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Columbia University has a collection of playing cards that is among the world's largest, a trove of 6,356 decks that the Ivy League institution painstakingly catalogued after they were donated to the school by an eccentric collector.
The descendants of two of the more famous men to don Santa Claus suits plan to meet in Santa Claus, Indiana, to sign a new oath for other jolly gift-givers.
Police said they charged a 51-year-old woman with assault, reckless endangerment and tampering with evidence after she allegedly served a marijuana-tainted ginger cake to her real estate agent.
A Norwegian politician said she would not be seeking re-election after being forced to admit she had ran up a large phone bill making calls to fortune-tellers.
A man who attends Taft Education Center is accused of pouring a liquid on an English teacher and holding a lighter near her because he believed she was a witch.
About 90 elementary school students in Montana have started a series of rabies shots after a parent let them touch a dead bat that was later confirmed to be diseased.
Suresh Joachim of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra of Germany, claim to have broken the world record for continuous movie watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plastic-glass house in New York's Times Square.
A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a blonde woman's lawsuit claiming L'Oreal Inc. ruined her social life when she accidentally dyed her hair brunette with one of its products.
Fairgoers at a central Florida carnival caught a 2-year-old girl whose mother was forced to drop her after they were both stranded 30 feet off the ground on a ride.
A 10-year-old was driving up to 90 mph when he crashed a van carrying a man who told police he had drank at least 15 beers and a woman who was trying to swallow as many pills as she could when deputies arrived at the scene.
The father of a measurement known as the "Smoot" returned to be honored at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the school where he and his fraternity brothers invented it 50 years earlier.
Police have apprehended a Western man who went skinny dipping in a moat ringing the Imperial Palace in a busy Tokyo business district, attracting a huge crowd.
Curtis Lemons was supposed to report for jury duty in a drunk driving case. Instead, according to authorities, the 50-year-old man skipped the jury duty so he could drink himself.
A man was arrested by Oregon State Police after he was cautioned and then later spotted riding an adult-sized tricycle under the influence of alcohol on the street.
Tama the cat, the feline "stationmaster" of Kishi Station, an unmanned post on the Kishigawa Line in Wakayama Prefecture, has more than earned her keep.
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