POSTED // May 12,2010 - Italian contractors helping train Afghan police recruits solved the mystery of why the trainees couldn’t shoot straight while being taught by U.S. government contractors.

POSTED // May 5,2010 - Professors at some U.S. universities have begun sending students’ papers to India, Singapore and Malaysia to be graded ...

POSTED // Apr 28,2010 - Turkish pop singer Metin Senturk, who has been blind since he was 3, wept for joy after learning that he had become the world’s fastest unaccompanied blind driver.

POSTED // Apr 21,2010 - After spotting a rhesus macaque that has been loose in Florida’s Hillsborough and Pinellas counties for more than a year, authorities shot the monkey twice with tranquilizer darts...

POSTED // Apr 7,2010 - Police said Eugene Edward Palmer, 40, tried to rob a bank in Brunswick, Fla., but gave up after yanking futilely on the locked door, failing to realize the branch was drive-through only ...

POSTED // Mar 31,2010 - Massachusetts authorities accused former Fall River dentist Michael Clair of putting paper clips in patients’ mouths during root canals ...

POSTED // Mar 24,2010 - The Hump, a Japanese restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif., known for its exotic sushi, admitted serving whale meat ...

POSTED // Mar 17,2010 - Michigan's Saugatuck Township asked voters to approve a new tax to fight lawsuits seeking lower taxes. Township Board Trustee Jim Hanson explained that lawsuits by developers and people trying ...

POSTED // Mar 10,2010 - When two city police officers found Jack A. Seabright Jr., 23, passed out in his vehicle in Washington, Pa., they tried various ways to rouse him.

POSTED // Mar 3,2010 - A 62-year-old man hosting a sledding party in Oakland County, Mich., stuffed a used automobile muffler with gasoline, gunpowder and match heads ...