Tag: Oddities
Law enforcement help capture loose zebra in middle Tennessee
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — Law enforcement officials helped capture a loose zebra in middle Tennessee after it escaped from an exotic livestock auction.
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Cowabunga! More than 800 turtles rescued from storm drains
They're lean, they're mean and they're green. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Not exactly, but hundreds of diamondback terrapin hatchlings have been rescued from subterranean...
Play it again, Sam: Polish city recruits new bugle players
WARSAW, Poland — Ready to welcome tourists back, Polish's southern city of Krakow has recruited two more trumpeters to play the city's trademark bugle...
Detroit pizza man paints street, tries to save people dough
DETROIT — A Detroit pizzeria owner upset over people getting $150 tickets for unwittingly parking in a handicap zone got a bucket of blue...
Mom who gave birth on flight didn’t know she was pregnant
HONOLULU — Lavinia “Lavi” Mounga had no idea a baby was coming when she went into labor on a flight from her home in...
Food of the future? EU nations put mealworms on the menu
BRUSSELS — Dried yellow mealworms could soon be hitting supermarket shelves and restaurants across Europe.
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Wine that went to space for sale with $1 million price tag
LONDON — The wine is out of this world. The price is appropriately stratospheric.
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Florida Teen charged as adult in rigged homecoming election
PENSACOLA, Fla. — A Florida teen accused of rigging a homecoming queen election with her mother is being charged as an adult, prosecutors said.
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Nurses, doctor help ‘lucky’ mom who gave birth on flight
HONOLULU — A doctor and a team of neonatal medical professionals were in the right place at the right time — helping a Utah...
