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It didn't take Knoxville police gumshoes to track down a suspected shoe thief. He was sauntering barefoot through the parking lot of a Knoxville store called the Shoe Show Wednesday morning when an employee identified him as the man who crammed shoes into his pockets and pushed her out of his way as he walked out Tuesday night.The Knoxville News ...

S o I'm standing in front of a display of large-screen TVs in a store when a guy comes up and stands beside me.

When Lori Fowlkes first saw robotic Zhu Zhu Pets toy hamsters in September, she remembers her kids started jumping up and down and saying "Please! Please! Can we buy them?" Seeing a fully stocked shelf, she decided to hold off until Christmas.

Authorities say a man in Colorado apparently tried to steal an ATM by hauling it away with a truck.

A Massachusetts woman who recently separated from her husband and had her hours cut at work says an image of Jesus Christ she sees on her iron has reassured her that "life is going to be good." Mary Jo Coady first noticed the image Sunday when she walked into her daughter's room.

Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage - humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.

You probably have done this yourself: used your vacuum cleaner and gotten something wrapped around a rotating brush, perhaps a string. In this case a Roomba, that autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner, did the same, but with a venomous viper in Israel.

A 16-year-old Sudanese girl was subjected to 50 lashes after a judge ruled her skirt was indecent. This is the latest case to highlight the strictness of Sudan's Islamic law.

Nov 27 - "Courage", the turkey given a presidential pardon this week by U.S. President Barack Obama, is flown to its new home and given a celebratory reception at Disneyland, California.

An elderly German woman has been hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after she was crushed by an artificial Christmas tree at a Hamburg shopping center.

Blue is sometimes not an easy color to make.

A battle is brewing between some parents and the Mooresville Consolidated School Corp.

With a tiny cap that says "Marines" and a camouflage blanket wrapped around him, there is no mistaking it: tiny Walter Alan Marsh is a ...

A couple on Long Island is giving thanks Wednesday for owing no debt on their home.

A World War 2 veteran's ashes are back with his family after they weren't properly scattered from an airplane.

Three middle school students in Waltham are facing serious trouble.

Customers at one Gulf coast gas station might be surprised at who responds to the counter when they pull up to the drive-through window: The store owner's dog.

Police said a North Carolina man rammed his car into a hot dog stand when the vendor refused to sell him a hot dog and drink for a dollar.

Owner Joe Wilkins hopes to fire up this car on the Bonneville Salt Flats after he attaches a spoiler to the back.

A package for Tennessee's governor turned out not too jolly for staffers at the Capitol.