Wire Weird News

Rare is the legal rebuttal that calls a cease and desist order a "literary gag gift" and uses the phrase "big meanie."

A cat caring for four newborn kittens is nursing an orphaned week-old pit bull puppy in Cleveland.

Grooming cows so they look like unusually large poodles is a well-known beautification practice in the show cattle industry.

He was drying off his freshly washed car.

A Minnesota mother and her 18-year-old son are accused of stealing nearly $5,000 in frozen gopher feet and selling them for a bounty.

Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch meticulously planned his own funeral, but his tombstone has the wrong birth date.

A well-traveled cat named "Mata Hairi" will soon be reunited with her owner after spending nearly 10 months traveling thousands of miles with a hitchhiker who rescued her from the rain.

Thailand's Buddhism body said it is monitoring monks nationwide for any inappropriate behavior after a video showed monks using luxurious personal items while flying on a private jet.

Four central Pennsylvania residents said they used only a rope and a flashlight during a wild chase to rescue a young bear whose head had been stuck in a plastic jar for at least 11 days.

Some New Jersey bus commuters apparently have gotten an unexpected tour of the New York metro area they'd rather forget.

Award-winning chef Charlie Trotter is being sued by two New York wine collectors who say he sold them a bottle of wine for more than $46,000 that wasn't what it said on the label.

Parking is such a precious commodity in Boston that one woman was willing to pay $560,000 for two off-street spaces near her home.

A 22-year-old Connecticut man who wrote obscenities and "Tyranny" on his speeding ticket payment claims in a federal lawsuit that his free speech rights were violated when he was arrested.

Wanted: A jester. Wallflowers need not apply.

A Philadelphia man has offered a little gator aid - calling animal control authorities to help rescue a juvenile alligator he found near a sewer grate on his street.

Hindsight will soon be punishable by a $25 fine in this Jersey Shore resort.

Drug traffickers back in Colombia must be going bananas over how their shipment ended up at Danish supermarkets and not on the streets.

A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with stealing money from cards brought to a wedding reception she was attending - and trying to hide the loot in her bra.

Ajax has a nose for trouble.

A Texas couple has fulfilled a lifelong dream by visiting Maine to watch the state Legislature at work. Seriously.

Thai police found 14 albino lions imported from Africa and hundreds of other protected animals in a warehouse near Bangkok and have arrested a pet shop owner.

Every dog has its day, but few canines get a motorcade on their return home.

Not even Chewbacca and his light saber get a free pass with airport security before being cleared to travel.

Commuters on a train line in northern Stockholm were met with an unusual sight this week: male train drivers and conductors wearing skirts to work.

Melissa Jones almost made it.

A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy was suspicious. When he heard two women were spotted near a Lancaster, Calif., intersection, and one of them was holding an alligator, he didn't buy it.

Officials at a small school district in upstate New York say an "honest mistake" led to students being identified in the yearbook as "Creepy smile kid" and "Some tall guy."

Passengers on a recent run of a popular historic railroad in southwest Colorado got a bit more scenery than they paid for: More than a dozen revelers partying on a nearby beach doffed their clothes to greet the train.