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Someone — anonymously — went into two Wal-Mart and paid more than $100,000 — moving everything off layaway. Meaning, gifts some customers were trying to buy, are now theirs.

Earlier this week, students pretended to be school officials and proclaimed classes canceled. The media didn't buy it. As a giant storm intensified days later, real administrators canceled classes.

During a Black Friday campaign, Cards Against Humanity offered online shoppers the opportunity to buy nothing for $5. The company was up front about the deal, and still raked in $71,000.

In these divisive times, CEO Howard Shultz is urging people to talk to one another. Starbucks is offering free coffee if you buy someone else a coffee. Think of it as subsidized conversation.

Four alleged mafia gangsters have been arrested for forcing shop owners to buy poinsettias for as much as $140 each. Owners who refused to partake in the "Christmas special" would have their shops vandalized.

Disney has recently been in talks with 21st Century Fox to buy large portions of the company, according to reports.

Prosecutors in Arkansas accused the former administrative assistant of using public money to buy personal items including a diamond ring, sequined throw pillows and a tuxedo for her dog.

Frank O'Rourke was surfing in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., when a shark bit his arm, leaving teeth marks. He made the best of a bloody situation, heading to the bar where folks kept buying him drinks.

Project Homekey buys up old motels and hotels and turns them into long-term housing for people experiencing homeless.

a writer for Popular Photography magazine, about a new photo system being developed jointly by Kodak, Canon, Minolta, Nikon, and Fuji. The Advanced Photo System, or APS, will provide a more foolproof means of taking good pictures. It includes a new type of film, packed in a light-proof cartridge, a smaller camera, and other high-tech features not available currently on even the most expensive 35-mm cameras. Photo labs will have to buy costly electronic processing equipment that can read information encoded on each roll of film.