WEIRD NEWS

A woman who accidentally dropped her cellphone into the hole of an outhouse in a national forest and fell in while trying to retrieve it had to be rescued by firefighters in Washington state.

A woman has been arrested months after threatening to blow up her son’s high school unless cafeteria workers started giving him more food, officials said.

An Illinois man inhaled a drill bit during a routine dental visit — and then ended up at the hospital, where doctors removed it with a rare medical procedure.

Some shoppers in Indiana were in for a slithery surprise during their recent trip to Walmart.

The wallaby who went missing at the Memphis Zoo after storms passed through Tennessee this week has been found hiding — nearly in plain sight.

The Charlotte Hornets were delayed getting to the arena for their NBA play-in game against the Atlanta Hawks.

Spain’s Civil Guard says it is investigating a businessman in the eastern Valencia region who owned a private taxidermy collection with more than 1,000 stuffed animals, including just over 400 from protected species and at least one specimen of a North African oryx, already extinct.

Capitol Hill has a fox problem.

Two of naturalist Charles Darwin’s notebooks that were reported stolen from Cambridge University have been returned, two decades after they disappeared.

A Rhode Island woman received an unpleasant surprise on Monday, when she said a naked man entered her home and got into her bed.

The nation’s oldest active park ranger is hanging up her Smokey hat at the age of 100.

What do a set of braces, a glow-in-the-dark condom, a plastic monkey and half a bowling ball have in common.

A New Zealand couple who believed they had dug up the world’s largest potato in the garden of their small farm near Hamilton have had their dreams turned to mash after Guinness World Records wrote to say that scientific testing had found it wasn’t, in fact, a potato after all.

Authorities say a man who tried to slither past U.S. border agents in California had 52 lizards and snakes hidden in his clothing.

Authorities say a teenager who scaled a tree at an Indianapolis park to rescue a cat he spotted high up in the branches ended up stuck himself and in need of a rescue.

Authorities say three anglers are safe after a homemade ice-fishing shanty was blown about a mile across a bay in Michigan by winds that neared 50 mph.

A leather helmet that Amelia Earhart wore on a flight across the Atlantic in 1928 and later lost in a crowd of fans in Cleveland sold at auction for $825,000.

Authorities have seized nearly $3 million worth of methamphetamine, hidden among a shipment of onions, during a tractor-trailer’s inspection at federal facility in San Diego.

A New York man is in a legal fight to keep a pig he says is his emotional support animal.

A Russian gallery says one of its security guards has vandalized an avant-garde painting on loan from the country’s top art repository by drawing eyes on the picture’s deliberately featureless faces.

A Maine family that long ago gave up on a lost family cat is being reunited more than six years and 1,500 miles later.

A wild crocodile with a used motorcycle tire stuck around its neck for six years has finally been freed by an Indonesian bird catcher.

Moxie, a polarizing beverage that is Maine's official soft drink, is in short supply because of supply chain woes.

A Palm Bay woman was arrested Sunday, accused of stabbing two people and pushing an elderly woman in a feud over leaf blowing, police said.