Weird News

It was the sound of a wailing cat that first caught the neighbor's attention. When she looked toward the sound she told Kern County authorities that she saw her next-door neighbor cutting off the crying feline's head with a knife.

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An unusual school-zone speed limit sign in suburban Detroit has drawn the attention of an irked driver. The lists six separate times when drivers should slow down to 25 mph on school days: 6:49 to 7:15 a.m., 7:52 to 8:22 a.m., 8:37 to 9:07 a.m. and more.

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A 59-year-old fugitive is back behind bars after he ran out of gas in Wyoming and called the local sheriff's office for roadside assistance.

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A Pennsylvania man is jailed on drug charges because police say something other than a confession came out of his mouth when he was hit with a stun gun. 

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A San Rafael woman's treasured gold necklace survived an incredible journey when it was accidentally flushed down the toilet in October. Sanitation department workers found it last week and have returned it to the woman. Ellen Huet

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A Romanian model who says she never diets has such a narrow midriff her figure resembles that of a Barbie Doll.

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Authorities in Alaska say a man threatened to teach "crackheads" how to make "electromagnetic distortion devices" unless the state paid him $85,000. 

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A Montana man who told officers he instigated a police chase because he always wanted to try it, found out it'll cost him a $1,000 fine to go with his tire damage. 

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Champis the bunny doesn't only hop -- he also knows how to herd his masters' flock of sheep, possibly having picked up the skill after watching trained dogs do the job. 

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A 55-year-old Montana man who says he "always wanted" to be part of a police chase can check that off his bucket list. The Montana Standard reports John C. Hughes followed a patrol car for seven blocks early Thursday before pulling his SUV around and taking off at speeds of up to 70 mph. Officers say the man was driving faster than 100 mph on an interstate.

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Employees of an Australian bus company have been given a $16 million share of the proceeds of the business sale as a thank-you for their loyalty.

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A women's health specialist at the Cleveland Clinic made a house call at the Cleveland zoo to help fit an orangutan with an implanted birth control device. 

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The Museum of London is displaying a coin found by the River Thames that may have been used nearly 2,000 years ago as a "brothel token" in Roman London. 

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Everyone who's ever gone to school should know how to spell "school." But someone who plastered a school crossing sign on the street in front of a New York City high school got it wrong.

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One western Pennsylvania fire department learned that there's not necessarily fire wherever there's smoke. Firefighters in New Castle, Pa., were called when an electrical outlet on a floor was smoking, only to find that happened because the family's cat urinated into the outlet.

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A Utah school district has decided against using "Cougars" as a mascot for a new high school in part because of the negative connotation of the word in popular culture. 

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