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Sure, Han Solo is used to having a price on his head. But now, instead of being pursued by the galaxy's most infamous bounty hunters, he's the target of geeks hoping to get their hands on his famed blaster.

Police say a woman fighting with her ex-girlfriend hit another woman on the head with a set of nunchucks.

Police in Pennsylvania are investigating a complaint concerning a ghost hunt that went bust after a police officer mistakenly thought it was a burglary in progress.

A Kentucky woman whose van is plastered with political signs and trinkets has won a costly fight to have a $56 traffic ticket tossed in New Jersey.

So here's a mystery for the holiday season: someone is leaving enormous, four- and five-figure tips on small checks at restaurants all over the country.

A Fairbanks man looking for a piece of pie the day after Thanksgiving has been charged with felony burglary and assault.

Authorities said the incident occurred around 8:45 a.m. Saturday at the bus stop in front of University Village on University Avenue between 25th Avenue and 26th Avenue SE.

A Florida movie theater filled with families eagerly anticipating a viewing of Disney's hit holiday season release " Frozen " got an eyeful of something much steamier.

IN a scene that could be from Downton Abbey After Dark, Edward William Bright of the Richland County, South Carolina Bright, and another man are debating the crockery.

Elwood, the Chihuahua and Chinese Crested mix whose unusual appearance won him the 2007 title of World's Ugliest Dog, has died unexpectedly at the age of 8, his owner said on Saturday.

A truck driver from Utah is accused of holding a 19-year-old relative against her will while the two traveled across country.

Police on Monday searched the home of an Independence man who was jailed overnight in the case of a suspicious death outside Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday.

It wasn't exactly the Great Escape, but a prisoner in Sweden is making international headlines for his unique prison break out.

Sitting beneath about four feet of garbage in an area of a Welsh landfill the size of a football field sits a fortune - in the form of a computer hard drive that James Howells threw out this summer while cleaning up his workspace.

The sounds of children playing on a Lebanon Avenue sidewalk Saturday afternoon didn't curb a shooter.

A brazen bird snatched a video camera that was recording crocodiles in northwest Australia and captured fascinating footage of its 110-kilometer journey across the country's remote landscape.

A man was fatally injured in a fight after he was caught in someone else’s vehicle outside Arrowhead Stadium during the Chiefs-Broncos game Sunday.

The two officers involved in Friday's police-involved shooting that sent one man to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries have been identified.

In this Nov. 24, 2013 photo provided by George Loegering is a large spinning circle of bits of ice that Loegering spotted in North Dakota's Sheyenne River while out hunting with friends.

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