SAN FRANCISCO (Associated Press) -- Savvy Internet users know that downloading unsolicited computer programs is one of the most dangerous things you can do online. It puts you at great risk for a virus or another time bomb from a hacker.

NEW YORK (Associated Press) -- American men still don't pull their weight when it comes to housework and child care, but collectively they're not the slackers they used to be. The average dad has gradually been getting better about picking himself up of

OSLO, Norway (Associated Press) -- The world must respond to climate change and other environmental challenges now while the cost is low or else pay a stiffer price later for its indecision, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said

READINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (Associated Press) -- Sometimes a penny for your thoughts isn't a good thing. Readington Township school officials gave 29 students detention after they used pennies to pay for their $2 lunches.

HANOVER, Pa. (Associated Press) -- A mail carrier was trapped inside her car for nearly two hours at a home near Hanover after a pair of dogs attacked her tires, flattening three of them.

VANCOUVER, Wash. (Associated Press) -- A man led police on a very slow-speed chase, refusing to stop while riding a lawn mower at about 3 mph across a busy street and steering it toward an officer before he was grabbed and arrested, a police report says.

HATLEY, Wis. (Associated Press) -- Call this family the mailbox vigilantes. Fed up that their mailbox was smashed four times in two weeks, Greg Fisher and his son set up a middle-of-the-night stakeout to catch the vandals _ and it worked. Four teens wer

ST. LOUIS (Associated Press) -- Scientists at universities and corporations are about to get a major leg up in their tireless _ and profitable _ effort to reinvent the corn plant. A group of researchers led by Washington University in St. Louis have map

DAYTON, Ohio (Associated Press) -- Dayton police and U.S. marshals called for backup from animal control when they found two alligators instead of the suspected probation violator they were after.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Associated Press) -- From sausages to stews, reindeer are usually a main dish in Alaska. But the antlered animals were the main event at Anchorage's first annual running of the reindeer.