GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - October 9, 2013 - A Michigan charity that collects donated clothing, shoes and other items for low-income residents got a really old cast-off in a donation box: A mastodon tooth.
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) - October 8, 2013 - In its latest experiment with live coverage of mundane events, Norway's public broadcasting network plans to dedicate five hours of air-time to an attempt to break the knitting world record.
NEW CUMBERLAND, Pa. (AP) - October 8, 2013 - Police say they had no choice but to grant a man's wish to be taken to jail after they determined he was drunk when he drove off a road an into a field in south-central Pennsylvania.
AMBRIDGE, Pa. (AP) - October 8, 2013 - A bank robbery suspect was nervous when a construction worker saw him throw his shirt in a trash container on Friday- but not so harried that he didn't stop to bum a cigarette, police said.
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) - October 4, 2013 - Students and a professor at a university in southern Hungary took off their clothes in class to protest the new dress code introduced by the institution's president.
HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - October 3, 2013 - A judge has agreed to a central Pennsylvania drug dealer's chivalrous request to spend five extra years in prison - to spare his live-in girlfriend a felony conviction and the resulting loss of her business, a bar.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - October 3, 2013 - A Montana man who painstakingly gathered and reassembled parts of five $100 bills eaten by his golden retriever has been reimbursed by the U.S. Treasury for the "mutt-ilated" currency.
KELSO, Wash. (AP) - October 3, 2013 - A woman in Washington state brought her child's birthday cake into a courthouse, thinking that would be safer than leaving it in the car with her dog. She realized her error when a stranger grabbed and ate handfuls of the cake.