A Texas woman wanted to make sheriff's deputies the butt of a joke, but she picked the wrong audience when she called 911 to have cigarettes delivered to her home.…

Mrs Joseph was born on April 19, 1908 and joined the social network when she was 102. But thanks to Facebook’s restrictions on entering birth dates, she’s forced to lie…

The world's oldest marathon runner ran his last race on Sunday at the age of 101. Fauja Singh finished the Hong Kong Marathon's 10-kilometer (6.25-mile) race in 1 hour, 32…

One of two south-central Kansas brothers whose drug-fueled celebration of winning $75,000 in the lottery that resulted in an explosion in their duplex has been released from a hospital. The…

John and Ann Betar weren't supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped in New York.…

Devon and Cornwall Police said other unnecessary calls made last year included reporting a leak in a bathroom and someone wanting a lift home on Christmas Day. It comes a…

Nicole Dobol, 29, was arrested last Wednesday for allegedly breaking into her ex-boyfriend's apartment and setting fire to a mattress where he and another woman were sleeping, according to a…

A northeastern Pennsylvania newspaper has just received a calendar to help ring in the new year - except the year is 1950. Scranton's The Times-Tribune reports a mail carrier delivered…

Ah, Christmas in Rhode Island. Exquisitely decorated mansions in Newport. A red nose on the giant termite that sits atop a Providence exterminator's building. And a traffic cop, doing disco…

Two circus elephants drank vodka to help them survive when their trailer caught fire in freezing Siberia, RIA news agency said. A quick-thinking handler resorted to the traditional Russian cure…