Weird News

The largest Briarcliff mansion on the hill west of U.S. 169 north of downtown Kansas City, which impressed locals as well as visitors, was destroyed by a three-alarm fire late Thursday and early Friday.

Officers arrested 22-year-old Rachel Downer in connection to the exposure death of Mercedes Mayfield on Feb. 27, the Bemidji Police Department says.

A horrified woman turned up to walk her tiny pooch but saw a bloated 8ft python stuck in its place still attached to the kennel A shocked woman found a bloated python inside her Chihuahua's kennel - with her tragic pooch's chain dangling from it's mouth.

The 20-year-old man who was shot in the chest behind a strip mall in Sartell Thursday morning has died, according to Sartell Police.

Woodie Flowers will watch the teams and their robots battle Friday and Saturday at the Metropolitan Community College-Business and Technology campus.

Rhode Island authorities say a 71-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease and dementia had lived with his dead wife's body for at least two days before officials entered the home this week.

The ability to fulfill those peculiar requests separates the professional concierge from just the schmoes who work at the desk.

In need of a 16-foot trailer for a flat-bottom boat, the Iowa man went on Craigslist and posted an ad proposing a barter deal in the site's "For The Craigslist post by Syring, a married, 37-year-old father, noted that the boat trailer was needed "asap," and that the poster "will trade for sex if need be."

An overnight blaze that destroyed two businesses in Chautauqua County was caused by a Halogen utility light, fire investigators say.

Just about everyone has an opinion on Justin Bieber. But would you literally pay money out of your own pocket just to make his music stop? The student body president at one Washington state high school decided to use a song by the teen star as part of a fundraiser for children in Ghana.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is offering you the chance to spend the day with him where you will ride around in a tank and crush things.

If your 22-pound cat clawed your infant, then went on a yowling rampage that ended with your family barricaded in a bedroom on the phone to 911 , you'd think a little, er, tension might result.

Testimony in Kyle Flack’s preliminary hearing ended Wednesday when a Franklin County judge ordered him to stand trial in the shotgun murders of four people last spring at a farmhouse outside Ottawa.

A video posted to YouTube in January of last year is making the social media rounds this week.

The complaint says that in June 2012, Odessa Gun & Pawn sold a .45-caliber pistol to Colby Sue Weathers and that Weathers used the gun to fatally shoot her father.

Police are looking for a man they say tried to rob a Brooklyn bodega and jumped the counter, grabbing cash out of the register when the store clerk refused.

A first-time mother who says she failed a drug test while in labor because she ate poppy seeds has sued a Pittsburgh hospital, saying officials defamed her and violated her doctor-patient confidentiality by sharing the results with a child welfare agency.

If you've ever been stuck behind a person driving too slowly in the fast lane, the Georgia Legislature is here for you: Its "slowpoke" bill would require anyone driving on a divided highway to move to the right when a faster car approaches from behind - even if the "slowpoke" is actually going the speed limit.

Kyle Flack is accused of killing an 18-month-old child and three adults last spring before police arrested him May 8 at an Emporia apartment.

Air Force reservist Leo Brown, a religion teacher at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Overland Park, will be deployed to Afghanistan later this month with the 442nd Fighter Wing.