A Florida city manager who was fired for getting a sex-change operation is in trouble at her new job — for being an alleged homophobe.

After getting canned, Susan Stanton became a hero to the gay and transgender community, and found a job in the open-minded town of Lake Worth.

But after she criticized a gay bar over a noise issue, activists called her anti-gay and demanded she be fired.

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Maine is making it easier to be a one-armed bandit.

The state has just passed a law that legalizes switchblades for amputees who have lost an arm.

The reasoning is that one-armed people are not able to use regular folding knives, so should be granted a waiver to use otherwise-illegal switchblades.

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You’ve heard of snakes on a plane? Well, here’s snake in a sofa.

A Richmond, Va., man got a scaly shock this week when he got a new couch. After he got it home, a 6-foot boa constrictor crawled out.

He discovered the random reptile when he woke up in the middle of the night and saw the snake warming itself on his floor heating grate.

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This guy is the great white of loan sharks!

A loan shark in Scotland has been busted for charging his customers a staggering 719,000-percent interest. His rate was so steep, he left one customer to live on just $24 a week.

Let’s hope this story doesn’t give credit-card companies in the United States any big ideas.