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A 12-year-old told police that she was reading at the library when James M. Kilpatrick, 21, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, started kissing her feet, then offered her 22-year-old sister a dollar to let him do the same to her.
It was a woolly, if not wild, report from the traffic police: Authorities stopped a convoy of three cars after they heard the "passengers" bleating — and found the vehicles stuffed with sheep.
A monkey was recuperating at a wildlife park in Taiwan after being rescued from a restaurant that planned to sell slices of the animal's brain while he was alive in a cage.
A man who had told police he should appear on "World's Dumbest Criminals" has been sentenced to prison for robbing a bank where he was a regular customer.
He won't be cheering, painting his face in gaudy colors or waving banners, but the Democratic Party's secret weapon is guaranteed to be the center of photographers' attention when he shows up at the party's national convention in Boston.
Despite its elusiveness, St. Mary's county planners have agreed to build an elementary school in a way that will accommodate the mating habits of the eastern narrow-mouthed toad that state naturalists say lives in the surrounding marshes.
A fake wanted poster that was allegedly displayed for seven hours on the cash register of a variety store in Etna, Maine, has triggered a defamation lawsuit.