HAYWARD — A faulty curb that perfectly illustrated the seismic forces at work underneath a San Francisco Bay Area neighborhood has been fixed, stunning scientists, who say a curbside laboratory for studying earthquakes was destroyed.
CLE ELUM, Wash. — An affectionate elk paid some Washington state firefighters a visit over the holiday weekend as they worked to tame a wildfire.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — An event at a New York food festival is being billed as the world's healthiest eating championship.
GENEVA — The Swiss army is working hard to fend off its latest foe: bedbugs.
EAU CLAIRE, Mich. — A man nicknamed "Pellet Gun" has won a cherry pit spitting contest in southwestern Michigan for the 16th time.
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — A North Texas city council has voted unanimously to reinstate Browser the cat to his job as live-in mascot of the city's public library.
CONCORD — The owner of a California movie theater is apologizing after a trailer for an R-rated upcoming Seth Rogen comedy was shown ahead of a screening of Disney's "Finding Dory."
ATLANTA — Authorities have found most of the nearly 80,000 bottles of beer that were stolen from an Atlanta brewery last week, but the company says every last drop will have to be thrown away.
CONCORD, N.H. — Police in New Hampshire say a macabre mammal spotted in a town cemetery is likely a mangy fox — not a "zombie dog" or mythical beast as some have speculated.
Many a poor pun has already been made about this incident, so we'll skip them for now and start with the facts:
Hasan Bacak, who has been a nomad his whole life, is witnessing climate change firsthand.
NEW YORK — A man offering "free hugs" in New York's Times Square is accused of punching a Canadian tourist in the face after she refused to tip him for his hug and a photo.
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. — Fearing Snapchat could take an ugly turn toward "snap chomp," police are warning people not to take selfies with an alligator in suburban Atlanta.
An adventure runner trying to roll his way across the Atlantic Ocean in a blown-up bubble has been rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard - yet again - after failing to heed government warnings to abandon the 3,500-mile mission.
AUSTIN, Texas — A YU-U-U-GE name is the most popular suggested replacement name for a Texas elementary school named after the top hero of the Confederacy.
LONDON — Boaty McBoatface may be sunk.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Some crosswalks in downtown Kalamazoo are being transformed to look like piano keys ahead of a big musical event.
MADRID — Dog owners in Madrid beware: Pick up after your pooch or face working as a street cleaner.
LONDON — A woman from Wales cannot name her baby daughter Cyanide, a British court ruled Thursday.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A Des Moines principal has decided not to punish the ninth-grade girls who arranged for a male stripper to perform at their high school's synchronized swimming club banquet.
LONDON — An underwater robot exploring Loch Ness has discovered a dark, monster-shaped mass in its depths.
DARTMOUTH, Mass. — A calf that spent several days on the loose in Massachusetts is now a companion for a blind cow that recently lost a pig playmate.
SAN FRANCISCO — Police are seeking a woman who hit another woman in the head with a frozen turkey during an argument inside a home early Monday morning in San Francisco’s Hunter’s Point neighborhood.
TIVERTON, R.I. — A Rhode Island man has been ordered to take down more than a dozen dead chickens hanging from trees outside his home.
WASHINGTON — Authorities say a man got hungry while he was burglarizing a District of Columbia hamburger restaurant and began cooking himself some food.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Call it a case of very rotten luck. A man in Tennessee has been arrested after authorities say he tried to rob a Knoxville police officer who was sitting in an unmarked police car.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida man with a tattoo of Florida on his face is facing burglary charges.
WALNUT CREEK — Authorities say a man charged with burglary needed surgery to remove a stolen ring that he reportedly swallowed while fleeing police.
SAN FRANCISCO -- An argument in San Francisco's Tenderloin on Wednesday morning ended with one man hitting another in the face with a rubber mallet, police said.
SELMA, Ala. — The west Alabama city of Selma is planning a crackdown on what one councilman says is a big problem: horse droppings.
SEATTLE — Chef Michelle Matsko paused as she walked to work Wednesday, gazed up from beneath her red umbrella and marveled: After a full day, a man still was perched near the top of an 80-foot-tall sequoia tree in the middle of a shopping district in downtown Seattle.
