Three generations of a German family were reportedly struck down by a single lightning bolt on Tuesday when the electrical charge shot down a tree and across their lawn as they were heading inside to avoid the rain.

Margot Woelk now admits she spent two and a half years as Adolf Hitler's personal poison-detector. While other Germans subsisted on bland rations, she sampled the Führer's fresh vegetables and pastas in succulent sauces. Easy gig, if you didn't mind the constant chance of death, or the cascade of horrors that went with the falling Reich.

This is the story that's setting the internet aflame today! Lovable old actor Dick Van Dyke fell asleep on a surfboard and floated out to sea. But then some kindly porpoises pushed him back toward shore. Miracles every day, folks.

Prince Segala, a California woman whose kids were kidnapped by her ex-husband in 1995, reconnected with them recently after she searched Facebook for her daughter's name and found her profile. Welcome to the new milk carton.

Terry Watanabe, a big wheel in the Asian party favor import business, lost nearly $127 million gambling in Vegas casinos in 2007. But he gave fantastic tips. Call it even?