Spilled liquid fabric softener prompts hazmat situation on California highway

“The truck was deemed safe, extra soft, wrinkle free,” California Highway Patrol posted after responding to a hazmat situation of spilled liquid fabric softener

Barron County pursuit: Cow blockade ends in arrest of driver

When the Barron County Sheriff's Department and Barron Police Department were involved in a pursuit, they likely did not expect to get help from some dairy cows.

Attracted to taxidermy, mountain lion shatters window to enter San Bruno home

Now that you've digested that headline, San Bruno police issued a press release about a mountain lion who apparently broke through a glass window to enter a home. 

Body of missing man found inside dinosaur statue

A father and son discovered the body after noticing a rank smell emanating from the dinosaur statue.

Car crashes through bedroom, narrowly missing sleeping homeowners

Authorities said it was a miracle no one was hurt after a car crashed into a bedroom and caught fire as a couple slept 10 feet away Sunday morning in Missouri.

California school locked down when stapler mistaken for gun

Officers responding to a report of a possibly armed person at a suburban Sacramento high school discovered it was a student with a stapler.

Hundreds in Alameda line up for blooming ‘corpse flower’

“I grabbed my wagon, went down to my greenhouse, put it in with the help of a friend of mine, dragged it down here to this abandoned building and people just started showing up,” said nursery owner Solomon Leyva.

Report on government knowledge of UFOs to be turned over to Senate June 1

The truth is out there, and the Senate is prepared to see a compiled detailing of what military and other government agencies believe to be the truth about decades of sightings.

Woman wakes up to blood dripping on her from apartment ceiling fan

The woman awoke after she felt something dripping on her body. She assumed it was raining outside and thought a leak had sprung from the apartment above hers. She was horrified to find that the dripping liquid was blood. (Warning, graphic photos in this story may be distressing.)

Man fraudulently obtained federal coronavirus relief funds to buy alpaca farm, prosecutors say

Federal prosecutors say the owner of a Massachusetts pizza parlor lied about the number of employees he had to fraudulently obtain more than $660,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds, then used some of the money to buy an alpaca farm in Vermont.

4-year-old inadvertently buys over $2,600 worth of Spongebob popsicles on Amazon

Little did 4-year-old Noah Bryant know, 51 cases of Spongebob popsicles would make their way to his aunt’s house after he attempted to purchase a box of the treats shaped like his favorite character.

Woman from Mali, who expected 7 babies, gives birth to 9

Mali’s Ministry of Health says a Malian woman has given birth to nine babies after only expecting seven.

Homeowners unearth ice age-era skeleton while installing swimming pool in Las Vegas property

A married couple were in the middle of having a pool installed when the local police suddenly arrived one morning. Apparently, they had some questions about something the crew working on the pool uncovered.

‘Just came out of nowhere’: Mom who gave birth on flight to Hawaii says she didn’t know she was pregnant

A doctor and three nurses were flying from Utah to Hawaii when an announcement came over the loudspeaker: A woman was prematurely giving birth in the middle of the flight. The heroic health care workers rushed to the aid of the woman, who didn't know she was pregnant, and delivered a baby boy.

Fallen tree traps Gettysburg visitor inside portable toilet

Authorities say a man was rescued after a tree that fell during high winds trapped him inside a portable toilet at Gettysburg National Military Park in south-central Pennsylvania.

American honey is radioactive from nuclear bomb test in the 1950s, researchers say

Honey produced in the United States may contain trace amounts of radioactive fallout from nuclear and atomic tests that occurred more than 60 years ago, researchers say.