Weird News

BANGOR, Maine (AP) -- A state lawmaker is taking exception to the macabre humor that Maine’s chief medical examiner used in an old job posting.

MOKOPANE, South Africa (AP) -- A dog in South Africa has befriended a baby giraffe that was abandoned at birth, rescued and taken to a local orphanage.

PHOENIX (AP) -- Large hail coated the desert in parts of the Phoenix metro area as a string of storms that unleashed three days of wet weather blew out of Arizona.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- Blame the Grinch or Mother Nature, but the annual Christmas in Ice sculpture park won’t open this year in North Pole, Alaska, because of a lack of ice.

CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) -- A northern Illinois police officer has been ticketed for parking his patrol car in a handicapped-accessible parking space.

PARIS (AP) -- A search is on for a red panda that broke out of a zoo in the Rhone region of southeastern France.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Officials say ground penetrating radar has found what appear to be 145 caskets near a Florida high school.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Authorities in Tennessee say a burglar spotted on a homeowner’s camera system fell through the attic of a home while trying to hide from police.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) -- A woman on trial for pulling out a loaded pistol inside an Alaska bar last year faces new charges after authorities say she stole the gun from an evidence box inside the courtroom.

STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Police in Sweden say a wanted man was found asleep in a bed in a furniture store north of Stockholm.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A cat who has been missing for five years in Portland, Oregon, has been found in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A child, not the grizzly bears, cracked a glass viewing window at the Oakland Zoo’s bear exhibit, and officials say there’s no need to fear the bears will get out.

OUTER BANKS, N.C. (AP) -- It’s not officially Shark Week but for trackers along the East Coast, several great white sharks are putting on a show.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- A movement is growing in North Carolina to prevent the act of so-called “opossum dropping.”

HONESDALE, Pa. (AP) -- A bagel shop manager in New York drove to Pennsylvania to return a key fob that a customer had left in his shop on Long Island.

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Environmental regulators have put a halt to a Montana business association’s sale of sandwich bags of mining waste advertised as a “Bag O’Slag.”

GODDARD, Kan. (AP) -- Authorities discovered a camel, a cow and a donkey roaming together along a Kansas road in a grouping reminiscent of a Midwestern Christmas Nativity scene.

DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- A Kentucky pet store owner says two women stole a pair of guinea pigs, lobbing one of the animals at him during their escape.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Alaskans have experienced both a record high temperature and a record amount of snowfall in the same day.

ELEPHANT BUTTE, N.M. (AP) -- He caught a fish “this” big. No, really.