The buck stops here.

Fourth-graders in Coopersville, Mich., had an unexpected visitor when a six-point buck smashed through their classroom window, knocking chairs and desks around. He then jumped out the window and ran away.

One boy suffered a small cut to his head, but no one was seriously hurt.

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Here’s a lesson in idiotic marketing 101.

A British design company has launched a new line of pre-chewed pencils for schoolkids.

The company – called Concentrate – says the chew marks will make it less likely that students will put the pencils in their mouths and more likely that they will sink their teeth into their lessons.

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England has emerged as one of the key battlegrounds in the War on Christmas.

Secular progressives on the Southampton Town Council have ordering a lollipop seller to remove festive tinsel from his roadside stall because it could distract drivers.

Parents are protesting the decision, and the council said it would reconsider.

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Bravo! Oh, wait.

The audience at an Austrian theater was so impressed by how realistic a staged suicide was, they broke into wild applause – only to learn later that the actor had accidentally slashed his throat when the dull blade he was supposed to use got switched with a sharp one.

Actor Daniel Hoevels narrowly survived. Cops are looking into whether a jealous rival might have swapped the weapons.

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Two Polish men escaped a horrible end – when they got up from watching TV to get coffee.

At that instant, a truck crashed into their house, crushing the chairs where they were sitting.

“If it hadn’t been for the boring ads, they would have been crushed,” a neighbor said.