A man has been charged with stealing $20 from a toddler's piggy bank while the girl slept

Two cleaning women, trapped inside a broken elevator for two days, survived on two cough drops and six aspirin

A librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in

Reuters - A new law meant to help crack down on young Canadian street racers in their souped up cars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Oldsmobile.

Reuters - A new law meant to help crack down on young Canadian street racers in their souped up cars has nabbed an octogenarian in his Oldsmobile.

BEDFORD HILLS, N.Y. A computer consultant apparently put too much faith in the GPS technology in his rental car: It took him onto rail tracks as a train barreled toward him.

Police didn't have a hard time tracking down a man suspected of robbing a Muncie convenience store -- the holdup note was written on the back of his ATM receipt.

Reuters - Russian rescuers on Friday saved 11 people stranded for nearly three months in a remote area of the Pacific coast after a fishing trip went wrong, local media reported.

Plans for a special comic featuring Spiderman fighting for the UN draw a mixed reaction in New York.

A Sheboygan Falls man is charged with stealing from a two year old.

Getting a tattoo can be a painful proposition, but usually it's just the needle you have to worry about. Two men trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo accidentally shot themselves, the Otero County Sheriff's Department said Monday.

A Japanese company offers its pet-owning employees a monthly allowance to help care for the animals.

Reuters - A woman banned from driving for seven days after traveling at speeds of less than 10mph on the motorway told Reuters on Friday: "that road's my nemesis." Stephanie Cole, 58, of Fishponds, Bristol, straddled the hard shoulder and inside lane as she dawdled along a stretch of the M32 near her home last August.

Reuters - Hoping to send the message that pets are life-long partners not disposable accessories, a Japanese maker of medicines for animals has begun giving employees who own dogs or cats a monthly "family allowance" for their pets.

Reuters - Honduran Foreign Minister Milton Jimenez resigned on Thursday after local television aired a video that caught him punching police after he was arrested for drunk driving.

AP - With a button-popping spread of cornbread, sausage and gravy, chicken fried steak and pecan pie designated as Oklahoma's official state meal, it's no surprise that Oklahoma City's mayor wants to put the city on a diet.

By David Caruso A window-washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now awake, talking to his family and expected to walk again. Alcides Moreno, 37, fell almost 152 metres when scaffolding collapsed on 7 December, killing his brother.

AP - A Manhattan librarian emerged as a champion couch potato after three rivals gave in to sleep deprivation or nature's call.

Six Czechs who faked a nuclear explosion on national television are told they could go to jail.

An undercover police officer posed as a 15-year-old schoolboy for four months to trap dozens in a triad gang. The fresh-faced officer, whose real age and identity have been kept secret, provided information that led to the arrest of 117 people, the South China Morning Post reported today.