The Washington Department of Natural Resources has been using one of its firefighting helicopters to haul abandoned boats off an uninhabited island in the southernmost reaches of Puget Sound this week.

An adolescent loggerhead sea turtle named Dilly Dally is back in the Atlantic Ocean, months after having a front flipper amputated at a Florida turtle hospital.

Visitors to historic sites in North Dakota will soon have flush toilets available.

Police investigating the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann from a Portuguese holiday resort in 2007 are to conduct fresh searches in the area.

About 250 million honeybees took to the skies when a commercial truck carrying them overturned in Washington state near the Canadian border.

A man listed in arrest and court documents as John Publix was arrested after stealing from a Publix in Hollywood and later earned a felony for battering a law enforcement officer, police said.

An Alaska man escaped unscathed after being trapped by a 700-pound boulder for three hours during a hike in a remote area last weekend.

Videos featuring emotional moments with hyper-realistic baby dolls have sparked both online fascination and political debate in Brazil, with lawmakers even bringing the lifelike dolls into legislatures.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler died on Sunday.

Two pigeons sneaked aboard a Delta Air Lines plane, delaying the flight twice.

There are times when the Scripps National Spelling Bee transforms into a geography bee.

Twice per year, New Yorkers and visitors are treated to a phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, when the setting sun aligns with the Manhattan street grid and sinks below the horizon framed in a canyon of skyscrapers.

The Enhanced Games is a sports festival that bills itself as better than the Olympics because it allows athletes to benefit from using performance-enhancing drugs.

A pet kangaroo was on the loose in Colorado.

A pack of veterinarians clamber over hefty metal crates of animals they load one-by-one onto a fleet of semi-trucks.

Oscar Mayer’s iconic Wienermobile fleet will be “hot dogging” it later this week at the inaugural "Wienie 500.”.

Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen was forced into a draw Monday by more than 143,000 people worldwide playing against him in a single, record-setting game.

A man who tried to help a burglar cash in from the theft of a gold toilet was spared prison on Monday after a British judge said he had been taken advantage of by the thieves.

Former Celtics great Paul Pierce was so confident in his team in Game 2 against the Knicks, he said he would walk to work barefoot “in my robe” if they lost for a second straight game in the second-round series.

New experiments show eggs are less likely to crack when they fall on their side.

New Zealand is still one of a few countries in the world where sheep outnumber people.

A miniature dachshund named Valerie who was lost for 18 months — or around half her life — on an Australian island has been reunited with her owners.

The sight of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail laying an egg from its neck has been captured on camera for the first time.

Animal welfare officers faced the grisly task of euthanizing more than 350,000 chickens by hand after they were left starving and cannibalizing each other.