Sheriff posts creative video to prevent animal deaths

The Sheriff's Office in Brevard County, Florida has released a creative Facebook video to alert people to the dangers of leaving your pets inside a hot car.   

Police seek "bowl cut bandit"

Police on Long Island say they are looking for a man who might look like a character from the movie "Dumb and Dumber".

Does seeing friends' Venmo payments give you FOMO?

In addition to allowing its millions of monthly users to send each other a combined $40 billion in the last year, Venmo also offers a social experience by listing every charge and payment of every one of a user's Venmo-friends in a timeline for said user to scroll, enjoy, judge, and over-analyze.

Melania Trump sent a message, but to whom?

First lady Melania Trump traveled to the southern U.S. border on Thursday to show she cares about migrant children. Her wardrobe choice literally said otherwise. The words "I really don't care, do u?" were written in giant white letters on her Army green jacket.

Massachusetts State Police stop truck stuffed with furniture on interstate: 'What could go wrong?'

A driver was caught in a messy situation when he was pulled over by Massachusetts State Police this week. The driver was transporting a massive amount of furniture, including chairs, cabinets and other items, when he was stopped by police officers in Springfield. State police snapped a picture of the heavy load and posted it on Facebook.

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.

Police: Thief tried paying waitress with her own stolen card

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

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.

Man with gun tattoo on face arrested for illegal gun

A man arrested for unlawful possession of a firearm seems to have had the crime written across his face.  Michael Vine sports a gun tattoo smack in the middle of his face.

Wendy's employee video shows live mouse in bag of buns, fast food chain launches investigation

Employee’s at an Oklahoma Wendy’s made a startling discovery Thursday and one felt she needed to share it. There was a live mouse and feces inside a sealed bag of hamburger buns.

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.

Man chugs can of beer during DUI stop

Authorities say a 48-year-old Florida man raised a can of beer and chugged it after a sheriff's deputy stopped him on suspicion of drunk driving.

A seahorse named Frito is on the mend in Florida

A woman snorkeling in the Gulf of Mexico rescued a tiny seahorse that was tangled and trapped in fishing line in a pile of garbage, and now the creature is a webcam star at a Florida aquarium.

Woman gets head stuck in tailpipe

A young woman endured an exhaust-ing ordeal when she got her head stuck in a truck's oversized tailpipe at a Minnesota music festival.

Small raccoon makes big climb up skyscraper in downtown St. Paul

A raccoon who caused a stir on social media Tuesday afternoon after it started scaled an office building in St. Paul—reaching up to 23 stories before stopping to groom herself and, apparently, take a nap on a ledge—made it to the roof and was captured by wildlife officials. 

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.

NJ school chief doesn't explain pooping on field

HOLMDEL, N.J. (AP) — A school superintendent accused of repeatedly relieving himself during early morning workouts and leaving piles of his own feces next to a track at a New Jersey high school didn't explain his behavior during a brief court hearing Tuesday.

Distillery has new bourbon flavored by beaver secretion

Beaver-flavored whiskey, anyone? A New Hampshire distillery has a new bourbon, Eau De Musc, flavored partly by the secretion from a beaver's castor sacs.