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.

POSTED // Oct 29,2010 - The name of Illinois gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney was misspelled as “Rich Whitey” on electronic-voting machines in nearly two dozen Chicago wards...

POSTED // Oct 22,2010 - Curses, Foiled Again Sheriff’s Deputy Venita Edge reported she was fueling her marked patrol car at a station in Fultondale, Ala., when Matthew Kinard, 27, pulled alongside her and aske

POSTED // Oct 15,2010 - Anticipating a boost in space tourism, Australian researchers are hurrying to launch the world’s first beer to be certified for consumption in zero gravity.

POSTED // Oct 8,2010 - Coffee-loving Jews observing Yom Kippur in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood managed to skirt restrictions on the intake of food by using caffeine suppositories ...

POSTED // Oct 1,2010 - As soon as competitive eater Joey “Jaws” Chestnut, 26, won Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at New York’s Coney Island by downing 54 wieners...

POSTED // Sep 24,2010 - Australian researchers said female marine snails living off the Perth coast are growing male sex organs on their heads. The condition, called imposex, results from exposure to the chemical...

POSTED // Sep 17,2010 - When a witness startled a man and a woman trying to siphon gas from a Salvation Army van in Tacoma, Wash., it suddenly erupted in flames, which spread to a second vehicle.

POSTED // Sep 10,2010 - When Caleb Smith, 19, approached the pharmacy counter at a drug store, showed a gun and demanded narcotics, police in Pensacola, Fla., said pharmacist Steven Rodick ...

POSTED // Aug 27,2010 - After attending a cultural awareness course run by a Muslim community activist in England, managers of a Rochdale shopping mall installed two squat toilets.