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A 91-year-old woman who had crawled under her car to look for her keys ended up stuck beneath an axle for two days until her mail carrier noticed letters piling up, police said.

A British delivery car driver said he is absolutely gutted after wrecking a rare Mercedes-Benz worth more than $650,000. A delivery driver for a car rental company was driving the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren to a ...

Some fathers and sons just go fishing or play catch. But authorities say a Wisconsin man posted a video online that showed him and his father shocking each other with a stolen stun gun.

A 70-year-old grandmother has given birth to twins in India. The twins were delived by C-section on Friday.

First, it should be noted that in Germany, if you didn't already know, it's illegal in Germany to show Nazi symbols and art glorifying Hitler or the Nazis. Given that, you'd probably wonder why Madame Tussauds wax museum, which just opened in Berlin, would include a figure.

The American Family Association has launched a call for a boycott of McDonald's, including a website, BoyCott McDonald's. The boycott call stems from McDonald's refusal to condemn Vice President of Communications Richard Ellis’s election to the Board of Directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC).

Thomas Beatie, the so-called "pregnant man," gave birth Sunday to a healthy baby girl. Despite taking hormones, having his breasts surgically removed, and outwardly living as a man, Beatie had kept his female sex organs in hopes of one day becoming pregnant.

A strange case of too much estrogen is turning a British father of five into a woman.

A slice of cool, fresh watermelon is a juicy way to top off a Fourth of July cookout and one that researchers say could keep fireworks going long into the night.

It seems there's a penalty for trying to conserve water in Sacramento. A couple who stopped watering their front lawn last month has been cited for creating a public nuisance and is facing a $746 fine.

Bert Lebreck says he was standing in his garage when he saw a blinding flash of light, followed by a deafening explosion.

The surge then sent him flying across the garage, slamming him against the back wall. Outside, a tree was blown to pieces.

It's no secret that gas prices are going through the roof, but you knwow they're really high when prostitutes start taking gas cards as payment.

A Florida man was charged with battery after he hit his mother in the head with a 3-pound package of Polish sausage.

PULASKI, Va. (AP) -- The Pulaski County Courthouse is almost free of fleas that hitched a ride on an opossum found dead between the floorboards.

BERLIN (AP) -- A farmer in Germany has learned a harsh lesson about the dangers of smoking. While he ducked into a convenience store to buy cigarettes, his parked tractor and its load of 25 tons of potatoes went rolling down ...

A Florida man has been charged with lewd and lascivious exhibition after Fort Pierce police found him in his car Saturday with his pants undone and a sock over his genitals.

NOWTHEN, Minn. (AP) -- Residents of Nowthen know it's a funny name, but they're proud to officially become a city.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 42-year-old chimpanzee who is toilet-trained and can eat with a knife and fork is believed to be at large in a Southern California forest after escaping his cage.

STUART, Fla. (AP) -- Police say a man took off his clothes, broke into a home and fled in shorts belonging to the female resident.

A convenience store became an unwilling drive-in when a 74-year-old woman plowed her car through the front window and then tried to buy a six-pack of Budweiser, police and the owner said.