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Authorities in a central New Jersey town say they're no longer noodling over the mystery of how hundreds of pounds of pasta were dumped near a stream.

When Julia and Robert Jones discovered that a judge from the Akron Municipal Court in Ohio was officiating “Star Wars”-themed weddings on May the Fourth — essentially a holiday for fans of the franchise — the couple felt the force calling them to commit to the ceremony.

If you're eager for another nude bike ride through the City of Brotherly Love, keep your shirt on — for now.

A Minnesota state senator is getting social media attention after casting what should have been a routine vote at a legislative commission hearing.

Karl Lagerfeld’s fluffy pampered cat, Choupette, was a star in her own right.

An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewelry looted by the Nazis during World War II and purportedly buried in a sleepy Dutch village has — like many previous searches — failed to unearth any treasure.

It's not unusual in Idaho to see a herd of sheep bleating as ranchers move them to higher elevation.

He is a senior at 16.

A seventh-grader in suburban Detroit is being hailed as a hero.

Officials in Nevada say a desert tortoise that is the focus of schoolchild predictions and local lore about the start of spring has emerged from its winter burrow at a nature preserve in Las Vegas.

Patch, sporting a jean jacket as she strutted down the runway, was crowned the winner of Drake University’s Beautiful Bulldog Contest.

Los Angeles Angels manager Phil Nevin says he's never been ejected twice from the same game — until Wednesday night.

So this moose walks into a medical building.

Japanese police have arrested two men who posted a video on social media showing one eating pickled ginger with his chopsticks directly from a communal container at a famous beef bowl restaurant chain.

Volunteers in the state of Maine have claimed a world record in a category that few people know exists: The biggest ice carousel.

A giant red spoon that was stolen from an Arizona Dairy Queen and sparked a mystery on social media was found and it’s partly thanks to Pokémon GO.

The owners of a Dairy Queen in Phoenix remain perplexed — and slightly amused — as to why someone would steal the giant red spoon that adorned their restaurant.

The classic image of Tyrannosaurus rex flashing giant teeth might be wrong.

Conservationists want South Carolina to make the Venus fly trap the state’s official carnivorous plant.

Authorities in Thailand have expanded their search for a metal cylinder with radioactive contents that has gone missing from a power plant, warning the public that it poses a danger to health.

Scientists have figured out what makes a small see-through fish sometimes shimmer in the light.

A Republican lawmaker in New Hampshire was arrested Friday for allegedly screaming and swearing at a snowplow truck operator who recorded the confrontation and later reported him to police.

The blonds are back.

An Associated Press reporter has spent the past several years watching from an opera box that gives him a unique perspective on the audience at the Oscars.