Weird News

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- A pigeon that Australia declared a biosecurity risk has received a reprieve after a U.S. bird organization declared its identifying leg band was fake.

ROME (AP) -- The vaunted Mediterranean diet and French gastronomy are getting some competition: The European Union's food safety agency says worms are safe to eat.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The International Space Station bid adieu Tuesday to 12 bottles of French Bordeaux wine and hundreds of snippets of grapevines that spent a year orbiting the world in the name of science.

FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) -- The Massachusetts home where Lizzie Borden's father and step-mother were murdered with an ax has been listed for sale.

DICKINSON, Texas (AP) -- The race to be the mayor of a Houston suburb ended this week with the winner’s name being drawn from a top hat.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- In the "gamblers will bet on absolutely anything" category, here's a new one: A major sports book is taking bets on aerial drone races.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you’re an identical twin who’s always resisted being called a clone of your sibling, scientists say you have a point.

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) -- An incumbent Pennsylvania state representative was joined by a familiar face when lawmakers took the oath of office Tuesday -- his own mother.

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) -- A passerby spotted a wandering llama in a field off an interstate in Massachusetts and with the help of an animal control officer, brought it to a farm for safekeeping.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Two fishermen have rescued a naked fugitive who they found sitting on a tree branch in Australian crocodile habitat.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- A Utah man has pleaded guilty after authorities said he was caught digging in a Yellowstone National Park cemetery in search of hidden treasure.

BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts state lawmaker is asking for the public's help to select an official state dinosaur.

WESTFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A veteran returned a sword he stole from a statue of a Revolutionary War general 40 years ago, telling the head of the Massachusetts town's historical commission that he regretted taking it.

SOMERSET, Mass. (AP) -- A Massachusetts police officer declined to charge two women accused of trying to steal groceries for the children -- and instead bought them Christmas dinner.

LAGRANGE, Ind. (AP) -- Peace, love -- and LaGrange.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Residents of a Queens neighborhood are dealing with a squirrely threat.

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (AP) -- Even as vaccines are being rolled out to battle the coronavirus, wordsmiths at Lake Superior State University in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula say they want to kick any trace of it from the English language.

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) -- These robots have rhythm.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- An official at an Anchorage soup kitchen said she received as a donation of at least 30,000 pounds (13,608 kilograms) of food on Christmas Eve from a local towing company after a truck carrying the produce crashed.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- In true pop-up art fashion, a nearly 7-foot-tall monolith made of gingerbread mysteriously appeared on a San Francisco hilltop on Christmas Day and collapsed the next day.