Curiosities
Cows roam, then knock back a few
BOXFORD, Mass. -- Police say a roving group of cows crashed a small gathering in a Massachusetts town and bullied the guests for their beer.Boxford police Lt. James Riter said he was responding to a call for loose cows on Sunday and spotted them in a front yard.
Date: 05/25/2012 | Nation & World
Astrologers gaze into the future in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS -- Will President Barack Obama win re-election? Will the world end Dec. 21, as some say the Mayan calendar predicts? Will the economy ever improve?If you ask the 1,500 astrologers contemplating planetary alignments this week in New Orleans, the answers are yes, no and yes.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
S.F. official: Ouija board comment was joke
SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco supervisor who said he consulted a Ouija board before a vote now says he was joking -- and the only spirit he was summoning was the spirit of humor.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Mass. woman finds bike she lost 42 years ago
WELLFLEET, Mass. -- The little girl thought she had lost her new bike forever when she tumbled off a rickety bridge over a muddy stream in Wellfleet, Mass., 42 years ago.But the bike has been found -- by the now-grown woman's own wife.
Date: 05/24/2012 | Nation & World
Man who had 30 kids with 11 women wants child-support break
LOS ANGELES -- You have to say this much for Desmond Hatchett: He has a way with the ladies.
Date: 05/18/2012 | Nation & World
No border dispute here: Vt., N.H. reaffirm boundary
NORWICH, Vt. -- In case you were wondering, the Vermont-New Hampshire border hasn't changed.The two states' attorneys general have reaffirmed their shared boundary.
Date: 05/14/2012 | Nation & World
ABC to televise Niagara Falls tightrope walk
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. -- ABC is turning Nik Wallenda's attempted tightrope walk over Niagara Falls into a prime-time television event next month, devoting a full three hours to the daredevil's June 15 walk, the network said Friday.
Date: 05/12/2012 | Nation & World
Jobless man finds signed Picasso at thrift shop
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An unemployed Ohio man was browsing at his local thrift store for items he could restore and resell when he spotted a Picasso poster with the word "Exposition" written across the front, some French words, and the image of a warped round face. He handed over $14.14 for what he...
Date: 05/10/2012 | Nation & World
Ind. man arrested with 4 kids strapped to car hood
FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- An Indiana man accused of driving three blocks with four children strapped to the hood of his car was being held in jail Tuesday on charges of drunken driving and neglect, police said.
Date: 05/08/2012 | Nation & World
'Angel' arrested for naked noon-time stroll
KETCHIKAN, Alaska -- A 22-year-old man was arrested after taking a naked noon-time stroll around downtown Ketchikan.According to police, Alex Orr said he was nude "because I'm an angel."
Date: 05/04/2012 | Northwest
Transit workers win $172 million lottery
PHILADELPHIA -- A pool of 48 workers at Philadelphia's transit agency scored the jackpot-winning ticket in this week's $172.7 million Powerball drawing, lottery officials said Thursday.
Date: 04/27/2012 | Nation & World
Doctor claims he's found women's G spot
LOS ANGELES -- Like so many explorers before him, Dr. Adam Ostrzenski has long dreamed of finding a piece of elusive territory with a reputation for near-mythic powers.
Date: 04/25/2012 | Nation & World
Fight over pastry ends in Idaho woman's arrest
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho -- Police say an argument between an eastern Idaho woman and her boyfriend over who ate the last of their pastries ended in violence.
Date: 04/20/2012 | Northwest
Airport stripper says he was 'nude but not lewd'
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A high-tech worker who stripped naked at Portland International Airport as a protest against airport security screeners said Wednesday he was being "nude but not lewd," and characterized his act of defiance as protected political speech.
Date: 04/18/2012 | Northwest
Man with toilet plunger tries to rob bank
UTICA, N.Y. -- Police say a 49-year-old man tried to rob a central New York bank armed with a toilet plunger.Utica police tell local media outlets that Lawrence Deptola went into city bank Thursday afternoon and threatened a teller with the plunger.
Date: 04/14/2012 | Nation & World
Alabama judge orders man to jail for baggy pants
PRATTVILLE, Ala. -- A central Alabama judge ordered a man to serve three days in jail for contempt of court for wearing so-called saggy pants.Twenty-year-old LaMarcus D. Ramsey was in Autauga County Circuit Court on Tuesday to enter a plea on a charge of receiving stolen property.
Date: 04/12/2012 | Nation & World
Six-legged Swiss calf uncowed by disability
GENEVA — A six-legged calf has defied the odds by thriving despite a vet's prediction at birth that it wouldn't survive.
Date: 03/29/2012 | Nation & World
Woman who petted moose says it was a goal
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Petting a moose had been something of a goal for Chantelle Hernandez, she said, since she moved to Anchorage last September to join her husband, who's in the Air Force here.
Date: 03/29/2012 | Northwest
Fla. man wins national memory contest in New York
NEW YORK -- A Florida man who trained for a national memory competition by memorizing a randomly shuffled deck of cards as he climbed Mount Everest won the mental bout Saturday and broke a U.S. record.
Date: 03/25/2012 | Nation & World
Mayor of N.D. tourist town has to wait to hang
BISMARCK, N.D. -- The mayor of the southwest North Dakota tourist town of Medora is seeking permission for a hanging, and he is sticking his neck out by volunteering to be the one to go to the gallows.
Date: 03/23/2012 | Nation & World
Montana man charged with getting small dog drunk
HELENA, Mont. -- A Montana man has been charged with animal cruelty after his 20-pound dog was found so intoxicated it couldn't stand up.
Date: 03/22/2012 | Nation & World
Harley hearses to offer last ride for bikers
BERLIN -- A German man said people are dying for a ride in the sidecar of one of his Harleys -- literally.
Date: 03/16/2012 | Nation & World
Woman gives birth to a nearly 14-pound son
SAN DIEGO — A Southern California woman says doctors predicted she would give birth to a big baby boy, but nobody was prepared for just how big.
Date: 03/10/2012 | Nation & World
Utah woman gives birth to her third leap day baby
PROVO, Utah -- In one of the rarest feats in the annals of family planning, a Utah woman has given birth on a third consecutive leap day, tying a record set in the 1960s.
Date: 03/01/2012 | Nation & World
Man loses teeth when electric cigarette explodes in mouth (Video)
PENSACOLA, Fla. — A faulty battery caused an electronic cigarette to explode in a Florida's man's mouth, taking out some of his front teeth and a chunk of his tongue and severely burning his face, fire officials said Wednesday.
Date: 02/15/2012 | Nation & World
Customer at Vegas' Heart Attack Grill suffers heart attack
LOS ANGELES -- In one of the more unfortunate cases of a company living up to its name, a man dining at the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas had exactly what was on the menu: a heart attack.
Date: 02/15/2012 | Nation & World
Grandma's remains found in Florida storage unit
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Police in Florida found a woman's skeletal remains, which were being kept in a storage unit.
Date: 01/27/2012 | Nation & World
Snohomish Slew's 'frognostication' could point to more winter weather
SNOHOMISH -- He may not be the most famous weather forecaster in the state, but he's definitely the greenest.On Saturday, the bullfrog Snohomish Slew is scheduled to predict if spring is around the corner during the seventh annual GroundFrog Day.
Date: 01/23/2012 | Local News
Flaming-horned bull fatally gores man in Spain
MADRID — A flaming-horned bull trampled and fatally gored a man early Saturday during a festival in eastern Spain, an official said.
Date: 01/21/2012 | Nation & World
Man in joking mood despite accidental nail in brain
OAK LAWN, Ill. — Gail Glaenzer still can't believe that her fiancé unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, let alone that he posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery.
Date: 01/20/2012 | Nation & World
Clearview man's detective work returns camera card to family
CLEARVIEW -- Stu Davidson gets called "the finder" by his family because of his knack for finding stuff and people. He proved the nickname again this past month after a family vacation on Hawaii.
Date: 01/17/2012 | Local News
After cancer hit, women lobbied for a bald Barbie
NEW YORK -- Barbie has been an astronaut, an architect, a Nascar driver, and a news anchor.Now, there's an online movement to get her to attempt what could be her biggest feat yet: going bald to fight cancer.
Date: 01/12/2012 | Nation & World
Unique name doesn't make it OK to break law
MADISON, Wis. -- Authorities in southern Wisconsin are facing a tongue twister thanks to the arrest of Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop.The unusually named 30-year-old man was in jail Sunday in Madison. Police say he violated his bail conditions from a previous run-in with the law.
Date: 01/09/2012 | Nation & World
State man arrested with marijuana wrapped as gifts
COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho -- A Washington state man faces felony marijuana trafficking charges after an officer found 3.3 pounds of marijuana wrapped up as Christmas gifts during a traffic stop in northern Idaho.
Date: 12/29/2011 | Northwest
Airport X-ray surprise: 247 snakes, exotic pets
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Surprised airport workers in Argentina found hundreds of wriggling poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles inside the baggage of a Czech man who was about to board a flight to Spain.
Date: 12/27/2011 | Nation & World
Twin boys with 1 body and 2 heads born in Brazil
SAO PAULO — Hospital officials in northern Brazil say a woman have given birth to conjoined twin boys with one body and two heads.Obstetrician Neila Dahas of the Santa Casa de Misericodia Hospital in the city of Belem says the twins were born Monday by Cesarean section.
Date: 12/21/2011 | Nation & World
Topless protest group claims abuse by police in Belarus
MINSK, Belarus — A Ukrainian organization of topless women activists says three of its members were abducted by security officers during a protest against Belarus authoritarian president, beaten, humiliated and left naked in a forest.
Date: 12/20/2011 | Nation & World
Mexican city begins countdown to 2012 apocalypse
MEXICO CITY -- A city in southern Mexico wants to live each moment as if it were the last.Tourism officials in Tapachula have installed a digital clock to count down the time left before the Dec. 21, 2012, solstice, when some believe the world will end.
Date: 12/17/2011 | Nation & World
Curfew-breaking teen gets stuck in California chimney
STOCKTON, Calif. -- A California teenager has learned the hard way that he's no Santa Claus.The Stockton Record reports 18-year-old George Herrera got stuck in a chimney while trying to sneak into his house Thursday.
Date: 12/17/2011 | Nation & World
World's shortest woman wants to be Bollywood star
NAGPUR, India — A high school student in central India was recognized as the world's shortest woman by Guinness World Records on Friday as she turned 18 and said she hopes to earn a degree and make it in Bollywood.
Date: 12/16/2011 | Nation & World
Marijuana flung from car pelts Oregon trooper
EUGENE Ore. -- An Oregon state trooper says he was giving chase at more than 100 mph when suspects in the car ahead ripped open half-pound bags of marijuana and began flinging it out of the window.
Date: 12/14/2011 | Northwest
Cold man breaks window in Wenatchee to go to jail
WENATCHEE -- A man with no place to spend the night waved down a police officer in Wenatchee and confessed he had shattered a parked car's window with a rock.
Date: 12/13/2011 | Northwest
Tenn. studio offer tats for toys donated for kids
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- A Memphis tattoo artist is offering body art in exchange for donated toys for children in need.Toys for Tattoos has become an annual event at Jay Guzman's House of Ink. Guzman said it's so busy that he doesn't even count the number of people coming into his shop.
Date: 12/12/2011 | Nation & World
Egypt Islamists offer vision for sin-free tourism
CAIRO -- Islamists are dominating Egypt's elections and some of them have a new message for tourists: welcome, but no booze, bikinis or mixed bathing at beaches, please.
Date: 12/12/2011 | Nation & World
Diet Coke and Mentos-powered car travels 239 feet (Video)
BUCKFIELD, Maine — The Maine guys known for creating colorful geysers from Diet Coke and Mentos candies say they've set a distance record for a vehicle with soda-and-candy-powered propulsion.
Date: 12/09/2011 | Nation & World
Police kill armed gunman near his own burial plot
GARDNERVILLE, Nev. -- A man whose wife had recently died was a few feet away from his own tombstone in a family burial plot when he pointed a loaded gun at a deputy and was fatally shot, officials said Thursday.
Date: 12/09/2011 | Nation & World
Coca-Cola formula to get a new vault at home
Associated Press The Coca-Cola Co. has made its secret formula the centerpiece of a new exhibit at its corporate museum, ditching the confines of the bank vault where the list of ingredients had been stored since 1925.
Date: 12/09/2011 | Business
Stolen Santa returned to Ind. man with $100, note
UNIONVILLE, Ind. -- A southern Indiana man has gotten an early Christmas gift: A 16-foot-tall inflatable Santa Claus stolen from his yard has been returned with $100 and a note of apology.
Date: 12/06/2011 | Nation & World
Man sues former hostages, says they broke promise
TOPEKA, Kan. -- Can there be no trust between a kidnapper and his hostages?
Date: 11/29/2011 | Nation & World
Ohio troopers say they find gift-wrapped pot; Bremerton man charged
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio -- Ohio troopers making a traffic stop say they found a pot present: a gift-wrapped package containing 25 individually wrapped packets of marijuana.
Date: 11/18/2011 | Northwest
Why some lottery winners choose to remain anonynmous
Chicago TribuneCHICAGO -- Somewhere in Chicago live a modest, middle-class couple with two teenage children and a $30 million secret.
Date: 11/10/2011 | Nation & World
11/11/11 sparks a slew of predictions
MINNEAPOLIS -- Doomsday prophets think it will be the beginning of the end for life on Earth. New Age adherents are predicting that it will usher in a period of unprecedented love. And a whole lot of people plan to use it simply as an excuse to party.
Date: 11/09/2011 | Nation & World
Looking for mom, 5-year-old backs car onto street, then calls 911
MANSFIELD, Ohio -- Authorities said a 5-year-old looking for her mother in Ohio backed a car out of the driveway, then called 911 for help.Mansfield police said Ameleah Kegley backed the car out Monday evening after returning from school to an empty house.
Date: 10/27/2011 | Nation & World
Classic Camaro finally returned after 16-year-old theft
SALT LAKE CITY -- A Missouri man and his beloved classic car have been reunited 16 years after the vehicle was stolen.Edward Neeley, of Jefferson City, Mo., picked up his red 1969 Chevy Camaro in Salt Lake City on Tuesday after tracking it down in Utah last month.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
Supersize me! Restaurant offers a 338-pound hamburger
SOUTHGATE, Mich. -- A Detroit-area restaurant has cooked up another giant burger.
Date: 10/22/2011 | Nation & World
Hanford worker taken for ride in portable toilet
RICHLAND -- A Hanford worker was taken for a ride in a portable toilet when it was picked up by a fork lift driver who didn't realize it was occupied.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Northwest
The world will end today, pastor now says
OAKLAND, Calif. -- This time, Harold Camping sounds like a man who has suffered the whisper of self-doubt.
Date: 10/21/2011 | Nation & World
Amazing sense of smell
Classes train dogs to use sense in competition, and to save lives
Date: 10/19/2011 | Local News
Even superheroes have bad days
SEATTLE -- Fabio Heuring was standing outside a Seattle nightclub on a Saturday night and smoking cigarettes with a friend when a man bolting from a bouncer ran into them. The enraged man ripped off his shirt in the middle of the street and prepared to give Heuring's buddy a beating.
Date: 10/17/2011 | Nation & World
Police: Mich. man had daughter, 9, drive to store
BROWNSTOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- A Detroit-area man had his 9-year-old daughter drive him to the store because he had apparently been drinking, police said Monday, and surveillance video from a gas station shows him telling a clerk that his daughter was his "designated driver."
Date: 10/17/2011 | Nation & World
High school sets bathroom visit limit for students
EVERGREEN PARK, Ill. -- Students at a suburban Chicago high school will have to hold it or risk staying after school.
Date: 10/17/2011 | Nation & World
Ireland's judges lose their wigs in austerity move
DUBLIN -- Hundreds of Ireland's judges abandoned their wigs for the first time in centuries Friday after the Irish Courts Service ended the rule requiring them to wear the British-style headgear.
Date: 10/15/2011 | Nation & World
1884 steam vehicle sold at Pa. auction for $4.62M
HERSHEY, Pa. -- An 1884 French-built steam runabout, billed as the world's oldest running family car, has sold in Hershey for $4.62 million -- about double the amount auctioneers expected.
Date: 10/11/2011 | Nation & World
Marysville care facility boasts three centenarians
There is a family atmosphere at Dee's Nursing Care in Marysville. She has five folks living in her home. Three of them are 100 years old.The centenarians all have attentive relatives, said Dee Dusterhoft, who take them out to dinner and arrange birthday parties.
Date: 10/10/2011 | Local News
Was the police officer polite when you got your ticket?
SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- You have the right to remain silent, but would you mind taking part in our survey?The Schenectady Police Department is conducting surveys of the people it tickets, arrests or assists in an effort to improve service to the public.
Date: 10/07/2011 | Nation & World
Hairy, crazy ants on the move across South
NEW ORLEANS — It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper's metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants nesting behind them. A circle of poison stops them for only a day, and then a fresh horde shows up, bringing babies. Stand in the yard, and in seconds ants...
Date: 10/01/2011 | Nation & World
Man who washed truck naked gets probation in Mass.
ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- A man who scrubbed his pickup truck in the nude at a Massachusetts car wash has been sentenced to a year of probation.
Date: 09/27/2011 | Nation & World
Police: Pa. couple stole copper to pay for wedding
ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. -- Police say a western Pennsylvania couple cut down copper wire from 18 utility poles because they needed money to pay for their wedding.
Date: 09/27/2011 | Nation & World
Bra display in cancer campaign a no go in Savannah, Ga.
SAVANNAH, Ga. -- Officials in Savannah say they do not want bras displayed on a city street -- even if the goal is to raise breast cancer awareness.
Date: 09/27/2011 | Nation & World
Ark. man accused of asking to suck women's toes
CONWAY, Ark. -- An Arkansas man who was once convicted of threatening to cut off a woman's feet and suck her toes while she bled to death was back in jail Monday after two women told police he wanted to touch their toes as well.
Date: 09/26/2011 | Nation & World
Stumpy's gone, but squirrel rescues go on
Stumpy the Squirrel had one leg, half a tail and worldwide fame.Nine years ago to the month, the rodent was featured in The Herald when he was lost, then found.
Date: 09/21/2011 | Local News
Israelis get nude for art at lowest point on earth
JERUSALEM — About 1,000 Israelis have bared it all in a mass nude photo shoot at the Dead Sea.The volunteers stripped down Saturday for photographer Spencer Tunick, who has gained fame for his nude group photos in public spaces around the world.
Date: 09/17/2011 | Nation & World
Metal sticks to boys, mom says
GORNJI MILANOVAC, Serbia -- Two small boys from a central Serbian town are able to attract metal objects, acting much like human magnets, according to their mother. It's a claim that is raising doubts among some experts.
Date: 09/17/2011 | Nation & World
Activist says Indonesian zoo lets orangutans smoke
INDONESIA, Jakarta -- A wildlife activist says that zoo officials in Indonesia are taking no steps to stop orangutans from smoking cigarettes, unlike in Malaysia.Visitors to the Taru Jurug Zoo in Solo, a city on Java island, have been giving cigarettes to the endangered red apes for years.
Date: 09/16/2011 | Nation & World
Mother claims son, nephew are human magnets
GORNJI MILANOVAC, Serbia — Two small boys from a central Serbian town are able to attract metal objects, acting much like human magnets, according to their mother. It's a claim that is raising doubts among some experts.
Date: 09/16/2011 | Nation & World
College website gets a Conan hacking
DUBLIN -- Talk about a tough professor.
Date: 09/16/2011 | Nation & World
Video: After 18 years of growing, woman wins fingernail record
NEW YORK — Chris Walton has been working on her fingernails for 18 years. And it's finally paying off.
Date: 09/14/2011 | Nation & World
Boy suckles from cow after parents leave
KOAK ROKA, Cambodia — A Cambodian man says his young grandson has lived partly on milk he suckles directly from a cow since the boy's parents left their rural village in search of work.
Date: 09/10/2011 | Nation & World
Restaurant sues over 'Carcass Removal' listing
HELENA, Mont. -- A Montana restaurant listed in the phone book under "Animal Carcass Removal" became the butt of a Jay Leno joke earlier this year, but it's no laughing matter to the owner now suing the publishing company over the business he's lost.
Date: 09/10/2011 | Nation & World
Video: Man in Gumby costume tries to rob 7-Eleven
SAN DIEGO -- A man in a Gumby suit attempted to rob a 7-Eleven store but became nervous and escaped with only some loose change, the San Diego Police Department said Wednesday.
Date: 09/08/2011 | Nation & World
'Yard art' isn't junk, man tells Wenatchee
WENATCHEE -- The various vehicles and machinery strewn about Gene Duell's yard are not junk, but rather operational or decorative items, and he wants to leave the assortment of lawn mowers, tires and bricks on his Wenatchee lawn, despite city concerns over a clean yards rule.
Date: 09/02/2011 | Northwest
Angler fishes out Minn. woman's prosthetic leg
ALEXANDRIA, Minn. -- A woman who lost her prosthetic leg while swimming in a western Minnesota lake three years ago has been reunited with the limb thanks to an angler.
Date: 08/26/2011 | Nation & World
Texas man gets 99 years for cattle rustling
LUBBOCK, Texas -- An East Texas man with a prolific cattle rustling history spanning more than a decade has been sentenced to 99 years in prison for swindling bovines from a Mississippi rancher.
Date: 08/25/2011 | Nation & World
Firm may 'total out' dog hit by van
PARKER, Colo. -- A Parker, Colo., woman was devastated when her dog was hit by a minivan last week and the driver's insurance company told her they'd pay for one or two trips to the vet and would then "total out" her dog.
Date: 08/16/2011 | Nation & World
$50,000 hockey shot may not count
FARIBAULT, Minn. -- An 11-year-old Minnesota boy has made an astounding hockey shot -- sending a puck into a tiny hole 89 feet away.The shot at a charity game should be worth $50,000, but there's one problem: Nate Smith was standing in for his identical twin, Nick.
Date: 08/16/2011 | Nation & World
Ex-Louisiana governor, 83, marries prison pen pal, 32
NEW ORLEANS -- Colorful former Gov. Edwin Edwards, who turns 84 next month, on Friday married a 32-year-old woman who befriended him during his federal prison sentence for bribery and extortion.
Date: 07/29/2011 | Nation & World
Children in Gaza claim kite-flying record
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Thousands of Gaza children sent a sea of colorful kites soaring into the sky Thursday in an attempt to break a world record.
Date: 07/29/2011 | Nation & World
Hot air balloon makes emergency landing near turnpike
AUBURN, Mass. (AP) — It was unusual sight for rush hour motorists on the Massachusetts Turnpike: an emergency landing by a hot air balloon.
Date: 07/28/2011 | Nation & World
Bishop gets own bobblehead for his 75th birthday
ERIE, Pa. -- As a priest, he's probably not going to get a big head over it.Donald Trautman, the Roman Catholic bishop in Erie, Pa., received a special gift in honor of his 75th birthday: a bobblehead in his likeness.
Date: 07/28/2011 | Nation & World
Crashed motorcyclist ends up in back of van
VICTORVILLE, Calif. -- A motorcyclist who plowed into a minivan landed unscathed in the back seat, and the driver didn't realize it until he turned into his nearby driveway, authorities said.
Date: 07/23/2011 | Nation & World
Wildlife officer rescues bear with jar on head
A black bear that spent three weeks roaming Cocke County, Tenn., with a large plastic jar stuck over its head has been released in the Cherokee National Forest, 85 pounds lighter but otherwise unharmed.
Date: 07/22/2011 | Nation & World
Two-headed snake on display in Ukraine zoo (Video)
KIEV, Ukraine — A two-headed snake has gone on display at a zoo in southern Ukraine.
Date: 07/13/2011 | Nation & World
Car buff can't say goodbye
Mill Creek man's collection of cool cars keeps growing
Date: 07/11/2011 | Local News
Man launches celebration of 'Odd, Square Root Days'
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ron Gordon would like you to take a moment or three to think about what an odd day Saturday was. Why? Because 7/9/11 is one of only six dates this century that features three consecutive odd numbers. Next up, 9/11/13.
Date: 07/10/2011 | Nation & World
Coney Island hot dog contest adds women's pigout
NEW YORK — This year's Fourth of July race to stuff your face with hot dogs has a new feminine taste: Nathan's Famous women-only pigout.
Date: 07/02/2011 | Nation & World
Holy kudzu! N. Carolina vine said to resemble Jesus
KINSTON, N.C. — The Gospel of John quotes Jesus as saying "I am the true vine," and some folks in eastern North Carolina think they may have witnessed a literal demonstration.
Date: 06/29/2011 | Nation & World
Bulgarian guards help to protect cherry crops
KONYAVO, Bulgaria -- Bulgarian forces with night-vision goggles appear to be winning an extraordinary fight over thieves seeking to make off with this year's lucrative cherry harvest.
Date: 06/26/2011 | Nation & World
Stranded Kiwi penguin is offered a lift home
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A young emperor penguin stranded in New Zealand has survived two medical procedures and now has an offer of a lift home.
Date: 06/24/2011 | Nation & World
School pumpkin has staying power
There are two odd things on view in the Sequoia High School library in Everett. One is an aquarium with brightly colored inhabitants -- plastic fish-- that swim around a water-filled tank.
Date: 06/20/2011 | Local News
Playboy adds 'Runaway Bride' sticker to magazine
CHICAGO -- Playboy is making a last-minute addition to the cover of its July issue after founder Hugh Hefner's fiancee called off their wedding.
Date: 06/16/2011 | Nation & World
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