DELTONA, Fla. (AP) — Police say a raccoon trapped in a vending machine at a Florida high school is now free. Sheriff’s officials joked that the...
HOMER, Alaska (AP) — A cat named Stormy that has spent more than six years as a fixture in a remote Alaska general store is being...
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Minneapolis resident reported a strange intruder in her basement. It was a horse. Inver Grove Heights...
STACY, Minn. — Nothing hurt, except maybe the pilot’s wallet. A small plane had to make an emergency landing on an exit ramp to Interstate 35...
YORK HAVEN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man says his emotional support alligator helps him deal with his depression. Joie Henney, 65, said his registered emotional...
KUTZTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania police department’s request for volunteers to get drunk for law and order purposes generated a predictably enthusiastic response. The Kutztown...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Madison police say a 34-year-old man who thought his wife damaged his action figures retaliated by taking an ax to the family’s...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A new brewery is set to launch in a Cold War-era missile command center near Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Grist House Craft Brewery has...
MIDDLESEX, Vt. (AP) — One Vermont community is celebrating the holidays and the winter solstice with a massive bonfire and what they hope will be the...
HERSHEY, Pa. (AP) — Bakers are complaining that something is amiss with Hershey’s Kisses. The chocolate candy’s trademark tips have been mysteriously missing from batches around...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Andre Pittman and Gregory Cornes are on a mission to rid Washington of opportunistic vermin. But their target isn’t corrupt officials or shady...
BERLIN (AP) — Keep your blue suede shoes behind the curb: the central German town where Elvis Presley was stationed as a U.S. soldier in the...
SEVERANCE, Colo. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy has convinced the leaders of a small northern Colorado town to overturn a nearly century-old ban on snowball fights,...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — University of Minnesota officials hope to engage community members through a unique array of course offerings, including the physics of superheroes, obscure red...
SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities in Seattle temporarily closed a street after motorists were stunned by dozens of large metal balls that spilled out of a truck...
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) — A Minnesota fugitive who taunted authorities on social media by vowing she’d “never be caught” has been arrested in northern Indiana....
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man curious about a rock he’d used for decades as a doorstop now knows its secret: it’s a meteorite...
BROOKLYN CENTER, Minn. (AP) — A pair of ruby slippers used in “The Wizard of Oz” and later stolen from a Minnesota museum were recovered in...
An alleged knife attack leads to a battery charge against an Onalaska man. Charges have now been filed against Aaron Petras, following his arrest over the...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Police say two Minnesota beer deliverymen prevented a suicidal man from jumping off an interstate bridge in St. Paul by offering...
