WEIRD NEWS

An exit off Interstate 95 in Florida had to be closed for three hours after 100 homing pigeons fell off a truck and refused to move, posing a driving hazard to motorists.

A man says he sprayed trees in a suburban Chicago park to protect them after an anxious dog chewed off the bark.

Police have fined two men who had to be rescued from an Australian forest after they were startled by a deer while nude sunbathing on a beach and became lost.

Fred Flintstone fought the law — and he won.

Police say a 32-year-old man was accidentally shot in the head in New Hampshire after the bullet fired by his 8-year-old nephew ricocheted while they were shooting chipmunks.

A long-awaited U.S. government report on UFOs released Friday makes at least one thing clear: The truth is still out there.

An FBI agent applied for a federal warrant in 2018 to seize a cache of gold that he said had been “stolen during the Civil War” while en route to the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, and was “now concealed in an underground cave” in northwestern Pennsylvania.

A western Montana couple were able to save a horse from drowning in the Bitterroot River on Father's Day, and may have made a new friend.

Songwriter Diane Warren has stepped in to save a cow that eluded capture for more than a day after a herd escaped from a Southern California slaughterhouse and stampeded through a suburb.

The state that launched the movement to offer millions of dollars in incentives to boost vaccination rates is concluding its program still unable to crack the 50% vaccination threshold.

Pope Francis is usually the star at Vatican gatherings.

Forty cows have escaped a slaughterhouse and ended up in a Los Angeles suburb where one was killed after charging a family.

A commercial lobster diver who got caught in the mouth of a humpback whale off Cape Cod in Massachusetts says he thought he was going to die.

The top of the world got a sunrise special -- a “ring of fire” solar eclipse.

They say neither rain nor snow nor gloom of night will stop the U.S. Postal Service, but an alligator could get in the way.

Archaeologists are excavating a grassy hilltop overlooking iconic Plymouth Rock one last time before a historical park is built on the site.

A dog who vanished for two days after being ejected from a vehicle during a car accident has been found apparently doing the job it was bred to do — herding sheep.

A bear in Arizona emerged unscathed from quite the power trip when it became stuck on a utility pole.

Some people are greeted by the family dog.

A drug dealer in the English city of Liverpool thought he was the big cheese — until police got all the evidence they needed to arrest him from a picture he shared of himself holding a small block of creamy Stilton cheese.

A young alligator traced to the Louisiana bayous traded swamp scum for a sandy Padre Island beach in South Texas.

A recreational plane has landed safely on a Sydney beach with three people aboard including a baby after its single engine failed.

Staff at a logistics company in Germany threw cocaine with a street value of up to $1.2 million in the trash, not realizing that the packages they’d found inside banana crates were drugs.

A record-holding Sherpa climber halted his attempt to scale Mount Everest for a 26th time because of a bad dream.