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MARK MORAN / THE CITIZENS' VOICE Duane Peter and four others are accused of instigating a riot in 2010 at the State Correctional Institution at Dallas.

"Weird Al" Yankovic has been the king of parody for 30 years, outlasting and, in some cases, outselling the artists he's sent up.

Steven Spielberg attends "Transformers: Age Of Extinction" New York Premiere at Ziegfeld Theater on June 25, 2014 in New York City.

If you've seen a lot of long-haired men on Alaska's Kodiak Island, this might be the reason.

In an industry where consumers pay as much as hundreds of dollars for a pair of ripped jeans, one Japanese brand claims to have What are described as "the only jeans on earth designed by dangerous animals," Zoo Jeans have been distressed by one Japanese zoo's most ferocious residents.

When a woman's pickup stalled on a street in Santa Fe, New Mexico, local chef Jackson Ault stopped to lend a hand.

A valet of the five-star Le Meridien hotel in New Delhi lost control of a client's Lamborghini in a parking area this week and smashed the car worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, narrowly missing several pedestrians along the way.

Some parts of the story are still in dispute, but all parties seem to agree on one fact: Michael Boyer, the first man in Spokane, Wash., to legally purchase recreational marijuana on Tuesday, has his job back.

No, the United States military isn't trying to build a force of centenarians. It just seems that way after the Selective Service System mistakenly sent notices to more than 14,000 Pennsylvania men born between 1893 and 1897, ordering them to register for the nation's military draft and warning that failure to do so is "punishable by a fine and ... (more)

"Sexting," the exchange of explicit messages, has become a popular phenomenon among teens, but unfortunately for one young man in Virginia, it could lead him behind bars.

Los Gatos-based Green Canary has been painting lawns that have turned brown due to a lack of water.

It was only a couple of weeks ago, convicted felon Jeremy Meeks rose to fame over his dreamy mugshot .

When Catrina McGhaw signed a lease on a house in Ferguson, Mo., she didn't think to ask whether she'd be living in a former torture chamber.

Police in the Maine town of Oakland are looking for a pig that threatened two children walking through the woods.

The freak accident Wednesday prompted temporary suspension of construction of the controversial Marine Transfer Station on the Upper East Side.

The blooms so far are "low-key" with yellow anthers sticking out, Joe Mooney, a spokesman for Matthaei Botanical Gardens, said Wednesday.

The 16-minute clip, which is believed to have been shot at the Ansonia Hotel building in New York City in 1999, was posted online by the National Enquirer on Tuesday night.

An upstate New York judge has been indicted on nine charges related to a reported attack last summer that authorities now say he fabricated.

If Tom Cruise made a movie that somehow merged his roles in Top Gun, Mission Impossible, and Minority Report, this would be the aircraft he'd be flying.

A 4-year-old Russian blue cat named Kush is being quarantined after apparently going berserk inside a central Florida home, prompting its owners to call 911.