If you’re a stodgy school principal from a 1980s film, consider moving to Mobile, Alabama: Stink bombs or any “device, irritant, offensive-smelling or injurious substance” are strictly illegal there.

So, here are some more of the strangest laws we've ever seen on the books in the Bayou State. It’s illegal to heckle or mock any contestant at a boxing match in Louisiana, ensuring that spectators don ...

Much of the time when a new problem pops up in society, the simplest way for our political system to deal with it is simply to make it illegal. Never mind that this type of knee-jerk mentality tends ...

It might sound like an April Fool's Day joke. But it isn't. Really. On Monday, the City Council of little Nelson, Ga., met and approved an ordinance requiring every household in town to keep a gun and ...

The state’s unofficial bread spread is under attack. A decades-old law in Wisconsin that makes it a crime to serve only margarine in restaurants, prisons and schools would be repealed under a bill ...

Newt Gingrich recently asserted in a speech to the Kennedy School of Government that, if elected president, he would do away with the "child laws, which are truly stupid" and, he says, entrap children ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Does a pickle have to bounce to be a pickle? Why can’t my hairdresser hum while they cut my hair? There are a few laws or town ordinances dating back to the early 1900s that you ...