A Portland police bureau traffic police officer Mark James showed his soft side when he stopped his chase to help a mother duck and her ducklings cross the road.

A new law proposed by the European Commission would make it illegal to "grow, reproduce or trade" any vegetable seeds that have not been "tested, approved and accepted" by a new EU bureaucracy named the "EU Plant Variety Agency."

It's called the Plant Reproductive Material Law, and it attempts to put the government in charge of virtually all plants and seeds. Home gardeners who grow their own plants from non-regulated seeds would be considered criminals under this law.

Cop goes berserk after getting cut off. If he acts like this off duty, I wonder how he acts on the job?

With hopes dimming that Kaiba would survive, doctors tried the medical equivalent of a "Hail Mary" pass. Using an experimental technique never before tried on a human, they created a splint made out of biological material that effectively carved a path through Kaiba's blocked airway. What makes this a medical feat straight out of science fiction: The splint was created on a three-dimensional printer.

Every time the words "raw milk" are about to come up during the proceedings, the jury is ushered out of the room. It happened Monday morning and again Tuesday afternoon. A telling moment during Tuesday's testimony was when Teresa Butterworth, witness for the prosecution and employee of DATCP's Bureau of Food Safety & Inspection whose responsibility it is to license and maintain dairy farm records, could not tell the defense what dairy plants do.

Mayor Bloomberg went on a spitting-mad rant Tuesday against a city cab-fleet boss — vowing to “destroy your f--king industry” and “After January, I am going to destroy all you f--king guys.”

Someone sent a series of monetary transactions that did not actually represent real trades, and then announced that with a special program you could turn them back into some text. That text then contains links to, well, I don't actually know what because I haven't looked. But let's assume it's bad stuff.

Judge gets busted for stealing cocaine from trials he presided over

Sex offenders find safe haven in a Florida town. Evidently Pastor Witherow's 'Miracle Village' is an intentional village on the outskirts of Pahokee, FL. Could this be an example of how through ostracization of people who violate a communities norms, that a non-coercive alternative to the prison complex success story? ABC News covers the community and some of it's inhabitants in the linked article.

Between May 18-20, 2013, an opinion poll was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research and Shaw & Company Research. 1,013 randomly-selected registered voters were surveyed.

68% said they feel like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans.

60% said the government went too far by secretly seizing telephone records of calls for A.P. reporters.

A majority said they disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president.