WEIRD NEWS

A wayward roadrunner is on the mend in Maine after traveling across the country in a moving van.

A little girl who lost a teddy bear she’d had since being adopted from an Ethiopian orphanage thought it was gone forever when she forgot it along a trail in Glacier National Park last year.

An 89-year-old man in Rhode Island has earned his Ph.D. and became a physicist after working toward it for two decades and thinking about it for a lifetime.

Britain's telecommunications regulator says thousands of iconic red phone booths will be protected from removal under new rules.

Santa may have fewer eyes in homes this Christmas season after a judge — jokingly — banned the Elf on the Shelf.

A 9-foot-tall video game joystick made of wood, rubber and steel has made it into the Guinness World Records 2022.

Jonathan Johnson spent weeks on a ventilator battling COVID-19, then decided to get married — in the hospital.

The National Toy Hall of Fame has inducted American Girl dolls and the strategy board game Risk, recognizing each for their influence on the toy industry.

A New Zealand couple have unearthed a huge potato that is quite possibly the largest on record.

New York City’s Republican mayoral candidate, Curtis Sliwa, tried to bring one of his many pet cats to his polling place on Tuesday.

The first person to fly across New Zealand’s Cook Strait in an electric plane says he did so with plenty of battery power to spare.

A 64-year-old fugitive who surrendered to Australian police because a Sydney lockdown left him jobless and homeless has been sentenced to an additional two months behind bars for escaping from prison almost 30 years ago.

No bull: Tucson police had to respond Tuesday morning to reports of a bull roaming a neighborhood near an elementary school.

Queen Elizabeth II is Britain’s longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch.

A Vermont high school homecoming football game turned into a “drag ball” runway at halftime with a mix of students and faculty members parading in gowns, wigs and makeup, and a big crowd in rainbow colors.

A Maine law banning obscene license plates goes into effect Monday, but getting the foul language off the roads and highways won't happen overnight.

A teenager in Liberia who has become a national hero after finding $50,000 and returning it to its rightful owner said he will meet with the country's president next week.

An animal recovery group says a large cat native to Africa that escaped from its suburban Detroit home was captured after spending several hours on the lam.

Uncertainty about the species of a massive catfish that was eaten before it could be vetted by authorities in August has led a Connecticut agency to withdraw its awarding of a new state record.

Dollar Tree, the national chain of stores that promises everything for a buck, will begin introducing items on its shelves that will exceed $1.

A home in Massachusetts seriously damaged by fire has been listed on the market with an asking price of $399,000.

A herd of goats brought in to clear weeds got loose, briefly becoming a thorn in the side of Atlanta’s tony Buckhead neighborhood.

French President Macron was hit on the shoulder by an egg thrown at him by a young man during an international food trade fair in the French city of Lyon.

Rome has been invaded by Gauls, Visigoths and vandals over the centuries, but the Eternal City is now grappling with a rampaging force of an entirely different sort: rubbish-seeking wild boars.