Thieves' pocket-dialled call leads to arrest
Police in Wisconsin's capital city barely had to try to catch a pair of unlucky suspected thieves.
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Crash landing kills 1500 birds
26-toed cat helps save animal shelter
Cash-strapped county sacks Santa
Faced with the tough task of balancing a budget in austere times, officials in New York's Suffolk County say they have no choice: they had to fire Santa Claus.
Payout for families of girls switched at birth
It was more money than either family has ever seen - but it's still not clear if it can make the pain go away.
Blind dog has its own guide dog
An animal shelter has been inundated with offers of help after it requested a home for a pair of Great Danes - one of which is blind, and totally dependent on the other.
Millions of escaped bees shut down highway
A flatbed truck carrying hundreds of beehives overturned near a construction zone on a Utah highway, freeing millions of bees and forcing authorities to temporarily close Interstate 15, officials s
Letter goes missing at Scrabble champs
Two competitors at the World Scrabble Championships were asked to empty their pockets when a letter "G'' went missing.
Deaf brothers rack up $250,000 cellphone bill
A South Florida woman got a shock when she opened a recent cellphone bill: she owed $US201,000 ($NZ252,141).
It was no mistake.
Seattle superhero unmasked
A self-proclaimed superhero wore a charcoal-coloured mask as he entered a Seattle courtroom where prosecutors said they hadn't yet decide whether to file charges against him in an alleged pepper sp