WASHINGTON — An elephant at the National Zoo has received a large pair of shoes to help with her arthritis.
SANTA ANA — Surfing team tryouts in California were interrupted by a four-legged friend who apparently wanted to get in on the fun.
LOS ANGELES — Tarantulas are out looking for love, and hikers in Southern California’s Santa Monica Mountains are warned to watch out for the hairy spiders.
WESTERLY, R.I. — A 50-year-old Westerly man is charged with shooting corncobs at his neighbor's home.
NEW YORK — A woman in New York says she hasn't stopped crying since an airline mistook her 5-year-old for another child and flew him to the wrong city.
BEULAH, Mich. — A dog swam more than 6 miles and walked a dozen more to find its family after falling overboard into Lake Michigan during the weekend.
VANCOUVER, Wash. — One rotten apple spoils the bunch, but a man known as the "bad apple culprit" doesn't stop at just one.
CARBONDALE, Pa. — The cops have been buzz-ted.
SANTA CRUZ — A dwarf billy goat gave new meaning to the word “scapegoat” when he busted out a surprisingly slippery Clydesdale that went on the lam in California for several days.
CHATHAM, Mass. — A 22-pound lobster set free after it was bought from a Cape Cod fish market by twin brothers who didn't want it to become someone's dinner has apparently died.
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STOCKHOLM — More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lightning in central Norway.
BERLIN — Using giant tires from an industrial fertilizer spreader and scrap steel, a German man has built a bicycle weighing 2,072 pounds that he plans to pedal into the record books as the world's heaviest rideable bike.
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Employees of an Oregon grocery store are cleaning up after a police say a woman drove her SUV into the store and down the aisles.
UNIONTOWN, Pa. — Police say a Pennsylvania woman stabbed her husband with scissors because he drank one of her beers while she slept.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — Thieves who stole 15 bottles of laundry detergent from a Massachusetts home have made a clean getaway.
CORMORANT, Minn. — The four-legged mayor of a northwestern Minnesota village greets voters like a true politician.
MOSCOW — A Russian cat has adopted a baby squirrel monkey after he was abandoned by his mother at a zoo, comforting the little primate by letting him cling to her back for warmth.
PITTSBURGH — A University of Pittsburgh student trying to impress a woman by leaping from one rooftop to another instead fell into a narrow gap between the buildings near campus and had to be rescued, police said Tuesday.
SAUGET, Ill. — A minor league baseball player in southern Illinois hit a grand slam homerun only to find the ball smashed the windshield of his own truck.
NEW DELHI — Doctors in northern India have surgically removed 40 knives from the stomach of a man who had swallowed them over the past two months, one of the physicians said Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Police are searching for a man who bit off a bartender's finger after being kicked out of a San Francisco bar at closing time.
BRIDGEWATER, Conn. — A simple plastic cup of beer has made history by being the first alcoholic drink sold in a small Connecticut town in 81 years.
ST. SIMON'S ISLAND, Ga. — After two years and 10 months, 93-year-old Ernie Andrus has made it across America.
PITTSBURGH — Officials say a grocery store in Pennsylvania has become the first supermarket since Prohibition to sell wine in the state.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico woman is facing charges after police said she tried to free her boyfriend from a patrol car by trying to crash into it.
PORTLAND, Ore. — An 85-year-old drag queen in Portland has been crowned the world's oldest performing drag queen by Guinness World Records.
BERLIN — Four wheels bad, two wheels good.
BERLIN — A BMW driver brought out the wurst in a pedestrian in Germany, who dented the luxury vehicle with a 30 centimeter (foot-long) bologna saying the car was going too fast and endangering his son.
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina man says he's getting close to giving up on his home in Raleigh after it was hit by a driver for the sixth time.
BEREZNIKI, Russia — While fears of the Zika virus have kept some people away from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, for residents of one Russian town the more mosquito bites the better.
