A messy thief was arrested after a trail of popcorn kernels led police from a burglarized store to the suspect's living room.

Nuns who own a New York City apartment house have filed a lawsuit saying a tenant couple is stinking up the building with "horrible" food smells "similar to that of vomit or rotten meat."

A Maine man found a wallet stuffed with cash on the floor in a home improvement store.

Public employees of a well-heeled Ohio village are again beneficiaries of a custom in which residents hand them hefty holiday bonuses.

Fire officials in New Bedford, Mass., say a man using a blowtorch to melt ice on his back porch ended up setting his house on fire, causing up to $30,000 in damage.

What kind of mileage does that thing get? Police in South Salt Lake, Utah, have arrested a man they say tried to steal a fire truck so he could drive home - to Washington - for Christmas.

The American Museum of Natural History's latest discovery is a diamond in the rough: a visitor's $15,000 gem in a vacuum-cleaner bag.

An Indiana couple who topped the scales at more than 700 pounds combined have undergone weight-loss surgery - on the same day.

The sheriff's office in Chicago has arrested more than 60 fugitives with a net of holiday cheer.

A man jumped into the Berlin zoo enclosure of famed polar bear Knut on Monday, but officials were able to keep the animal away from the intruder by distracting him with a leg of beef, police said.

A 39-year-old woman was arrested last week on suspicion of smoking marijuana with her two teenage children.

A Nutley, N.J. man is putting in his two cents about what he calls a lot of non-cents over a traffic ticket.

Aw, nuts. That's likely what Hope Wideup thought when her car's turn signal and windshield wipers wouldn't work. It's also what she found later when she opened the hood. "There were thousands in there.

A man who showed up at a suburban New York doughnut shop drive-through without putting his pants on has been sentenced to three years' probation.

A man called police on Wednesday night after he came home from work and spotted an intoxicated woman drinking a beer on the roof of his home.

A 50-year-old man told authorities he was fed up with teens toilet-papering his house during homecoming week. This year, he decided to defend his property - with a squirt gun filled with fox urine.

Police in Indiana say a woman set fire to her ex-boyfriend's clothing at a self-storage center and caused more than $100,000 in damage.

Chileans have a new hero: an apparently homeless dog that pulled the body of another dog through traffic off a busy highway.

A New York City man is suing a Jewish research group for libel, claiming it posted a story online with his photo that erroneously said he was not circumcised.

Police said a woman was arrested after asking a state trooper whether she could smoke - and then trying to light up a marijuana joint.

A man dubbed the "Butt Bandit" for making greasy imprints of his nether parts on windows in the north-central Nebraska city of Valentine has been sentenced to more than a year in jail.

A "nagging" wife who pushed her husband to buy a lottery ticket helped scoop the $4.2 million ($7.7 million New Zealand dollar) first prize - with only minutes to spare. The man from New Zealand's biggest city, Auckland, bought his ticket just two minutes before ticket sales closed Saturday night.

Every day, the average person swallows about a quart of snot.

Things got a little spookier than expected during a ghost tour when a driver lost control of her car and plowed into the group.

Milwaukee County jail inmates can knock an hour off their sentence for each hour they spend on some dirty work - cleaning up blood, feces, saliva and other bodily fluids at the House of Correction and Criminal Justice Facility.