Posted: 10:03 AM Police in southeast Michigan say a man called to complain that a woman he had agreed to pay for sex unexpectedly increased the price.

Posted: 1:18 PM The 44-year-old Lapeer resident claimed the $337 million prize Friday during a news conference in Lansing. Lawson elected to take prize in a lump-sum payment of $224.6 million.

Updated: 10:20 AM The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis tested the boundaries of legitimate art with a film festival devoted to the online cat videos that pervade YouTube and social networks.

Posted: 4:01 PM Fisherman Andrew Leaper found the bottle— released in 1914 — in his nets in April while sailing east of the Shetland Islands, which lie off Scotland's northern coast.

Updated: 12:48 PM East Ridge Mayor Brent Lambert is sympathetic. He has kids, too -- the human kind -- and he says the city is willing to look at a narrow exception for Oreo.

Posted: 11:28 AM The deputy said owner shot the bull with a .22-caliber gun and it just angered the animal, which then ran from Bone and the officer on Wednesday evening.

Updated: 5:16 PM A hefty hippo chased away from his herd at a South African game reserve has found a refreshing place to relax: the lodge's swimming pool. Now it's stuck there.

Posted: 3:32 PM "Wheel tracks on Mars," Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineer Allen Chen tweeted along with an image sent from one of the rover's cameras. "The EDL (Entry, Descent and Landing) team is finally done.

Posted: 5:32 PM These are among the 75 references on this year's Beloit College Mindset List, a nonscientific compilation is meant to remind teachers that college freshmen, born mostly in 1994, see the world in a much different way.

Posted: 2:05 PM Hawkins County deputies have charged a man with animal cruelty, saying he used his horse to ram a police car.

Posted: 12:38 PM Since the landing of NASA's newest Mars rover, flight director David Oh's family has taken the unusual step of tagging along as he leaves Earth time behind and syncs his body clock with the red planet.

Posted: 5:24 PM A federal judge in Nashville has sentenced an Internal Revenue Service employee to two years in prison, calling his actions an egregious abuse of public trust.

Posted: 3:16 PM Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year.

Updated: 3:05 PM More than three centuries ago, a French explorer's ship sank in the Gulf of Mexico, taking with it France's hopes of colonizing a vast piece of the New World — modern-day Texas.

Posted: 1:03 PM Seaside Park can't burn the toxic plant or use chemicals because the patch overlooks Barnegat Bay. The town is considering an alternative.

Posted: 1:00 PM A dime made in 1873 has cost someone a pretty penny: It sold for $1.6 million at auction. The rare coin was minted in Carson City, Nev., during a one-day run of dimes.

Posted: 12:56 PM The survivors of a plane crash in central Idaho can prove just how close they came to death, with a seven-minute video documenting their harrowing experience, including the bloody aftermath.

Posted: 11:52 AM When MaryAnn Sahoury agreed to appear with her month-old daughter in a breast-feeding instructional video, she saw an opportunity to help women who had trouble getting their babies to nurse.

Updated: 5:53 PM On Friday, Liesa Hill obtained an order of protection against her physician husband, saying she saw him slip something into her coffee.

Posted: 5:21 PM Estine Boyce told police after the July 25 funeral that pieces 25-year-old Jerrika Boyce was wearing matched jewelry stolen from her home a month earlier.

Posted: 3:46 PM Like many spectators at the London Olympics, Stewart was watching with perplexed pleasure Monday as Australia beat Greece in the men's preliminary play. She had never been to a water polo game before.

Posted: 2:23 PM Police Officer Seneca Shield said he told Allen Troy Brooks if he cooperated, he would receive just a citation. But Brooks denied making the calls and claimed he didn't have a telephone.

Posted: 11:50 AM The cute, speckled creature scampered into the woods after it was released Thursday by its beaming, burly rescuers.

Posted: 11:48 AM A camera lost in a creek in New York's Adirondacks for three years is being returned thanks to clever detective work by a Vermont man who studied pictures on its memory card.

Posted: 11:46 AM Officials have been trying to find the person who has a key to shut of a fire alarm that has blared for over 12 hours at a Pittsburgh-area public housing complex.