Posted: 7:01 AM The Travel and Leisure Magazine's reader poll puts the residents of Alaska's largest city at the bottom when it comes to being on the top of style.

Posted: 5:18 AM It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century — the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.

Posted: 5:13 AM The last day of classes at a California elementary school and a graduation ceremony at an adjacent middle school were interrupted by an unexpected guest: a black bear that wandered onto school property.

Posted: 5:12 AM They didn't have to call Ace Ventura, or any other pet detective. A group of Los Angeles County deputies solved a case of lizard larceny on their own.

Posted: 3:45 PM The Santa Maria officer notified Santa Barbara County sheriff's detectives about the errant text messages early Tuesday. The officer and detectives then set up a meeting with the alleged drug dealer.

Posted: 6:02 AM Blue the dog doesn't have a home. And he apparently doesn't want one. But the blue-eyed Australian cattle dog has $1,800 in savings, a Facebook page and an air-conditioned dog house.

Posted: 6:01 AM Now, with the city of Los Angeles taking the first step in outlawing them, the humble little polyethylene bag may be headed for the trash heap of history.

Updated: 7:36 AM The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn., will honor the memory of a stray dog who befriended the site's founding elephant Tarra.

Updated: 9:30 PM A porn actor is suspected in the killing of his acquaintance, videotaping and posting online the man's dismemberment and mailing the severed limbs to different locations in Ottawa

Posted: 4:04 PM Motorists have reported a sharp-dressed pig running loose on a highway just outside of Pittsburgh. State troopers also spotted the animal but failed to catch it before it scurried off into the woods.

Posted: 4:02 PM A Northampton woman made an unusual discovery in her yard - a deformed baby cardinal with two heads and three beaks.

Posted: 3:59 PM Authorities say a package containing a magazine with a musical device, similar to those in greeting cards, prompted the evacuation of a federal courthouse in southeastern Idaho.

Posted: 6:29 AM Isaac Lamb acknowledges that his five- minute, block-long choreographed build-up to a marriage proposal has upped the stakes for everyone who follows.

Posted: 6:25 AM Authorities say a package containing a magazine with a musical device, similar to those in greeting cards, prompted the evacuation of a federal courthouse in southeastern Idaho.

Posted: 10:58 AM A witness says a naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a downtown highway ramp kept eating and growled at a police officer who fatally shot him to make him stop.

Posted: 10:28 AM Gilbertson rubbed the Holstein's spine by gently squeezing it from neck to tail, pausing to apply firm pressure to one hip and readjust several vertebrae.

Posted: 5:12 AM Scientists and doctors are using creeping metallic tools to perform surgery on hearts, prostate cancer, and other diseased organs.

Updated: 9:41 AM For many, the Sunsphere is a symbol for Knoxville, and 22-years-ago on Memorial Day a band performed live from its heighest point.

Posted: 5:22 AM A new family attraction featuring more than 30 animatronic dinosaurs opens this holiday weekend on 20 acres of woods and grass in northern New Jersey.

Posted: 2:07 PM The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Grundstrom is charged with violating two city ordinances - being a spectator running on the playing field, and lewd and lascivious behavior. He was jailed overnight.

Posted: 2:03 PM City officials say a popular fountain has been put out of service after the rodents gnawed through a power cable, according to the Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

Posted: 12:13 PM But the signs, the balloons and the streamers -- OK, toilet paper -- were in the sophomore and junior parking lot at Science Hill High School on Thursday. It was the Class of 2012 senior prank.

Posted: 8:17 AM A 25-year-old upstate New York man has admitted driving his motorcycle at 170 mph as he tried to get away from police who caught him speeding on the Thruway.

Posted: 5:43 AM Miniature laundry detergent packets arrived on store shelves in recent months as an alternative to bulky bottles and messy spills. But doctors across the country say children are confusing the tiny, brightly colored packets with candy and swallowing them.

Updated: 7:04 AM The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.