Posted: 06/16/2013 - An elderly dog depicted in a photo that gained widespread acclaim online has quietly turned 20.

Posted: 06/14/2013 - Parking is such a precious commodity in Boston that one woman was willing to pay $560,000 for two off-street spaces near her home.

Posted: 06/11/2013 - A Jersey shore town is hoping to put a problem behind it. Wildwood is set to pass a law prohibiting overly saggy jeans that show underwear or skin when worn on the boardwalk.

Posted: 06/10/2013 - UPDATED: The historic Milwaukee bowling alley and bar that had to take dozens of bras down from a ceiling is holding a party to rehang them all.

Posted: 06/06/2013 - "Metal Gear Solid" creator Hideo Kojima says Kiefer Sutherland will play protagonist Snake in the next installment of the stealth video game series.

Posted: 06/04/2013 - A New Mexico city commission has agreed to allow a Canadian studio to search an old landfill where old, terrible Atari games are rumored to be buried.

Posted: 06/03/2013 - Inmates at Russia's prisons have been known to bribe guards to obtain cellphones, but this may be the first time they have used a cat as an accomplice.

Updated: 05/28/2013 - UW-Madison Police are searching for eight missing koi that appear to have been stolen from the Botany Gardens.

Posted: 05/24/2013 - Many drivers and others in Madison have seen the individual known as the 'Thong Cape Scooter Man.' Police recently described some interaction with him after he was seen driving near a school.

Posted: 05/20/2013 - Milwaukee Pug Fest, billed by organizers as the largest such event in North America, had its best year yet.

Posted: 05/17/2013 - It will be one busy weekend for a northeastern Wisconsin family. Triplets Stephanie, Kyle and Ashley Verhasselt, of Freedom, will receive their undergraduate degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in three separate commencement ceremonies.

Posted: 05/13/2013 - It may not be unusual for schoolchildren to write to the president or vice president. But one Wisconsin boy got an unexpected response. The 7-year-old wrote a letter to Vice President Joe Biden and other officials a few months ago with a simple idea for making the world safer.

Posted: 05/10/2013 - A report of gunshots on the campus of a La Crosse technical college drew an immediate response from heavily-armed police officers who found the sound was nothing more than balloons popping during a class project.

Posted: 05/10/2013 - A Durango area couple is giving up their fight to keep a 13-foot escape route for their cats outside their Colorado apartment.

Those scratch-and-sniff cards the energy company sends to customers to teach them to recognize the artificial smell added to natural gas? Turns out they work pretty well.