Crook Who Stole 3,500 Pillow Pets Avoids Jail
Updated: 9:23 AM A Southern California man who stole 3,500 Pillow Pets from an Oceanside warehouse has avoided jail.
Updated: 9:23 AM A Southern California man who stole 3,500 Pillow Pets from an Oceanside warehouse has avoided jail.
Posted: 8:49 AM A Michigan community that's fed up with geese fouling up a beach is hoping fake coyotes encourage the birds to land elsewhere.
Updated: 2:33 PM A flight attendant is landing in the Guinness Book of World Records after his 63 years of moving about the cabin ended in his home state of Hawaii.
Posted: 8:39 AM It's one of those "How did they do that?" kind of photos.
Posted: 9:25 PM The man, wearing a military-style "ghillie" suit, was standing on the side of a highway when he was struck by two cars.
Posted: 9:59 AM Here comes the bride, all dressed in a jet pack that's zipping down a California beach.
Posted: 1:56 PM State police say a Massachusetts teenager was reaching into a bag of fast food on her lap when her car collided with a trooper's cruiser over the weekend.
Posted: 12:10 PM Police say marijuana growing operations in southern Indiana are easy to spot from the air because of the drought.
Posted: 11:51 AM President Obama discussed a number of offbeat topics in an interview with an Albuquerque radio station.
Posted: 8:52 AM Richard Brown of Taunton said he went into Gulf Taunton recently and asked for a $5 "Blue Ice 7s" ticket, but the clerk was distracted and instead gave him a "Sizzlin 7s" ticket.
Updated: 3:16 PM Officials said an elderly woman drove her car into the store, then left the scene to get her hair done next door.
Posted: 1:42 PM A fugitive doctor charged in the nation's largest prosecution of Internet pharmacies is getting off in part because there's just too much evidence in his case.
Posted: 10:18 AM Police say a man accidentally shot himself in the buttocks at a Nevada movie theater during a showing of "The Bourne Legacy."
Posted: 8:49 AM A southeast Alabama judge has sentenced a man to a 624-year prison term in a rape and kidnapping case.
Posted: 3:53 PM They are part of a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation competition to reinvent the toilet for the 2.6 billion people around the world who don't have access to modern sanitation.
Posted: 3:06 PM Beverly Hills police say a hearse driver who was found dead with a body in the vehicle died while taking the casket to a funeral.
Posted: 12:50 PM The term “F-bomb” surfaced in newspapers more than 20 years ago but will land Tuesday for the first time in the mainstream Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
Posted: 9:32 AM A Connecticut utility has reimbursed a woman almost $10,500 after acknowledging it billed her for 25 years for the electricity used to power streetlights near her home.
Posted: 9:15 AM A western Pennsylvania man is accused of stealing a small bag of marijuana held as evidence because he allegedly couldn't resist the drug's aroma.
Posted: 3:33 PM Officers were called to a home in the 2100 block of E. 9th Street early Friday morning.
Posted: 3:17 PM The Doylestown Intelligencer reports Friday that 18-year-old Connor Logan and a 17-year-old friend drew a whale and sea turtles in a parking lot.
Posted: 9:05 AM The "squirrelly" configuration of a western Pennsylvania road helped cause a state road crew to paint a double-yellow line over a dead raccoon.
Posted: 8:48 AM Officials in a New Jersey shore town might use goats from Maryland to rid an environmentally-sensitive area of poison ivy.
Posted: 9:56 AM A vibrator giveaway that attracted long lines in New York City came to an abrupt end when the city told the promoters to pack it up.
Posted: 9:45 AM A Washington musician who ordered a flat-screen TV from Amazon.com was shocked to receive a semiautomatic assault rifle instead.