Police in Bay City, Michigan, reported that a 12-year-old boy who had come to a local mall to sit on the Easter Bunny’s lap returned the next day and punched the Bunny repeatedly in the face. Bryan Johnson, who plays…

Last week I reported that Butte, Montana, was apparently plagued by leprechauns around St. Patrick’s Day. This week it’s pirates in Louisiana. Police in New Iberia said they had arrested a man in connection with the robbery of a Food…

A clerk at the Front Street Laundromat in Butte, Montana, reported that he was robbed on Wednesday night (the night before St. Patrick’s Day) by a leprechaun. Police reports stated that a man wearing a fake beard, mustache, plastic derby…

Here’s an idea: if you “like to party,” calling attention to that fact while driving might not be so smart. Josiah Johnson admitted that his license plate, which reads “TIPSY,” might have tipped off a sheriff’s deputy who pulled him…

Marlene Jennings, a member of Canada’s parliament, apologized recently for suggesting on March 8 that Canada should publicly embarrass the US in retaliation for perceived US failures to adhere to trade treaties. “Let’s embarrass the hell out of the Americans…

A man in La Crosse, Wisconsin, who is pushing the state legislature to allow cat hunting says he has received a number of death threats since his campaign began. The man, who would probably prefer that his name not be…

Aggressive prosecutors in Bentonville, Arkansas, sent out subpoenas to anyone who had any type of contact with defendant Albert K. Smith while he was in jail awaiting trial. That included one “Murphy Smith,” to whom Albert had written a letter…

A woman identified only as “Mina” has requested a divorce from her husband of eight years (they’ve been married eight years, he’s not eight years old), on the grounds that he has not bathed in more than a year. The…

Previously I reported on the apparent lack of legal disputes in Nebraska, which had freed up that state’s supreme court to find time to vacate the death sentence of a dog. Today we learn that things are also slow in…

Occasionally a story will come along that must be written about, but poses a challenge to the writer in terms of writing about it in a way that will not creep out readers (or writer) excessively. This is such a…