Posted: 6:10 AM It's been over two centuries since Louis XVI was guillotined on Paris, but the job of hunting the underground rodent that so troubled French monarchs on the grounds of the Versailles palace still exists.
Posted: 6:08 AM Police in Maine say a man called them to complain a prostitute hadn't given him his money's worth — so they arrested him.
Posted: 6:06 AM New York State Police are trying to find the woman who handed an on-duty trooper a holiday card with $1,000 cash inside. Under New York law, members of the state police can't accept such gifts.
Posted: 6:04 AM Some residents of a Pittsburgh suburb have gift-wrapped something they hope will be gone by Christmas: a charred and abandoned house that burned nine months ago.
Posted: 5:33 AM The nation's oldest university has formally recognized Harvard College Munch, a group promoting discussions and safe practices of kinky and alternative sex.
Updated: 5:36 AM Award-winning novelist Nancy Huston won Britain's Bad Sex in Fiction award Tuesday for her tale of a photographer who takes pictures of her lovers during sex proved too revealing for the judges.
Posted: 5:25 AM A baby Jesus figure taken from a Pennsylvania church's Nativity scene last year was found cradled in the arms of a nearby statue, just hours before the replacement statue was swiped.
Posted: 5:40 AM Those who participated showed up in a Santa outfit and donated $10 or more to the toy drive. Participants got to ski free for the day and receiving another lift ticket good through Dec. 14.
Posted: 5:37 AM Spectators who came to watch horses at a western Pennsylvania racetrack got a surprise this week when three deer got onto the course first and beat the horses to racing.
Posted: 6:30 AM Australian police seized 237 million Australian dollars ($246 million) worth of cocaine and methamphetamine found inside a steamroller shipped from China.
Posted: 6:13 AM Shoppers in Iowa got an unusual glimpse of wildlife Monday morning when a doe and two fawns wandered into a department store.
Posted: 6:21 AM New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he wasn't about to take the bait: a question dealing with that quintessential junk food, Twinkies.
Posted: 6:19 AM A missing family cat has been rescued from the ruins of a home near the center of the deadly Indianapolis house explosion.
Posted: 6:17 AM The demand of dozens of citizens has been denied in the Ecuadorean city of Guayaquil: There will be no jackass running for the legislature.
Posted: 7:07 AM Firefighters in Colorado say a woman's belly button ring became entangled with a drain cover in a shallow splash pool but that she was freed without injury.
Posted: 6:59 AM Built on a wooden frame on his passenger seat they found a laptop on a docking station tilted for easy driver access, a printer, router, wireless internet stick, WLAN antenna, and an inverter to power it all.
Posted: 6:53 AM A judge's offer to allow an Ohio drug defendant the chance to stay out of prison if he'd give up marijuana might have just gone up in smoke.
Updated: 6:31 AM City officials and Rand Corp. researchers propose tracking the physical health, social connectedness and community resilience of residents.
Posted: 6:20 AM The California Highway Patrol says the aircraft landed safely Wednesday morning on a grassy center divide of Highway 65 near Rocklin as cars whizzed by. No injuries were reported.
Posted: 6:16 AM Not one voter cast a ballot in one Minneapolis precinct on Election Day. That's because the only living species in Ward 10, Precinct 3B, is of the aquatic variety.
Posted: 6:14 AM He started with the woman who hired him at the secretarial school, befriending her and winning her confidence. She introduced him to her elderly mother, her children.
Posted: 3:00 PM A woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to pass a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children stood in the cold Tuesday at an intersection holding a sign warning people about idiots.
Posted: 6:59 AM Police in Connecticut say a man stole a car used to deliver Chinese food and continued dropping off orders so he could keep the customers' money.
Posted: 7:06 AM French President Francois Hollande's attempt to sign a note congratulating Barack Obama for getting re-elected wound up lost in translation — and all over Twitter.
Posted: 6:59 AM A European official says her staff members were hacked when they joined her for a conference on Internet security in Azerbaijan.
