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News tends to spread fast in a British village. Especially when the news is that the local bank's cash machine is paying out twice the money you ask for.
The U.S. military is demanding the return of five howitzers two Sierra Nevada ski resorts use to prevent avalanches, saying it needs the guns for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A homeless New York University student who claimed to have lived for eight months in the basement of the college library has been granted free accommodation and national celebrity.
A narcotic painkiller that looks like a lollipop — designed to speed relief to cancer patients — is starting to show up in illegal sales with the nickname "perc-a-pop."
A kangaroo named Lulu is to receive a national bravery award after raising the alarm to save an Australian farmer knocked unconscious by a fallen tree branch.
The dangers of obesity to kids may be all over the headlines just now but spare a thought for the legions of fat rabbits — overfed and under-exercised by their doting owners.
They say twins feel each other's pain, but 8-year-olds Cassidy and Marissa Wiese of Laurel might have taken that idea a bit too far. In a five-hour span on April 17, both girls had rolling skating accidents that resulted in broken left arms.
A woman detained in a traffic stop is suing authorities for allegedly forcing her to display her tattooed buttocks, but the police chief said he has no record of the woman being arrested.
A man who was arrested while leaving his wedding ceremony won't be enjoying his honeymoon quite yet. He first has to deal with a warrant for writing bad checks in Montana.
Vienna has ordered its traditional carriage drivers to clean up their act and strap "poo bags" to their horses' backsides to prevent them from fouling the historic capital's pristine streets.
Friends of a champion Irish clay pigeon shooter have fulfilled his dying wish by packing his ashes into shotgun cartridges and blasting his remains over firing ranges around the world.
After watching grainy video images of dogs clamping their jaws onto squealing hogs, Louisiana House members voted 75-25 to outlaw "hog-dog" events popular in some rural areas.
A German took his female neighbor to court for laughing too loudly. But she had the last laugh — the judge threw out the case, saying Germany could not ban laughter.
A high school student who was enrolled in a work-study program and helped other students apply for college and financial aid apparently hanged himself.
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