The mayor of a mile-high town in Utah will keep his job for another two years after "forgetting" to inform residents that it was time to hold municipal elections.

An Ohio bank is refusing to reimburse a Vinton County woman whose house they unjustly repossessed while she was out of town.

The three-bedroom ranch-style home overlooking Lake Worth had been in David Underwood's family for decades, so it struck him as rather odd that he was having a hard time locating it after returning to Fort Worth from an out-of-town trip with his wife.

The U.S. Park Service has its very own police force, consisting of hundreds of officer patrolling national parks and keeping the public safe. Also, they've lost track of more than a thousand deadly weapons. You can't have it all, okay?

Last night, Yahoo rushed to post news of "The Office" star John Krasinski's addition to the "Arrested Development" cast for its upcoming Netflix run. Instead, Yahoo ended up laying bare its prejudices against Johns the world over.

After 9/11, the US Navy launched a massive program to build a "Littoral Combat Ship" that could fight submarines, clear underwater mines, and perform other tasks close to shore, because, um... you never know where the terrorists might be, with snorkels. Astoundingly, it appears more and more like this boondoggle has…

Because someone will sue you, and you'll be forced to pay it.

A Russian ship carrying 700 tons of gold ore has gone missing. The pirate's booty was on board a ship sailing from Neran to Feklistov Island in the Sea of Okhotsk.

Dunno, maybe it was just me, but did you guys notice something a little... I don't know... off, about Sequoia Middle School's latest newsletter?

It's been a while since we last heard about a loaded gun slipping past the watchful eyes and groping, toy-taking hands of TSA's diaper-busting agents and making it onto an airplane. We thought that maybe the agency had patched up that minor security breach issue, or something. Nope!

This elk, of Gothenburg, Sweden, has a problem. His girlfriend broke up with him and he lost his job in ER (Elk Resources) all in the same day. What's an elk who's fallen hard, and I mean hard, on his luck to do but give in to the demons and drink his suffering away? We've all been there so enough with the quiet…

Possibly peaked Michele Bachmann has been hanging out in Florida sandwich shops these past few days to talk about how she might change the $7.25-an-hour federal minimum wage, if she becomes president. She'd impose living wages for everyone—especially sandwich shop workers!

While getting blotto at some Bayview, Idaho bar the other day, 28-year-old white supremacist Daren C. Abbey allegedly threatened and tried to fight Marlon L. Baker, an African-American and rumored "champion" of the Spokane Boxing Club. Bet he regrets that now.

Back in the aughts, actor and former jeans model Jack Scalia set up charities to benefit both 9/11 victims and military vets. The charities raised some money, but apparently distributed less than they received. Where did all the money go? Scalia doesn't know—he was busy.

Back in 2009—long before Anthony Weiner sexted his way out of political office and into an ice-creamy crucible of regret and derailed dreams, Louisiana pol Joe Stagni texted a chest-pic of himself to a colleague. Now the pic's resurfaced, because that's just how sextpics operate.

Nuclear submarine secrets were exposed in poorly "redacted" documents on a British government website. It turns out all you need to beat 007's team these days are some copy and paste skills.

If you complain about another user's misbehavior, Flickr might accidentally delete your 4,000 photos forever instead of the other guy's account. It's too bad the Yahoo division hasn't fixed its longstanding deletion problem, but at least it's apologizing now!

Ignore those texts from Facebook instructing you to call 911; they're a Verizon glitch. The ones asking for bank information and incriminating photos, however, remain very important and should be obeyed like any other SMS from a stranger.

A United Airlines pilot's coffee accident forced the emergency landing of a Boeing 777 when communications and navigation systems malfunctioned. Luckily all 241 passengers were fine, though it took them an extra day to get to Europe.