A South Dakota sheriff's deputy who was fired by his boss after defeating him in a primary race has been offered another job by the county until he assumes the sheriff's role in January.
A recent college graduate desperate to recover a family heirloom that was mistakenly left curbside as he moved out of his apartment is plastering his neighborhood with signs warning, "My mother will kill me.".
The man believed to be North Dakota's oldest mayor breezed to another term in Tuesday's election, winning unanimously in a vote that saw 100 percent turnout.
An airplane-towed banner broke loose and came down near New Jersey's statehouse, fluttering to the ground and shattering the rear windshield of a parked car.
Students from Japan and a researcher from New Zealand are among the scientists and hobbyists flocking to central New York for rare sightings of a big bug.
A Japanese wife has told police that the body she thought was of her missing husband was that of a stranger because the man came home alive a year later.
