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Assuming this is all true, it's not the first time an outsourced worker in India has been guilty of using personal info from U.S. citizens for financial gain.

Typically, when you drive through even the smallest of towns, you'll likely see a police station and a fire house of some sort.

An Army National Guardsman says he owes his life to a pair of dogs he had to leave behind in Afghanistan.

A 21-year-old New Jersey man was sentenced to jail Friday for vomiting on another spectator and his 11-year-old daughter in the stands at a Philadelphia Phillies game.

A central Iowa teen has earned the nickname "The Deer Magnet" after hitting five deer in the past year.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - A Florida inmate is suing the man he's convicted of burglarizing, claiming the man and two others roughed him up during a citizen's arrest.

Gabourey Sidibe has said she is still pinching herself over her unexpected fame.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a giant hailstone that fell in central South Dakota has broken U.S. records, even though the man who found it says it melted somewhat while waiting to be evaluated.

A cell phone store manager in South Florida dissuaded an armed man from robbing the store by telling him Jesus wouldn't approve.

You may have heard that Ron Bowes, a security researcher, snagged the information of 100 million Facebook users, and not by hacking either, but simply by accessing their publicly available data using a Web crawler.

Sen. John Kerry does not have a history of explaining things well. Kerry probably did nothing wrong when he bought a yacht, tax-free, in Rhode Island, but he allowed the story to spiral out of control.

A tomcat called Timothy has stunned animal carers by turning up more than 800 miles from his home - a year after he went missing.

"Weird Al" Yankovic, perhaps the most versatile musician of the past 30 years, packed Denver's Paramount Theatre Thursday night, proving once and for all that polka can make anything funny.

That somewhat pithy statement above is one of the tidbits gleaned at a daylong Microsoft meeting with analysts on Thursday.

A South Carolina woman found out fast food won't make your car go fast. The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to police after she took her car to a Rock Hill mechanic last week because it would suddenly stop running.

A man listed as the oldest living male in Tokyo in fact died some 30 years ago, city officials said after his body was found mummified in his bed.

A Chesapeake coin shop is displaying what experts say is one of the most famous baseball cards in American history, the Honus Wagner T206.

A rural east Texas man has been reunited with his long-lost gun more than two decades after it was stolen.

A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill - described as the teeth that saved the world - sold at auction Thursday for 15,200 pounds The upper dentures, one of several sets specially made for the wartime prime minister, were crucial for maintaining his distinctively slurred speaking style famous from World War ...

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