A Canadian man was just scratching what he thought was an old itch this week when it turned out to be a knife blade that had been buried in his back for almost three years.

A man charged with beating a monkey to death with a tree branch at Boise's zoo last fall has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty.

Talk about junk in the trunk.

A Pennsylvania high school wants its students to cut back on the body spray.

A former Maryland county executive serving a sentence for misconduct has made special requests for Cheerios, skim milk, bananas and orange juice. And jail officials say those and other requests have been denied.

A vet hopes groundbreaking surgery has relieved the arthritic hip pain of a 13-year-old Siberian tiger at a Texas sanctuary.

Former NBA star Adrian Dantley spent years guarding opponents on the court. Now he's guarding schoolchildren as they cross the street.

A burglar expressing guilt about stealing $800 from a western Michigan store three decades ago has repaid the money, plus some interest.

An Iowa man who was pulled over for speeding as he rushed his pregnant wife to the hospital said he was determined to keep going despite the police lights flashing behind him.

Authorities in Louisiana say they tracked a man accused of stealing drugs from a pharmacy because he left behind a pickax he used to break in - and forgot to remove the price tag.

The new mayor of the Utah city of Helper got a little help from Lady Luck for his job.

An English Springer Spaniel named Hendrix ended up taking a serious detour on his way from New Jersey to Phoenix this week.

Riders on a New York City-bound bus from New Jersey are reporting an invasion of cockroaches.

An Iowa City police officer pulled over a speeding SUV - then helped the driver and his passenger deliver a baby.

Local authorities on the Aland Islands in the Baltic Sea say a local brewer will begin producing a beer inspired by bottles found in a 19th century shipwreck three years ago.

A Philadelphia jury has acquitted a man of assault in a bar parking lot fight that cost another man his left eye.

A 62-year-old British man who became an Internet sensation after wrestling with a shark on an Australian beach says he was fired after his employer discovered he'd been abroad while on sick leave.

Police in Utah say they've arrested a husband and wife bank robbery team that took their two children along for the illegal excursion.

The Brazilian newspaper O Globo is reporting that a doctor in Sao Paulo was arrested after being caught in the act of using fake fingers made of silicone and imprinted with real finger prints to defraud a hospital's biometric punch-in clock.

An Estonian man has returned a library book 69 years late, partly blaming a World War II aerial bombing that damaged the library for the late return.

Four men - including the would-be groom - have been arrested for a marriage proposal stunt in which hundreds of motorcycles blocked a Southern California freeway, authorities said.

A southwest Ohio nun who voted on behalf of another nun who died before last year's presidential election has been charged with illegal voting.

The dead vulture's feathers snap and crack, breaking apart as its frozen wings are spread for one last flight.

A surge in the dumping of dead pigs upstream from Shanghai - with more than 2,800 carcasses floating into the financial hub through Monday - has followed a police campaign to curb the illicit trade in sick pig parts.