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Being an officer of the court doesn't mean you won't be a victim of a crime. One of the candidates running for the office of attorney general in Illinois was robbed at gunpoint.

Someone left some dentures after voting last week in Portland, Maine. The city clerk's office has them in a plastic bag, ready to be claimed at lost and found.

The largest Emperor penguins today stand less than 4 feet. Fossils show a prehistoric penguin weighed about 220 pounds and was a bit shorter than 6 feet in height.

A man in Australia checked a can of beer as his luggage on a flight from Melbourne to Perth. It arrived intact on the baggage carousel with a tag on it.

A man in Iowa led police on a chase after refusing to pull over for a traffic stop. He said he wanted to be chased because it was a goal on his "bucket list." Now he faces multiple charges.

This week, we saw an executive order on health care, a shift in immigration strategy and a step forward on disaster relief.

Irina Zhorov of WHYY's The Pulse looks at one story of what happens when natural history collections bow to other priorities.

Lauren Durham and Michael Davis had wedding plans, but had to ditch them when they got deployed to help with Hurricane Irma. They are both in the Air National Guard; they married in a hangar instead.

From 12:30-5:30 p.m. CT, watch Jade Bird, Sunflower Bean, Nilüfer Yayna, Son Little and Morgan Saint perform at the Blackheart Bar during SXSW.

The Obama administration has directed $13.4 million to regional drug control agencies known as High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas (HIDTA).