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LOS ANGELES, Calif. (AP) — Police in California have announced two arrests and the return of a pair of unique lizards that were stolen from a reptile shop last year. The Los Angeles Times reports the Long

NORWALK, Calif. (AP) — Authorities in southern California say a mailman helped another man who accidentally cut his arm with a chainsaw late last week. KNBC-TV reported Monday that United States Postal Service mailman Fernando Garcia was

By CHRISTIANA SCIAUDONE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian lawmaker has stepped down from his position representing President Jair Bolsonaro’s government, and has been suspended from the senate, after police searched his

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — Comedian John Oliver made a secret trip to Connecticut last week to help cut the ribbon on a new sign naming the city’s sewage treatment plant in his honor.  Danbury’s City Council voted

By MARION RENAULT Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York state and city wildlife officials say it’s too soon to know the local impact of exotic eels dumped into a Brooklyn lake last month. The nonnative

ST. STEPHEN, New Brunswick (AP) — A Canadian couple found a way for their grandparents from Maine to see their wedding despite the border closure because of the pandemic. It involved a boat used for hauling lobster

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida wildlife protection agency says it has broken up a trafficking ring that illegally trapped squirrels and shipped them to Asia. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation

Daniel Ahrens, 60, who owns Georgia Boy’s Bar-B-Que, was arrested for simple battery and booked into the Pinellas County Jail on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A ring-tailed lemur stolen from the San Francisco Zoo has been found. The 21-year-old male lemur named Maki was discovered missing shortly before the zoo opened to visitors on Wednesday. Investigators found evidence

By ANDREW DALTON AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — A stop-motion Rudolph of TV legend and his still-shiny nose are going up for auction. Santa is coming too. Figures of the flying reindeer and Saint Nick

PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — Researchers studying fossils among a vast expanse of petrified wood in eastern Arizona say they’ve found a new species. The tiny, burrowing reptile is part of a group known as

JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish carrier Finnair says it will start selling business class-style airline meals in a nationwide supermarket chain in a move to both keep its catering staff employed and also to

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The dean of South Carolina’s largest law school is apologizing for forwarding an email that contained the names of students who failed the exam to become a lawyer and the confidential bar exam

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Police in Oslo have seized a tuned, privately-owned electric scooter with a top speed of 58 kilometers per hour (36 mph), which nearly 3 times more than the legally permitted pace. The electric

FOREST, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement officers who pulled a driver over for a traffic violation in Mississippi say they discovered about 37 pounds of methamphetamine hidden inside a spare tire stashed in the vehicle. The Scott

Birmingham City Council said about 25 kits had been given out by mistake in the student area of Selly Oak as part of its “drop-and-collect” service.

As the deputies responded, they each hit the body of the pedestrian, who was still in the middle of the road, officials said.  The Florida Highway Patrol said the pedestrian had already been killed in the first collision.

A French museum has postponed an exhibit about the Mongol emperor Genghis Khan citing interference by the Chinese government, which it accuses of trying to rewrite history.

Police spokesman Sgt. L’Jean McKneely Jr. said the bus was unlocked and had a push start button, meaning no key was required.

“He had come to Peru with the dream of being able to enter,” Peru’s minister of culture, Alejandro Neyra said at a press conference Monday

“Voters do not have to worry about contracting COVID from their mail-in ballots,” said Courtney Bailey-Kanelos, Registrar of Voters in Sacramento County.

SYDNEY (AP) — Australian navy divers have removed an unexploded 100-pound  bomb on a reef off the southeastern coast and a ship towed it to deeper water because it posed a significant risk to the public. The

By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — What looks like an asteroid may just be an old rocket from a failed moon-landing mission more than 50 years ago. The newly spotted object is

By DAVE COLLINS Associated Press It’s official. It’s now the John Oliver Memorial Sewer Plant in Danbury, Connecticut. The City Council voted 18-1 Thursday night to rename the plant after the comedian, who began a tongue-in-cheek battle

By PATRICK WHITTLE and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Whale watch captains and scientists say recent years have seen a tremendous surge in the number of whales observed in waters around the Big Apple.

BERLIN (AP) — Police in southern Germany say a woman got a shock while airing out her home when a 25-centimeter (10-inch) Chinese mitten crab scurried in from the terrace through the open door. Freiburg police said

The pandemic has not sparked a shocking rise in UFO sightings, experts say. But the public is growing increasingly confused by ordinary objects.

A deceased gynaecologist who worked at a fertility clinic at a Dutch hospital fathered at least 17 children using his own sperm without informing the parents.

The accused thief Randall Whited worked for the library as its purchasing agent

Professor Emmanuelle Charpentier and Professor Jennifer Doudna have won the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work developing a method for genome editing.

VICTORIA MILKO AP Science Writer JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Tasmanian devils are roaming mainland Australia again after 3,000 years. The feisty, carnivorous marsupials went extinct on the mainland before Europeans arrived. They live in the wild in

A Florida man is being accused of voter fraud after authorities say he requested a mail-in ballot for his wife who died two years ago.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two former Oklahoma jail employees and their supervisor face misdemeanor charges after investigators found they played the children’s song “Baby Shark” on repeat to punish inmates. Authorities say at least four inmates were

Combining the heart rate tracking data from the four dogs over seven days, their average heart rate was 67 beats per minute.  But when the dogs were told “I love you” by their owners, their heart rates rocketed

“Unfortunately, a lion this size is too small to be released back into the wild, but we are hopeful … it will get a second chance as an ambassador for its species,” a state veterinarian said.

Rescuers in Henan Province credited his weight with helping to save him

A DNA match from the fruit helped police track him down

The incident occurred at approximately 2 a.m. on Saturday morning when police say some Temple University students were partying and drinking on a rooftop in North Philadelphia

A Florida woman was arrested after asking a deputy if he would like to smoke some marijuana with her, the arrest affidavit says.