Weird News

This video, filmed at the Budapest Zoo, shows a bear saving a fallen crow. The crow landed in the water of the bear's enclosure.

Lifelong baseball fan Tom Willis, born armless, takes the mound, grips the ball with his foot and hurls the ceremonial first pitch.

'Batkid Begins' follows the events leading up to the day Batkid saved San Francisco and what happens when an event goes unintentionally viral.

You've heard of homophobia. Now comes homophonia. The Salt Lake Tribune has the strange story of a social-media specialist who got fired after writing a blog post about homophones-the grammatical term referring to words that sound the same but are spelled differently, like too and two.

Jimmy Fallon unveiled a new game on Thursday's "Tonight Show" called 'Face Balls," and the first contestant was none other than his guest Julia Roberts .

A San Francisco restaurant says it is receiving angry calls and emails from members of the public who have confused it with a Monterey restaurant that recently drew news coverage for its ban on noisy children.

Police in Greeley, Colorado, are investigating who's got the goat - a grand champion animal that vanished this week from a county fair.

A small island near Buffalo has a big cat problem thanks to people who have abandoned felines there over the years.

The elephants, giraffes and bears at the Oakland Zoo got to nosh on African jackfruit and bananas Wednesday thanks to a overturned big rig that dumped 60,000 pounds of fruit in Livermore near the Altamont Pass earlier in the week.

The woman wrote that Officer Mike Nielsen made the stop a good experience for her grandchildren by talking with them calmly and giving them stickers.

Car passengers on I-95 in Massachusetts survived one of the weirder road hazards you'll ever see: An ax fell off a landscaping truck directly in front of the car, smashed into the windshield, and lodged itself in the dashboard, reports CBS Boston .

Nearly 3,550 calories for a burger, fries, and shake sounds about right-if it's one of the meals called out on a watchdog group's annual list of fatty, sugary, calorie-heavy foods served at US chain restaurants.

Social media is teeming with pictures of small bright blue sea creatures washing up all over California beaches, with sightings reported in Humboldt County, Monterey and Ocean Beach.

However, earlier that night, Norman was seen stumbling around a parking lot and carrying on a heck of a conversation with several bushes and shrubs.

An Indianapolis man has won two $1 million lottery prizes in the past three months.

A huge fight erupted at a New Jersey wedding this weekend, with 300 guests involved in the tussle as police struggled to control the situation.

In California, a major cleanup continues around UCLA after a water main break flooded the campus and nearby streets with millions of gallons of water.

Investigators say 30-year-old Freddy Shelby of Albuquerque was arrested Sunday after the homeowners called police to report their unwanted mystery guest.

The Republican newspaper of Springfield reports that the couple, Melanie Ann Convery and Neal James Coughlin of Holyoke, are petitioning Massachusetts to allow them to make both of their middle names "Seamonster."

Martinez was committed. He went so far as to use the Internet to find ways to cook the family pet.