A wild turkey that has been running wild along the New Jersey Turnpike won't have to dodge Thanksgiving traffic.State Fish and Wildlife officials netted the bird Wednesday after failed attempts during the weekend.The turkey had been trotting around t...
    FBI officials say an elderly, thin, gray-haired man nicknamed the "Geezer Bandit" is responsible for holding up five San Diego-area banks since summer.Investigators say the man appears to be in his 70s. Officials say that in the most recent r...
      Hospital officials say twin Bangladeshi girls who were joined at the top of their heads and shared blood vessels and brain tissue were successfully separated after 25 hours of delicate and complicated surgery. Leo Donnan, chief of the Royal Children'...
        Live strippers on the back of a truck is too much — even for Sin City.A Las Vegas strip club has agreed to stop an advertising promotion that involved hauling bikini-clad exotic dancers around in a truck with clear plastic sides.Larry Beard, ma...
          Russian prosecutors say a military officer has thrown the twin 8-year-old daughters of his common-law wife from their eighth-floor apartment and they have survived the fall.Capt. Nikolai Zakharkin has been charged with attempted murder. One of the gi...
            "They call me the hardware store," says Requelme Abanto from his hospital bed in northern Peru.Doctors in the city of Cajamarca say they removed 1.5 pounds of metal from Abanto's stomach, including nails, coins, and rusted copper wire and scr...
              The driver and the child in her lap survived when a pickup truck slammed into a 1,500-gallon (5,680-liter) aquarium at Tampa International Airport. The tropical fish were not so lucky.Airport officials say 36-year-old Yamile Campuzano-Martine lost co...
                Four Australian men who stripped down and soaped up at a car wash have been charged with exposure and public nuisance.Police said Tuesday that two 19-year-old and two 23-year-old men paid for a full-service wash and then stripped nude and washed them...
                  It was the roll of a lifetime.Hundreds of amateur sushi chefs at the University of California, Berkeley got their hands fishy Sunday as they assembled a 330-foot California roll.A university spokeswoman says Sunday's rice-and-seaweed monstrosity is t...
                    The 69-year-old watchman couldn't swim so when Tropical Storm Mirinae sparked a flash flood he ran, shimmied up a tree and hung on _ for three nights and two days.After several failed attempts to rescue Phan Cao Chuc, a military helicopter was able t...
                      Jim Stevens said he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup. Stevens, of Jonesborough, said nearly every morning, an image that looks to him like the face of Jesus Christ h...
                        In the world of fiddler crabs, the best form of protection is, apparently, prostitution, according to an Australian study published Wednesday.Researchers from The Australian National University in Canberra found that male fiddler crabs will happily d...
                          In exchange for no jail time, a woman and her adult daughter have agreed to stand outside a Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday.Fifty-six-year-old Evelyn Border and 35-year-old Ti...
                            When at top speed, Tony Kanaan can drive 100 meters in less than one second.Usain Bolt, understandably, is impressed.The Olympic sprint champion from Jamaica _ the world's fastest man _ sent a pair of spikes to Kanaan as a good-luck token a few weeks...
                              The bouncing mega-meatball record has landed in the East Coast.Matthew Mitnitsky, owner of Nonni's Italian Eatery in Concord, said Sunday that a 222.5-pound (101-kilogram) meatball was authenticated as the world's largest after being weighed by state...
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