A former state worker from Indiana accused of welfare fraud has blamed it all on her “evil twin.”

Janell Athalone-Afrika, who allegedly claimed $15,000 in benefits even though she held down a $16-an-hour job, told investigators the person who filled out the bogus welfare documents was her “evil twin.”

Officials didn’t buy her story, possibly because the “twin” didn’t have an evil-looking goatee.

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A San Diego woman was looking to do battle with Amazon, one stolen library book at a time.

Maria Natar allegedly stole 2,000 books worth more than $5,000 from her local library, by making numerous visits over the past year and taking a few each time.

Natar allegedly hoped to sell the books online.

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This guy was equipped to build a gyro of mass destruction.

An official from the nation of Azerbaijan was arrested when he flew into Israel carrying 110 pounds of illicit lamb meat.

Maybe the dignitary shouldn’t have told customs officers he had mutton to declare.

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Sweden is the setting for a new show: Elks Gone Wild.

One of the huge beasts wound up stuck up an apple tree in the town of Saro after it ate a huge number of rotting, fermented apples that got it blotto drunk.

The animal was eventually freed by firefighters. It then limped back into the woods with a huge hangover.

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Women may want to avoid reading this story.

Aboriginal representatives from Australia are outraged after an art gallery in England put up for sale an inscribed stone so sacred to the native religion that women are forbidden to look at it on pain of death.

The stone, which was on sale for nearly $12,000, was withdrawn from auction.