Category: News

A Massachusetts man said a snap decision to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket from a convenience store led to his winning his second $1 million jackpot in four years. Stephen Toto of Framingham told Massachusetts State Lottery officials he hadn’t intended to buy a scratch-off ticket at the A-1 Gulf store in Framingham, but when […]

Wildlife officials in Colorado said a bear climbed into a home through an open window and left after feasting on cat food it found inside. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said the bear climbed in through a window at the home in Gunbarrel, Boulder County, and feasted on the cat food it found inside. Officials said […]

A police academy in China announced it is holding an auction to find new homes for 54 dogs that flunked out of the program by being too gentle for a career in law enforcement. The Criminal Investigation Police University of China in northeastern Liaoning province announced the dogs — primarily German shepherds, Dutch shepherd hybrids […]

Officials in Louisiana said more than 60 ducks were relocated from a neighborhood after residents complained of the birds overrunning their properties and following pedestrians. Residents of the Summa Court area in East Baton Rouge Parish said what was initially a small population of ducks gradually increased to more than 60 of the birds, and […]

A four-man rowing team announced they broke a world record by rowing from San Francisco to Hawaii in 30 days, 7 hours and 30 minutes. Jason Caldwell, Duncan Roy, Angus Collings and Jordan Shuttleworth, members of the Latitude 35 racing team, arrived in Hawaii on Wednesday after crossing the 2,400 mile distance from San Francisco. […]

One member of a group of elephants that left a nature reserve and wandered close to cities in China’s southwest has been tranquilized and returned to the reserve after leaving the herd. The elephants attracted nationwide attention after they left the reserve in Yunnan province last year and walked more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) […]

Seven people apprehended after entering Vermont illegally from Quebec by driving across the lawn of a library built in both the United States and Canada were immediately returned to Canada, the U.S. Border Patrol said Thursday. Surveillance videos released by the Border Patrol shows the car drive by the Haskell Free Library and Opera House […]