Weird News

The freak accident Wednesday prompted temporary suspension of construction of the controversial Marine Transfer Station on the Upper East Side.

The blooms so far are "low-key" with yellow anthers sticking out, Joe Mooney, a spokesman for Matthaei Botanical Gardens, said Wednesday.

The 16-minute clip, which is believed to have been shot at the Ansonia Hotel building in New York City in 1999, was posted online by the National Enquirer on Tuesday night.

An upstate New York judge has been indicted on nine charges related to a reported attack last summer that authorities now say he fabricated.

If Tom Cruise made a movie that somehow merged his roles in Top Gun, Mission Impossible, and Minority Report, this would be the aircraft he'd be flying.

A 4-year-old Russian blue cat named Kush is being quarantined after apparently going berserk inside a central Florida home, prompting its owners to call 911.

The bear wandered into the backyard of a home on the 17000 block of Rancho Avenue in Devore around 11 p.m. Tuesday.

President Obama did not say "yes," but he also did not say "no" when asked by a man in a Colorado bar Tuesday night if he wanted to smoke marijuana.

An officer in Uganda was enjoying a cup of tea in his hut when the hard-shelled invader turned nasty - grabbing his legs and leaving him 'traumatised' Charles Onegiu, from the Nebbi district of Uganda, said he shot the creature dead after it entered his grass-thatched hut and became aggressive.

Faced with potentially hungry - and grumpy - passengers, a Frontier Airlines pilot treated them to pizza when storms diverted a Denver-bound flight to Cheyenne, where the plane was stuck for a couple of hours.

An Oklahoma farmer's iPhone that was lost when it fell into a grain elevator has been returned to him unscathed after it was found in Japan.

Would you fork over a few bucks to a stranger half way across the country to make potato salad? Thousands of people are doing just that.

Officials say 28-year-old Kevin Matthew Perkins packed himself in the basket Monday to get away from the Metropolitan Detention Center.

We don't need to take an official Gallup Poll to know that this probably wasn't a good idea.

Police in Mount Vernon, Washington, killed an agitated Angus cow that rampaged through town, tossing a police officer into the air and tap-dancing on a patrol car.

A paraplegic porcupine at a zoo in Sao Paolo, Brazil, has new way to get around thanks to a wheelchair made out of plumbing pipes.

Cops were trying to take a man with a gun into custody when he lobbed the "Barbie bike bomb" out the window, hitting four of them.

The Fire Brigade and authorities on the resort island of Crete say a 6-foot crocodile was spotted last week in a man-made lake near the seaside town of Rethymno.

A fan shown sleeping in the stands during ESPN's broadcast of a Yankees-Red Sox game in April is suing the network, Yankees and Major League Baseball for ten-million-dollars for defamation.

While the stunt produced awesome results, some people are not happy with the dangerous flight.