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Shannon Kramer's plans to fire a rocket toward his girlfriend went awry when the firework ricocheted inside his car and dived between his legs, bursting in a display that burned hair and skin from his feet to his groin.
The Sheffield and District Football League has forbidden its members from sending scores to the Derbyshire Times after the newspaper reported how an under-nine team was "trounced" 29-0 in a crucial match.
In the land of Shakespeare, punctuation faced extinction until writer Lynne Truss came to the rescue with a clutch of carefully placed commas and colons.
It was the anecdote that politically seemed too good to be true. And it was. Treasury Secretary John Snow was set to say that "frivolous lawsuits" had caused the U.S. ladder industry to fold.
One of New Mexico's biggest American Indian-run casinos has pulled a controversial TV ad that promoted gambling as a financial solution to people who are short on cash or deeply in debt.
Latah County Sheriff's deputies had to cordon off their own parking lot after a man thought he was doing a good deed by bringing in a live grenade he found in an old farmhouse.
A Quebec couple got an unexpected ride on a Lake Champlain ice floe. Theodures Raaymakers and his wife, Annette, were ice fishing near the town of Rouses Point, N.Y., when the ice they were on broke free from shore.
St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 has gotten a new lease on life. The New Orleans nonprofit organization Save Our Cemeteries teamed up with the tourism industry, which provided hundreds of volunteers from around the country for a daylong restoration project.
When Mark Walters received a $2,500 bill from his long-distance carrier, Denver-based Qwest, he figured it had to be a mistake. It was, and it was his daughter's boo-boo.
When Paul Derwent and his wife Janet cut down 25 feet of laurel hedge on the boundary of their property in May 2000, they set off a legal dispute that now looks likely to cost them their home.
The popularity of television shows such as Bravo's "Celebrity Poker," the Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour" and ESPN's coverage of the Texas Hold 'em championships have fueled a card-playing craze on campuses.
A jeans retailer outfitted all its employees with a T-shirt saying "Stop Pretending You Don't Want Me" — but shop clerks soon stopped pretending they wanted to wear it.
