POSTED // Jan 7,2011 - Scholars found dozens of factual errors in two history textbooks used by Virginia schools. “I absolutely could not believe the number of mistakes..."

POSTED // Dec 31,2010 - New York state officials announced plans to implement an emergency birth-control program because a flock of wild turkeys...

POSTED // Dec 23,2010 - Warren Saunders, 60, pleaded guilty to dropping toilet paper from a small plane over athletic fields at a middle school in Westwood, N.J.

POSTED // Dec 17,2010 - Donald Davis, 67, who suffers from dementia, managed to escape from a care home in a wheelchair, buy a new truck and lead authorities on a high-speed chase...

POSTED // Dec 10,2010 - Two Florida restaurants are suing each other, each claiming only it uses water with an authentic New York City taste.

POSTED // Dec 2,2010 - Crime occurs less in neighborhoods with big trees and more at homes with small ones, according to a U.S. Forest Service study using crime data from Portland, Ore.

POSTED // Nov 25,2010 - Smoking pot may slow or halt Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers at California’s Scripps Research Institute.

POSTED // Nov 19,2010 - Laptop computers with Wi-Fi can damage DNA and decrease sperm motility after only four hours’ exposure...

POSTED // Nov 12,2010 - Kyle Johnson, 25, was given only a 5 percent chance of surviving after he shattered his skull by falling off his skateboard near his home in Salt Lake City.

POSTED // Nov 5,2010 - After working as a taxi driver for 17 years, British ex-con John Searl, 74, returned to crime to combat rumors that he was a convicted pedophile.