A northern California man is accused of shooting his 50-year-old son because he didn't like his country karaoke singing.

Anyone who has ever tried to lose weight knows there are endless weight loss plans to choose from.

Officials say a Las Vegas police officer who stumbled upon a robbery at a 7-Eleven helped foil the crime.

A Christian and Muslim scholar are finding common ground and a common cause: ridding hotels of pornography.

A bear that's inspired the creation of a Twitter account because of his frequent forays to Glendale has been tranquilized and returned to the wild after he was seen sleeping in a tree.

Authorities say a man whose prized sports car was stolen 42 years ago has it back after spotting it on eBay.

The mayor of a sleepy Alaska town is feline fine.

Marine biologists and veterinarians say the bodies of more than 500 penguins have washed up on beaches in southern Brazil over the past week.

An Oregon man and an Iraqi adventurer have taken to the sky in a pair of lawn chairs suspended from helium-filled party balloons.

A herd of goats is helping to kill a weed problem on New York's Staten Island.

Archaeologists in Mexico City have unearthed the skulls and other bones of 15 people, most of them the children of traveling merchants during Aztec times.

A Southern California pain doctor duped by an undercover deputy's dog X-ray has been arrested for prescribing addictive medications to people with no legitimate medical need for them.

A federal judge has struck down a central Louisiana ordinance banning fortunetelling, palm reading, astrology and similar activities in the city of Alexandria.

A Georgia woman with no license to practice medicine has been sentenced for injecting customers' buttocks with commercial silicone in hotel rooms and using glue and cotton balls to prevent the substance from leaking out.

A South Carolina funeral home is getting ready to sell something besides coffins and urns.

A central Nebraska man landed in jail for writing a bomb threat on the back of a restaurant job application.

A San Diego County man has pleaded not guilty to stealing some 3,500 Pillow Pets from an Oceanside warehouse.

People have tried to smuggle some pretty outrageous things through airport security over the years. But what this couple is accused of trying to sneak through an airport scanner may be the most outrageous of all.

Police say a would-be burglar was halted by unlikely obstacles - window blinds.

A psychologist says a JetBlue Airways pilot who screamed about religion and terrorists during a flight had "a brief psychotic disorder" due to lack of sleep.

An alligator at least 10 feet long lunged at a teenager swimming in a river and bit off the teen's right arm below the elbow, state wildlife officials said Tuesday.

Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee says the contact that happened when a woman hugged an off-duty police officer from behind caused his gun to go off, fatally shooting her in the chest.

Detroit police say a woman was fatally shot when she hugged an off-duty police officer while dancing at a party, causing the officer's service weapon to fire.

Maine Sen. Susan Collins is nearing another milestone as she continues her unbroken streak of consecutive votes.

The Pew Environment Group is cautioning in a report that the actual global catch of sharks might be up to four times higher than official U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization statistics.