An Ohio toy maker says the inventor of the Etch A Sketch, the famous red toy that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over, has died in France.

Wildlife officials say a tiny lizard found on three of Southern California's Channel Islands is no longer threatened.

A Montana man whose tearful reluctance to rob a pizza restaurant earned him free food apparently made up the sob story that gained him the clerk's sympathy.

A five-time wing-eating champion known as "El Wingador" has been indicted in New Jersey on cocaine distribution charges.

A conversation with two passengers landed a Florida tow truck driver in jail after his cellphone pocket-dialed 911 and dispatchers listened in.

Police say a western Pennsylvania man stopped at a bar and had a beer minutes after he broke out of a police station holding cell after his arrest on an assault charge.

Perfume is now available for even the youngest person in your life.

Missing: One golden cookie, weighing around 44 pounds (20 kilograms).

No one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders.

The California Highway Patrol is trying to locate a group of drivers who briefly shut down part of a San Francisco Bay area freeway while they performed stunts in the middle of the road.

Seattle police are tracking down the history of a nonfunctional missile launcher that showed up at a weapons buyback program.

An eastern Pennsylvania high school says vandalism forced it to create a policy in which toilet paper has been taken out of the boys' bathrooms.

Authorities say an off-duty security guard shot and wounded a man who attempted to rob him outside a Gardena outlet mall.

A federal magistrate in Medford has recommended a gold miner pay nearly $200,000 in fines and attorney's fees and stop working his claim on a Southern Oregon salmon stream.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration won't take any regulatory action over a vending machine at a Pennsylvania college that dispenses the morning-after pill.

A prominent genetics expert from Harvard Medical School says he is not looking for a woman to bear a Neanderthal baby. Not even an adventurous one.

A federal appeals court has ruled that an Indiana law banning registered sex offenders from accessing Facebook and other social networking sites is unconstitutional.

Two New Jersey men have sued Subway, saying the world's biggest fast-food chain has been shorting them on its so-called footlong sandwiches.

New York has legions of residents living in tiny apartments. Now the city is about to see just how small they're willing to go.

A former Cincinnati Bengals cheerleader who had sex with her underage student and is now in a relationship with him is about to begin another court battle Tuesday.

The original Batmobile from the 1960s television series has sold at auction for $4.2 million.

A poem by the late writer Carl Sandburg that appears to have been previously unknown has turned up in the archives of the University of Illinois.

After his "Spider Man" musical had a rough Broadway run, it appeared Bono and arachnids didn't mix. But that didn't keep a biologist from naming an actual spider species after the U2 singer.

An expert says a fireball seen across a wide swath of the West from Reno to San Francisco might have broken up over the Pacific Ocean.

Authorities in Northern California say a man arrested in nothing but a trench coat and socks after a break-in told investigators he had been using the homeowner's sauna.