In the past year, 30 percent of U.S. high school students have stolen from a store and 64 percent have cheated on a test, according to a new, large-scale survey suggesting that Americans are too apathetic about ethical standards.
A motorist confronted by a state trooper said he was stunned when the officer told him the car had been stolen.
A body found in an SUV is that of Jennifer Hudson's missing nephew, the focus of a search after the Oscar winner's mother and brother were found shot to death, police said Monday.
A student died just as he was about to win a university binge-eating contest, officials said Friday.
A Utah sheriff's office has found that it shouldn't underestimate the golf cart as a getaway car.
More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the Army to let an Iraqi puppy come home with a U.S. soldier, who fears that "Ratchet" could be killed if left behind.
Ohio has executed a 5-foot-7, 267-pound double murderer who argued his obesity made death by lethal injection inhumane.
A television news anchor in Maine who looks a lot like Sarah Palin says she's been getting "hate mail and nasty phone calls."
A trial has begun in the case of a baseball player-turned-actor accused of brutally killing a cat in a jealous rage after complaining that his ex-girlfriend cared more for the feline than she did for him.
If two-ply toilet paper is good, then three-ply tissue must be better. At least that's what toilet-paper researchers in northeastern Wisconsin hope.
A judge has decided a law banning sagging pants in this town is unconstitutional after a teenager spent a night in jail on accusations he exposed too much of his underwear.
An Italian newspaper says a terminally ill 50-year-old nurse was briefly awoken from an induced coma to get married to her longtime partner.
Colonel Harland Sanders' handwritten recipe of 11 herbs and spices was to be removed Tuesday from safekeeping at KFC's corporate offices for the first time in decades.
A British comic's jokes at the Video Music Awards about the Jonas Brothers and their "promise rings" vowing virginity have renewed the debate over sex and teens. After VMA host Russell Brand made fun of the Jonases, singer Jordin Sparks defended the rings.
A once drug-addled elephant fed heroin-laced bananas by illegal traders will return home after emerging clean from a three-year detox program on China's tropical island province of Hainan.
It wasn't easy for Madeleine Robb to send an e-mail to another mom telling her that her baby might have a deadly eye cancer - but her warning may have saved the life of 1-year-old Rowan Santos. "I really had no option," Robb said.
Dave Freeman, co-author of "100 Things to Do Before You Die" - a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators - died after hitting his head in a fall at his home. He was 47.
City officials decided to pull the plug on five multimillion-dollar self-cleaning toilet stalls and instead put them on the auction site eBay.
Same-sex marriage is legal in two states, but not a single one will show up in the 2010 census.
The Agriculture Department plans to tell the public which grocery stores and other retailers have received tainted meat during some recalls.
Canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month's Beijing Olympic Games.
A teenage boy with an interest in law enforcement twice stole a police cruiser and took it out to do some patrolling.? The boy's mother saw him bring the car home, but wasn't alarmed.
Forget mice -- Indian villagers have recruited camels to protect their farmlands and homes from marauding elephants, saying the beasts' stink was enough to keep the pachyderms at bay.
One in eight babies - well over half a million a year - are born premature, a toll that's risen steadily for two decades with no sign of stopping.
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