PALM BAY, Fla. -- A gun was found in a 5-year-old boy's backpack not long after he arrived at Palm Bay, Florida's Riviera Elementary School on Thursday.
LAS VEGAS -- Police say they're trying to find a helmet-wearing gunman who robbed one of Las Vegas' most recognizable casinos of $1.5 million in casino chips Tuesday morning -- and may also have robbed a different casino last week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Authorities shut down the subway station at the Pentagon and diverted hundreds of passengers early Wednesday while investigating a suspicious package that may have been a blinking Christmas ornament.
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- An inmate in California who disliked salami was able to receive kosher meals after his attorney cited the "Seinfeld" holiday Festivus as his religious belief.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A 71-year-old terminally ill man has been sentenced to 21 years in a California prison for rolling his wheelchair into a San Diego bank and holding it up with a replica BB gun.
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Fossils of a giant stork have been discovered on a far-flung Indonesian island that has been home to many extreme-sized creatures - from tiny human-like "hobbits" and dwarf elephants to the world's largest-known rats and lizards.
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Police said Wednesday they believe the dying pleas of a neglected, elderly woman were echoed by her parrot as they combed through her fetid home.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Baggy pants are no longer a problem at Westside Middle School in Tennessee. Westside Middle School students who let their pants sag run the risk of being "Urkeled."