Making Hart Island's graves easier to visit

Accessible only boat, Hart Island is in the middle of the Long Island Sound on the eastern edge of the Bronx. Since the late 1800s, Rikers Island inmates have buried well over 1 million unidentified New Yorkers in mass graves on Hart Island.

Berlin police say 3 abandoned babies are likely sisters

Berlin police say three baby girls found abandoned in and around the German capital in recent years are siblings. The first newborn was discovered in Berlin in September 2015, the second in August the following year and the third in the nearby village of Schwanebeck in August 2017. Berlin police spokesman Michael Maass said Tuesday that DNA tests on the girls showed they have the...

Odd savory ice cream flavors on the menu

Vanilla soft serve from a truck: Classic, reliable, delicious, and for a growing number of ice-cream makers, boring.

Couple weds after crocodile bites off bride's arm

A couple attacked by a crocodile wedded days later in a Zimbabwean hospital, where the bride was recovering after losing an arm.

Twins born on 'Star Wars' Day named Luke and Leia

A Utah couple welcomed twins—a boy and a girl—on May 4, which all good sci-fi nerds know is Star Wars Day (May the 4th, May the Force—you get the idea.)

Drunken man's choice of bed causes Munich commuter chaos

An intoxicated man's ill-advised decision to spend the night on a freight train caused commuter chaos in Munich.

Woman microwaves and blows up urine sample at 7-Eleven

DENVER (AP) - A Colorado woman has been cited by police after a container of what appeared to be urine blew up as she was heating it up in a microwave at a 7-Eleven. Police say the incident occurred in the convenience store chain's Aurora location last week when the clerk heard a loud bang and saw 26-year-old Angelique Sanchez take a white plastic bottle out of the microwave.

Woman's gruesome roach-in-ear tale goes viral

Those screams you hear? They're the collective sounds of primal anguish after reading a Florida woman's account of waking up with a palmetto bug in her ear.

School bus forced to stop on Massachusetts highway

A Massachusetts school bus driver says another driver pulled in front of him and forced him to stop in the center travel lane of a busy interstate, then jumped on the hood of his bus. Joe Rizoli captured the entire episode on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Newton on Tuesday evening on his bus's dash cam. Rizoli says the man asked why the bus windows were tinted dark and if any...

Yearbook names Illinois wheelchair athlete 'most accident prone'

An Illinois high school is reprinting yearbooks that mocked a partially paralyzed senior who is a wheelchair athlete as "most accident prone."

Police say man stole, forged 2016 ballots

The Altamonte Springs Police Department on Wednesday arrested a man, accused of stealing and forging ballots in the 2016 General Election.

Police: NJ schools official pooped on football field

Police have charged a New Jersey school superintendent identified as the person who has been relieving himself on the grounds of a high school football field and track.

Police stun gun man attempting to have sex with car

Authorities say an extremely intoxicated man who was attempting to have sex with the tailpipe of a car in central Kansas was subdued with a stun gun after he refused to stop.