The Arizona Cardinals tried to take advantage of a rarely used rule on a fair-catch kick for what would've been a 68-yard field goal to end the first half against the New York Giants on Sunday.
Odd alliances are at work as President Bush and congressional Democrats band together to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
"Passing Strange," the critically acclaimed tale of a young man's journey through sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, will close July 20 on Broadway, its producers announced Thursday, one day after director Spike Lee said he would make a film version of the musical.
Venezuelan officials withdrew a proposal to bar parents from giving their children names like Edigaith, Mileidy or Superman, the state-run news agency reported Thursday.
A Cambodian man was arrested after injecting a woman with his own blood in a bizarre scheme to win her affections, police said Wednesday.
As the sun dipped low in the sky last Sunday and his plane began its descent, Eugene Nelson had a sinking feeling that something was wrong.
Condoleezza Rice is flying around the world — and then some. Whether she breaks a record by a secretary of state will have to wait for a thoughtful assessment free of jet lag.
At 10:15, hearings continue on Senator Jim Hughes' Senate Bill 58, the bill that was introduced in response to the case of a man who has be caught numerous times attempting to collect and drink the urine of young boys around central Ohio.
Excerpt: Parents Andy and Clare were delighted when builders finished a new flat roof on their £1million house.
I did not know whether to put this in "Home and Garden" or Technology. I settled for the latter, to avoid confusing the I think I wouldn't like to live in one of these things, may one real UFO pay a visit by mistake!
Aggressive prostitution apparently led to a first-degree burglary charge Thursday against a 26-year-old Lincolnton woman.
Excerpt: Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata is a lucky man. He's one of the few humans who's been launched into space. He's on the ISS. And, perhaps most importantly, he's helping test a pair of magic underpants.
Excerpt: It's been a hair-raising year for Eric Hahn.
Excerpt: An owner of a local Wendy's restaurant said a disgusting find in a hamburger is an isolated incident.
Excerpt: About 400 people have stripped off in London in order to win free flights in a stunt organised by Irish carrier Aer Lingus.
Excerpt: An American flight attendant has developed a novel way of ensuring passengers pay attention during the pre-flight safety announcement - he delivers it as a rap.
Excerpt: An El Sobrante restaurant has agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a 50-year-old woman who had the tip of her finger chopped off in a freak accident with her chair, her attorney said Thursday.
Excerpt: History will show it was the squirrel who started this war. In an instinctive act of aggression, it occupied the territories known as the Jensens' attic. The Greendale family had no choice but to fight back.
LAKELAND, Fla. -- A 15-year-old Lakeland, Fla., boy is looking for a new way to school after his alleged flatulence had him kicked off the bus. Eighth-grader Jonathan Locke Jr. was suspended from riding the school bus for three days after being accused of passing gas.
FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Bouncers at a Fort Collins bar aren't just checking IDs for a person's age. They're also looking at the person's home town.
DENVER -- A 31-year-old man who worked in the library of a Denver middle school was charged Wednesday with having a sexual relationship with a student.
Excerpt: Talk about your tough split. A dispute over bowling etiquette at a suburban Sacramento lane led to one man losing a front tooth in a fight with a fellow bowler wielding a 16-pound ball.
Salina, NY -- Veteran firefighters were left shaking their heads with the emergency call that drove up about noon today to Liverpool Fire Station No. 2 on Seventh North Street.
MALIBU -- A couple in Malibu is complaining that their neighbor, rock poet Bob Dylan, has permanently parked a stinky portable potty next to the property line they share with him.
Excerpt: A Philippine plane with 80 passengers aboard narrowly avoided a crash - after a man teaching his girlfriend to drive sped across the runway as the aircraft landed.
Excerpt: A nightclub boss who wrote a letter to police denying that drug use was rife in her club has lost her license, after cops found that the letter itself was covered in cocaine.
ST. PETE BEACH — He wanted to show a woman afraid of heights that it was safe to stand on a sixth-floor hotel balcony. Instead, the man fell five stories onto a second-floor concrete ledge Tuesday night, the hotel president said today.
APEX - Kelley Davis and her family are in savings mode. The Apex mother works extra hours as a physical therapist, and she clipped coupons to save $70 during a recent trip to the grocery store.
I'd like all my boys to find love and enjoy sex.
BELOIT, Wis. - Police years ago pulled over a young woman who rushed through an amber traffic light. "I'm about to arrest this person right now," the irritated officer radioed to a dispatcher. "She's telling me her name is Marijuana Pepsi Jackson."
Excerpt: An Elgin man shot his wife in the leg when she apparently startled him as she tried to get into bed early in the morning, police said Monday.
Excerpt: Jeff Stafford's buddy owes him a few beers — and 41 brews would still be a bargain for the colony of bull snakes Stafford found slithering in the crawl space of friend's townhome in Westminster Sunday.