A 6-year-old Virginia boy who missed his bus tried to drive to school in his family's sedan - and crashed. His parents were charged with child endangerment.

The green thumbs who keep lawns lush and flora flourishing in the city have found a new foe among the aphids, white flies and other yard pests - the water …

Nine flight attendants who couldn't meet the weight standards of India's national airlines have been fired, an official said Tuesday.

Police are searching garbage dumps in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for the body of a baby that was apparently thrown out with the trash at a Jersey City …

The light from a portable music player helped guide airborne rescuers to a lost snowboarder facing a second frigid night on a New Mexico mountain.

The massive Waterford crystal ball that descended in Times Square to ring in 2009 is being lit again and sent back up a 141-foot flagpole, where it will remain…

James Howarth is a little confused by two letters he has received from the Internal Revenue Service.

A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman's religious reasons for smuggling endangered monkey meat into the country.

Filmmaker George Butler wants his friends to know he's very much alive, despite a premature obituary on "The Charlie Rose Show".

Two sushi bar owners paid more than $100,000 for a Japanese bluefin tuna at a Tokyo fish auction Monday, several times the average price and the highest in …

A complaint was filed from a home for disabled clients after a staff member served a cake mixed with pills.

Carmen Durney, a 33-year-old Fremont woman, allegedly stole an ambulance and took it for a nine-hour joyride over the Christmas holiday weekend, police say.

A woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born and was believed to have been the world's oldest person living, has died in northwest …

State troopers are looking for a charity to take thousands of shoes that were dumped on a Miami expressway, tying up rush hour traffic.

It was the equivalent of finding an old Picasso or an unknown Beatles tape hidden away in your uncle's attic.

Call it a New Year's miracle or just good luck. A baby girl is doing fine after a stray bullet landed in her diaper on New Year's.

There were 124 passengers on Northwest Airlines Flight 59 when it left the Netherlands. There were 125 when it landed in Boston.

It's a New Year's Day tradition for hundreds of people from around the country. But this year, the Polar Bear Plunge in Jacksonport may end up on the silver …

A man in Washington state who reportedly told police he was trying to deter a friend from driving drunk by blasting the friend's windshield with paintballs …

Losing weight and finding a better job are two of the more popular New Year's resolutions, but they could do more harm than good.

A Minnesota snowplow operator is in hot water with his boss after driving a $200,000 loader into a frozen riverby attempting to clear off a boat ramp instead …

Investigators said it appeared that the man had been shot once after he forced his way into his ex-wife's home, wielding a baseball bat. When deputies arrived on the scene, they …

The economic downturn has even reached the trash on the curb, and that's hurting some sanitation workers.

Stanley Carter apparently just wanted some place to spend the holidays -- plus a few Christmas gifts.

New Yorkers and others brought their bad memories for the year to Times Square Sunday to stick into an industrial-strength shredder. It's called "Good Riddance…

Finally on this Christmas broadcast is what some may call heavenly music, and it is from a group of clergy who are topping the charts.

This special crime case involves a perpetrator, but in this scenario, it is a pooch.

Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, have arrested a man they say tried to steal a fire truck so he could drive home ? to Washington ? for Christmas.

Fire officials in New Bedford, Mass., say a man using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch ended up setting his house on fire, causing up to $30,000 in …

A man jumped into the Berlin zoo enclosure of famed polar bear Knut on Monday, but officials were able to keep the animal away from the intruder by distracting…

The sheriff's office in Chicago has arrested more than 60 fugitives with a net of holiday cheer.

The American Museum of Natural History's latest discovery is a diamond in the rough: a visitor's $15,000 gem in a vacuum-cleaner bag.

A New York politician is drafting measures to protect Brooklyn's wild Quaker parrots, whose nests have caused power outages. Councilman Tony Avella wants to …

For the December holiday season, the North Baltimore Police Department has decided to decorate a different kind of tree. Their six-foot tree not only tries to …

The Smoking Gun web site has presented their top 20 mug shots for 2008, selecting photos from "tens of thousands reviewed."

A pediatric neurosurgeon says a tumor he removed from the brain of a Colorado Springs infant contained a tiny foot and other partially formed body parts.

Medical examiners are investigating whether a heart found in a car wash is from a human or animal.

Falling for 'Australia'? Swooning to see 'Four Christmas'? Maybe you should have read the warning: these films could cause you to have unrealistic expectations…

Are earthquakes, hurricanes or tornadoes most likely to kill you? None of the above, according to a study released by the University of South Carolina, …

Two years ago, Nicole Buffett was disowned by her grandfather, the world's richest man Warren Buffett, after she appeared in a documentary by Johnson & Johnson…

A 33-year-old Waverly Township man is behind bars after allegedly setting fire to his house and running from police.

Some may prefer pantyhose. Others handkerchiefs. But a Providence man allegedly wore boxer shorts over his head instead during three robberies.

The owner of a Providence convenience store says his store was robbed earlier this week. Richard Grasso says while the clerk was distracted, two men took off …

City veterinarian Margit Platzer says the birds were flying freely around the apartment, which was "littered with feces, feathers and leftover food."

Indiana conservation officers found 57 turtles in the home of an Elkhart man who is suspected of illegally selling the animals at a swap meet.

People are so attached to their cell phones these days that they are being buried with them.

A Texas State student was walking his dogs with his girlfriend early Tuesday morning at a San Marcos apartment complex when an unknown man charged the couple, …

You've been "superpoked" - and served. A court in Australia has approved the use of Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, to notify a couple that …

A man who was killed in a car crash was left dead in the crumpled vehicle when it was towed away, and the body was not discovered until family members found it…

Texas police responding to a store's burglar alarm found a less-than-hardened criminal inside: He was 4, and playing with the toys.

Cleveland Browns fan Mike Meredith has a motorized sofa - the "Go-Kouch" - that he usually rides around a municipal parking lot for tailgate parties before …

Yesterday's news is today's viral video game. President Bush's close encounter with a size 10 shoe in Baghdad on Sunday has already been turned into an online …

What's more important to American women -- sex or the Internet? The answer might be surprising.

When Rhandi Aber and her husband put up their Christmas display, they never imagined it would become a target for explosives.

A woman charged with biting a teacher at a raucous Long Island high school basketball game says she was defending herself.

If you want something done right, the saying goes, do it yourself. If you want your gift wrapping done wrong, it'll cost you.

Sarah Palin lost the election, but she's a winner to a connoisseur of quotations. The Republican vice presidential candidate and her comedic doppelganger, Tina…

The horse's owner, Sean Sullivan of Westfield, said he was in his barn late Saturday afternoon when his neighbors called him to say one of his three horses had…

A man bit off a finger during a fight Wednesday night in Warsaw, police say.

A woman set fire to her ex-boyfriend's clothing at a self-storage center and walked away, causing more than $100,000 in damages, police said.

A Russian news agency says patent authorities deny a businessman's claim that he has trademarked a symbol used widely in e-mail, text and instant messages.

Police got more than they expected when they responded to an early morning burglary call on Lexington.

Franco Germano has been in business for 32 years and said he can remember just two past break-ins. Now he's had four this week, all at the hands of a one …

Police said a man caught stealing nearly $900 worth of Sears merchandise waited more than three hours for officers to show up before store workers let him go.

A 50-year-old man who told authorities he was fed up with teens toilet-papering his house decided to defend his property - with a squirt gun filled with fox …

It was only a few months ago when Burger King employees in Ohio were fired for bathing in the restaurant's kitchen sink and videotaping it. It seems the trend …

Coal mining is a dangerous profession, but at the Solar Sources Mine in eastern Daviess County workers found a new and strange risk at work.

Everything must go! Closeout prices! Head on down to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign HQ sale in Arlington, Va.

Most of us have heard of cow tipping, but cow taxing? Believe it or not the Environmental Protection Agency is exploring a new tax on dairy and livestock …

A northwest Indiana woman whose turn signal and windshield wipers wouldn't work was startled when she finally opened the hood of her car.

A Murfreesboro woman says she returned $97,000 she claims to have found in a Cracker Barrel restroom, but police said Tuesday they have no report of the find.

Edgar, a 4-year-old long-haired feline, went missing from her home in Winthrop for three days. When she finally came home, her owner found her in her litter …

Many have a love for their pets but cleaning up after them can be quite messy some of the time. Liz Doddridge of Sylvania regularly makes house calls. No, make…

In a national study conducted by HCD Research with 1,134 physicians, a majority (72 percent) believe that miracles have occurred in the past, and 70 percent …

BBC's Alcoholic Experiment adds up the numbers of drinks that you select. You can choose beer, wine, spirits and mixers. The widget then compiles the calorie …

One line in a holiday song spoof created a whole chorus of problems for a city-sponsored after-school program and prompted three staff members to resign.

A $1 million bank deposit slip wish by a Longview minister to pay for a new church came true - and then some.

A stray deer jumped through a window and into a third grade classroom at East Elementary School Monday afternoon.