Weird News

Continuing his promise of releasing eight videos in eight days, "Weird Al" Yankovic has dropped the seventh video off 'Mandatory Fun' today titled 'Lame Claim to Fame.'

Veteran singer/songwriter and TV personality Charly Boy has continued in his normal but weird manner of reaching out to his fans.

Terry Morgan had searched high and low for the A 500 timepiece, not realising dopey Newfoundland Charlie had decided it was chime for a snack Little did he know his dopey Newfoundland Charlie had decided it was chime for a snack, and had swallowed it whole.

Dog faints after reuniting with owner When Casey sees her owner for the first time in two years -- it's pure bliss.

Everything old is new again. Turns out music executive Barry Weiss left Sony Music a diamond in the rough when he exited to run Universal Music Group's East Coast operations.

Weird NJ: The lost 'Jersey Jungle' is found The short-lived Jersey Jungle attraction in Howell has been uncovered by Weird New Jersey.

The hapless crook's hilarious attempt to escape - which saw him walk into a glass door - was captured on CCTV following his bungled shop raid in Canada The footage of a badly botched raid shows that if you have a memory span shorter than a goldfish, you probably won't get far.

Police in Colorado claim 53-year-old Kenneth Welton used a lawnmower as his mode of transportation for a recent night on the town gone awry.

"Shrek the Musical" is enjoying a summer run in the seacoast city of Portsmouth, but some neighbors want the volume turned down.

They sent a creepy feeling through several Southern California families, but authorities say the person who left porcelain dolls on doorsteps didn't mean any harm.

Witnesses told police they saw the craft fly back into a fifth-floor room in a nearby hotel.

Police say a toddler crashed a Jeep into an Oregon home, then ran back to his home to watch cartoons.

The first run of this game came in the eighth inning as Mike Moustakas lofted a fly ball to left field.

A number of actors have reportedly been rumored for the role. Deadline.com reported in June that Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch were on the shortlist.

Nigel Sykes' attempted robbery of a Delaware pizzeria failed miserably-but he'd still like to get some cash out of the whole to-do.

If what you need to meet fitness targets is a device attached to your body that will jolt you with electric shocks, then a new company called Pavlok has just the thing for you.

"Dumb, dumber, and dumbest." That's how a waitress at Doc's Beach House in Bonita Beach, Fla., describes the three guys who broke in-clad only in their skivvies-in the wee hours Sunday and five minutes later made off with 60 hamburgers, 3 pounds of bacon, three red peppers, and, uh, a paddleboard.

The past week for "Weird Al" Yankovic has been a little weird by the standards of the curly-haired, accordion-playing, oddball master of pop music parody.

A man in Florida apparently got a dose of road rage karma when police say he was run over by his own pickup truck after getting out to bang on another driver's window.

An owner of a zoo in Michigan's Upper Peninsula says a 12-inch alligator has escaped, possibly with some help from a tortoise.