KARACHI, Pakistan—Qasim Khan waged the unlikeliest of battles with Pakistani authorities Thursday over the right to charge hundreds of curious visitors the equivalent of 22 cents each to see a roughly 40-foot whale shark he bought from a fisherman.
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LOS ANGELES—The former mayor of a Los Angeles suburb has pleaded guilty to stealing a commercial food mixer from the local school district so he could make dough for his home pizza oven.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—A spat over forgetting to wish his wife a happy birthday landed a South Florida man in jail on domestic violence charges.
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RENTON, Wash.—The Washington State Patrol says an irate driver apparently whacked a man in the shoulder with a small sledge hammer in a road rage dispute.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska—Authorities in Alaska say a man threatened to teach "crackheads" how to make "electromagnetic distortion devices" unless the state paid him $85,000.
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BUTTE, Mont.—A Butte man who told officers he instigated a police chase because he always wanted to try it, found out it'll cost him a $1,000 fine to go with his tire damage.
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MODESTO, Calif.—Authorities say a helicopter encountered mechanical problems before making an emergency landing at an elementary school playground in a Modesto, Calif.
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CHICAGO—A Chicago college is offering a class on the Occupy movement. Thirty-two undergraduate students are enrolled at Roosevelt University's "Occupy Everywhere" class.
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PHILADELPHIA—Competitive-eating champ Takeru Kobayashi (tah-kah-roo koh-bee-yah-shee) conquered Philadelphia's annual gustatory gorge-fest by eating 337 chicken wings in a half-hour before a crowd of nearly 20,000 at Wing Bowl XX.
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STOCKHOLM—Champis the bunny doesn't only hop—he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job.
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ALEPPO, Pa.—A runaway elk can't go home to Pennsylvania, even if it wanted to. More than a year after the 3-year-old elk escaped from his paddock, he's being denied re-entry to the state from West Virginia.
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HELENA, Mont.—A 250-pound man with a history of jumping on the backs of student athletes in the Pacific Northwest has pleaded guilty to assault.
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MONTPELIER, Vt.—A prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates pulled a fast one on state police by adding the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—With 120 lions, tigers and other big cats on the grounds, the owner of a Colorado refuge didn't think he needed a security system.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—A woman's speeding got her a warning from an Ohio state trooper but wasn't enough to keep her grandchild from being born in her car.
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WAYNESBURG, Pa.—A woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and told police she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures.
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LOS ANGELES—A large seabird found in the back of a pickup truck in Los Angeles has been released to begin its long flight home across the Pacific.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—A homeless man who was stuck in thick mud near the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque for three days was rescued Saturday after some high school students on a field trip heard him yelling for help, authorities said.
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LONDON—The Museum of London is displaying a coin found by the River Thames that may have been used nearly 2,000 years ago as a "brothel token" in Roman London.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—A Swiss artist plans to bury an intact Boeing 727 jetliner in California's Mojave Desert and build a tourist tunnel to give visitors a chance to view the underground project.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—A restroom rip-off in central Ohio has automatic flushers disappearing from the bathrooms at restaurants and other businesses.
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