By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/21/2025 4:45 PM

A Maryland Lottery player who kept encountering the number 29000 decided to play it in a Pick 5 drawing and ended up winning a prize of more than $250,000. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/21/2025 3:16 PM

The California Highway Patrol warned Fresno-area drivers of "a berry sticky situation" resulting from a truck losing its load of blueberries into the roadway. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/21/2025 2:40 PM

A 2-day-old kitten was rescued after being found hiding in a warm, but otherwise unsuitable den location: the inner workings of a police patrol vehicle. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/21/2025 1:55 PM

A rescue dog escaped from his crate at Canada's Vancouver International Airport and was on the loose for 9 days before being safely apprehended by rescuers. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/21/2025 12:48 PM

A driver on a South African road captured video of the moment a lion escaped from a transport truck's roof hatch and made a flying leap to temporary freedom. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/20/2025 7:56 PM

A New South Wales, Australia, man called for help from professionals when a venomous tiger snake slithered across his foot while he was a passenger in his car. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/20/2025 6:04 PM

A wild bear wandered into a California zoo and "interacted" with the facility's resident bruins before leaving without incident through a service gate. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/20/2025 5:02 PM

Xbox took a massive TV into the air over the Miami skyline and broke the Guinness World Record for the largest video game display flown by helicopter. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/20/2025 4:05 PM

Visitors to a California beach are warning of an aggressive otter with a habit of stealing surfboards in Santa Cruz waters -- and it isn't the first time. ... Read full Story

By Sky News | | 10/18/2025 8:08 AM

Police hunting for a crocodile in Derbyshire have said the search turned out to be "more fluff than fear". ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/17/2025 5:33 PM

A museum in Minnesota's Olmstead County is inviting visitors to a seasonally-appropriate exhibit dedicated to the stuff of Halloween nightmares: "creepy dolls." ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/17/2025 5:30 PM

A North Carolina woman bought a scratch-off lottery ticket while on a break from work at a grocery store and ended up clocking back in with a $200,000 prize. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/17/2025 4:01 PM

A trio of goats that escaped from a farm three months ago have become local celebrities in Connecticut and can often be seen grazing near the highway. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/17/2025 3:57 PM

Authorities in Alabama are trying to find the owner of three donkeys that have been on the loose in Coosa County's Stewartville area for about two weeks. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/16/2025 5:46 PM

A California man captured video of a bear digging through a curbside trash bin and absconding to a nearby backyard with a bag of ill-gotten garbage gains. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/16/2025 4:58 PM

A Michigan woman used artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to generate a set of lottery numbers that earned her a $100,000 prize from a Powerball drawing. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/16/2025 4:42 PM

Firefighters in Winchester, England, said a cow "found out that the grass isn't greener on the other side" when it tried to cross a river and got stuck in mud. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/16/2025 3:55 PM

The Town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, is teaming up with the local Lillian Allbon Animal Shelter to elect the town's first-ever four-legged "pet mayor" into office. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/16/2025 2:44 PM

Emergency responders in California came to the rescue of a small dog who became trapped in the wash of rising floodwaters in Camarillo, Ventura County. ... Read full Story

By United Press International, Inc. | | 10/16/2025 2:16 PM

A climber offered some clues to the longstanding mystery of a how a pumpkin ends up impaled on the spire atop the University of Montana's Main Hall each year. ... Read full Story