A German reptile collector has been jailed for 14 weeks and must pay a 5,000 New Zealand dollar ($3,540) fine for plundering New Zealand's wild gecko and skink populations, a judge has ruled.

Reuters - Cypriot police who pursued a car speeding at more than twice the legal limit were surprised to discover they really were chasing a "boy racer."

Reuters - Peruvian doctors amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man, then amputated the other leg when they realized their mistake.

Joel Branstrom figured he was about to be the butt of some kind of joke when he was blindfolded at a pep rally

A man was arrested in America after, in a reversal of the usual practise, he tried to break into a jail by climbing over a fence.

A Florida man rescued a framed space shuttle photo from a trash bin -- and found a wad of treasure in the process.

An area near the 11th hole at a Houston golf course provided a smooth landing spot after a small plane ran out of fuel and glided on to the grass.

Police in East Peoria say cartons of cigarettes worth many thousands -- or perhaps even several millions -- of dollars were stolen during a break-in at the Federal Warehouse Co.

A 22-year-old Chicago woman was so outraged when a man snatched her purse that she tried to climb into his getaway car and was dragged half a block.

A Roman Catholic priest is accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois.

A teenager in Italy stabs his father in the neck with a 15-inch kitchen knife after an argument over tactics for FIFA 2009.

A killer serving a life sentence in America has lost a lengthy legal battle to be allowed to play Dungeons & Dragons in prison - on the grounds that it promotes gang activity.

Peruvian doctors amputated the healthy leg of an 86-year-old man - and then amputated the other leg when they realized their mistake.

These stunning landscape images should belong in National Geographic magazine - but they are actually models made using household items.

A Concord, N.H., woman was accused of driving drunk and causing three crashes in a single week. State police said a 55-year-old woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after a crash in Londonderry Jan. 16. She was released on bail, then charged with DWI again five days later in Concord when she crashed into a guardrail on Interstate 93.

A year after a "morbidly obese" dog froze to a Wisconsin sidewalk, the border collie mix has lost 40 pounds and is slowly returning to an active lifestyle. Jiffy is still portly, but his owner said he's finally moving "like a regular dog." The dog weighed about 120 pounds when he froze to the sidewalk in December 2008 in single-digit ...

East Tennessee police said a Knoxville woman who was later arrested for cocaine possession initially told an officer that she had been eating a powdered doughnut. The Maryville Daily Times reported that a 21-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday and charged with possession of a Schedule II substance with intent to sell or deliver. She was also cited for driving ...

A Florida man rescued a framed space shuttle photo from a trash bin -- and found a wad of treasure in the process. Stuart Police said Warren Bendix was going to put the photo in a different frame and discovered $3,100 in cash stuffed behind the picture. He had found the picture while going through the trash near his apartment.

Police said a man climbed over a fence and tried to break into the Jackson County Jail. Medford Police Lt. Bob Hansen said that at about 4:10 a.m. Monday, jail officials spotted a man scaling the fence around an area where officers unload potential prisoners and take them inside. The officials called police.

A Roman Catholic priest was accused of shoplifting butter and a sofa cover at a Wal-Mart in southern Illinois. Police arrested 41-year-old the Rev. Steven Poole on Friday. He's charged with two felony theft counts. Investigators said Poole failed to scan a $3.22 container of butter and a $60 sofa cover at a self-checkout. Poole then allegedly went to the ...