A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma won the mayoral race Tuesday in this northeastern Oklahoma city, becoming one of the youngest mayors in the country.
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DETROIT - A Girl Scout sold 17,328 boxes of the group’s signature cookies this year by setting up shop on a street corner, shattering her troop’s old mark and probably setting a national record.
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A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter hit the books has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.
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Police in Russia are investigating after pupils stripped off their clothes, climbed walls or lay on the floor laughing after their school dinners were spiked with drugs.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow’s feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke.
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William Shatner desperately tried to avoid romancing obsessed fans - because they wanted to enact their sci-fi fantasies with the actor.
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