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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sherwood Schwartz, writer-creator of two of the best-remembered TV series of the 1960s and 1970s, "Gilligan's Island" and "The Brady Bunch," has died at age 94. Great niece Robin Randall said Schwartz died at 4 a.m. Tuesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was being...

WASHINGTON — A newborn who tipped the scales at more than 16 pounds (7.3 kilograms) broke the local hospital's weight records in Longview, Texas, press reported Monday. The baby boy, named JaMichael, delivered by Cesarean section to parents Janet Johnson and Michael Brown early Friday, exceeded...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Fighting among the Zetas gang and other vicious drug cartels led to the deaths of more than 40 people whose bodies were found in three Mexican cities over a 24-hour span, a government official said Saturday. At least 20 people were killed and five injured when gunmen opened...

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- The manager of a cell phone store in Ohio called 911 to report a gorilla had been attacked by a banana. The Wireless Center in Strongsville, near Cleveland, advertises at curbside with a man in a gorilla suit. Manager Brandon Parham says he was watching last week as a...

OAK BRIDGE, N.J. -- At 600 pounds, a New Jersey mother is less than half the size of the woman who the Guinness Book of World Records says is the heaviest that ever lived, but she might have a shot at a new category: most massive mom. Donna Simpson, 42, has renounced her desire to achieve the...

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LIMERICK COUNTY, Ireland (KTLA) -- A man is facing life in prison in connection with the death of his girlfriend died after having sex with his Alsatian dog. According to The Sun, 57-year old Sean McDonnell is the first person ever tried under the legislation banning sex with animals...

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) -- A Michigan jail inmate says he's being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment because he can't have pornography. In a handwritten lawsuit, 21-year-old Kyle Richards claims his civil rights are being violated at the Macomb County Jail. Richards says denying his...

NEW YORK -- World record-holder Joey "Jaws" Chestnut again won Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Monday in New York. Chestnut swallowed a whopping 62 dogs in 10 minutes at the Fourth of July tradition. That's six hot dogs shy of his world record. It was also Chestnut's fifth...

SOUTHWEST MIAMI-DADE, Fla. (WSVN) -- Police said four subjects have been fatally wounded after shots were fired during a confrontation with police officers. The incident occurred at about 9:30 p.m. Thursday at a home near of 216th Street and Southwest 189th Avenue. Miami-Dade Police received a...

COLLIER COUNTY, Fla. -- It looked like the scene out of a video game; and indeed an Xbox was behind a SWAT team invading a suburban Florida home. The SWAT invasion turned out to be a hoax, but police aren’t laughing. The family at the butt of the joke, on the other hand, can't tell their tale...

OKLAHOMA CITY, OK (KTLA) -- Four people convicted of viciously beating a man and tattooing 'RAPEST' on his forehead have been sentenced to prison. Richard Dellert, Zachary Provence, Kimberly Vergara and Lorena Hodges pleaded guilty Tuesday in the April attack on 18-year-old Stetson Johnson. As...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — State police say a man's effort to ditch some drugs from a moving car in western New York didn't exactly go as planned. Troopers with the state police Thruway detail say 20-year-old Sean Schmidt was standing with his upper body sticking out the sunroof of a vehicle...

DELAWARE, Ohio (KTLA) -- A woman is behind bars after allegedly spraying sheriff's deputies with breast milk. It happened Saturday as Delaware County deputies were responding to a domestic dispute. The woman's husband told deputies his wife had been drinking at a wedding and hit him before...

DESTIN (CBS4) – A gravely ill 95-year-old woman had to remove her wet diaper at an airport so that she could be patted down by security screeners and nearly missed her flight, her daughter said Monday. During the pat-down, Transportation Security Administration inspectors found a mass on Lena...

RIPPING out your video game opponents' spine is akin to Hansel and Gretel baking their captor in an oven. That's the message sent to gamers by the US Supreme Court yesterday, after it refused to let California regulate the sale or rental of violent video games to children. California's 2005...

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THERE are dozens of ways to persuade people to stop smoking. The Food and Drug Administration's latest, compelling idea: Gross people out with graphic images. Cigarette packs in the U.S. are getting a makeover, the most significant change in 25 years. The results will not be pretty — on...

(CNN) -- Kim Kardashian's ample backside has oft been the subject of a "is it real or is it fake?" guessing game, and now the 30-year-old reality TV star is trying to set the record straight. On an upcoming episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," the soon-to-be Mrs. Humphries headed to...

SACRAMENTO— The Sacramento Police Department arrested 29-year-old Ka Yang for the alleged murder of her 6-week-old daughter, Mirabelle Thao-Loa. Back on March 17, police responded to a house in the 800 block of Rood Avenue, where there were reports of a dead baby. Fire investigators told them...