Boston woman pays $560,000 for 2 parking spots
Parking is such a precious commodity in Boston that one woman was willing to pay $560,000 for two off-street spaces near her home. Lisa Blumenthal won the spots in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood...
View ArticleBear with head stuck in jar is rescued in Pa.
Four central Pennsylvania residents said they used only a rope and a flashlight during a wild chase to rescue a young bear whose head had been stuck in a plastic jar for at least 11 days. The...
View ArticleMorris the cat runs for mayor of Mexican city
This mayoral hopeful in Mexico promises to eat, sleep most of the day and donate his leftover litter to fill potholes. Morris, a black-and-white kitten with orange eyes, is running for mayor of Xalapa...
View ArticleMinn. mother, son accused of stealing gopher feet
A Minnesota mother and her 18-year-old son are accused of stealing nearly $5,000 in frozen gopher feet and selling them for a bounty. Thirty-seven-year-old Tina Marie Garrison and Junior Lee Dillon,...
View ArticleEd Koch’s tombstone engraved with wrong birth date
Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch meticulously planned his own funeral, but his tombstone has the wrong birth date. NBC 4 New York (http://bit.ly/11kapIO ) reported Monday that the headstone lists...
View ArticleSurfing dogs hit waves at Imperial Beach competition
More than 40 surfing dogs unleashed on some waves Saturday in San Diego County’s Imperial Beach. The canines took part in the “2013 Loews Surf Dog Competition – Unleashed by Petco.” YouTube sensation...
View ArticleHigh court gay marriage decisions due Wednesday
The Supreme Court is meeting to deliver opinions in two cases that could dramatically alter the rights of gay people across the United States. The justices are expected to decide their first-ever...
View ArticleWhat floats these boats? Concrete
Does concrete float? For the hundreds of civil engineering students at the annual National Concrete Canoe Competition, the answer is “yes.” Teams representing 23 schools vied last week to design,...
View Article19 take part in Tube to Work Day on Boulder Creek
A day before Colorado marks Bike to Work Day, some commuters in Boulder got their feet wet heading to work by inner tube. The Daily Camera reports (http://bit.ly/15CFpS3 ) 19 people went tubing down...
View ArticleCouple lets coffee drinkers choose baby name
A Connecticut couple has named its baby with help from customers at a Starbucks coffee shop. Twenty-five-year-old Jennifer James and 24-year-old Mark Dixon of West Haven tell the New Haven Register (...
View ArticleHumerus reunion: Doc returns Vietnamese vet’s arm
An American doctor arrived in Vietnam carrying an unlikely piece of luggage: the bones of an arm he amputated in 1966. Dr. Sam Axelrad brought the skeletal keepsake home to Texas as a reminder that...
View ArticleChina asks if ‘happy ending’ services are illegal
China’s law enforcers are having an unusually public debate about a delicate topic: Do paid sexual services known as “happy endings” at massage parlors count as crimes if they don’t involve actual...
View ArticleMichigan kids get down and dirty at annual Mud Day
Here’s mud in your eye. And your hair, back and legs. It was a mother’s nightmare and a kid’s fantasy come true. Hundreds of children on Tuesday jumped into a 75-by-150-foot mud pit as part of the...
View Article19-foot python breaks into Australian charity
Australian police were mystified by a chaotic crime scene including a hole in the ceiling and a smelly pool of vomit-like liquid – until they found the culprit was a 5.7-meter (19-foot) python. The...
View ArticleNY school issues reading list riddled with errors
A Long Island school district has released a summer reading list riddled with spelling errors. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” is misspelled as “The Great Gypsy.” And author Emily Bronte is...
View ArticleMinnesota town has 4-year-old boy as mayor
Supporters of the mayor in the tiny tourist town of Dorset can stuff the ballot box all they want as he seeks re-election. The mayor – a short guy – is known for his fondness of ice cream and fishing....
View Article90 cats rescued from smuggling near Thai border
Thai police say they have rescued about 90 famished cats that they believed had been headed to Vietnam. They declined to say what fate they had rescued the felines from, but cats are considered a...
View Article5-figure Ohio water bills blamed on new software
A spate of five-figure water bills in an Ohio city is being blamed on new software, but a pastor jokes his church’s $93,000 bill was from using too much holy water. The July bill sent to St. Rose...
View ArticleThai university apologizes for Hitler banner
Thailand’s premier university has apologized for displaying a billboard that showed Adolf Hitler alongside Superman and other superheroes, saying Monday it was painted by ignorant students who didn’t...
View ArticleNY rabbi accused of trying to pull over motorists
Some drivers in the suburbs north of New York City were startled when they saw a man waving his arms, honking his horn and flashing a silver badge in a frantic effort to get them to pull over in...
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