Father sentenced in Germany for attempted murder for injecting mercury into...
BERLIN (AP) — A court in Germany on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to 13 years in prison for attempted murder for injecting mercury into his 1-year-old daughter’s foot. The man's girlfriend was...
View ArticleBerlin zoo celebrates the 67th birthday of Fatou, believed to be the world's...
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin's zoo is celebrating the 67th birthday of Fatou the gorilla, its oldest resident, who it believes is also the oldest gorilla in the world. Fatou was born in 1957 and came to the...
View ArticleA 9-year-old boy's dream of a pet octopus is a sensation as thousands follow...
The one thing 9-year-old Cal Clifford wanted more than anything since he was a toddler was a pet octopus. The boy's family in rural Edmond, Oklahoma, humored him with toy versions of an eight-legged...
View ArticleA vehicle backfiring startled a circus elephant into a Montana street. She...
The sound of a vehicle backfiring spooked a circus elephant while she was getting a pre-show bath in Butte, Montana, leading the pachyderm to break through a fence and take a brief walk, stopping...
View ArticleCloning makes three: Two more endangered ferrets are gene copies of critter...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two more black-footed ferrets have been cloned from the genes used for the first clone of an endangered species in the U.S., bringing to three the number of slinky predators...
View ArticleFernando Tatis Jr. has 50 custom cleats planned this year, including odes to...
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Fernando Tatis Jr. had Tony Gwynn with him when he rounded the bases after a dramatic, go-ahead home run against the Chicago Cubs last week. The San Diego Padres star stutter-stepped...
View ArticleThis ancient snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A ancient giant snake in India might have been longer than a school bus and weighed a ton, researchers reported Thursday. Fossils found near a coal mine revealed a snake that...
View ArticleMan who won primary election while charged with murder convicted on lesser...
LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana man who won a primary election for a township board position while charged with killing his estranged wife has been found guilty of the lesser charge of...
View ArticleSoar, slide, splash? It’s skiers’ choice as spring’s wacky pond skimming...
GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — A costumed skier races down a slope, hits a pond and hydroplanes halfway across. He pirouettes and then plunges into the icy water before jumping up and waving to the cheering...
View ArticleA Nigerian chess champion plays the royal game for 60 hours — a new global...
NEW YORK (AP) — A Nigerian chess champion and child education advocate played chess nonstop for 60 hours in New York City’s Times Square to break the Guinness World Record for the longest chess...
View ArticleNorth Carolina medical marijuana sales begin at Cherokee store
CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) — Medical marijuana can now be legally purchased in North Carolina with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians opening its long-planned dispensary this weekend on tribal land....
View ArticleCanadian family receives wrong body after father died on Cuban vacation
LAVAL, Quebec (AP) — A family in Quebec is searching for answers after discovering that their father's remains didn't make it to Canada from Cuba, where he died while on vacation, and instead received...
View ArticleMartian skies over Athens? Greece's capital turns an orange hue with dust...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Skies over southern Greece turned an orange hue on Tuesday as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks....
View ArticleCicadas are so noisy in a South Carolina county that residents are calling...
NEWBERRY, S.C. (AP) — Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff's office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar. The Newberry County...
View ArticleAlligator on runway at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida captured, released...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A large alligator made its way onto the runway at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida where it had to be captured and taken away for release in a nearby river, officials said. The...
View ArticleChicago's 'rat hole' removed after city determines sidewalk with animal...
CHICAGO (AP) — The “rat hole” is gone. A Chicago sidewalk landmark some residents affectionately called the “rat hole" was removed Wednesday after city officials determined the section bearing the...
View ArticleWhen Danish police pulled a woman over, she locked herself in her car and...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A routine traffic stop on a highway south of Denmark's capital turned into an unusual standoff as a 26-year-old woman locked her car and refused to speak to the police...
View ArticleParis crowns a new king of the crusty baguette in its annual bread-baking prize
PARIS (AP) — Paris has a new king of the crusty baguette. Baker Xavier Netry was chosen this week as the 31st winner of Paris' annual “Grand Prix de la baguette” prize. His long loaf beat 172 others....
View ArticleZebras get loose near highway exit, gallop into Washington community before...
NORTH BEND, Wash. (AP) — It was an unusual wildlife sighting Sunday when four zebras escaped from their trailer and galloped into a Washington neighborhood. Three of the four black-and-white striped...
View ArticleUtah cat with a fondness for cardboard takes surprise trip to California in...
Galena, a 6-year-old house cat from Utah, likes hiding and playing with cardboard. Earlier this month, the combination of the two made for a stressful trip in an Amazon package, a feverish search, a...
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