Last Updated: January 10, 2012 12:56pm
Woman fakes pregnancy, tries to steal baby: Cops
Police in New Zealand have charged a 24-year-old woman they say pretended to be pregnant for nine months, then tried to steal a newborn from a hospital.
Last Updated: January 9, 2012 1:18pm
Math questions + slavery = angry parents
An elementary school in Georgia is under fire after it used examples of slavery to pose math problems: "If Frederick got two beatings per day, how many beatings did he get in one week?"
Last Updated: January 9, 2012 12:31pm
Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop behind bars
A 30-year-old man named Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop is behind bars in Madison, Wis.
Last Updated: January 8, 2012 11:53pm
Man fleeing cops runs to newspaper office
The Edmonton Sun didn't have to go far to cover this crime story.
Last Updated: January 8, 2012 10:56am
More ridiculous 911 calls
Dissatisfied with a stripper's skin colour, furious because fast-food staff didn't put ice in a cup of cola, or wanting to know how long a 24-hour licence suspension lasts - these are some issues prompting folks to actually resort to dialing 911 for help.
Last Updated: January 6, 2012 3:16pm
Brothel token discovered in Britain
In what could be the earliest evidence of British porn, an amateur archeologist has discovered a coin that depicts a man and a woman having sex. Experts believe it was a token for use in Roman brothels.
Last Updated: January 6, 2012 1:50pm
Navy SEAL accidentally shoots self
A U.S. navy SEAL is on life-support after he accidentally shot himself in the head.
Last Updated: January 5, 2012 10:24pm
Man discharged in paper towel assault
A Richmond, B.C., excavator, who pleaded guilty to assaulting his teenage daughter with a paper towel, was conditionally discharged in B.C. court Thursday.
Last Updated: January 5, 2012 8:41pm
Police: Coroner stole spine to train dog
A medical examiner in Wisconsin faces criminal charges for keeping part of a human spine so she could train one of her dogs to search for corpses.
Last Updated: January 5, 2012 2:28pm
Woman accused of damaging $30M painting
A 36-year-old woman was accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to a painting by the late abstract expressionist artist Clyfford Still, a work valued at more than $30 million.
Last Updated: January 5, 2012 10:26am
Give slim kids higher marks, diet guru
Pierre Dukan, the nutritionist behind the popular but controversial Dukan diet, has suggested that France tackle child obesity by giving extra exam marks for slimness.
Last Updated: January 4, 2012 11:17pm
New crab named after Hasselhoff
British scientists have named a new species of crab 'The Hoff' after Baywatch legend David Hasselhoff - because the crustacean sports a hairy chest.
Last Updated: January 4, 2012 11:17pm
Woman bristles at costs, drops toothbrush lawsuit
VANCOUVER -- A Surrey, B.C., woman has dropped her lawsuit against hygiene giant Colgate-Palmolive for an allegedly defective toothbrush after expressing her “disadvantage” in court.
Last Updated: January 4, 2012 12:36pm
Fishing derby canned for no-fish lake
Four Manitoba men have been fined a total of $5,000 after organizing a walleye fishing derby on an Ontario lake where walleye fishing is banned year-round.
Last Updated: January 4, 2012 2:56pm
PayPal ordered violin be destroyed, woman alleges
A woman is out $2,500 after PayPal allegedly ordered a Canadian buyer to destroy an antique violin she had sold him, which he claimed was a fake.
Last Updated: January 3, 2012 8:58pm
Man's pigeon problem wasn't his biggest
It probably wasn't his aim to ruffle the feathers of police.
Last Updated: January 2, 2012 9:45pm
Prisoner escapes from San Diego jail in fire truck
A convicted car thief who was assigned to a San Diego area state prison’s fire-fighting detail escaped in one of its yellow fire trucks, prison officials said on Monday.
Last Updated: January 2, 2012 4:20pm
Blackbirds may have been targeted: Wildlife official
Saturday night fireworks in Beebe, Ark., weren't just a bit of innocent fun to celebrate the new year — officials believe they were set off to intentionally target the blackbirds that fell dead from the sky in the city for the second New Year's Eve in a row.
Last Updated: January 2, 2012 9:51am
Man tries to use $1M bill at Walmart
Police say a North Carolina man insisted he could pay for his vacuum cleaner and microwave oven with a $1-million bill.
Last Updated: January 1, 2012 5:11pm
Blackbirds fall from Arkansas sky, again
For the second year in a row, the blackbirds of Beebe, Ark., kept a New Year's Eve date with death, with dozens of the lifeless creatures found littering town streets.
Last Updated: December 31, 2011 6:13pm
Notable names taming Twitter after 2011 gaffes
Celebrities may want to resist the urge to send a stream of consciousness on Twitter in the new year after so many of them tweeted their way into trouble on everything from boxer briefs to breast-feeding in 2011.
Last Updated: December 31, 2011 6:03am
Man divorces wife of 77 years
A 99-year-old Italian man is divorcing his wife of 77 years over an affair she had in the 1940s.
Last Updated: December 29, 2011 9:36am
Crime scene cleanup ad lifts Handel's Messiah
Who says beautiful music and blood spatter cleanup can't go together.
Last Updated: December 28, 2011 4:10pm
Island nation to skip Dec. 30
When the residents of Samoa go to bed Dec. 29, they'll wake up the next day to find it's New Year's Eve.
Last Updated: December 28, 2011 12:02pm
Man calls 911 after being hit by grocery cart
Having your foot run over by a shopping cart is not an emergency, a male shopper learned Tuesday.