Weird News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Investigators in Florida's Palm Beach County are searching for a dog thief targeting a particular high-end breed.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- Visitors to the Tennessee Aquarium may be shocked to learn that an electric eel named Miguel Wattson is lighting up a Christmas tree.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) -- A dog who was dubbed the unicorn puppy because of a tail-like growth between his eyes will remain with the founder of a Missouri rescue group, despite more than 300 offers to adopt him.

MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) -- Residents of a Mississippi city are protesting a large pothole in their neighborhood by decorating it with holiday cheer.

MAGGIE VALLEY, N.C. (AP) -- An elk is running around western North Carolina with a shredded hammock on its head, and apparently a love of apples is to blame.

OAKWOOD, Ga. (AP) -- Police in Georgia say a man called out of his Steak ‘n Shake job because he was “intoxicated,” then showed up anyway and demanded money while holding a co-worker at gunpoint.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Louisiana State University fans will have a chance to take home an unusual souvenir as the football team heads to the SEC championship -- free slabs of Tiger Stadium sod.

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- At the heart of an annual California Christmas tradition lies a struggling deodar cedar tree in the city of Fresno.

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida family refused to make room at their Thanksgiving table for an uninvited guest, who was so angry at being left out that he repeatedly slammed the front door.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -- A woman who gave birth at an airport in North Carolina has given the baby a name tied to where she was born.

SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) -- Police say a Georgia woman fired a gun into a KFC after learning her order lacked napkins and a fork.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- Things first started to go wrong for Flint the rat-sniffing dog when a sealion charged at him. It emerged from the scrub, lurching and bellowing, full of aggression.

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) -- A bear has been blamed for a pair of vehicle break-ins at an Alaska airport parking lot that resulted in thousands of dollars in damage to one car, officials said.

BRUSSELS (AP) -- Put domestic cats on a leash to better protect threatened birds and the environment? The European Union says that would deny mankind’s furry friend its unalienable right to roam.

PHOENIX (AP) -- A teenager has been safely rescued without injury after becoming stuck in the chimney of a Phoenix home.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- A man’s quest to find his wedding ring on a 4,000-foot snow-covered mountain in New Hampshire has been completed by a couple of hikers -- and a metal detector.

BROOKHAVEN, Ga. (AP) -- The loss of Krispy Kreme doughnuts documented by police in Georgia has come to a bittersweet ending.

BERLIN (AP) -- Germany’s Defense Ministry is apologizing for an Instagram post about fashion by the military’s social media team which featured a Nazi-era uniform, complete with swastika-embossed medals, under the heading “retro.”

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) -- A magnet-wielding angler has fished a World War I-era grenade from a western Michigan river.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump couldn’t resist riffing on the House impeachment inquiry Tuesday as he continued the tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey, generating holiday-season laughter at the expense of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, one of his chief antagonists in Congress.