Reuters - There's a new sheriff in jail.

AP - Some furniture inspected by customs agents at the Arizona-Mexico border gives new meaning to the term "entertainment centers" — they were allegedly used to hide $2.7 million worth of marijuana.

AP - You've heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society's shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.

AP - Police in Wisconsin say a woman celebrated her birthday by helping her teenage son rob two gas stations. Officers in the Milwaukee suburb of Greenfield say the 37-year-old woman acted as the getaway driver while her 17-year-old son robbed the stations at gunpoint.

AP - A man said his friend's raccoon went crazy before it attacked him. Police say Steven Hines called police early Tuesday morning to report that he had been bitten.

AP - Police said a man called 911 and reported a robbery after a gas station employee refused to give him his money back for an unopened box of condoms.

AP - There are loyal customers, and then there's Joseph Macko. The 84-year-old Flint man has bought or leased a new Cadillac every year since 1955, the year Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif. "You only live one time. Money is to spend," he told The Flint Journal. "I spend it once I get it."

In a part of the country better known for missing alligators, officials locked down schools and warned residents to stay inside Wednesday until they captured a Bengal tiger that somehow escaped from its cage at an animal sanctuary.

A casino worker was jailed for a year after stuffing thousands of pounds into his socks and fleeing to Thailand.

A Michigan State Police trooper fatally shot a nearly 7-foot long Burmese python that slithered onto a road and was spotted lunging at a passing pickup truck.

This Dane County couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings.

Babies in a hurry made for a memorable Monday morning for firefighters in and around Rochester who were summoned three times to deliver infants in cars.

Reuters - A 61-year-old Japanese woman has given birth to a surrogate child, an obstetrician in central Japan said on Wednesday. She is believed to be the oldest surrogate mother yet recorded in Japan.

A Canadian couple finally took a restaurant up on an offer that arrived 15 years ago _ by balloon. For its 1993 grand opening, Nicky's Restaurant in Canton released balloons with attached cards good for a free dinner for two. One of the balloons made it...

A casino worker was jailed for a year after stuffing thousands of pounds into his socks and fleeing to Thailand.

A man accused of growing marijuana in an alleged cost-saving move is jailed on felony possession charges

An Italian restaurant in Harlem that once counted Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett as regulars has turned back the clock 75 years. Patsy's Restaurant in East Harlem celebrated its 75th anniversary Tuesday with 1933 prices, including a 12-ounce New York cut...

AP - Morning train commuters in Tokyo were joined on their way to work by an unusual companion Wednesday: a wild monkey.

Reuters - A rogue monkey holed up at a Tokyo train station for more than two hours on Wednesday before giving dozens of net-wielding police officers the slip among crowds of excited children and passersby.

The corpse of a 'Bigfoot' discovered last week is, infact, a gorilla suit in ice. Well, we'd never have guessed that!