He has never worked outside the home or seen a doctor, and until Wednesday, he had never left his remote mountain village in western Nepal. So 72-year-old Chandra Bahadur Dangi only recently learned he might be the world's shortest man.

Police say an unloaded gun has been found inside a piano that was donated to a southeast Michigan nursing home years ago.

A man accused of dealing drugs had his luck run out when he won $2,500 playing blackjack at a casino near Philadelphia.

The vice president is hitting the road - to what the White House wrote as "Road Island," mistakenly spelled R-O-A-D instead of R-H-O-D-E.

Georgia authorities say a commuter bus driver is recovering after being stabbed repeatedly with a pen when he tried to break up a fight between passengers that involved a dispute over a cell phone.

A 23-year-old college student from New Mexico is scheduled to go to trial for allegedly stealing a small pumpkin worth two dollars.

An elusive emu on the lam in Vermont has been amusing residents in communities on Lake Champlain.

A stray dog is getting credit for thwarting a prison break in Paraguay.