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Here's a weird twist in the brave new world of electric cars: A driver ended up in jail on theft charges after plugging into a school's outlet without permission.

The group started to nurture the state's craft brewing industry announced the goal Wednesday and hopes to achieve it during the Beer Dabbler Winter Carnival on Jan. 25 at the state fairgrounds.

Fire Capt. Barrett Baker told KVOA that the dog ignited a burner with his paw while trying to jump up on the kitchen counter.

Find your rabbit's foot ladies and gentlemen, with a little luck you could be the proud owner of a Pablo Picasso original worth $1 million ... for just 130 bucks.

It was all thanks to a 4-foot pocket of air in the boat, which sank off the coast of Nigeria.

It was all thanks to a 4-foot pocket of air in the boat, which sank off the coast of Nigeria.

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.