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Menu warnings nearly proved true for a man at a downtown Las Vegas restaurant that offers "Bypass" burgers, "Flatliner" fries and free meals to people over 350 pounds.

There are super-hot chile varieties. And then there's the sweat-inducing, tear-generating, mouth-on-fire Trinidad Moruga Scorpion.

Joseph Corlett's "Hot for Teacher" landed him in the hot seat. The 56-year-old California resident was suspended for three semesters from Oakland University for writing about his attraction to his professor.

Firefighters in Pennsylvania have managed to save 200 pounds of Polish sausage from what they're calling the best-smelling fire they've doused in years.

Police say one of the first clues the Nike shoes might be fake was the logo of Michael Jordan.

A Hawaii pet store's groomers cut off a dog's ear and tried to cover it up by gluing the ear back on, a lawsuit claims.

Southern California Edison spokesman David Song says a helium-filled balloon scored a direct hit on the company's Fontana substation Tuesday night, knocking out power to 15,099 customers.

We all know about the secret world of fetishes, and for the most part, although they may not be for everyone, they are harmless.

Southern California Edison spokesman David Song says a helium-filled balloon scored a direct hit on the company's Fontana substation Tuesday night, knocking out power to 15,099 customers.

Charles Houck, 39, of Jamesville and his brother Michael Houck of Plymouth. Charles Houck was arrested Sunday night after an attempted hold-up of the Shamrock Restaurant in Williamston, but Michael was on the run.

The actor, 22, showed off the bizarre trick on Spanish TV as he folded his tongue first once, then twice and finally three times.

NICKI MINAJ has spoken out to defend her bizarre performance art show at the Grammy Awards on Sunday , revealing the alter-ego she introduced to the world has been a work in progress for over two years - and ceremony bosses insisted she bring him to the stage.

A 59-year-old fugitive is back behind bars after he ran out of gas in Wyoming and called the local sheriff's office for roadside assistance.

A Southeast Texas man suspected of being the so-called "tall, dark and handsome" bandit has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a bank robbery charge.

Lab rats are being trained at a Colombian National Police base near Bogota to become the region's top bomb-sniffers, CNN reports .

One lawsuit alleges that the Petco store in Keneohe cut off a piece of a Pomeranian-Maltese mix's ear during grooming last July.

Anti-theft devices attached to bottles of Tide in the CVS in northwest D.C. A Minnesota man has been accused of stealing cartloads of Tide at a local Wal-Mart. The Police Department in West St.

The Burnet County Sheriff's Office in Central Texas is urging citizens to use caution around abandoned or suspicious bags after several backpacks containing portable meth labs turned up along roadsides.

For Matt Grevers, a top finish in the 100-meter backstroke Saturday night at the Missouri Grand Prix was a virtual necessity to pull off a surprise medal-stand marriage proposal to his girlfriend and USA national swimming teammate, Annie Chandler.

Police have arrested an Indianapolis man in connection with two convenience store robberies in Mississippi where the thief wore a mask like the one used by the villain in the 1990s slasher flick "Scream." Both times, authorities say, he was wearing a mask like the one worn by the villain in the film, "Scream," which starred Neve Campbell, Courteney ... (more)