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The findings could justify changes to driver insurance policies, the authors say.

Geico must pay a Missouri woman $5.2 million after she caught HPV from unprotected sex with her then-boyfriend in his insured automobile, a state appellate court ruled.

A New Jersey homeowner is apologizing and insisting "we're not a racist family at all" after a dummy hanging from gallows and a noose was spotted in his yard, KYW-TV reported . Ryan McDonald told the station the display outside his Mannington

Google Maps is meant to look up addresses, but it can also provide a window into the lives of the recently deceased.

Three years after her grandparents’ deaths, 19-year-old Luisa Hoenle looked up their old house on Google Maps. Feeling nostalgic if not a bit masochistic, the Switzerland-based art

He's attacked car salesmen and made up fake news stories, but

Fromage lattes are popular in Asia, but are they worth all the fuss?

If I were a tourist, emerging out of the 7th Street/Metro Center subway station in the heart of Downtown Los Angeles for the first time, I'd immediately duck into Little Fluffy Head Cafe, a brightly colored tea shop five blocks

How a punk-rock musician — with help from the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky — created a tarot deck thats all about Black Power.

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The first thing the legendary Chilean-French filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky said when Arish Khan arrived at his Paris apartment was “Show me your cards.” He was

Adam Papagan conducts offbeat sightseeing excursions themed around Hollywood, O.J. Simpson, and now, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills...

Here’s a shocker you’ll learn if you take the new Real Housewives of Beverly Hills driving tour: a lot of it is actually not filmed in its namesake city.

Police in Ontario, Canada, were called in to settle an altercation during a bingo game Tuesday, after a 79-year-old nursing home resident dared to encroach on a competitor's turf. What are the details? The female perpetrator swooped in and sat in the

It took 35 days for President Trump to sign the bill ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. During that time, around 800,000 federal workers missed paychecks, had hours cut, or worked without pay. Families and individuals struggled financially to make ends meet as weeks dragged on

On January 15, the city memorialized the centennial of one of its weirdest tragedies.

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On January 15th, 1919, a 50-foot-tall steel storage tank of hot, fermenting molasses burst in Boston’s North End. The explosion sent out a deluge of the viscous sweetener that covered the historic

Could I learn more about my favorite actor by poking around his old Victorian mansion?

I know a lot about Nicolas Cage. I know, for example, that he has a fondness for flamboyant jackets. He’s worn zebra-striped blazers on dinner dates and gold leather coats to movie premieres. He strolls through

For one year, recent college graduates can work their buns off for the hot dog empire. Heres a firsthand account of what thats like from a former Hotdogger...

Back in 2016, we introduced you to the photos of Roman Fedortsov, a deep-sea fisherman who posts his discoveries to Twitter and Instagram. The monsters he pulls from the deep are horrifying, to say the least. So it seems like a good time to check back in

Video footage shows a man appearing to not know he is under an armed robbery in Brazil. The video has had more than 5,000 views, and left many social media users in shock.

"You never expect to open a fridge and find someone in there alive," a mortuary worker said

Snake expert explains why headless snake seen in viral video appears to "strike."

The Army wants to halt a favorite St. Patrick's Day shenanigan in Savannah that for decades has left marching soldiers with lipstick-smeared cheeks.

A wise man once said life is hard — and it's harder if you're stupid. One evening last month, police in Peoria, Arizona, approached a...

A statue of a gorilla, and prime attraction for kids at the Community Park playground in Corsicana was removed by the city.