Updated: 12:11 PM Two South Carolina legislators say state employees shouldn't have to answer the phone with Gov. Nikki Haley's mandated cheery greeting unless it's truly a great day in South Carolina.
Posted: 8:35 PM A Massachusetts woman says an airport security officer in Las Vegas confiscated her frosted cupcake because he thought the icing on it could be a security risk.
Posted: 8:33 PM A 1941 fruitcake has sold for $525 to an Arizona man in an Ohio company's online auction, and the money will go to the homeless in southwest Ohio.
Posted: 12:22 PM An orange striped tabby cat that ran away from its home in Florida has been found -- more than 2,000 miles away on a snowy street in Colorado.
Posted: 12:20 PM Authorities say a Tampa Bay area man ordered a beer at a bar, left to rob a nearby bank then came back to finish his beer.
Posted: 12:17 PM Curious about how Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer really went down in history? It's all in the pages of a long-overlooked scrapbook compiled by Rudolph's creator and housed at his alma mater, Dartmouth College.
Posted: 9:39 AM Something fishy happened over the weekend - nearly 60 exotic fish stolen from a store. But things just keep getting worse for the business owner.
Posted: 11:50 AM New York is once again allowing animal lovers to rest in peace with their pets in pet cemeteries.
Updated: 8:34 AM 56 tropical fish are missing from a Lincoln pet shop.
Updated: 8:38 AM Federal officials have issued a warning to a California man who has been donating cups of his sperm to women who want kids.
Posted: 5:43 AM Police in Utah say a vehicle was burglarized outside an Ogden store while its owners were being accused of shoplifting from the business.
Posted: 5:40 AM A beloved tiny, partly blind and flightless owl stolen this week from a New Jersey avian rehab center has been returned.
Posted: 6:27 AM A California teenager has learned the hard way that he's no Santa Claus.
Updated: 6:25 AM A partly blind and flightless owl adored by New Jersey schoolchildren has been stolen from a center that nurses injured birds of prey.
Posted: 11:51 AM A cable TV repairman got quite a surprise when he walked into the basement of a New Jersey home.
Posted: 8:55 AM A 12-year-old upstate New York boy may be wishing that his dog ate his homework.
Posted: 7:36 AM A proposal by two state lawmakers that calls for Illinois to dump the Chicago area and make it its own state has virtually no chance of succeeding but reflects the resentment many downstate residents feel toward the city.
Posted: 7:25 AM Authorities in northwestern Pennsylvania say a man published an obituary for his living mother in a ploy to get paid bereavement time off from work.
Posted: 12:46 PM An exotic dancer looking to enhance her backside is out of work and a North Carolina woman is accused of injecting the dancer with a disfiguring potion.
Updated: 7:11 AM Does your boyfriend or husband seem distant lately? Has he been acting strange the past several weeks? A recent photo shoot may have identified the reason.
Posted: 5:28 PM A 10-year-old upstate New York boy's message in a bottle dropped in the Atlantic as part of a school project has been retrieved across the ocean in the Azores.
Posted: 8:40 PM A southern Indiana man has gotten an early Christmas gift: A 16-foot-tall inflatable Santa Claus stolen from his yard has been returned with $100 and a note of apology.
Posted: 10:10 AM Two teenagers face charges after police say they released deer urine scent in a Walmart in northeastern Alabama, damaging clothes worth more than $11,000.
Posted: 8:43 AM Police say a home remodeling project in suburban Detroit has turned up a stash of counterfeit cash.
Posted: 3:32 PM A heartbroken New York City man is desperately searching for his opera-singing parrot.
