Weird News

DALLAS (AP) -- A woman managed to go into labor and give birth alone in a Texas jail cell without any corrections officers noticing until after she had delivered the child, a sheriff's official said Thursday.

WILBRAHAM, Mass. (AP) -- "Feisty" is the way Shelley Gunn describes her 103-year-old grandmother.

BERLIN (AP) -- German police say the grisly find of an ape’s hand and foot in a forest west of Munich appears to be less nefarious than previously thought, and certainly not as outlandish than wildly speculative tips they’ve received.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Glazed or jelly? A black bear roaming around a Florida city proved no match for the doughnuts that lured the animal into a humane trap.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A Roman Catholic bishop in New England says not even a Hail Mary is going to help Tom Brady win a seventh Super Bowl championship now that he's with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

JOHNS ISLAND, S.C. (AP) -- A 6-year-old boy helped crack open a nearly decade-old robbery case when he reeled in a locked safe from the bottom of a South Carolina lake.

BRIDGTON, Maine (AP) -- A bald eagle died last year in Maine after being stabbed through the heart by a loon, wildlife officials said.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- This one slipped through the cracks.

HEBER CITY, Utah (AP) -- A Utah state trooper has helped a pair of newborn moose calves reunite safely with their mother after spotting them on a mountain road.

OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) -- Diners in a Maryland beach town are bouncing back into dining out amid the coronavirus pandemic with a little help from inflatable inner tubes on wheels.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) -- A Virginia family out for a ride to get a change of scenery after being holed up due to the coronavirus found nearly $1 million in two bags lying in the road.

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) -- A dispute over $10 sparked a brawl at an Ohio home this week that ended with one man fatally shooting another, authorities said.

WASHINGTON, Va. (AP) -- One of the country’s most renowned restaurants says mannequins will add a touch of whimsy and help with social distancing when customers return to its grand dining room later this month.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Xavier University's cancellation of its graduation ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic didn't stop one Tennessee senior from walking across the stage.

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A nine-year-old boy in Tennessee became the third child in his family to catch a monster fish, reeling in an 80-pound sturgeon that outweighed him by far.

FERNDALE, Mich. (AP) -- Sarah Ignash spends her days looking after dogs in normal times. With her business temporarily shuttered because of the coronavirus, though, she's taken to walks on the wild side through her Detroit suburb with dancing bears, bipedal zebras and the like.

BOSTON (AP) -- A Boston police officer used an electronic mating call Monday to help capture a peacock that had escaped from a nearby zoo.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Authorities have captured a man who escaped from a Chicago jail by wearing a coronavirus protective mask and pretending to be another detainee who was set for release, officials said Monday.

HARLAN, Iowa (AP) -- A Kansas man who sought legal permission in Iowa to engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife is not insane but merely angry over their child custody arrangement, according to a psychological evaluation.

BROOKLYN, Conn. (AP) -- A man who had been kicked out of a McDonald's restaurant for having no face mask threw a rock through the window, stole some underwear from a Walmart and surrendered when police threatened to set a dog on him, authorities said.