After Molly McFadden landed at Dulles International Airport in Virginia in early October, she experienced every traveling pet owner’s worst nightmare: Her cat Milo’s carrier, she found, had broken during her Lufthansa flight from Germany to Washington, and the 3-year-old tabby was nowhere to…
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The buyer of Olivia Newton-John's famous leather "Grease" jacket has returned it to the singer and donated the $243,000 he spent to her cancer treatment center in Australia.
The audition date was set.
She rented a room to him but had no way of knowing he would end up wandering around her house naked and covered in her dog’s blood.
Rossi Lothario Adams II built an empire on college debauchery. On social media accounts he started as a senior at Iowa State University, he posted photos and videos of students performing what one local television station dubbed “all kinds of crazy shenanigans.”
BIRMINGHAM, England -- Elusive British street artist Banksy has highlighted the issue of rough sleeping in a seasonal mural showing two flying reindeer pulling a homeless man on a street-bench sleigh.
CHANDIGARH, India, — In a pink-walled room of a government office at the foot of the Himalayas, Indian women spend their days canceling the passports of runaway husbands.
It’s Qiyana. The League of Legends character is just standing there, imprinted on a black T-shirt. It’s called gaming fashion, and it costs $670.
Pete Frates, whose battle with ALS inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge that raised millions for research, died on Monday at age 34 after a seven-year battle with the disease, Boston College said.
LONDON — Scottish auctioneers hope to sell off 3,900 bottles of rare whiskey for up to $10.3 million next year in what they said would be the largest private collection of the liquor ever to go up for auction.
NEW YORK -- A lovelorn singing whale, a world-famous feline sourpuss and ravenous goats credited with thwarting a dangerous California wildfire were among animals whose escapades across the United States made news in 2019.
If you duct-tape a banana to a wall at a posh art gallery and slap a title on it, is it really art?
George Zimmerman, acquitted of killing unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin in 2012, is now suing Martin’s family and others for more than $100 million.
A deer with a string of holiday lights coiled around its antlers was seen roaming in San Anselmo on Wednesday, animal control officials said.
Eli Boroditsky was certain he’d hit someone’s large, fluffy dog.
Nereida Araujo was trying to get to a family member's home for Thanksgiving. Her unborn daughter had other plans.
“Hallelujah. Holy (expletive). Where’s the Tylenol?”
It’s time to clean your makeup sponges. And your brushes. And replace your mascara. Probably your lip gloss, too.
All jokes aside about the Salesforce Tower or the Space Needle looking like big fat spliffs, it seems San Francisco, along with Seattle and Portland, really enjoy cannabis.
If you grew up watching “The Jetsons,” you may have thought that by the 21st century, we’d all have flying cars. It hasn’t quite worked out that way, but that could be changing — if you have $599,000 and a pilot’s license.
For nearly two decades, John Richards dedicated his life to protecting an endangered species: the correctly placed apostrophe.
A commemorative silver coin depicting tennis champion Roger Federer is proving so popular that it’s crippling the website of Switzerland’s mint.
When three friends set off for a drive through the Australian outback last month, the few provisions they packed — beef noodles, biscuits and some cans of vodka — indicated they didn’t expect to be gone long.
A man was shot to death on Thanksgiving night by a booby trap device he had apparently rigged in his home, officials say.
Walt Disney Co.’s “Frozen II” carved out the biggest share of the box office over the post-Thanksgiving weekend, but North American theaters remain mired in a slowdown.
Researchers have big outstanding questions about the puppy they have named Dogor — “friend” in a language of the Siberian area where the creature spent 18,000 years in permafrost.
Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, but it’s the only one that requires climbing up a 1,000-foot cliff face to reach. Father Assefa, 64, has done it every day for 50 years.
In 2016, Wanda Dench texted the wrong number while inviting her grandson over for Thanksgiving dinner.
A Florida man shot and killed his roommate Sunday night after believing his roommate would do the same to him; the shooter then posted about it on social media, according to a report by WFLA.
Ryan Jacob Avedisian, 38, of Largo, was arrested and taken to Pinellas County Jail, and faces a felony charge of murder in the first degree, according to Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.
Avedisian shot his roommate in their shared kitchen with a handgun Sunday night in a Largo residence on 6th Avenue SE, about five miles south of Clearwater, WFLA reported.
Avedisian then took to social media and posted the message. "Threat neutralized. 911 en route."
He called 911 and explained to authorities that he heard his roommate saying he was going to kill him, and that his roommate tried to poison his food several times. Avedisian told authorities he stayed up all night so he could shoot and kill his roommate, WFLA reported.
A day after burglars made off with priceless jewels from a German museum, pressure is growing on police to find the culprits. One big reason: The diamond-encrusted dagger, pearl necklace, and dozens of other glittering artifacts — estimated by the local press to be worth more than $1 billion…
The movable guerrilla feast was adorned with the holiday essentials, and old and new friends gathered around turkey, greens, cider and stuffing, set atop white tablecloths — eager for dollops of yams before the conductor arrived at their stop.
A Mississippi resident sent a raccoon in a top-slatted soap box to the White House in November of 1926. The idea was that the animal would be slaughtered and prepared for a Thanksgiving feast, according to news reports. But President Calvin Coolidge didn’t care for raccoon meat. Turkey would suit.
This Japanese electronics company is doubling down on game shows at a time when millions of viewers are abandoning TV for online entertainment.
Willie Murphy was getting ready for bed Thursday night when she heard a loud pounding on her door.
Prince Andrew stepped down from his public duties after a prime-time television interview threw fuel on the fire of the controversy surrounding his relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
No doubt about it, crime has gotten harder at a time when surveillance cameras are everywhere. But maybe those cameras have made it easier to have a conscience.
The voyeurs around the world logged onto a YouTube stream Wednesday, hoping to see a random hotel guest scurry about their room. Instead, the viewers were greeted with an empty manager’s chair and a whiteboard registering mutual disappointment: The guest canceled tonight . . .
MUNICH — Nazi memorabilia including Hitler’s top hat and a cocktail dress worn by his companion Eva Braun is going under the hammer at a German auction house, drawing calls from the Jewish community to stop a sale it deems immoral.
If Jeopardy! has its own Mount Rushmore, it would include the show’s three all-time money leaders — James Holzhauer, Ken Jennings, and Brad Rutter.
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