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Salt Lake police plan to arrest a young man who they say slipped Xanax, a prescription anti-anxiety drug, into his co-worker's coffee because he thought she was too hyper.
A construction worker had six nails driven into his head in an accident with a high-powered nail gun, but doctors said they expect him to make a full recovery.
Persian is famed as the melodic, courtly language of medieval poets such as Omar Khayyam and Hafez, but it is a dictionary of vulgar street slang that is taking Iranian literary circles by storm.
Costco workers checked the merchandise at its food court and found nothing out of the ordinary after a woman claimed she bit into a bullet while eating a hot dog.
Licensed mental health professionals are steamed over a Maine entrepreneur who charges angry people $1.99 a minute to listen to them rant and rave over the telephone.
Hundreds of gallons of cooking oil spilled from a truck carrying the substance away from restaurants, causing dozens of vehicles to skid and slip across a Palm Beach County roadway.
A 44-year-old woman who told police she robbed a string of banks to raise money to pay for surgery for her cat has pleaded not guilty to larceny in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
A woman with an apparently insatiable sweet tooth stunned staff at a British shop when she bought more than 10,000 chocolate bars and had them loaded into her chauffeur-driven limousine.
Olympic visitors face dirty sheets and stale coffee at this summer's Athens Games unless a pay deal is agreed with tourist industry workers, a union grouping some 450,000 employees says.
A suburban St. Louis high school teacher has been suspended for taking seven students shopping while leaving five others unsupervised in her classroom.
A 5th-century fortress that's one of Sri Lanka's top tourist attractions reopened days after a rampaging swarm of wasps attacked visitors and forced it to close.
Debate in Canada's parliament has degenerated into shouts and catcalls after an opposition legislator committed what others saw as the sin of mispronouncing an Italian movie star's name.
Indianapolis city officials have decided to terminate a lease with a bar in the downtown Union Station where risque events such as "Miss School Girl" contests sometimes saw patrons remove too much clothing.
In the latest example of a sponsor's stamp on the sports world, ads for the movie "Spider-Man 2" will be placed atop bases at 15 major league ballparks during games from June 11-13.
President Bush rode across Ohio in a bus emblazoned, "Yes, America can." Turns out the bus was made in Canada.
So was the "Real Deal Express" that Democrat John Kerry rode earlier in the year.
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