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Employees paid an average of 14 percent more for family health coverage this year, while the amount contributed by their employers fell by 1 percent.

PHOENIX—The Arizona Diamondbacks organization apologized to fans, their families, and the community at large Thursday after more than 16,000 people attending the previous night's game were kille...

In this O-SPAN clip from 1963, the CIA explains that the accidental overthrow was due to "a little miscommunication" while overthrowing some nearby Central American countries.

The 16-year-old boy was grieving his father's death when he went to school Tuesday with bloodshot, watery eyes. School officials claimed he smelled of marijuana and suspended him. But a drug test perf...

The 24-year-old man is accused of using his cell phone to make four false reports of a gas odor within his fire district. "He just admitted that he wanted to go out on a call," says a sherif...

The victim told police the man who shot him is named Pepe Newsome, but he couldn't be found. "[His] statements are being taken with some degree of suspicion," says a police spokesman. (Tampa...

Ever since the Associated Press wrote about the sign, the Olde Salty restaurant has been bombarded with phone calls from television and newspaper reporters, as well as from random citizens. (This happ...

The complaint was dismissed because, says the school superintendent, "it came down to three junior boys trying to give the freshman student a wedgie. He asked them to stop, and they did." (L...

A nurse at a Bronx hospice went to greet her new patient last week and was stunned to find that it was her estranged father, who she hadn't seen in 41 years.

An archive in the Netherlands has uncovered what it says is the oldest known share of stock in a company.

Earl may have not packed a very powerful punch, but he can get the credit for an unexpected and valuable discovery in Providence that dates back to the 18th century.

A good Samaritan has thwarted a bank robbery in Wisconsin by jumping on an armed man.

John Travolta was onto something. Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to the actor's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.

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A video of the posters being used as part of a promotional campaign at the University of Arkansas. Source...

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The recent news that Conan O’Brien will be replaced by Jay Leno has caused white people to erupt with rage and hostility. You might even expect them to lash out and do something about it like ta...

Reuters - German officials have created a labyrinth in the shape of a giant sausage to help people learn about the health risks associated with the popular fast food currywurst (curried sausage).

Reuters - Chinese pilots who had lied about their flying experience have been allowed to return to work after they took remedial action to make up their hours, according to the country's aviation watc...

Reuters - A trickle of newly separated Swiss fathers looking for shelter and help after marital breakdown have been finding a warm bed and a sympathetic ear from a pilot project on the shores of Lake...

Reuters - The cause of a mystery eye ailment that struck about 50 visitors to a dairy pavilion at an agricultural show in Australia has been traced -- to cow urine.

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A Montana man accused of sexually assaulting a woman and head-butting a police officer at his bachelor party will have to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet during his wedding. Montana...

Someone mailed an envelope filled with money to a western Pennsylvania bank that was robbed earlier this month, and the FBI suspects it was either the repentant robber or an acquaintance of his.

A New Zealand teen who was flashing her breasts at passing cars has been found guilty of disorderly behavior for the prank, which ended with her in a hospital after a distracted driver ran into her.

North Carolina sheriff's deputies say the body of an 87-year-old woman remained in her bed for up to eight months even though caretakers paid daily visits to her house and kept it tidy. No...

The new issue of 'Runner's World' features runners and their running buddies, some athletic dogs and some not so much, like a 14-pound terri ...

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A Venezuelan politician is holding an unusual raffle to raise campaign cash. The grand prize: breast implants. For a little under $6 a ticket, ...

A 31-year-old bride heading home from her bachelorette party was arrested for drunken driving hours before she was to get married.

A North Carolina collectibles dealer is hawking a toilet ripped from reclusive author J.D. Salinger's former home.

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This chick let some dude hit the top of her leg with a weed whacker. Pretty sure that's going to leave a mark.

The trauma surgeon had worked his share of gunshot and knife wounds and, once, had pulled a metal post out of a guy's chest. But what he saw when he looked down at 16-year-old Connor McKee on Tuesday...

We shot this video on a beautiful summer day in Boston, with dozens of people stopping us to ask why we were dressed up like Vegas showgirl graduates. A few people got the reference and shouted, "LEMM...

Criminals are to the NFL as crabs are to prostitutes. It would be impossible to have one without the other. As it is, they are both unfortunate but unavoidable byproducts of two favorite all-American...

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