Police say a Pennsylvania man hoping to pass a fraudulent check instead stole $500 when he found that much money left behind by another customer at a drive-thru bank window.

Twenty-eight-year-old Randy Gillen Jr. was in the Clearfield County Jail on Monday, awaiting a Feb. 11 preliminary hearing.

A water manager is facing discipline after he was caught urinating in an empty reservoir that supplies drinking water for the San Francisco Bay Area.

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission spokesman Tyrone Jue said Monday that the agency confirmed anonymous complaints that maintenance planner Martin Sanchez had urinated in the 674-million-gallon reservoir in the Sierra Nevada foothills early last month.

A British chain of DIY stores has told staff to prepare for customers looking for ropes, plastic cable ties and tape after seeing the erotic film  "Fifty Shades of Grey", British newspapers reported on Tuesday.

A leaked memo from B&Q stores entitled "Preparation for Fifty Shades of Grey Customer Queries" told its 20,000 plus workforce that copies of the sado-masochistic erotic novel would be delivered to the chain's 359 stores. 

Outsiders who walk into a U.N. climate conference often experience a "beam-me-up-Scotty" moment. 

Like Star Trek's Captain Kirk, they find themselves in a alien world where the people speak Climate, a language as unsettling as Klingon... and nearly as impenetrable.

A team of women dressed as fish and half-a-dozen Harry Potter lookalikes were among those whose efforts ended in glorious failure at Japan's national hole-digging championships, organizers said on Monday.

A group of burly diggers from Saitama, north of Tokyo, took home the first prize of 100,000 yen ($840) and a golden shovel after burrowing down a staggering 3.48 meters (11 ft 5 ins) in the allotted time of 30 minutes in Narita on Sunday.

A Japanese court has ruled the grieving owners of a Chihuahua be paid damages including funeral costs after their family pet died of a heart attack when charged by a German Shepherd, reports said Saturday.

The diminuitive 15-year-old canine was on a walk in the Japanese city of Sakai in February last year when the German Shepherd rushed at the animal, the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper said.

Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi has accepted a marriage proposal from a romantic rock star who delivered a diamond ring to her by drone, media said Sunday.

Musician Wang Feng sent a white drone carrying the ring flying into Zhang's 36th birthday party, Chinese web portal Netease reported.

Firefighters in Northern California rescued a horse that got stuck in an outdoor bathtub.

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District Capt. Michelle Eidam says the horse was dancing around in her stall to protect the bathtub used as her food trough when she suddenly fell in Wednesday.

Authorities say a Michigan man confessed he was drunk and bored when he called 911 more than 100 times in the span of about a month.

The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/1v5YhGA ) the 25-year-old from the Grand Traverse County community of Kingsley in northern Michigan was arrested Thursday evening at his mobile home. Sheriff's deputies say they found about a half-dozen phones used to call 911 since January and a hand-held police scanner.

It may look like a penis but it's really a cloud, according to a New Zealand artist whose sculpture installed in Auckland has surprised the public.

The NZ$200,000 (U.S.$147,000) aluminium mesh artwork, commissioned by the Auckland Council, is suspended over a walkway near a busy transport hub and in full view of thousands of daily commuters.