Unusual News

Beijing will ban half of its 3.4 million cars from the roads during periods of very heavy pollution, a state news report said Friday. The city will temporarily reinstate measures it introduced during the Olympic Games and ban cars on alternate days - depending on whether their license plates are...  

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. - A man who caused damage at a waste water treatment plant in Eau Claire has decided to pick public humiliation over jail time to pay for his crime.  

Perhaps the most frustrating staple of post-debate network news coverage is that all-too-familiar battleground state "assembly of odd": The 20 or so "undecided" or "persuadable"...  

DETROIT -- It'll be a special moment when the Red Wings raise their championship banner Thursday against Toronto, but also a bit strange for new Wings Marian Hossa and Ty Conklin.  

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The North American publisher Del Rey announced that it is releasing a second graphic novel for Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas character. Queenie Chan will illustrate this manga-influenced work as she did for the first graphic novel, In Odd We Trust .  

Lane Kiffin's firing as Oakland Raiders coach included a surreal news conference at which owner Al Davis charged Kiffin with insubordination. But Kiffin has company in the world of offbeat partings in sports.  

Japanese actor Ken Ogata dead at 71 ... 'DWTS' star May-Treanor set for surgery ... Lawyer: David Duchovny is out of rehab ... Jolie faced her fears for 'Changeling' ... News from United Press International.  

Internet infrastructure company VeriSign announced on Tuesday it had sold its minority share in a mobile entertainment joint venture to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. for 200 million dollars.  

Fox News Channel ran a program Sunday that made provocative assertions about similar connections, called "Obama & Friends: The History of Radicalism."  

VeriSign on Tuesday announced that it has sold its minority stake in mobile-entertainment joint venture Jamba to partner News Corp. for approximately $200 million.  

CHEBOYGAN - Police, explosives experts and hazardous materials handlers weren't sure what they had Saturday when a strange-looking package was found on the side of the road near the intersection of Mullett Lake Woods Drive and M-33.  

Odd news from around the globe.