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A new DC rule calls for unidentified dog mixes to be called Xoloitzcuintli. Not sure what kind of dog you have - other than, of course, loveable? If you live in Washington D.C., identifying your dog to the District's health department just got easier, sort of.

A Powerball lottery ticket is printed out of a lottery machine at a convenience store in Chicago on Saturday, May 18, 2013.

Pot Possession Charge At White Castle May 8: Harold and Kumar would be proud of this trip to White Castle.

Here's a bizarre accident you've never seen before and you may not believe the details of this crash.

Laurel County Sheriff John Root says in a statement that a 47-year-old London woman told deputies she used a blanket to break the glass on her neighbor's front door so she could let two small dogs out of the residence.

IN what country do you think a woman reared a four-legged, two-bottomed chicken? How big is it? Well, the owner of describes it, ominously, as weighing "more than half a cat ". Cats are now the unit of weight for all poultry.

Pottstown Police say a man went to a pharmacy and a pizza shop in Pottstown, and a grocery store in West Pottsgrove Township and tried robbing the places with his fingers in the shape of a gun! They say the man demanded drugs at the pharmacy, but left when the pharmacist told him they didn't have any.

After he finally came down from the truck, police used a Taser on the man, who is suspected of shooting someone earlier in the day.

Editor's Note: Patch has 31 sites in Virginia and D.C., and not a day goes by that something weird isn't happening in at least one of them.

My wife and I booked a two-bed cabin on the Gustav Af Klint, a beat-up, decommissioned steamship-turned-hostel, because it was a bargain at around $60 a night and in a great location, near Stockholm's Old Town and the metro.

It's a terrible moment when you're chowing down during a nice meal out, and all of a sudden you hear a crunch.

Deborah Ann Burns is accused of knifing her partner of six years, Willie Butler, with an eight-inch blade at their Florida apartment last week Deborah Ann Burns is accused of knifing her partner of six years, Willie Butler, with an eight-inch blade at their Florida apartment last week.

Since many students are getting ready for their summer break, we thought that it'd be fitting to round up some more funny and weird yearbook quotes, starting with the gem above that tells how to never be asked to do anything again.

A kangaroo digs its claws into an MP's leg and knocks him to the ground when the pair come face-to-face in a suburb of Canberra.

A central Florida man is in jail after deputies say he wore a disguise while slashing his wife's face, then made up a story about a home invasion to cover up his actions.

According to Statter911 , the PGFD Truck 831 crew stopped at a store to grab some food on Wednesday and when they returned to their truck a naked man was on the top of their aerial ladder.

WHITESBURG, Georgia -- The video popped up on YouTube over the weekend showing a remarkable stunt : A young man attached to a bungee cord leaps from a 100 foot tower.

A Sacramento surgeon has been reprimanded by the state medical board for suggesting a patient try oral sex to improve her gag reflex.

Police have arrested a 14-year-old boy after a pellet gun was shot at a vehicle and people in Fergus Falls.

They say everybody needs a little KFC, and it seems they're right. Gaza residents don't have access to a local branch - so they're willing to pay more than twice the going price to get it delivered from Egypt in a highly complex process that takes some four hours.