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An 8-year-old became the most popular boy in class when he started handing out $50 bills during a field trip. But he didn't win any gold stars from the police or his mother, who reported the nearly $1,600 in cash stolen from her purse.
Izzy the turtle is considered to have the longest shell of any of his kind at North American zoos, a record that hasn't made Guinness but is "common knowledge in the reptile world," said John Behler, curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo.
Send money to help a Nigerian astronaut lost in space and you will share in his $15 million reentry bonus. That e-mail message was named the top spam scam in the "Spam and Bologna" contest of the New York State Consumer Protection Board.
Just in time for the Memorial Day weekend and as the cost of gasoline continues to climb, Minnesota is cracking down on service stations over gas prices. Prices that are too low, that is.
One of the Nordic region's biggest power stations shut to let an expert tune a grand piano for a concert undisturbed by the hum of huge hydroelectric generators.
Four of poker's best fell victim to a patent lawyer from Connecticut, as he built up a $14.4 million stack of chips during the finale of the famed World Series of Poker.
Two preachers grounded a flight leaving Buffalo, New York, after they frightened passengers by declaring the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were a good reason to pray
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