Posted: 9:53 AM Twelve years ago, a group of Johnson County kindergartners got a visit from a man named Barney Oldfield, who promised each of them $1,000 when they graduated from high school.
Posted: 8:56 AM Officials say a fire alarm that went off at a Connecticut high school was activated by a student's "overabundance" of body spray in a locker room.
Posted: 4:28 PM So you think blue lobsters are rare? The New England Aquarium is holding a lobster that's way rarer than that.
Updated: 3:04 PM Charles Baird is going off the grid. The 40-year-old Anchorage man plans to leave May 27 for Latouche Island, where he will live a solitary lifestyle for the next year.
Posted: 4:17 PM Police say a New York man who refused to pay a $12 taxi fare was carrying more than $5,000 when the cabbie drove him around looking for cheap cigarettes.
Posted: 7:02 AM A 200-pound black bear that swiped some blankets and pillows from a western Montana cabin to line his makeshift den in the cabin's crawl space has moved on.
Posted: 6:53 AM Somebody is a few thousand limes away from one big party.
Updated: 12:15 AM A 23-year-old southeast Nebraska man has legally added Tyrannosaurus Rex to his name.
Posted: 3:48 PM For the second time in a year, a motorist has been ticketed in South Carolina for displaying a replica of testicles on a vehicle.
Posted: 11:02 AM Russians prefer their Lay's potato chips dusted in caviar and crab flavors. The Chinese like their Oreos stuffed with mango and orange cream. And in Spain, Kellogg's All-Bran cereal is served floating in hot coffee instead of cold milk.
Posted: 8:55 AM A Florida man is charged with felony drunken driving and wildlife violations after police discovered a small monkey in his truck.
Posted: 8:49 AM Federal officials say the National Christmas Tree planted near the White House a year ago has died and is being removed.
Updated: 8:11 PM The Nebraska Medical Center could have been mistaken for a zoo after a special patient was brought in for treatment of fractured jaw.
Posted: 4:13 PM Federal officials say the National Christmas Tree planted near the White House a year ago has died and is being removed.
Updated: 6:55 AM It seems NATO may also stand for Not All That Observant.
Posted: 12:59 PM Officials say a snake slithered into an Oklahoma City electric substation and knocked out power to about 10,000 customers overnight.
Posted: 12:47 PM The bad dog of the neighborhood has received a life prison sentence.
Posted: 10:44 AM The bad dog of the neighborhood has received a life prison sentence.
Posted: 9:30 PM When a black bear climbed a tree in a central Arkansas city and refused to come down, authorities turned to unconventional rescue tools: bouncy houses.
Posted: 8:15 AM A Japanese man has been sentenced in Los Angeles to nearly two years in prison for smuggling 55 live turtles and tortoises from his country into the United States by hiding them in snack food boxes.
Posted: 10:34 AM An Alabama police chief says he recently discovered that his department has two unmanned aerial vehicles.
Updated: 10:29 AM A postcard mailed from Chicago in 1958 has finally reached its intended recipient, but not without a little help from Facebook.
Posted: 11:26 AM The 16 sets of twins in the Class of 2014 at one Connecticut high school have a lot of people seeing double, so much so that it could break the world record held by another school in the state.
Posted: 11:56 AM An Albuquerque hot dog vendor faces a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after police say he rammed his food cart into a competitor.
Posted: 6:58 AM Federal forest officials want visitors of a Colorado hot springs to be very careful about what's lurking inside a remote cabin nearby: Frozen cows.
