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The phone number made famous in the 1982 song "Jenny (867-5309)" by Tommy Tutone became a hassle for Chesapeake residents who had it then. Pranksters and even just the curious called it again and again, asking for the fictional Jenny.
Two cloned kittens have been born using a new cloning method that may be safer and more efficient than traditional methods, according to a U.S. company.
Bulldozers and dump trucks hauled away more than 20 loads of trash and waste from a vermin-infested house that had been the subject of complaints for decades.
A German prisoner in Madrid and his girlfriend glued their hands together during a jail visit in an attempt to fight the man's possible extradition to Germany.
An 18-year-old Russian male who jumped onto the court to invite Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova and Vera Zvonareva to dinner was stopped by security guards.
Nigerian police have arrested 30 witch-doctors in a raid on fetish shrines in southeast Anambra state where over 50 decomposing bodies and 20 human skulls were discovered.
After 10 years on the job at Anne Arundel County's 911 call center, Louis Gerber's alleged two-minute snooze may get him a written reprimand or, even, fired.
German customs officials in the port of Hamburg confiscated 26,000 live fish hidden in the back of a truck in sealed glass vases without food or fresh oxygen.
President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of "Bushisms," declaring that his administration will "never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people."
Claude Meadows was hungry after he allegedly robbed a man at knifepoint of his money and car. Fortunately for Metro Nashville police, Meadows decided to attend a Night Out Against Crime event three hours later and stand in a food line.
Competing for votes in corn-growing Iowa, John Kerry waved to crowds with one ear in each hand. Not to be outdone by his Democratic rival, President Bush ate one raw.
Grandparenthood can be exhausting at times. Just ask Mike and Darleen Smith, whose daughter, Becky Smith, and daughter-in-law, Nancy Smith, both gave birth at the Wyoming Medical Center on the same day.
A 61-year-old Texan needed about 16 hours to swim the rough Caribbean waters between Cozumel Island and Cancun, completing a journey meant to promote the protection of coral reefs.
A flash of Janet Jackson's breast on national TV may have launched a thousand complaints, but medical device maker Mentor Corp. believes that marketing breast implants is ready for U.S. prime time.
It could be seen as a lucky landing, but the father of 2-year-old girl who fell 30 feet from a Santa Fe hotel window without major injury said his daughter was saved by a miracle from God.
Los Angeles police commissioners have rejected a proposal to regulate the fortune-telling industry by requiring soothsayers, Tarot card readers, psychics and the like to obtain government licenses.
Spanish thieves who made off with three tons of green peppers hoping to make a healthy profit, might instead get a bad case of indigestion: the vegetables are toxic.
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