Offbeat News

Microsoft Corp. and the chief rules enforcer for Xbox Live are apologizing to a small West Virginia town and a 26-year-old gamer accused of violating the online gaming service's code of conduct by publicly declaring he's from Fort Gay a ' a name the company considered offensive.

A Baton Rouge Metro Council member wants the parish to support a public awareness campaign against men who wear their pants so low that their boxer shorts show.

First it was Bennies, then Shoobies. Now there's another derogatory nickname for summer tourists who visit the Jersey shore: FOOTs.

A grandad became a crack dealer because he couldn't survive on his pension, a court heard yesterday.

Niko Mushi hated rats, as did most people in his village near Tanzania's Mt. Kilimanjaro -- until he learned the critters had a nose for land mines.

Designer Diane von Furstenberg helped the Cleveland Clinic come up with a more stylish hospital gown without the peek-a-boo back.

A fight between two men just before 5 p.m. Saturday resulted in one man being hit in the head and cut with an axe.

Ever wondered how much of an impact on Twitter a user with millions of followers has? Well, it could be so much of an impact that they need racks of servers.

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.

When PLX Devices sent us a press release on Tuesday regarding their "Brianwave Interface for iPad/iPhone/iPod" we realized one thing: whatever it was, it didn't do spell checking.

Hipsters, hustlers, celebrities, thieves, dope peddlers and just about everyone else in gritty, quirky Venice Beach know Boston Dawna.

Maybe the language lovers who looked up "refudiate" this summer wanted to refute or repudiate its existence as a real word.

At least, as far as we know, this teenager was not violating another law: texting while driving.

The University of Baltimore is offering a new class on the undead. The course is being taught by Arnold Blumberg, the author of a book on zombie movies, "Zombiemania," and the curator of Geppi's Entertainment Museum, which focuses on American pop culture.

It's not unusual for Google to modify the Doodle on their homepage. Normally just a Google logo, they change it to fit various events, like anniversaries, birthdays, and the like.

A Florida Post Office manager was forced to apologize to offended employees after she baked a cake that resembled human feces because her office received a bad score from a mystery shopper.

It's the kind of thing that would make Bart Simpson proud. The Seattle Department of Transportation,however, is not laughing after one of their construction signs in West Seattle was hacked to read "Eat My Shorts".

Baseball fans have long been warned to look out for foul balls and flying bats. Now add falling letters to the list.

Firefighters saved the lives of four giant tortoises after a fire at an Austrian Zoo by strapping oxygen masks onto them.

A FINNISH court is to hear a sexual molestation case against a doctor who says he sucked a patient's nipple to diagnose a medical problem in accordance with an old midwives' trick.