POSTED // Jun 7,2011 - A surveillance video showed the man who stole two 24-packs of beer from a convenience store in Lake Wales, Fla., making his getaway.

POSTED // May 27,2011 - Dexter White, 41, called 911 in North Charleston, S.C., complaining that he paid $60 to a drug dealer for crack cocaine but received only $20 worth of drugs and that the dealer refused to give him his $40 change.

POSTED // May 23,2011 - He explained he kept the alligator in a small tank and fed it only 10 live mice a month so it wouldn’t grow too large.

POSTED // May 19,2011 - The New York Times departed from its official style by dropping the honorific “Mr.” on second reference to the late Osama bin Laden.

POSTED // May 6,2011 - A little-known Philadelphia company has quietly gained control of nearly a quarter of the 7.87 million toll-free, 1-800 numbers in the United States and Canada...

POSTED // Apr 29,2011 - Florida authorities accused high school senior Rachel Anne Hachero, 17, of pistol-whipping her mother and forcing the woman to buy her a car.

POSTED // Apr 22,2011 - After its Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico last year, killing 11 workers and causing the largest offshore spill in U.S. history, Transocean Ltd. awarded bonuses...

POSTED // Apr 15,2011 - After spending the day touring New Hampshire brewpubs, two men were “goofing around” in the back of their Boston-bound tour bus...

POSTED // Apr 8,2011 - When a German doctor praised Pope Benedict XVI for setting an example by having an organ donor card, the Vatican explained the pope wouldn’t be donating any organs.

POSTED // Apr 1,2011 - Fire officials investigating an explosion that blew the roof off a home in Gobles, Mich., noted two barrels of gasoline had been in the basement.