Step 1: Ask your wife to have sex with another man. Step 2: Sue man for stealing your wife. Step 3: Profit
CHICAGO - Stealing someone's heart can cost you: Just ask German Blinov. A Cook County jury ordered Blinov to shell out $4,802 last week after he was sued by a husband from a Chicago suburb for stealing the affections of the man's wife.
Dos and don'ts of the company picnic. "Don't go" surprisingly absent from list
Memorial Day is gone, and Labor Day beckons ahead. Sometime in between, many of us are likely to find ourselves at an oft-dreaded workplace event: the company summer outing.
Kiwi soldier becomes the first person since WWII to earn the Victoria Cross for bravery
A NEW Zealand soldier has become the first person since World War II to be awarded the country's highest honour for bravery, after a daring rescue of a wounded comrade in Afghanistan in 2004.
California town twice auctioned on eBay up for sale again after current owner decides he needs it like a hole in the chest
The first town ever auctioned on eBay and later sold on the online auction site a second time is back on the market after the hamlet's latest owner committed suicide.
The Kansas town of Osa...Osawat...Oosawat... well anyway, it's underwater
OSAWATOMIE, Kansas (AP) -- Flooding worsened Sunday across parts of Kansas and Missouri, forcing more people from their homes, and meteorologists said it could be days before rivers return to normal following days of drenching rainfall on the Plains.
Titus Pullo gets stiffed by American tourists in front of the Colosseum, goes all Thirteenth Legion on their tightwad asses
Two thousand years ago Roman centurions were not above cracking heads together as they enforced imperial authority, an example which is apparently being followed a little too faithfully by the "centurions" who hang around Rome's Colosseum posing for photos.
Must not stick hand in blender, must not stick hand in blender, must not stick... dammit
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Boca Raton Fire-Rescue said a worker almost cut off his own hand when he got it caught in an industrial blender.
"Dateline NBC" pedo sting in Texas town turns into fiasco, leading to firing of the city manager, a suicide, complaints from citizens, and the DA's refusal to pursue charges against any of the accused
MURPHY, Texas - A sting in which police teamed up with "Dateline NBC" to catch online pedophiles was supposed to send a flinty-eyed, Texas-style warning about this Dallas suburb: Don't mess with Murphy.
Benoit's wife's death posted on Wikipedia fourteen hours before the cops found out about it
ATLANTA - Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.
Middle school teacher brings new meaning to higher learning, accused of smoking pot with students
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- A Goleta Valley Junior High School teacher is facing charges for allegedly smoking marijuana with two students.
Bengal cats leap into owners' hearts. Their sweet, succulent, delicious hearts
An elegant, exotic-looking feline just a few generations removed from the wild has become the public's meow.
Today's frivolous lawsuit brought against Starburst is for not carrying a warning label that they are chewy
Starburst Fruit Chews are exactly as their name would indicate: chewy. But one Michigan woman says the candies are so chewy, they should come with a warning label.
Liz Claiborne unveils new Flat Line
NEW YORK — Fashion designerLiz Claiborne, whose styles became a cornerstone of career women's wardrobes in the 1970s and 1980s, has died, the company she founded said Wednesday. She was 78.
Man wakes up from month-long coma to find out his wife had been fighting to have his life support shut off. Awkward
PHOENIX — Eighteen days after his wife instructed doctors to disconnect food and water tubes, a Chandler, Ariz. man is sitting up in his hospice bed, giving the thumbs-up sign and communicating with visitors.
Oprah Winfrey to open an Oprah store in the city of Chicago, soon to be renamed Oprahville
Want more Oprah Winfrey in your life? Soon, a storefront close to her Near West Side studio will be the place to get it.
7,669 complaints sounds like a lot, but when it's against the NYPD, it's the lowest in a decade
CBS/AP) NEW YORK Complaints alleging police misconduct filed last year with the Civilian Complaint Review Board totaled 7,669 -- a 13-percent increase over 2005.
Palm Springs is apparently so rich, even the homeless guys get robbed
(CBS) PALM SPRINGS, Calif. A driver tried to rob a homeless man looking for a handout Wednesday morning, police said.
Jessica Alba's checklist for potential suitors surprisingly reasonable, but you still don't have a chance
MOVIE babe JESSICA ALBA has a checklist of points a man must adhere to if he wants to date her.
Massachusetts inmates say the state violates the laws against cruel and unusual punishment for not allowing sex change operations at tax payer expense
BOSTON -- A trial that opened more than a year ago has become bogged down in Boston federal court. There have been hundreds of hours of testimony from witnesses, including 10 medical specialists paid tens of thousands of dollars. The judge himself even hired an expert to help him make sense of it all.
The CIA tested LSD on citizens, wiretapped U.S. journalists, opened mail going to the USSR and China, and conspired with mobsters. But that's all in the past and you can feel safe now, citizen
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday detailing assassination plots against foreign leaders such as Cuba's Fidel Castro and the secret testing of mind-and-behavior altering drugs like LSD on unwitting U.S. citizens.
More evacuations in Tahoe as fire jumps a containment line
OUTH LAKE TAHOE, California (Reuters) - Fire crews evacuated a neighborhood near California's Lake Tahoe on Tuesday afternoon as the wildfire that has consumed more than 2,700 acres of forest around the resort area jumped a defensive line.
People who owe overdue fines to the Wethersfield Library can pay them off with pasta, canned foods or items such as toothpaste
WETHERSFIELD, Conn. - People who owe overdue fines to the Wethersfield Library can pay them off with pasta, canned foods or items such as toothpaste.
"The military banned MySpace but not Facebook. This was a very interesting move because there's a division, even in the military. Soldiers are on MySpace; officers are on Facebook"
Social networking websites are increasingly splitting along class lines, according to one prominent academic.
Paleontologist: Prodigious penguins populated prehistoric Peru
CBS/AP) WASHINGTON Giant penguins roamed what is now Peru more than 40 million years ago, much earlier than scientists thought the flightless birds had spread to warmer climes.
Kentucky school district wants to eliminate C as passing grade, because the mediocre has no place in our society
The Eminence Independent School District eliminated D's four years ago, meaning students would have to earn a C or better to pass.
Americans are the most charitable people on the planet, giving $295 billion, twice as much as a percentage of GDP as the next closest nation, the UK. Meanwhile, the French wouldn't toss you a sou if you were bleeding on their porch
NEW YORK (AP) — Americans gave nearly $300 billion to charitable causes last year, setting a record and besting the 2005 total that had been boosted by a surge in aid to victims of hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma and the Asian tsunami.
A moment of silence, please. The last Iwo Jima flag raiser has passed away. Your watch is over, sir. And thank you
RICHFIELD, Minn. - Charles W. Lindberg, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He was 86.
Help Las Vegas pick a new tourism slogan (voting enabled)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas tourism boosters plan to test a new slogan to complement the wildly successful "What happens here, stays here" campaign.
Body of missing pregnant lady found in Ohio. Arrest of the boyfriend on 2 counts of murder
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A massive search ended in sadness Saturday when authorities announced they found a body believed to be a pregnant woman who vanished from her home a week earlier. A police officer believed to be the father of the unborn child was arrested on two counts of murder.
