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Former big leaguer Jeff Liefer got locked inside a dugout bathroom, forcing a 20-minute delay in a Triple-A game between the Indianapolis Indians and Louisville.
The last six years have seen Google become not just the world's most popular Internet search engine but a verb, a household word and a cultural phenomenon.
Members of the Kappa Alpha fraternity tried to load an antique cannon on their front lawn with fireworks, but destroyed the cannon and blew out the window of an second floor apartment across the street.
It was April 1944 when flight engineer Norman Jackson clipped on his parachute, grabbed an extinguisher and crawled out onto the wing of his Lancaster bomber flying through the night at 20,000 feet to put out a fire.
The hunt is back on for a stray crocodile — and local celebrity — that gained fame by managing for months to elude capture by trap, dart and harpoon, foiling even the clutches of a wannabe "Crocodile Dundee."
Oops! Two highway signs posted on Interstate 89 misspelled the name of Dartmouth College, established in 1769 — when the Connecticut River was the major travel corridor in northern New England.
Students in the Sharyland Independent School District can't share their sack lunches or any other food from home with others without school permission after a student was arrested for giving marijuana-laced brownies to friends.
One man's trash was Tom Smith's ticket for cash. Smith won $10,000 on a lottery ticket that another customer decided not to buy, lottery officials said.
A Singapore investors association is leading a campaign to get shareholders to behave better at annual meetings following reports of gluttony and aggression in the usually non-confrontational city-state.
A judge gave a Tennessee zoo six months to convince him that an African elephant named Ruby is adapting well to her new home after being separated from a pachyderm friend in Los Angeles.
A University of Nebraska professor has developed robotic cones and barrels that can move out of the way, or into place, from computer commands made miles away.