Unusual or Off-Beat

Robber apologizes during Vt. general store holdup A thief who robbed a general store apologized to the owner and left the singles behind so workers on the next shift would have something in the till.

Man says cell phone saved him from stray bullet R.J. Richard says he doesn't normally put his cell phone in his chest pocket. But he says it saved his life the one time he did.

For toilet-less Vermont library, a new chapter When you gotta go, you gotta go. But for decades, when you had to go in the Roxbury Free Library, you really had to go—somewhere else, that is.

Cell phone in man's chest pocket stops bullet A man says his cell phone saved his life. A stray .45-caliber bullet hit R.J. Richard's chest while he was mowing the lawn—hitting so hard he thought it was a stone kicked out by his tractor.

Man accused of getting SUV stuck on edge of cliff A 21-year-old man was accused of getting his vehicle stuck on the edge of the Rimrocks in Billings with a passenger passed out inside.