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A 51-year-old woman was hospitalized after being stung about 1,000 times during a bee attack in a Southern California neighborhood.

An Oklahoma man says he wound up stuck in a storm drain for two days because he was chasing after a $20 bill.

That's right: a new study by researchers from Purdue University showed that rather than being courteous, you are actually doing harm to a man's self-esteem and self-confidence by holding the door open for him.

Kyle Trevor Flack, 28, is charged with capital murder, first-degree murder, attempted rape and criminal possession of a firearm in the deaths of four people, including a young Olathe mother and her 18-month-old daughter, last spring at a farm outside of Ottawa, Kan.

A Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777-200 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing lost contact with air control and went missing more than a hour after it took off in the early hours of Saturday, March 8, 2014.

The shark was officially jumped when billionaire Mark Cuban - yeah, he of Shark Tank fame - compared Bitcoin to buying and selling baseball cards.

Don't call them hot dogs and don't ask for ketchup. Those are the cardinal rules at Olneyville New York System, arguably the best-known Rhode Island spot for one of the state's signature dishes: hot wieners.

When Samira Mbotizafy Frasch arrived in Tallahassee four years ago from France, she told her new friends about a glamorous past where she modeled for a top agency in Paris and attended the prestigious University of Paris-Sud, known for its math studies.

's president was overthrown, the cradle of the uprising is a surreal place as children play alongside diehard protesters still dressed in combat gear.

After becoming international sensations two weeks ago when the judges ran out of words, Kush and Sophia Hoffman met again Saturday for a chance to go to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The investigation into the death of a woman at her house in an upscale enclave of Tallahassee has dragged on for two weeks with no answers.

Editor's Note: Patch has 31 sites in Virginia and D.C., and more than 900 across the country.

Shortly after having a steak purchased at a local Walmart, 24-year-old Ronnie Morales felt ill, according to multiple reports.

Neighbors say Pia Farrenkopf didn't talk to anyone and traveled extensively. Combine that with the fact, her bills were being paid by an auto-draft from her bank, and no one noticed she was dead.

The high court ruled that cuts in education funding since 2010 led to an unconstitutionally imbalanced playing field between rich and poor schools.

Maybe the you-know-what-nut put food mashups on the map, but we think the turducken deserves all the credit.

The mother of 16-year-old Tabitha Brewer and the daughter of 71-year-old Shirley McKeown never got to bury their loved ones because their bodies were never found.

There appears to be another arcane world record in Grand Rapids, this time for the most people wearing sunglasses at night.

The sizzle. The smell. The promise of bacon is enough to get most of us out of bed.

President Obama botched a very popular song lyric - and one that's pretty easy to remember if you know how to spell - last night at the White House's "Women of Soul" performance, the AP reports.