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Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.

A federal jury has ruled that New York City police didn't use excessive force when they arrested a professional clown who left a suspicious device that turned out to be a balloon inflator inside a coffee shop.

U.S. Customs agents seized 316,068 glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments at the Los Angeles harbor Thursday.

A person in a chicken costume ruffled the feathers of Durango's city council as they discussed rules for backyard fowl.

A family in Arizona was burglarized, but are willing to give the burglars everything if they can just get an old music box back. The reason: the box contains the ashes of their dead child.

We all enjoy going on vacation. Taking that welcome break from standard everyday life in order to maybe go abroad and relax in a different environment to what we're used to.

A California man faces misdemeanor charges after allegedly paid a teenager $31 to spit in his face.

We've discussed how using Facebook and other social networking sites can get you fired, or even keep you from getting a job. In this case, a Canadian woman lost her disability insurance payment because of Facebook photos.

U.S. customs agents seized 860 boxed of glass bongs disguised as Christmas ornaments yesterday in California.

New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday.

Bookshop Santa Cruz on Pacific Avenue is offering an essential item as a companion to the new Sarah Palin book Going Rogue.

St. Nick will soon be making his annual pilgrimage to shopping centers, holiday celebrations, and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

Emergency crews freed a boy from a chimney Thursday morning after he became stuck inside it.

A Central Florida elementary school principal is asking for toilet paper donations, but the request is about a bigger issue.

A Conway man was arrested late Tuesday afternoon after allegedly using a gas pump squeegee to bludgeon a man in his mid-60s after an altercation over who was first in line for gas.

Intrepid Ohio State University researchers have learned students don't just party in a campus lake during rituals before the annual Michigan game.

A person in a chicken suit showed up at a city council meeting in Durango, Colorado, as members discussed rules for keeping backyard chickens.

A Romanian man who tried to commit suicide by jumping off cliffs in Greece was saved by his backpack.

Two Australian cousins were sentenced to four years in prison for trying to smuggle drugs into the Northern Territory by covering them with dog feces.

GARDENER Lionel Partridge did a quack double-take when he harvested this marrow — and found it was in the shape of a DUCK.

The freakish veg came complete with a beak, head, neck, body and tail.

[This story just quacks me up. -ed.]