A Michigan man sent to prison for 15 years is getting a new trial after the judge failed to do a routine procedure -- ask the jury to take an oath

Reuters - Australian underwear company AussieBum has been monkeying around and the result is a range of men's underwear made with bananas.

Reuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.

It's a central principle of most justice systems that 'the punishment should fit the crime' - but you probably shouldn't follow the example of one Mexican official, who punished a teenage graffiti artist by spray painting his buttocks.

A man in South Carolina learned the hard way last week that go-karts don't make the best getaway vehicles, after he was arrested on drugs charges after being chased down while driving a go-kart.

A naked snow sculpture of the celebrated Venus de Milo statue was covered with this fetching get-up after police received complaints about the frosty flesh-fest.

Police in the US state of New Jersey ordered a family to cover up their snow sculpture of the famous nude Venus de Milo after a neighbour complained.

A man rebuffed in an attempt to get arrested, finally got his wish when he went for an officer's handgun. Unified police documents said the 54-year-old transient tried to turn himself in at the jail last weekend but an officer told him he had no reason to arrest him. At that point, police said the man grabbed for the officer's ...

A handcuffed man who escaped from a chain line of other inmates at Grant County District Court managed to steal a truck and jump into Moses Lake where deputies had to rescue him. Undersheriff John Turley told The Columbia Basin Herald the 39-year-old man was at risk of drowning Monday when an officer threw him a life vest.

Police said a cook put a body hair in the bagel sandwich of a police officer who had given him tickets in the past. The cook was arrested Feb. 21 in the kitchen of Good Foods to Go in Evesham. The police officer ticketed the cook in March 2009 when he failed to pull over for a traffic violation.

A Western Massachusetts funeral home is trying "bring life" to business with a chili cook-off, a murder-mystery show and free limo rides to couples on their 50th anniversaries. Terry Probst, the new managing partner of the Devanny-Condron Funeral Home in Pittsfield, hopes the events will remind people that the funeral home is a center for community life.

The bad luck of a stuck duck changed when firefighters in Santa Fe rescued the bird wedged in a chimney. Fire Chief Tommy Anderson said the homeowner heard the bird and lit a fire, hoping the duck would get out on its own from the open-top chimney. Anderson said the plan backfired, when "it filled her house with smoke." Firefighters ...

A go-cart wasn't much of a getaway vehicle for a South Carolina man. The Herald-Journal of Spartanburg reported that sheriff's deputies have arrested 29-year-old Edward Matthew Sweezy of Union after they stopped him last week at an intersection in Union.

State troopers said a man is lucky to have only minor injuries when he crashed his car into a barn after his steering wheel popped off while driving. Trooper Keith Leary said the 59-year-old man was driving his 1978 Buick on Thursday afternoon on State Route 530 when his steering wheel came off, the car left the road, went down ...

A Western Massachusetts funeral home is trying "bring life" to business with a chili cook-off, a murder-mystery show and free limo rides to couples on their 50th anniversaries. Terry Probst, the new managing partner of the Devanny-Condron Funeral Home in...