Wanted woman leads Palo Alto police on chase, flips camera off in booking photo

A wanted woman led a Palo Alto police vehicle on a chase and then punched an officer and a police dog during the early hours of Wednesday morning, police said. 

Police: Thief tried paying waitress with her own stolen credit card

Authorities say an Arkansas thief got his just desserts when he tried to pay for a meal using the waitress' stolen credit card.

Service horse turning heads in one Florida town

What would you do if you saw a horse walk into a restaurant?  It happened in Ocala last week, raising some eyebrows.  "Honey" is Jessica Wellman’s very sweet service horse. 

Homeowner sprays snake with gasoline, ends up setting house on fire

An improvised method of getting rid of a snake in a garden by spraying it with gasoline kicked off a chain reaction that ended up with a house on fire in southern Finland.

Son serving as pallbearer killed when mom's coffin crushes him

An Indonesian man died on Friday after a coffin carrying the body of his mother fell from a stilt tower and crushed him to death, police said.

Ohio man finds black widow spider in grocery store broccoli

An Ohio man didn’t just come home with produce from his grocery store, he also brought along a black widow spider.

Weeki Wachee Springs hiring mermen

Many little girls growing up in Florida dream of growing up to be a Weeki Wachee Springs Mermaid, but what about the boys?

500-lb. great white shark washes up in Aptos

A juvenile great white shark washed up at Beer Can Beach in Aptos on Father's Day.

23-foot-long python swallows woman whole

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) python has swallowed a woman in central Indonesia, a village official said Saturday. The victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village on Muna island in Southeast Sulawesi province on Thursday evening, according to the village chief, Faris.

Firefighters break windows of car blocking hydrant, run hose through it

HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Firefighters had to break the windows and run a hose through a car that was blocking a fire hydrant in New Jersey. Firefighters arrived on the scene of a house fire early Thursday in Hamilton Township. But they found the car parked in front of the hydrant. A picture posted on the Hamilton Township Professional Firefighters' Facebook page shows they punched out...

Mother uses taco to distract fake cop terrorizing family, police say

A California woman was praised for her “momma bear instincts” after she distracted a gun-toting fake cop who was terrorizing her husband and four children on Sunday by simply offering him a taco, police said.

Local father and son share special birth bond

You know what they say—like father like son. Ken Rosner holds the record for being the biggest baby ever born at Abington Hospital and his newborn son now has a special distinction, too.

Deer sprints through Metro station (VIDEO)

A deer appeared to 'buck' its fare as it sprinted through a Metro station early Tuesday morning.

Protected gopher tortoise lays eggs in Florida family's front porch flower garden

When Michelle Koch took her dogs out the front door of her Timucuan home in Lake Mary, Florida, the last thing she expected was an encounter with one of the state's best-known protected animals. But that's exactly what she got.

Sheriff shares photo of wandering alligator in Walton County

The Walton County Sheriff shared photos on Facebook of something not usually seen on any Sunday in the county: a big alligator.