Charlotte News

A puppy is being hailed as a hero after saving her best friend this week from a swarm of bees.

Indonesia's smoking toddler has kicked the habit.

A Hawaiian plant species thought to be extinct has been found on the Big Island.

The recipient of a rare double hand transplant says he feels "fantastic" and can wiggle fingers on both his new hands.

Two young goats wandered onto the thin ledge of a railroad bridge and spent nearly two days high above the ground until rescuers in a towering cherry picker plucked them from their perch, hungry but safe.

For a second time, an Ohio woman has given birth to a baby who couldn't wait and arrived on the drive to the hospital.

Baby carrot farmers are launching a campaign that pitches the little, orange, crunchy snacks as daring, fun and naughty - just like junk food.

Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed a 3,000-year-old Iron Age temple with a trove of figurines of ancient deities and circular clay vessels used for religious rituals, officials said Wednesday.

A homeless man who called 911 from the hot tub of a suburban Portland home and asked for towels, hot chocolate and a hug got arrested for trespassing instead.

Lawrence Meinwald's voice starts shaking when he recalls the first time he saw the Statue of Liberty.

Electronic cigarettes that look like the real thing and but don't contain tobacco are gaining steam despite calls for a ban of the battery-powered devices.

A wandering Missouri goat whose exploits have been chronicled on a popular Facebook page has been captured. KXEO reported that a man named Mervin Beechy noticed the goat Tuesday afternoon while he was driving around the eastern Missouri town of Mexico.

A hiker on Blewett Pass shot himself in the butt when he put a handgun in his back pocket.

Forget "Fore!"

A woman didn't know her husband was mentally ill when they got married. What should she do now?

Snoozing Nigerian federal employees who reported late to work have gotten a rude awakening.

Secretly recorded cell phone footage has exposed a teacher at a Catholic boarding school in northeastern Thailand who whacked dozens of students on the buttocks with a cane wrapped with electrical wire.

Antoine Dodson's angry, head-shaking TV interview about an attempted rape against his younger sister in her bed has turned into a chart-topping iTunes song and YouTube hit and made the 24-year-old Alabama college student an Internet sensation.

An emerald so large it's being compared with the crown jewels of Russian empress Catherine the Great was pulled from a pit near corn rows at a North Carolina farm.

A judge removed a juror from a trial in suburban Detroit after the young woman wrote on Facebook that the defendant was guilty. The problem? The trial wasn't over.