New York City has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a federal lawsuit filed by a couple arrested for dancing on a subway platform, officials said. The settlement puts an end to the lawsuit Caroline Stern, 55, and her boyfriend, George Hess, 54, filed last year for their July 2011 arrest, for...

Executives at Walmart say the shoe dropped for a group of employees seen on video throwing and intentionally dropping new iPads at a Kentucky store. An unspecified number of nightshift workers at the Pikeville store were shown the door after a video showing their antics hit the...

More than 55,000 users have unliked Republican nominee Mitt Romney”s Facebook page since he conceded the U.S. presidential election Tuesday. Users have been unliking the former Massachusetts governor”s page at a rate of almost 850 an hour since about 11:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday, The...

A former New York teacher made a tidy living pinching gourmet food from restaurant delivery trucks, a friend said after his arrest. Charles Ross was arrested this week for allegedly stealing steaks, lobster, salmon and boxes of shrimp off trucks making the rounds at high-end Manhattan...

A group of Harvard students say they aren’t sure what happened to the first hamburger to be launched into space, but they suspect a squirrel made off with it. The burger was carried into space last month aboard a helium balloon and was missing from its container when the balloon fell...

Chaos erupted at a Manhattan sushi restaurant Friday night when gasoline being carried in a soy sauce container caught fire, authorities said. Three staff members were injured in the flash fire at ENO, which broke out when a worker carried two 5-gallon soy sauce containers filled with gasoline...

The Detroit Police Department’s Eastern District building was evacuated after a person walked in holding a grenade. The unnamed visitor entered the building Friday afternoon and announced, “Look what I found,” Detroit Police spokeswoman Eren Stephens said. The incident...

A Spanish toy company is raising controversy with a doll designed to suckle from a specially made halter top to be worn by young girls. The Breast Milk Baby doll, made by Berjuan Toys, is designed to teach young girls about breastfeeding and comes with a halter top that contains sensors sewn...

A mail carrier walked past the body of a Denver man who collapsed and died on his front porch without attempting to help, family members said. The family of Dale Porch, 46, said the man collapsed on his front porch after being dropped off from work at the Regional Transportation District early...

Italy’s Radical Party called a sit-in for Friday in front of the parliament building in Rome to demand the decriminalization of medical marijuana cultivation. Rita Bernardini, a member of Parliament from the Radical Party, carried marijuana plants and handed out “samples”...

Officials in a Minnesota school district said a middle school student told to retrieve an object from a roadside by a school bus driver brought back a gun. Tia Clasen, spokeswoman for the Robbinsdale schools said the bus driver made an unscheduled stop in Minneapolis Thursday morning when he...

Police in Minnesota said an Iowa man was arrested for allegedly fondling the breasts of his 8-year-old son’s psychologist. St. Paul police said Brent Todd Friest, 39, a Radcliffe, Iowa, pig farmer, was consulting with the specialist Wednesday at United Hospital when he commented that...

Police in Manhattan Beach, Calif., said they were looking for whoever dumped a dead pig in a Mitt Romney T-shirt outside a Republican Party campaign office. The pig was discovered outside of the office early Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. Copyright 2012 by United Press...

The mayor of Ankara, Turkey, Melih Gokcek, said he has sued 600 of his Twitter followers because they insulted him on the website. Gokcek, who has 367,995 followers on the microblogging site, said most of those who insulted him are in legal trouble, the Hurriyet Daily News reported...

Chinese authorities said they have uncovered a stash of 10,000 bottles of suspected counterfeit wine that would be worth about $16 million if it was authentic. Police in Wenzhou, south of Shanghai, said the bottles labeled Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, a popular wine with China’s wealthy,...

Police in France allege a man posed as a police officer to con an ex-girlfriend out of her monthly salary. Investigators said the 50-year-old suspect, a security guard from the Cotes-d’Armor region in the northeastern part of the country, convinced the ex-girlfriend to give him her...

A U.S. blogger captured screenshots of a briefly live website apparently created by Mitt Romney’s staffers in case he won the presidential election. Taegan Goddard, proprietor of the Political Wire blog, said the transition website created by the Romney campaign was apparently put online...

Airline Norwegian Air Shuttle said its website had to temporarily shut down due to customers rushing to get cheap tickets from Sweden to New York. The carrier said the tickets, which the airline announced would start at less than $150 Thursday, led to an influx of customers overloading the...

San Francisco animal rescuers said a puppy stolen from an adoption center was recovered and the woman seen with her was busted on a drug charge. Krista Maloney, spokeswoman for the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, said a terrier mix puppy named Violet was stolen...

An Indiana middle school student said his lost phone led to a prank that convinced students and teachers at his school he was dead. Michael Sinkfield, 14, who attends Riverside Junior High in Fishers, said he lost his phone Friday and many of his friends then received text messages from the...

It turns out Barack Obama and Mitt Romney were born in Kenya, and it on was Election Day, when a woman gave birth to twins and named them after the candidates. Millicent Owour, 20, of Siaya, Kenya, said of her newborn sons at Siaya District Hospital, “I named the first twin Barack and...

An Italian website said its survey of the country’s students indicates math is the subject learners loathe most, followed by Latin and Italian. Studenti.it said 38 percent of students using the website picked math as their least favorite subject, while 16 percent chose Latin and 9...

The owner of a Pittsburgh tattoo parlor said she found covering her shop’s floor with pennies was cheaper than buying tile. Mel Angst, owner of the Artisan tattoo shop, said she and a team of helpers spent about 300 hours gluing 250,000 pennies to the floor of her store, the New York...

Police in Florida said an officer who attempted to purchase ammunition to hide the fact that he lost 40 rounds was suspended for five weeks. The Coral Springs Police Department said officials received a call in June from the bullet company saying an order placed by Louis Coldros, 44, was being...

Animal control authorities in New Mexico said they do not know how a tortoise ended up 50 miles away from where it vanished from its owner’s home. Authorities said the African spurred tortoise was reported missing from its home in Alamogordo and turned up a week and a half later crossing...

A Michigan high school athletic director said his team may forfeit two victories because a 21-year-old man posed as a student to play on the football team. Mount Pleasant High School Athletic Director Jim Conway said his team and their parents are frustrated they might have to give up their...

A 106-year-old South Carolina woman who voted for the very first time in the presidential election said she felt “all right” after casting her ballot. Gladys Miller of Spartanburg County cast her vote Tuesday at the Swofford Career Center near the Fingerville community after...

A 9-year-old Ukrainian boy spent nearly $4,000 on candy in several days, the money coming from his parents’ savings hidden in a couch. “The disappearance [of the money] was first spotted by his father. He opened the stash and saw it was empty,” said Tatyana Kushnerova of the...

A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin said rules are needed to govern use of Twitter and other social networking sites by government officials. Putin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday there should be clear rules for use of the websites by Russian officials after media outlets...

Police in Washington state said a commercial pilot was unable to make a scheduled flight when he was arrested for allegedly trying to steal a car. Joe Haley, 66, told police he was getting into his rental car Monday night at a hotel in SeaTac when a man climbed into the vehicle’s back...