Police say a robber left with no money for his trouble when he arrived at a northwestern Pennsylvania pizzeria just after the crew had made a night bank deposit.
A western Pennsylvania man is upset that he had to pay $100 to claim the carcass of a bear he killed with his truck - but the Pennsylvania Game Commission routinely charges fees for keeping road kill animals.
Authorities say a Kansas man who was walking along railroad tracks wearing headphones was hit by a train that he didn't hear approaching behind him - but that he got back up and kept walking.
An Indiana dog who became an Internet sensation after crashing a half marathon has won a medal - and an appointment with a veterinarian to nip his wandering ways in the bud.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Attention all passengers: could the person who left a stash of gold bars and a pile of banknotes in the luggage deposit at Cologne's main railway station kindly contact German police?
Residents of a Buffalo, N.Y., neighborhood plagued by skunk odors now know what caused the stink: Trapped critters that were shot and stored at a shuttered police station.
A Pittsburgh-area elementary school has a novel way to acclimate its kindergartners to the school experience, but it's not a technique that can be easily shared with other schools.
A burglar who tried to break into an ATM at a bank in San Francisco was arrested Friday after he hopped onto the roof of a nearby building to escape and fell into an apartment, police said.
The way the stars aligned inside a Georgia planetarium caught the 22-year-old woman by surprise, spelling out the question: "Krystal Sanderson Will You Marry Me?"