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Wausau's haunted back yard includes a business in Oshkosh, a back road in Portage County and the historic Grand Theater in downtown Wausau. Strange things happen all the time, and who's to say where urban legend ends and spooky reality begins?
As spun by the Iraqi rumor mill, gossip, urban legend and conspiracy theories battle daily with what occupation officials insist, with ever-increasing weariness, are "the facts."
Authorities in two states are trying to determine why a woman may have driven with her mother's decaying body as a passenger from their Oklahoma home to Florida — by way of North Carolina and Texas — and then left the body in the car in a Wal-Mart parking lot.
Cosmetic surgery, a mounted deer head, designer briefcases and pricey wine are among goods improperly charged to U.S. government credit cards by employees.
A Japanese airline pilot nodded off twice while at the controls of a domestic flight — in front of a transport official who happened to be on board for a routine inspection.
The Lagos transport chief said 608 Nigerian motorists were tested for insanity after they were caught driving against the flow of traffic on city streets.
A policeman guarding Britain's embassy in Berlin has been suspended after he gave a fellow officer the stiff-armed Hitler salute at the start of his shift.
A woman charged with manslaughter in the 1999 highway death of her boyfriend has been acquitted. Her attorney had argued that she couldn't have been behind the wheel because she had been performing a sex act on the driver at the time.
It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has finally ended a century-old story of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook who died in the Sandwich Islands in 1779.
Everyone wanted to see the tattooed, biker-booted computer geek who found his ex-wife's wedding dress in a closet, posed in it and wrote a hilarious sales pitch for eBay, asking only for "enough money for maybe a couple of Mariners tickets and some beer."
Chuck-A-Rama said it's still not an all-you-can-eat establishment, but the restaurant chain is serving up an apology to a low-carb Utah couple cut off from eating beef after making one too many trips to the buffet.
More than seven in 10 teenagers say students in their school cheat on tests, and almost as many say cheating on homework is widespread, too, a national poll finds.
When millions of cicadas emerge across the eastern United States for a rare mating season, they will appear as tasty morsels to pets who could get sick from eating the insects, officials warned.
A man who set his mobile home on fire, then sat in the yard to watch it burn, told authorities he did it to keep his estranged wife from getting any property in their divorce.
Federal authorities say they managed to pierce the murky underworld of Internet spam e-mails, filing the first criminal charges under the government's new "can spam" legislation.
Journalists from a trendy magazine slipped envelopes containing small quantities of marijuana into Bulgarian lawmakers' mailboxes to protest a tough new drug law, drawing heated reactions from indignant legislators.
These days, potty humor is big in the world of popular children's literature — from the "Captain Underpants" series to such best-selling titles as "Zombie Butts from Uranus!"
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