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Like many couples who split, Roger Temethy and Marge Baum had to have the courts decide a custody battle. But the case wasn't over a child. It was over legal rights to Maynard, a 225-pound English bull mastiff.
A crew dressed in biohazard suits and breathing masks has begun cleaning up a condominium where nearly 20 cats and dogs had been confined since at least Thanksgiving.
After what seemed a rabid antisemitic attack that grabbed headlines and prompted condemnation from all corners turned out to be a hoax, Jewish advocates are expressing concern that both the French government and the press will tone down their condemnations of antisemitism.
A Quebec woman who feels reborn following stomach surgery is fighting to have the province pay for the removal of about 50 pounds of skin that stands in the way to her complete transformation.
If you've never dropped the word "dubyavirus" into casual conversation, urged that an official be "ashcrofted" or commented upon "The Cheney Effect," then you haven't seen the future, at least the future according to McSweeney's.
David Beckham's flubbed penalty kick in the shoot-out of the Euro 2004 quarterfinal against Portugal has attracted a bid of $12.4 million on the Internet auction site eBay and promises to make a multimillionaire of the Spaniard who claimed it as it sailed through the air.
Australian celebrity crocodile hunter Steve Irwin has been cleared of breaking the law by getting too close to whales and penguins while filming a documentary in Antarctica.
Just about any other flower would smell sweeter, but that hasn't stopped plant lovers from enduring the stench of the rare blooms of the Amorphophallus titanum plant.
A man who shot himself in the groin after drinking 15 pints of beer and stuffing a sawed-off shotgun down his trousers was jailed for five years for illegal possession of a firearm.
Blondes perform intelligence tests more slowly after reading jokes playing on their supposed stupidity, said psychologists in a newly published German study.
Police uprooted thousands of cannabis plants on the island of Crete after a tip from police who saw three fields of the crop as they shadowed the Olympic torch relay in a helicopter.
A man who told his doctors that he drinks more than a six-pack of beer per day is now fighting to get his driver's license back because the physicians apparently reported him to the state.
Administrators at one West Virginia high school have seen enough of pajamas, spiked jewelry and underwear, including the muscle shirts known as "wife beaters."
Danish high-rise buildings could be fitted with safety shoes to help people escape in emergencies, after an inventor was inspired by images of people jumping from the twin towers in New York on September 11, 2001.
When residents of an Edmond neighborhood saw a bloodied man stumbling down the street, they thought he had been hit by a car. Instead, Derrick Simpson had apparently intentionally crashed his head through a fish aquarium.
Mexico's attorney general said he had had a microchip inserted under the skin of one of his arms to give him access to a new crime database and also enable him to be traced if he is ever abducted.
Thieves dug up a Frenchwoman's grave and stripped her corpse of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry she had asked to be buried with to avoid arguments between her five children.
Archaeologists have unearthed a cooking hearth in the Sierra Nevada where they believe the Donner Party gathered for meager meals in the months before starvation led to the country's most famous tale of cannibalism.
Fort Carson Staff Sgt. Rick Bousfield of the 3rd Brigade Combat Team had a mission: Saving Pvt. Hammer. Pfc. Hammer is an Iraqi tabby cat the unit adopted after he was born last fall at a base in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad.
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