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A general election absentee ballot from Rensselaer County, N.Y. misspelling the name of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is seen, Friday, Oct.

A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday.

A controversy is brewing around a baby doll that some parents believe gives a religious message.

A New York man was charged with grand larceny and fraud after he allegedly posed as a real estate agent and rented a vacant home without permission from the owner

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Ever wonder what happens after you yank the chain on the old commode? Rhode Island is offering tours of several wastewater treatment facilities during what its dubbed the first annual "Rhode Island Water ...

MIDDLETOWN, Del. (AP) -- When 72-year-old Gladys Dressner first saw two snakes last in her new apartment last month, she froze.

An Italian woman taken to the hospital for heart troubles told her surprised doctors that her jealous husband had kept her prisoner in their home for 50 years.

There's no doubt what Vladimir Putin's favorite birthday present is this year _ a rare Ussuri tiger cub.

A man assigned "The Crucible" in an adult education English class doused his teacher with a nonflammable liquid and threatened to burn her as a witch, police said.

Unlike Goldilocks, a man who stumbled into the wrong suburban Washington, D.C., home after drinking too much found the bed there just right.

A defendant had a hard time facing the music. Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July.

Authorities say a woman has been arrested in west Florida after pouring scalding hot water on her husband's groin.

An Ohio man facing $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo has rejected a judge's offer to reduce it to $35 if he spent 20 hours listening to classical music.

The beefy looking gunman doesn't look like the trim, ascot-wearing Hugh Hefner. But the FBI dubbed him "The Playboy Bandit" after he robbed a suburban Chicago bank while wearing a cap with the distinctive bunny ...

A Connecticut judge has given the brush-off to a blonde woman's lawsuit claiming L'Oreal Inc.

The man who introduced Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday in Tampa, Fla., mistakenly called him John McCain.

Suresh Joachim, of Toronto, and Claudia Wavra, of Petersburg, Germany, claim to have broken the Guinness World Record for movie-watching, after seeing 57 films in 123 hours in a plexi-glass house in Times Square.

A Sekiu woman says she was shot in the leg by her stove. Cory Davis told the Peninsula Daily News she had just stoked her cast-iron heating stove Sunday when she heard a loud bang and was struck in her left calf.

A blonde woman's lawsuit, claiming L'Oreal Inc. ruined her social life after one of its hair-dye products turned her into a brunette, was thrown out of court Monday when a Connecticut judge ruled it didn't pass the strand test.

A 450-kilogram , bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said. [Check out his photo embedded in the article and then scroll down further and check out the (unrelated) mug shots just for fun. -ed.]