Condo developer Larry Hall said he has already sold nearly half of the upscale “doomsday” units he is building in an underground Cold War-era missile silo near Salina, Kan. Hall told an Agence France-Presse reporter in April that his...

In April, a research ship will begin surveying the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off of Nova Scotia as the first step toward building a $300 million private fiber-optic line connecting New York and London financial markets so as to speed up current...

In March in New Port Richey, Fla., Mishelle Salzgeber, 20, was arrested after failing a drug test (passing the test had been a condition of her probation for an undisclosed crime). Apparently, Salzgeber knew that she would probably fail on her own...

In Butte, Mont., in February, John Hughes, 55, was fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to reckless driving for leading police on a middle-of-the-night car chase exceeding 100 mph. After police deflated his car's tires and arrested him, an officer asked...

According to police in Lake Ariel, Pa., alleged burglar Christopher Wallace had loaded his van with goodies from a home's first floor. But instead of calling it a night, he re-entered the house to check out the second floor. Reportedly, Wallace was later...

In Everett, Wash., in January, sheriff's detectives told The Herald that they had recently tracked down a 21-year-old man who confessed to stealing checks from people's mailboxes in Lynnwood, Wash., and then forging signatures...

In March, Jason Bacon, 41, was arrested in Eureka, Calif., after he allegedly responded to a classified ad for a used motorcycle by offering to trade about $8,000 worth of his homegrown marijuana for the bike. According to an officer on the scene...

In Houston in November, LaDondrell Montgomery, 36, had been sentenced to life in prison for armed robbery, despite vigorous protestations of his innocence. About a week later, in December, he was, in fact, exonerated. During Montgomery's...

A captain for Pakistan International Airlines made an interesting revenue-enhancing decision, according to a February report by the Indo-Asian News Service. Airline officials apparently overbooked Flight PK 303 from Lahore to Karachi by two...

Jim Preacher, mayor of the town of Norway, S.C., was pulled over by a state trooper in January for speeding. Preacher was unable to convince the trooper that his speeding was necessary in the performance of one of his duties, and their encounter...

Bill Robinson, 66, of Decatur, Ga., was arrested on a misdemeanor firearm charge in December for gathering holiday mistletoe in the "best way" he knew how—shooting it out of a tree with a 12-gauge shotgun. The fact that the tree was in the parking lot...

Not One Second Longer: In December, a man identified as Antonio C., 99, filed for divorce from his wife of 77 years, Rosa C., age 96, in Rome, Italy. According to an ANSA news agency report, Antonio became upset when he discovered decades-old...

Dozens of religious leaders in India's Karnataka state are protesting the annual Hindu ritual in which lower-caste people roll around in the food leftovers of upper-caste people. "Hundreds" performed the exercise at temples, according to a January...

Tyechia Rembert, 33, was arrested and charged with robbing a Burger King drive-thru cashier in York, Pa., in December. Reportedly, Rembert made it easy on police officers investigating the case. Allegedly, after her clean getaway...

Tyechia Rembert, 33, was arrested and charged with robbing a Burger King drive-thru cashier in York, Pa., in December. Reportedly, Rembert made it easy on police officers investigating the case. Allegedly, after her clean getaway...

So much "weird" news just involves different people caught in the middle of the same old weirdness. Once again this week, check out recent recurring themes, as well as an important update of a previous story...

Bad Shots: (1) A 20-year-old woman was shot in Vilas County, Wis., in July; deputy sheriff Ty Peterson (a relative of the woman) thought he was shooting at a cougar. (2) An 85-year-old man was shot in the face in Augusta, Ga...

To get to their school, 80 children (aged 6 to 17) in the mountaintop village of Pili, China, near the borders with Tajikistan and Afghanistan, make a 120-mile journey that includes 50 miles on foot or by camel. Dangerous parts of the route include...

Moammar Gadhafi may have been the last of the "buffoon dictators," BBC News noted in October. His legend was earned not merely with his now-famous scrapbook of photos of Condoleezza Rice. Wrote a BBC reporter, "One day (Gadhafi) was a...

In October, Brent Morgan, 20, was arrested in Prince George, British Columbia, and charged with three counts related to the attempted theft of a Corvette. After spotting the car in a driveway, Morgan jumped in and locked the doors...

Freemon Seay, 38, was arrested in Thurston County, Wash., in October on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after disciplining his 16-year-old daughter for leaving home without his approval. Seay allegedly forced the girl to suit...

The thief who made off with the valuable lamp from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Winson Green, England, in October might well return to the building soon—for confession. Clearly visible on the surveillance video inside was...

"My ultimate dream is to be buried in a deep ocean close to where penguins live," explained Alfred David, 79, known in his native Belgium as "Monsieur Pingouin" (Mr. Penguin), so named because a 1968 auto accident left him with...

In July, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) office in Roseville, Calif., was closed for a week after a driving school student crashed into the building and left a 4-foot-by-5-foot hole in the wall. In August in Brisbane, Australia, a young man...

The recently released update of the official index for classifying medical conditions—for research, quality control and insurance claims—replaced the current 18,000 codes with 140,000 much more specific ones, set to take effect in October 2013...