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A 19-year-old fisherman is recovering from an encounter with a sea lion that leaped out of the water, grabbed him as he worked on his grandfather's docked boat and pulled him into the harbor.
Jennifer Garner, who plays spy Sydney Bristow in the television series "Alias," has turned her talents to recruiting real-life spies to work for the CIA in a video on the agency's employment Web site.
Two Mexican peasant farmers, cousins age 70 and 85, argued for years over water rights and finally faced off in an old-fashioned pistol duel that killed both.
From Jay Leno to David Lettermen to those wisecracking anchors on ESPN, it seems everyone has gotten a big laugh out of the oh-so-easy final exam given by former Georgia assistant basketball coach Jim Harrick Jr.
Anthony Williams is one of about 30 rodent inspectors a day who scour every classroom, boiler room, kitchen and closet in the nation's third-largest school district after a spate of school closures prompted Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to publicly call workers on the carpet.
A woman who tried to use a fake $1 million bill to buy $1,675 worth of merchandise at Wal-Mart said it was all just a misunderstanding — she thought the bill was real.
Animal control officers called by a neighbor who complained about a horrible stench found 86 Pomeranians inside an abandoned house that was covered with feces.