A Greek police officer with 225 pounds of marijuana in his patrol car is...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A police officer on patrol duty in northwestern Greece was arrested on drugs charges Friday for allegedly using his service car to smuggle marijuana, authorities said. The...
View ArticleEnglish women's league showdown delayed by teams wearing matching socks
LONDON (AP) — A top-of-the table English Women's Soccer League game with a crowd of nearly 33,000 suffered a delayed kickoff on Friday because the teams had matching socks. Arsenal turned up at...
View ArticleAuthorities seize ailing alligator kept illegally in New York home's swimming...
HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) — An ailing alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally, state officials said. Environmental conservation police officers seized the...
View ArticleHundreds of people in Mexico City stretch out for a 'mass nap' to commemorate...
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Those walking through the milling streets of downtown Mexico City on Friday were greeted with a strange and sleepy sight. Lolling with bright blue yoga mats, sleeping masks and...
View ArticleCambodia's prime minister sounds a sour note on trucks' musical horns
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has ordered a ban on musical horns, after videos posted on social media showed people dancing on roads and roadsides as passing trucks...
View ArticleA Tennessee fisherman reeled in a big one. It turned out to be an alligator
MAYNARDVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — A fisherman at a lake in northeast Tennessee caught a surprise at the end of his line when he pulled up a 3- to 4-foot long alligator. The Tennessee Wildlife Resources...
View ArticleFirefighters in New Jersey come to the rescue of a yellow Labrador stuck in a...
FRANKLINVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters in southern New Jersey came to the rescue of a dog who got stuck in a spare tire. The Franklinville Volunteer Fire Company crew found Daisy, an 11-month-old...
View ArticleMalaysian convenience store owners charged over 'Allah' socks that angered...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The owners of a Malaysian convenience store chain and one of its suppliers were charged Tuesday with offending the religious feelings of Muslims after socks printed with...
View ArticleTravelers through Maine’s biggest airport can now fly to the moon. Or at...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fly me to the moon. Or, at least, to Maine. Maine's largest airport is now home to the second largest piece of the moon on Earth, according to moon rock enthusiasts who...
View ArticleSouth Carolina has $1.8 billion but doesn't know where the money came from or...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina has collected about $1.8 billion in a bank account over the past decade and state and private accountants are still trying to figure out where the cash came from...
View ArticleHorse trailer hauling pot linked to migrant smuggler
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Three New Mexico men are facing drug charges in connection with an alleged failed attempt to take 420 pounds of marijuana from the Mexican border to oil-rich Odessa,...
View ArticleThis stinks. A noxious weed forces Arizona national monument's picnic area to...
COOLIDGE, Ariz. (AP) — It literally stinks that visitors to Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in south-central Arizona might not be able to use the attraction’s picnic area until May. Monument...
View ArticleNorwegians facing a shortage as Easter nears are hoarding eggs from...
HELSINKI (AP) — A shortage of eggs in shops during Holy Week has led Norwegians to flock to supermarkets across the border in Sweden and hoard the traditional Easter food. Norwegian news outlet...
View ArticlePunxsutawney Phil, the spring-predicting groundhog, and wife Phyllis are...
Now we know what Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog who predicts whether an early spring will arrive each Feb. 2, does on the other 364 days. The Pennsylvania group that handles Phil, and his groundhog...
View ArticleChildren race to collect marshmallows dropped from a helicopter at a...
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) — It rained marshmallows at a suburban Detroit park on Friday as children raced to snatch up thousands of the gooey treats being dropped from a helicopter. The annual Great...
View ArticleInvaders from underground are coming in cicada-geddon. It's the biggest bug...
Trillions of evolution’s bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have pumps in their heads and jet-like muscles in their rears, are about to emerge in numbers not seen in decades and...
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Greatest April Fools' prank of all time? The story of the BBC's 'spaghetti...
(NEXSTAR) – For the most part, TV audiences today couldn’t be convinced that spaghetti grows on trees. But in 1957, plenty of viewers were eating it up. Described as “the most successful April Fools’...
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Fish are spinning, thrashing themselves to death in Florida — and nobody...
(NewsNation) — It’s usually easy for scientists to figure out what kills fish and other marine life around Florida and the Gulf Coast: development, pollution, human intrusion or a combination of all...
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Pair out for walk struck by crashing plane in Indiana
MUNCIE, Ind. (WXIN) — Two people and a pilot were rushed to a hospital Monday after a plane crashed into a walking path near the Delaware County Regional Airport in Muncie, Indiana. According to the...
View ArticleCicadas are nature's weirdos. They pee stronger than us and an STD can turn...
The periodical cicadas that are about to infest two parts of the United States aren't just plentiful, they're downright weird. These insects are the strongest urinators in the animal kingdom with...
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