SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Red Cross plans to honor a year-old red kangaroo that works as a therapy animal at a Salt Lake City veterans home.........»»

The Body Shop is about to start pulling the plastic for some of its packaging from thin air. The eco-chic cosmetics chain -- founded 40 years ago by the late environmentalist and British socialite Anita Roddick -- said Thursday that it plans to use a spec.....»»

CHICAGO (AP) -- A convent in suburban Chicago plans to move forward with an effort to close a neighboring strip club even after a legal setback.........»»

BLAINE, Minn. (AP) -- Minnesota Vikings kicker Blair Walsh plans to visit the first-graders who sent him letters and drawings of support after he was lambasted by fans for missing a field goal that could have given his team a win in Sunday's p.....»»

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A southeastern Idaho cafeteria worker says she was fired for giving a student a free meal, but the school district offered her the job back after a national outcry.........»»

NEW YORK (AP) -- A New Yorker who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean for AIDS awareness has arrived home in Brooklyn, ending a 21-month journey. Victor Mooney arrived at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Friday and plans a ceremony at the Brooklyn Bridge on Monday, .....»»

Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne may have survived the big showdown in "The Dark Knight Rises," but he has no plans to pick up the cape once again. Certainly not in Zack Snyder's upcoming "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice."  "But wait," you might be th.....»»

When Indonesia's anti-drugs czar announced plans to guard a death-row prison island with crocodiles, the government rushed to explain that it was just a joke, but on Friday Budi Waseso said he was now thinking of using tigers and piranha fish too. When.....»»

JAKARTA (Reuters) - When Indonesia's anti-drugs czar announced plans to guard a death-row prison island with crocodiles, the government rushed to explain that it was just a joke, but on Friday Budi Waseso said he was now thinking of using tigers and piran.....»»

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- Felimina Rotundo works 11 hours day, six days a week at a Buffalo laundromat and says she has no plans to quit working even though she turned 100 two months ago.........»»

Most of us humans enjoy a well-performed piece of flute music. Or we at least tolerate it. Not this cat, though. This cat clearly does not like something about this young lady and her flute.  Credit to the flutist for being a persistent musician.....»»

AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- An Ohio runner plans to jump rope the Akron marathon in his quest for a Guinness world record.........»»

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Darth Vader's in. Santa Claus is out.........»»

BRANCHBURG, N.J. (AP) -- A New Jersey man has been indicted on burglary charges after police say he inadvertently dialed 911 and let authorities in on his plans.........»»

HARRISBURG, Pa. (Reuters) - Philadelphia police said on Monday they will not investigate the weekend vandalism that ended an experimental robot's attempted hitchhiking trip across the United States unless the Canadian universities that own it file a crimi.....»»

Beard is the new black! Bearded ladies have been a cornerstone of sideshow and regarded with awe for centuries. But what's it like being a bearded lady today, and what does it mean to join a traveling sideshow? It's all about having pride, according to fi.....»»

  You can't impress everybody -- especially not Moo, the barn cat.  A video uploaded to YouTube features 1-week-old goat kids Lady Bug and Princess Leia meeting Moo for the first time at the Sunflower Farm Creamery in Maine. While.....»»

PARIS (Reuters) - France's tobacconists are protesting plans to force cigarette companies to use plain, unbranded packaging, by disabling traffic speed cameras......»»

VAN METER, Iowa (AP) -- The small Iowa city of Van Meter has dropped plans for a raffle that would have let the winner shock an official with a stun gun.........»»

EAST DUNDEE, Ill. (AP) -- The owner of a suburban Chicago pub that has held an annual Turkey Testicle Festival for 32 years isn't testy at all that a nearby community plans to host its own celebration of the unusual dish this November.........»»