Updated: January 05, 2009 6:39:11 PM PST | | The Burlington Liars Club in Burlington, Wis., revealed its 2008 Champion Lie on Monday as part of an annual contest.
Full Story MILWAUKEE—A whopper about a devious baby and his diapers is the top lie of 2008, an organization of champion fibbers declared Monday.
Full Story COLONIE, N.Y.—Police are puzzling over what would motivate a father and son to haul off six tombstones from a monument company in suburban Albany.
Full Story JACKSON, Ohio—Police say an angry 4-year-old Ohio boy grabbed a gun from a closet and shot his baby sitter.
Full Story MONTERREY, Mexico—Police say a woman who begged from a wheelchair was caught running from a crime scene on foot in Monterrey, Mexico.
Full Story VASSALBORO, Maine—A one-time motel in a small central Maine town could soon be offering an eye-opening way to start the day—topless coffee shop waitresses.
Full Story HERMAN, Minn.—Deputies investigating a sewer problem at a Minnesota home smelled something amiss—a strong odor of marijuana.
Full Story PAW PAW, Mich.—Paw Paw's police chief said a heart found at a car wash in the southwestern Michigan village belonged to a deer.
Full Story ASHLAND, Ore.—Art was laced up with political statement as a gallery opened an exhibit with a paint-splattered fundraiser that featured a "shoe throw" at an image of President George W.
Full Story WILKES-BARRE, Pa.—A man who allegedly squatted in the attic of a Pennsylvania family's home over Christmas and helped himself to their belongings is "sorry and upset" it happened, his lawyer said Monday.
Full Story JACKSONVILLE, N.C.—A man who police said was shot by his stepfather ended up in the same jail with him after officers discovered outstanding arrest warrants against the victim.
Full Story POINT LOOKOUT, N.Y.—He meant to shoot the ducks. A Long Island man is facing charges including reckless endangerment and assault after he shot another hunter while out duck hunting on Saturday.
Full Story GREELEY, Colo.—A Colorado man sorting through his late grandfather's belongings found a bombshell, sort of: A live mortar round from the Korean War era.
Full Story NEW YORK—A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman's religious reasons for smuggling endangered monkey meat into the country.
Full Story NEW YORK MILLS, Minn.—A tricky question of morality is this year's brainteaser in the annual philosophy competition called the Great American Think-Off.
Full Story KENNEWICK, Wash.—A man in Washington state who reportedly told police he was trying to deter a friend from driving drunk by blasting the friend's windshield with paintballs wound up in jail.
Full Story BLUE ASH, Ohio—An 89-year-old Cincinnati-area woman arrested for confiscating the neighbor kid's football is now suing the boy's parents.
Full Story DETROIT—James Howarth is a little confused by two letters he has received from the Internal Revenue Service.
Full Story BISMARCK, N.D.—Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender.
Full Story OZELLO, Fla.—A Florida couple who said they wound up in a Cuban jail after their boat was badly damaged in a storm is back home.
Full Story LONDON—A mixed-race British couple has defied the odds—twice—by producing two sets of twins in which one sibling appears to be black and the other white.
Full Story MONTGOMERY, Ala.—There used to be a time when people who called Linda Jahraus' home in Laguna Beach, Calif.
Full Story TELLURIDE, Colo.—Porcupines are becoming a prickly pest for Telluride-area residents. Residents said the rodents are chomping on the bark of spruce trees, yard trees, and have killed 50-foot-high native trees.
Full Story BISMARCK, N.D.—Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender.
Full Story BISMARCK, N.D.—Police get calls about drunken drivers all the time, but rarely do they come from the alleged offender.
Full Story ROCHESTER, Mich.—They're twins, all right, despite what their spanking new birth certificates say.
Full Story ERWIN, Tenn.—Authorities in northeast Tennessee have arrested a man and charged him with possession of stolen property after grave decorations were found at his home, next to a cemetery.
Full Story WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah—Police said a West Valley City woman tried to avoid a drunken driving arrest by putting her daughter in the driver's seat before police arrived.
Full Story NEW YORK—He's the king of couch potatoes. A Manhattan man has won his second couch potato contest.
Full Story SAN DIEGO—They could be the next stars of "The Biggest Loser." Seven elephants at the San Diego Zoo and Wild Animal Park have lost a combined total of 11,314 pounds ever since zookeepers enforced a nutrition and exercise regiment for them in 2000.
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