Weird News

WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) -- A swirling disk of ice on a Maine river is drawing onlookers in the heart of winter once again.

WESTBROOK, Maine (AP) -- Maine's famous rotating ice disk is back.

ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) -- The Belgian city of Antwerp has put its faith in monkey business to put kids at ease for their first COVID-19 jab.

GENESEO, Ill. (AP) -- An Illinois family has solved the mystery of what happened to their missing cat that likes to sit on horses and donkeys.

NEWBERRYTOWN, Pa. (AP) -- Police who pulled over a suspected drunken or drugged driver in Pennsylvania discovered a live deer that had apparently been hit and then placed in the hatchback area of her car.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- A top Tennessee House Republican lawmaker has apologized for losing his temper and being ejected from watching a high school basketball game after a confrontation with a referee. The dustup included what appeared to be either a feigned or failed attempt at pulling down the official's pants, according to video footage.

Treasure hunters who believe they found a huge cache of fabled Civil War-era gold in Pennsylvania are now on the prowl for something as elusive as the buried booty itself: government records of the FBI's excavation.

LEBANON, N.H. (AP) -- A German shepherd named Tinsley, first thought to be a lost dog, successfully led New Hampshire state police to the site of its owner's rollover crash.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The backward Wright Flyer that was at the center of an embarrassing license plate mistake in Ohio last year flew through the approval process with little to no discussion, records show.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) -- A mama black bear and three cubs clambered up a tree and napped in the middle of a Virginia neighborhood before voluntarily ambling on hours later, wildlife officials said Tuesday.

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (AP) -- Officials in Virginia have closed a road in one neighborhood after a mother bear and three cubs were spotted napping in a tree there.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Adam Headlee enjoys his political memorabilia. Already at age 25, the legislative aide has packed his office in Ohio's capital with collectible conversation pieces: campaign buttons, historic photographs, a display of founding father bobbleheads.

ROMEO, Mich. (AP) -- An animal shelter in Michigan has been inundated with hundreds of parakeets.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- Two New Hampshire brothers have gotten their holiday regifting skills down to an art -- they've been passing the same hard candy back and forth for over 30 years.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- A Louisiana State University museum official has received a unique retirement gift -- researchers in Alabama and South Carolina named a prehistoric shark species after her.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A crew cutting down a dying oak at the University of Nebraska made a surprising find -- flying squirrels.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Christmas came early -- or really late, depending how you look at it, when a physics professor at the City College of New York in Harlem discovered a box postmarked in 2020 in the school's mailroom, holding $180,000 in cash.

CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) -- Florida authorities said they found cocaine and methamphetamine wrapped around a man's penis during a traffic stop, but the man denied the drugs were his.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- A troop of fat, hungry squirrels has put the kibosh on a downtown St. Paul park's holiday lights display.

AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- A 58-foot-long (18-meter) pedestrian bridge stolen from an Ohio city last month has been found and a man is facing charges, police said.