Nov 27 - "Courage", the turkey given a presidential pardon this week by U.S. President Barack Obama, is flown to its new home and given a celebratory reception at Disneyland, California.

An elderly German woman has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after she was crushed by an artificial Christmas tree at a Hamburg shopping center.

Blue is sometimes not an easy color to make.

A battle is brewing between some parents and the Mooresville Consolidated School Corp.

With a tiny cap that says "Marines" and a camouflage blanket wrapped around him, there is no mistaking it: tiny Walter Alan Marsh is a ...

A couple on Long Island is giving thanks Wednesday for owing no debt on their home.

A World War 2 veteran's ashes are back with his family after they weren't properly scattered from an airplane.

Three middle school students in Waltham are facing serious trouble.

Customers at one Gulf coast gas station might be surprised at who responds to the counter when they pull up to the drive-through window: The store owner's dog.

Police said a North Carolina man rammed his car into a hot dog stand when the vendor refused to sell him a hot dog and drink for a dollar.

Owner Joe Wilkins hopes to fire up this car on the Bonneville Salt Flats after he attaches a spoiler to the back.

A package for Tennessee's governor turned out not too jolly for staffers at the Capitol.

Share + Nov 26, 2009 9:15 am US/Central WASHINGTON 1 of 3 In this Facebook photo, Tareq Salahi, left, Vice President Joe Biden and Michaele Salahi pose Nov.

Sarah Palin has been tricked by a second Canadian comedian. Last year, she was "punk'd," made to think she was talking to French president Nicolas Sarkozy when in reality it was The Masked Avengers, a Quebec comedy duo. At a recent stop on her "Going Rogue" book tour , Sarah Palin told Canadian comedian Mary Walsh that Canada should get rid of its public health care system (which will go over poorly with Canadians; more on that later)

A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified, and a UFO chaser thinks extraterrestrials are involved.

A flatulent pig ignited a gas scare in Australia, as a farmer thought the odor he smelled was really a gas pipe leak. It sparked an emergency call, and yes, firefighters responded.

Police say a serial shoplifter from central Pennsylvania has taken three sweet steps over the line and now faces a felony charge.

When workers at the Tulsa Zoo got the first glimpse of their newest resident, a giraffe named Amali, they immediately knew something was wrong.

North Austin tropical fish and aquarium store owner hopes to pick up business on Black Friday by going topless.

A strong-arm robbery at the Shoe Show on Tuesday resulted in the man getting away with only the left shoes--the right ones were out on display.