State wildlife offices captured a lion and tiger that escaped from an animal sanctuary in western Palm Beach County and forced three schools into partial lockdown early Wednesday.
A Canadian couple finally took a restaurant up on an offer that arrived 15 years ago - by balloon. For its 1993 grand opening, Nicky's Restaurant in Canton released balloons with attached cards good for a free dinner for two.
There are loyal customers, and then there's Joseph Macko. The 84-year-old Flint man has bought or leased a new Cadillac every year since 1955, the year Disneyland opened in Anaheim, Calif. "You only live one time. Money is to spend," he told The Flint Journal. "I spend it once I get it."
Some furniture inspected by customs agents at the Arizona-Mexico border gives new meaning to the term "entertainment centers" - they were allegedly used to hide $2.7 million worth of marijuana.
Morning train commuters in Tokyo were joined on their way to work by an unusual companion Wednesday: a wild monkey. A security guard spotted the monkey near ticket gates in Shibuya Station, said Norihiru Masui, a spokesman for train operator Tokyu Corp.
Police said a man called 911 and reported a robbery after a gas station employee refused to give him his money back for an unopened box of condoms.
A Tyler man accused of growing marijuana in an alleged cost-saving move is jailed on felony possession charges. Bond is $15,000 for 55-year-old John Daniel Miller III, who remained in the Smith County Jail late Tuesday.
An Italian restaurant in Harlem that once counted Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett as regulars has turned back the clock 75 years.
You've heard of man bites dog. What about, dog saves cats? A two-year-old dog that had been turned over to the Nevada Humane Society's shelter in Reno is being credited with rescuing six abandoned kittens.
A man said his friend's raccoon went crazy before it attacked him. Police say Steven Hines called police early Tuesday morning to report that he had been bitten.
Make that three babies - count 'em, three - to go. Babies in a hurry made for a memorable Monday morning for firefighters in and around Rochester who were summoned three times to deliver infants in cars.
An Ohio high school student who says he has been taking practice tests since sixth grade has received perfect scores on both the SAT and ACT college entrance exams.
Electric and hybrid vehicles may be better for the environment, but the California Legislature says they're bad for the blind.
A Puerto Rican man has been granted his wish to remain standing - even in death. A funeral home used a special embalming treatment to keep the corpse of 24-year-old Angel Pantoja Medina standing upright for his three-day wake.
A man who contends he got a 9-foot tapeworm after eating undercooked fish has sued a Chicago restaurant. In the lawsuit filed Monday, Anthony Franz said he ordered salmon salad for lunch from Shaw's Crab House in 2006 and fell violently ill. He later passed the giant parasite, which a pathologist determined came from undercooked fish, such as salmon.
This couple won't have to argue about how to spend their lottery winnings. That's because the Mount Horeb husband and wife each won their own $350,000 jackpots in this weekend's SuperCash state lottery.
School officials in San Luis, Ariz., are investigating a busing mix-up that ended with a 6-year-old boy wandering alone in Mexico.
A lost humpback whale calf that bonded with a yacht it seems to think is its mother will likely die within days if it doesn't find another mother to adopt it, a wildlife official said Tuesday.
A sailor rescued after he fell into Lake Michigan says one of the worst moments of the 12-hour ordeal came near the end, when a Coast Guard helicopter seemed to have its spotlight on him, only to turn away.
A Michigan State Police trooper fatally shot a nearly 7-foot long Burmese python that slithered onto a road and was spotted lunging at a passing pickup truck.
