Miami tops US cellphone chatterers
2006-09-10 16:16:22
Look who's talking! People in Miami and Los Angeles chat on their cell phones more than any other Americans, according to a survey of cell phone use in major cities.
Auto-eroticism undoes driver
2006-09-10 11:40:47
A Slovak driver who crashed into a bus shocked rescuers who found him unconscious and half naked with a vacuum pump on his penis.
NY woman wins lottery again
2006-09-10 10:40:06
A woman who won $1 million from a state lottery game four years ago has improbably hit the jackpot again.
Madrid bans too-thin models
2006-09-09 17:22:59
Excessively skinny fashion models will be barred from a major Madrid fashion show later this month for fear they could send the wrong message to young Spanish girls.
Gun fires in Wal-Mart bathroom
2006-09-08 21:48:21
A Nashua man faces a felony reckless conduct charge after his gun discharged in a Wal-Mart bathroom, striking the ceiling and scaring an employee in the next stall.
Shoe size mix-up costs thief dear
2006-09-08 21:42:07
A bungling German thief stole a pair of shoes in two different sizes and was caught when he went back to the shop to fix his mistake -- decked out in the very clothes he had stolen, authorities said on Friday.
Striptease heats up global warming event
2006-09-08 21:34:53
A saloon-style striptease at an Australian government-sponsored conference on global warming left some scientists and government officials hot and bothered.
Woman, 79, charged in toy gun robbery
2006-09-08 21:31:00
A 79-year-old South Side woman bearing a toy gun and a visor that read "Princess" has been charged with trying to rob a downtown bank.
Mass hysteria in kids as snake killed
2006-09-08 21:26:14
Dozens of children have fainted, apparently because of mass hysteria, after school authorities in Nepal killed a snake, considered as sacred by many Hindus, witnesses said on Thursday.
Gang dumps five human heads in bar
2006-09-07 22:20:18
An armed gang of suspected drug traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the dance floor of a bar in western Mexico on Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.
Man drilling for oil at 'home'
2006-09-07 10:08:59
Oil prices are so high, that oilman Steve Jordan is drilling a well next to his home near Lake Charles, Louisiana, he said on Wednesday.
Mussolini exhumation unlikely
2006-09-07 09:59:03
Rome - An Italian prosecutor dashed talk of exhuming the body of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini on Tuesday when he said he expected to dismiss a legal request to investigate Il Duce's death.