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A petite pony got spirited away. Italian police are searching for the two-foot-tall steed, named Charly, who vanished from the county's 47th annual National Horse Show in Città di Castello last week.

A diver found a college ring in a South Carolina river that had been lost for 40 years and managed to track down its owner — and discovered the a touching family story. "It was emotional for me. Findi...

No, he is not your father. But if he were, you would have an X-34 landspeeder. A Star Wars fan from Detroit built his son the hovercraft from the space opera's first-released film "A New Hope" for the...

A raging fire propelled by powerful winds destroyed a massive swath of the famed Seaside Park boardwalk Thursday, nearly a year after it was leveled by Hurricane Sandy.

The spacecraft — which was launched in 1977 with twin Voyager 2 — has ventured outside the heliosphere, or the region of space that is dominated by the sun, NASA announced Thursday. Scientists say the...

An MIT student survived plummeting four stories from the roof of a frat house late Wednesday night. The unidentified freshman, 18, fell through a skylight and fell about 40 feet onto the first-floor s...

The Ohio man who promised to plead guilty to killing a man while driving drunk finally entered his not guilty plea Wednesday — and the victim's daughter has had enough of his theatrics. "Every time th...

The Red Lobster waitress who said customers left her a receipt with the N-word on it returned to work Thursday ... and got a firm talking to from her bosses. "They wanted me to sign something that sa...

Esquire might want to give itself a Dubious Achievement Award for this sick stunt. On the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the magazine's web site posted the iconic "Falling Man" image of a 9...

The Ohio man who admitted in a YouTube video to killing someone while driving drunk stunned the court with a not-guilty plea. The judge did not allow Matthew Cordle, 22, to proceed with the plea durin...

A New Jersey boy says his mother and her boyfriend chained him by his ankle to a radiator pipe for two weeks. Florence M. Pollard, 31, and Brian L. Craig, 29, were arrested Monday and charged with end...

Obama-mania is over. The commander in chief's foreign policy approval rating continues to fall as the war-weary American public questions whether another foreign entanglement will do any good.

Sarah Palin wants to "bomb Obamacare." The former vice presidential candidate wants to steer the national conversation away from Syria, back onto the so-called death panels she says President Obama pl...

Arizona Sen. John McCain said he is doubts whether Russia's offer to Syrian President Bashar Assad to surrender his chemical weapons will go anywhere but thinks the U.S. should hold off on a military...

A Red Lobster waitress says that two customers failed to leave even a penny as tip on a $45 meal but left their two cents about her skin color.

Legalized pot in the nation's capital is no pipe dream. D.C. councilman David Grosso plans to introduce legislation Sept. 17 that would legalize the recreational use of marijuana in the city — so a da...

Over the past two weekends, gay men have said they were attacked outside a well-known gay bar in Cleveland. But the true shock came after the second assault when police arrested a suspect: a 13-year-...

He admitted on tape to killing a man as moving music played in the background — now it's time to pay the piper. The Ohio man whose high-quality video confession to killing a man while driving drunk w...

In life, Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro robbed a decade of Michelle Knight's happiness. In death, he will not have that power — not if she has anything to do about it.

Runaway lovebirds — caged! The missing teen couple that fled their Michigan homes was found safe in a gas station parking lot near Wrigley Field in Chicago, authorities said.

A handcuffed prisoner, busted for having 10 bags of heroin, stole a cop car on a Pennsylvania highway and drove it a short distance before getting rammed by another police cruiser and crashing into a...

Thirteen children were injured when a swing ride at a Connecticut festival malfunctioned Sunday, police reported. After the power failed, the young riders fell to the ground in the Kids Cove section o...

A Missouri woman says she is heartbroken after a groomer threw their 8-pound Maltese against a wall and killed her. "She literally murdered our little baby," Barbara Calhoun, 71, said Sunday afternoon...

The mother of an autistic teen was arrested for the botched suicide-murder attempt that left them both unconscious, authorities said. Kelli Stapleton, 45, and her daughter Issy, 14, were hospitalized...