Posted: 7:44 AM A northern Michigan man charged with obstructing the police while dressed as Batman has pleaded not guilty.

Posted: 8:16 AM A western Pennsylvania highway has reopened after a tractor-trailer crash caused 37,000 pounds of processed chicken to spill onto the road.

Posted: 7:39 AM Have you spent your life hunting for the perfect wife? Maybe you have met the one but are feeling gun shy?

Posted: 6:57 AM A circus official says a truck pulling a trailer full of elephants ran off an interstate in southern Mississippi over the weekend, but the four pachyderms and the driver weren't harmed.

Updated: 7:52 AM A Pittsburgh woman is suing Democratic state Rep. Jake Wheatley, saying he only coughed up half of the $200 prize he promised the winner of a community day cake-baking contest.

Posted: 7:31 AM It's not that body parts never wash ashore on Florida beaches. But usually it's not an eye the size of a softball.

Updated: 7:49 AM Drivers may have gotten a chuckle out of an electronic message board in Maine warning of zombies, but city officials were not amused.

Posted: 12:23 PM Police say a Minnesota man who broke into the Wisconsin Capitol through a fifth-floor window and was found unconscious on the dome's roof has been charged with felony criminal damage.

Posted: 8:59 AM Wildlife officials in Florida say the mystery monkey of Tampa Bay bit a woman during an unprovoked attack in St. Petersburg.

Posted: 7:18 AM Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley is recommending that the town of Middleborough change or repeal a bylaw that prohibits public profanity.

Posted: 11:39 AM Police say a man tried to rob a Pennsylvania bank of $1 because he hoped to be sent to a federal prison nearby.

Posted: 7:01 AM A grower from Oregon is the winner of this year's Half Moon Bay giant pumpkin contest with a gourd weighing in at 1,775 pounds.

Updated: 7:28 AM Authorities say the winner of a roach-eating contest in South Florida died shortly after downing dozens of the live bugs as well as worms. The grand prize in Friday night's contest was a live python.

Posted: 4:03 PM Mortuary items from caskets to embalming tables have drawn a crowd, including a few Halloween hunters, during a unique auction in Columbus.

Posted: 4:19 AM The hilltop mansion was a gift to Idaho from potato magnate J.R. Simplot, meant as a residence befitting the governor.

Posted: 3:37 AM Police in Orem, Utah, say a man who thought he was getting a call from a burglar had actually gotten a call from his dog.

Posted: 7:31 AM Several emergency responders have been stung after a flatbed truck carrying honeybees rolled over in rural Nevada.

Posted: 6:34 AM Animal welfare authorities say a dog survived an 11-mile ride from Massachusetts to Rhode Island -- at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour -- after it was hit by a car and became wedged under the front grill.

Posted: 7:49 AM Several businesses in the Central Texas town of Waco are dealing with a smelly problem that won't go away: decaying cricket carcasses.

Posted: 8:12 AM Las Vegas oddsmakers say $300 million or more changed hands worldwide on a controversial referee call that decided the Monday Night Football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks.

Posted: 8:34 AM A man who police say was drunk while riding his horse through a northeast Florida town is now in jail after a police chase.

Posted: 6:46 AM A Minnesota woman says she was shocked when her small dog began caring for an abandoned kitten, then started producing milk and nursing the fuzzy gray stray to health.

Posted: 3:50 PM Some jail inmates are trying to put a $500 million bite in a lawsuit demanding access to dental floss.

Posted: 3:11 PM Skinny the cat is a hefty feline. And all 41 pounds of her needs a home.

Posted: 2:53 PM Now we know how the tabby cat earns his stripes. He just needs the right DNA.