(Video Link) Plenty of people have pet guard dogs, but not many can say their pet bird is also a guard animal. Fortunately, Jack Dukes does because Charlie, his parrot, managed to rescue him from burglars trying to g...

Christopher Anspach of Newton, Iowa, was sentenced to serve ten days in jail after he pleaded guilty to not returning books and other media to the Newton Public Library. He checked out the items earlier this year and fai...

The following is an article from Uncle John's Endl...  ...sidebar in what is still one of the most horrible crime stories in American history ...and an unsolved my...

A man entered Eastern Bank in South Boston with the intention to rob it Thursday, but left empty-handed. He went to a teller and presented a note demanding money, but she said her window was closed. The unidentified man...

The Smoking Gun has a great game in the "Time Wast...  ...match mug shots  of  alleged criminals with the crime they were arrested for. If you like it, there are...

Bernie Madoff is serving time in a federal prison for running the largest Ponzi scheme ever. The U.S. Marshals Service held an auction of Madoff's possessions to recoup some of the losses. Frederick James designs bought...

The people I know in college always add their favorite professors on Facebook, but if they were still in high school and happened to live in Missouri, that would be completely against the law. Granted, it's a little ques...

An inflated sculpture named "Is Land" was deployed at the Secret Garden Party music festival in Cambridgeshire, England. The £9,000 helium-filled sculpture is seven meters wide and looks like a chunk of land with grass...

If you think crime is bad in your neighborhood these days, ask yours...

(Video Link) I'd like to point out that while it's obvious these are some seriously wussy robbers, this is also one tough little chihuahua. Via BoingBoing...