Goblin-proof chicken book wins odd-title prize
Posted: 9:37 AM A supernaturally tinged barnyard manual has won Britain's quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year's oddest book title.
Posted: 9:37 AM A supernaturally tinged barnyard manual has won Britain's quirkiest literary award, the Diagram Prize for year's oddest book title.
Updated: 5:23 PM Animal rescuers in Hermosa Beach, Calif., are trying to find a home for two abandoned dogs - a blind husky and a terrier mix who never leaves his side and literally acts as his "seeing eye dog."
Posted: 5:54 AM The Riverhead board voted to ban booing earlier this month. But Newsday reports that the board voted 4-1 on Tuesday to strike the anti-boo rule from the books.
Posted: 10:11 AM Upper Darby police say 27-year-old Delaina Garling went to the Family Dollar Store on Monday, a place she'd been banned from for alleged theft.
Posted: 6:04 AM Freedom High School in Bethlehem says one of its students was recently taken to a hospital after being exposed to Axe Body Spray.
Posted: 5:56 AM Squad car dashboard camera footage shows Miller opening the trunk, then quickly trying to close it as he spots the deer. The animal escapes from the trunk, rear first, stumbles and rolls, then dashes off.
Updated: 2:24 PM Need a little push to get your boyfriend/girlfriend to think about popping the question? Then Wednesday, March 20th is the day to get that ring or start talking about marriage.
Posted: 5:38 AM A vet hopes groundbreaking surgery has relieved the arthritic hip pain of a 13-year-old Siberian tiger at a Texas sanctuary.
Posted: 9:45 AM Former NBA star Adrian Dantley spent years guarding opponents on the court. Now he's guarding schoolchildren as they cross the street.
Posted: 9:08 AM The Surabaya zoo is artificially incubating eggs in the hope the species would have a better chance of survival.
Posted: 5:45 AM An Iowa man who was pulled over for speeding as he rushed his pregnant wife to the hospital said he was determined to keep going despite the police lights flashing behind him.
Posted: 5:42 AM A burglar expressing guilt about stealing $800 from a western Michigan store three decades ago has repaid the money, plus some interest.
Posted: 6:18 AM A federal prison guard has been charged with shooting his own finger in a drunken attempt to remove his wedding ring during an argument with his wife at their northwestern Pennsylvania home, police said.
Posted: 6:16 AM Authorities in Louisiana say they tracked a man accused of stealing drugs from a pharmacy because he left behind a pickax he used to break in — and forgot to remove the price tag.
Posted: 6:15 AM An English Springer Spaniel named Hendrix ended up taking a serious detour on his way from New Jersey to Phoenix this week.
Posted: 6:06 AM When Officer Kevin Wolfe stopped the vehicle Sunday night, the driver jumped out and yelled, "Sir, we're delivering a baby right here, right now!"
Posted: 6:02 AM A 106-year-old central Ohio woman who completed classes but didn't graduate in a dispute over a book has received her high school diploma.
Posted: 8:45 AM A Wisconsin Gouda won top honors Wednesday night at the 2013 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest, edging out entries from Vermont and Illinois.
Posted: 6:15 AM An arrest report from Tooele police says the man and woman, both 27, were caught Monday soon after a Wells Fargo branch was robbed. A 5-year-old and a 2-year-old were in the back seat.
Posted: 6:11 AM Prosecutors alleged Brunelli punched John Huttick in the eye with an object that may have been a key in the August 2011 fight in the parking lot of the New Princeton Tavern.
Posted: 6:09 AM A 62-year-old British man who became an Internet sensation after wrestling with a shark on an Australian beach says he was fired after his employer discovered he'd been abroad while on sick leave.
Posted: 12:22 PM A New York City dog has undergone emergency surgery to remove more than 100 pennies from his stomach.
Posted: 12:20 PM After raising eyebrows by going to North Korea, former U.S. basketball star Dennis Rodman is continuing his bizarre global tour by visiting Rome
Posted: 6:18 AM Mark Mihal was having a good opening day on the links when he noticed an unusual depression on the 14th fairway at Annbriar Golf Club in southern Illinois.
Posted: 6:15 AM Four men — including the would-be groom — have been arrested for a marriage proposal stunt in which hundreds of motorcycles blocked a Southern California freeway, authorities said.