Weird News

PARIS (AP) – Silence is invading Paris, now that tourism is banned, and millions of people are confined at home. The agency monitoring sound pollution in the Paris region says some 150 monitoring stations have recorded an

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Authorities say a thief apparently made himself or herself at home after breaking into a house in Lincoln, Nebraska. The resident called police Monday evening and said that when she got home from

DES MOINES, Ia. (AP) – Lottery jackpots are going to shrink as the coronavirus pandemic tamps down lottery sales. The group that oversees the Powerball game announced Wednesday night that it would cut minimum jackpots in half,

BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) — No more Peeps are being hatched for at least a couple of weeks — but it shouldn’t affect Easter baskets. The Bethlehem, Pennsylvania-based Just Born confections company said its production facilities there and

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis woman who won $50,000 in a Lottery game 18 years ago has won again, and this time the prize is much bigger. The Missouri Lottery said Wednesday that Anne Kasal

UNDATED – (AP) Cannabis stocks are flying high as investors see green following a recent surge in marijuana sales as people forced to stay home because of the coronavirus pandemic stock up. Shares in most of the

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) – A U.S. Government Accountability Office report has found that repeatedly clogged toilets on two Virginia-based Navy aircraft carriers could require treatments that cost $400,000 each to clear the pipes. An accountability office employee

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in Manchester, New Hampshire, say a man has been accused of grabbing a 2 1/2-foot-long sword and chasing after another man who asked him to turn down his music.  Police said a

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Customers cheered at a Walmart in Missouri after a woman gave birth to a baby girl in the store’s toilet paper aisle. Store manager Jessica Hinkle says the woman told employees Wednesday that

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Another complication as New Orleans fights the spread of coronavirus: rats and mice abandoning their hiding places in walls and rafters of now-shuttered businesses. They venture out to look for trash to munch

LISBON, Portugal (AP) – A community of nuns living in silence at a Portuguese convent have offered tips on how to make the best of being stuck at home during the COVID-19 outbreak. The nuns living in

WASHINGTON DC – (AP) The Scripps National Spelling Bee won’t be held as scheduled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning years of preparation by some of the country’s top spellers could go for naught. Scripps

BEAUFORT, N.C. (AP) — A calf has been born to a pregnant cow who swam 4 miles to shore after being swept away by Hurricane Dorian in September. The Charlotte Observer reports the newborn “sea calf” is

OSSINING, N.Y. (AP) — A museum is being planned at just outside the walls of Sing Sing prison in New York state with a unique feature. Museum organizers intend to build a 300-foot-long corridor connecting the museum

BUNNELL, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is in jail for allegedly impersonating a law enforcement officer just days after he was jailed on the same charge. Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staley said in a Facebook post

GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man is facing charges after he told police he unknowingly stole two televisions while drunk. The Gallup Independent reports Sage Aaron Cummins was arrested last week shortly following his arrival

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Officials in a North Carolina town say police are searching for suspects who were captured chaining an ATM to a stolen pickup truck and attempting to drag it away. Chapel Hill officials

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – After Ohio State’s unsuccessful effort to trademark the word “The,” the university is back on defense in that fight. It pressed its arguments in a filing last week with the U.S. Patent and

MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A dog from Florida that was missing for more than two months has been found 1,400 miles away in Michigan. Kris Gibson discovered Simba last week standing at her fence in

JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas boy dressed up as his school’s security officer on the day students were told to dress as their favorite person. Officer Jeffery Cross told KTHV-TV in Little Rock that he was

CUYAMUNGUE, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico woman is facing a larceny charge after authorities say she stole a neighbor’s anatomical skeleton model that allegedly was making an offensive gesture toward her. The Santa Fe New Mexican

ROXBORO, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman celebrated her 100th birthday this week by checking off a significant item on her bucket list: she went to jail. News outlets report that deputies from the Person County

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An accent mark on the official seal of the capital city of the nation’s most Hispanic state is in the wrong spot. The Santa Fe New Mexican reports the misplaced accent mark

PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) – A 24-year-old man has drawn a 30-day jail term for posting on social media a video of himself removing an ice cream container from a Texas market freezer, licking the contents and

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former U.S. Postal Service worker in West Virginia has been sentenced to six months in prison for selling marijuana along his mail route. U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart on Monday said the worker

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A woman is suing a family entertainment center saying her hair got caught in a ticket counting machine in Portland, Oregon, for 20 minutes. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports Ashreana Scott is suing CEC Entertainment,

MIDDLETOWN, Ohio (AP) – An Ohio emergency department physician has joined the Army at the age of 53. The Middletown Journal-News reports that Dr. Mark Gebhart has been a physician for 21 years and hopes that his

CHARLEVOIX, Mich. (AP) — A fish wholesaler in northern Michigan has been given a significant break after federal officials said they couldn’t arrange his unusual jail sentence. John Cross III of Charlevoix will serve four months of

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An animal control company in Virginia said it’s removed an 8-foot-long beehive from an apartment. Virginia Wildlife Management and Control said in a statement that they removed the hive from the ceiling of

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A Louisiana State University fraternity brother has been charged with breaking into the college’s under-construction football stadium and riding a four-wheeler around inside. University police said Thursday that 19-year-old Clayton Fleetwood entered

RENO, Nev. (AP) — What if they gave an election — and nobody showed up? It’s more than just a hypothetical question for Democrats who counted votes in last week’s presidential caucus. Not only did no one

LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — Ok, so maybe it isn’t the World Cup, or even the World Series. But there is a result in an international competition pitting contestants in Kansas against their British counterparts. And in yesterday’s

UNDATED (AP) — Some crimes are solved by following a paper trail. Some are solved by investigators following a money trail. In this case, authorities in Florida made quick work of an investigation into a drug store

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A case of deliberate mistaken identity has gotten a California inmate free from jail. Authorities in Utah say inmate Kaleb Wiewandt ended up being “released” from lockup Tuesday night — because he

PORT HURON, Mich – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seize human brain in international mail at Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron last week. On February 14, CBP officers assigned to the Area Port of Port

    OLIVEHURST, Calif. (AP) — A paraglider spent three hours trapped in power lines before being rescued in northern California. The paraglider, who wasn’t immediately identified, was facing the ground with the wires as his only

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The salvage firm that has plucked silverware, china and gold coins from the wreckage of the Titanic now wants to recover the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Machine that transmitted the doomed ship’s distress calls.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — You can say a man trying to rob a chicken joint in Louisville, Kentucky picked the wrong “date” to pull off the heist. That’s because the date he tried to rob the place

SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — He stopped to do a good deed for a fellow motorist — and almost lost his life in the process. Authorities in North Carolina say a FedEx truck driver stopped to help a