifth the diameter of human hair, with a bale of the super fine wool now under armed guard inside a bank vault.
Residents of the popular ski town of Killington, Vermont, voted to resolve their property tax feud with the state by breaking away and joining neighboring New Hampshire.
A one-quarter share of Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's ancestral home is up for grabs on an Internet auction site and mischievous bidders have pumped the price to more than $30 million.
