Tag: Oddities
Vax and scratch: NY offers $5M lottery for newly vaccinated
ALBANY, N.Y. — Anyone who gets vaccinated at a state-run vaccination site in New York next week will receive a lottery scratch ticket with...
Hundreds in California line up for blooming ‘corpse flower’
<p>ALAMEDA, Calif. — Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city flocked to an abandoned gas station to get a whiff of a corpse...
Authorities: Bar patron bit chunk off Louisiana man’s nose
<p>METAIRIE, La. — A Louisiana man had a chunk of his nose bitten off by a man he bought a drink for, authorities said.</p>
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Hundreds in California line up for blooming ‘corpse flower’
ALAMEDA, Calif. — Residents of a San Francisco Bay Area city flocked to an abandoned gas station to get a whiff of a corpse...
Authorities: Bar patron bit chunk off Louisiana man’s nose
METAIRIE, La. — A Louisiana man had a chunk of his nose bitten off by a man he bought a drink for, authorities said.
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Chicago fire crew rescues parrot from office building ledge
CHICAGO — The Chicago Fire Department didn’t have to raise a ladder to rescue a cat from a tree over the weekend, but firefighters...
Arrest warrant issued for man in Confederate monument theft
SELMA, Ala. — Police in Alabama have issued an arrest warrant for a man in connection with the bizarre theft of a Confederate monument...
Chicago fire crew rescues parrot from office building ledge
<p>CHICAGO — The Chicago Fire Department didn’t have to raise a ladder to rescue a cat from a tree over the weekend, but firefighters...
Arrest warrant issued for man in Confederate monument theft
<p>SELMA, Ala. — Police in Alabama have issued an arrest warrant for a man in connection with the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/selma-alabama-theft-640f42a2b51e648281c3a517a64eb05e">bizarre theft</a> of a Confederate...
Trapped cat rescued from undercarriage of Isaac Yiadom’s car
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Firefighters in Florida were called to rescue a cat — not out of a tree, but from the undercarriage of...