Books that cover subjects as diverse as killer robots and the relationship between advanced mathematics and crochet are in the running for Britain's strangest literary prize.

A drunk teenager who feared he was hanging off the edge of a cliff called 999 for help ? only to be found in a car park a mile from the sea.

Authorities said an Iowa City man has been charged with sending more than 500 text messages from a stolen cell phone. Police accuse 21-year-old Christopher Smead of taking a cell phone from a locker room at a fitness center and using it without the owner's consent. Police said Smead sent text messages from early Friday until late into the evening. ...

Police said they've arrested a teenager who caused thousands of dollars in damage to a western New York home's hardwood floor by break dancing on it while wearing a large diamond belt buckle.

A suburban St. Louis woman has been arrested after police said she shot at her husband when he refused to give her some of their tax return money. Pine Lawn police said the unidentified woman was being held on a $75,000 cash-only bond on suspicion of first-degree assault and armed criminal action. It was not immediately known whether she had ...

Police said 32-year-old Jacob Segura walked into the Madison Police Department on Jan. 30 and asked for a ride to Columbus. An officer told Segura that police couldn't provide rides but later tried to arrange a ride for the man through the Madison County and Platte County sheriff's offices. Meanwhile, Segura went outside to smoke. Police said that's when Segura ...

An Ohio man says he bulldozed his $350,000 home to keep a bank from foreclosing on it. Terry Hoskins says he has struggled with the RiverHills Bank over his home in Moscow for years and had problems with the Internal Revenue Service. He says the IRS placed liens on his carpet store and commercial property and the bank claimed his ...

Cliff High School students studying World War I history saw a few seconds of pornography during viewing of a video about the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. A History Channel program apparently had been recorded over a porn tape.