‘Leaning Tower of Dallas’ endures blows from wrecking ball
1 of 3A wrecking ball smashes against the "Leaning Tower of Dallas" north of downtown Dallas, Monday, Feb. 24, 2020. The...
Bear that wandered yards near Los Angeles moved to forest
MONROVIA, Calif. (AP) — A big, old bear wandered a Los Angeles foothill suburb Friday, drawing curious onlookers and new...
New colobus monkey makes debut at St. Louis Zoo
ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Zoo has a new resident, and boy is he cute.The zoo announced Thursday that Teak, a black ...
Pot shops turn to highway sponsor signs amid strict ad rules
DENVER — Cannabis companies are using a loophole in Colorado's strict limits on marijuana advertising by sponsoring state highways and putting their n...
‘Color us red’: Target sorry for ‘Minnesota Badgers’ onesie
MINNEAPOLIS — Target admits a onesie it carried in some stores misidentified the mascot for the largest university in its home state.
Box of bear cubs bewilders man at North Carolina home
CAMDEN, N.C. — It was a bear-y baffling discovery in front of a North Carolina home.
Package labeled ‘Bag Full of Drugs’ leads to Florida arrests
MIAMI — Two men charged with drug trafficking could have done a better job hiding their wares than using a package labeled “Bag Full of Drugs,” Florid...
Baboon grooms little lion cub in South Africa’s Kruger park
JOHANNESBURG — A male baboon carrying and grooming a lion cub is an unusual sight, yet it happened over the weekend in South Africa's Kruger National ...
Notorious Utah brothel owner’s interview eludes historians
OGDEN, Utah — Scholars at a Utah university are trying to unlock a mystery after discovering a nearly 70-year-old transcript of an interview with a no...
Seller auctioning JFK docs from ex-California governor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Former California Gov. Jerry Brown wants to know who is trying to sell his father’s memorabilia related to the assassination of P...
2 elephants escape from circus in Russian city
Russia is said to be the place where bears roam the streets — but for a short while it was a free-for-all for elephants.
WVa to Virginia county: Come join us. Virginia county: Nah
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Virginia is for lovers, so West Virginia is reviving a 158-year-old proposal to ask one of its counties on a date.
What did we do on holiday break? A toilet paper pyramid
MIDLAND, Mich. — It's not what the Egyptians had in mind but it worked: A group of Michigan high school students made a pyramid out of toilet paper — ...
Bye-bye buoy: Large beacon removed from Florida beach
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — A large red navigation buoy that bobbed around the Atlantic Ocean for two years was removed Thursday from a Florida beach whe...
Big red buoy missing for 2 years beached in Florida
NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. — A big red navigation buoy that bounced along Atlantic waves for two years has beached in Florida, where it's drawing attentio...
Alligators, pricey bananas and naked people: 2019 in Florida
ST. PETERSBURG — In 2019, Florida Banana managed to eclipse Florida Man. From alligator antics to naked people doing wacky things, Florida did not dis...
Couple return for a 2nd dunk at Dunkin’, this time with vows
WORCESTER, Mass. — A Massachusetts couple reunited for extra-sweet wedding vows at the same Dunkin' Donuts where their young love splintered nearly 30...
Football-making town sets record for most thrown at once
ADA, Ohio — An Ohio town long associated with the manufacturing of footballs has set a Guinness World Record for the most thrown at the same time.
Naked fireman, binky-binging bulldog: New England’s odd 2019
BOSTON — New Englanders fired up the weirdness machine again in 2019, and it cranked out oddities pretty much nonstop.
N Carolina couple call 911 on vacuum thought to be intruder
HIGH POINT, N.C. — 'Twas the night of Christmas at a North Carolina house, no creature should have been stirring, not even a mouse.
‘Typo’ may have overvalued Utah home at nearly $1B
SALT LAKE CITY — Utah officials say a possible dropped phone resulted in a typo that overvalued a home for almost $1 billion.
Miami Beach unveils traffic sculpture made of sand
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — It took artist Leandro Erlich two years and 330 tons (299 metric tons) of sand to create his largest work of art to date — a giant...
Cats to be put on leashes to protect wildlife? EU says No
BRUSSELS — Put domestic cats on a leash to better protect threatened birds and the environment? The European Union says that would deny mankind’s furr...
Hikers answer plea to find wedding ring lost on mountaintop
MANCHESTER, N.H. — A man’s quest to find his wedding ring on a 4,000-foot snow-covered mountain in New Hampshire has been completed by a couple of hik...
Man using magnet fishes WWI-era grenade from Michigan river
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A magnet-wielding angler has fished a World War I-era grenade from a western Michigan river.
Man found in freezer was husband of recently deceased woman
SALT LAKE CITY — A man whose body was in a freezer for as long as 11 years was the husband of the woman who had recently died in their apartment west ...
High horse: Farm animal gets stuck up in barn’s hayloft
LORIS, S.C. — A farm animal with unbridled ambition in South Carolina has given new meaning to the phrase “get off your high horse.”
Gaza man masters rare skill of balancing art
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — Whenever Mohammed al-Shenbari sees a new object, he quickly tries to find its “balancing point” and make it stand in a way t...
Border agents seize 154 pounds of bologna at Texas crossing
EL PASO, Texas — No baloney: U.S. border agents seized more than 150 pounds of bologna from a driver entering the country from Mexico.
Police: $1M in diamonds taken during Maui Halloween heist
LAHAINA, Hawaii — An insurance company is offering a $50,000 reward to help find a masked man in a full-length black gown who stole more than $1 milli...