Jobseekers in Australia will undergo character checks and could be refused employment if they were bullies at school.

Authorities in Washington state were searching Thursday afternoon for a tiger reportedly prowling the outskirts of Tacoma.

A Wisconsin man whose camcorder was briefly stolen has found a way to get back at the suspected thief: He uploaded to YouTube a video that the suspect took

An Iowa man stopped outside a Dubuque bar with a small zebra and a parrot in his truck has been charged with drunken driving.

Dirty clothes have a Pittsburgh-area police officer in hot water.

Computer auto-correct technology has left many adults unable to spell simple words such as "definitely" and "separate," a British survey has found.

Jodie Foster may have seen proof of alien worlds in the 1997 film "Contact," but the real-life astronomer her character is based on didn't find so much as a

A South Carolina man was shocked to find a giant snake in his backyard Tuesday.

When SpaceX made its historic launch Tuesday, it beamed into space the ashes of actor James Doohan, who played Scotty on "Star Trek" for nearly 40 years.

Cab driver Leonard Lavender has become something of a local celebrity in the Philadelphia area due to his penchant for singing opera to his passengers, many of

A Facebook video described by one YouTube listener as "Christian rock, but with Facebook in the place of God" is making the rounds online.

Two men, dressed in wigs and sunglasses and armed with pepper spray, attempted to steal $115,000 in chips from a Las Vegas casino -- but were foiled by

A scammer who dressed up as his dead mom so he could collect her Social Security benefits will instead be checking into state prison for up to 41 years after

A buxom 29-year-old New Jersey woman claims managers at an intimate apparel shop in New York told her to tape down her breasts, then fired her because she was

At least this diamond wasn't forever.