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An African leopard tortoise thought to be stolen from an Iowa museum was actually trapped behind paneling in her enclosure, and a misguided employee who found her lied to keep up the story about her theft, the museum announced Friday.

It took a zombie to find Disaster at the Crossroads of the World.

So the goat that walked into a Montana bar last weekend ... was stolen from a petting zoo.

A former New Mexico shoe salesman accused of biting off part of his girlfriend's toe has been arrested again, this time for allegedly stalking the woman and trying to cut off her big toe with a cigar cutter.

Odds are you won't get a cab in New Hampshire's largest city after police sidelined all 18 licensed taxis for inspection failures or failing to show up for inspection.

It's the plane crash that wasn't in Southern California.

A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn't sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.

A 911 dispatcher in Washington state called on her own mother to rescue a stranded boater in the Columbia River, knowing her mother could kayak to the area faster than sending the sheriff's office patrol boat.

One of usually peaceful springtime rituals of childhood - the Easter egg hunt - turned nasty at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle.

An entire troupe of performing fleas has fallen victim to the freezing temperatures currently gripping Germany.

A single-page FBI memo relaying a vague and unconfirmed report of flying saucers found in New Mexico in 1950 has become the most popular file in the bureau's electronic reading room.

Authorities say the remains of five people unearthed at a Colorado school where construction is under way could be from a burial plot.

It took nearly 12 hours Thursday for beekeepers to collect millions of bees that have been buzzing alongside a highway in Oregon since a truck crash spilled 200 hives.

Austrian police and firefighters have taken on the role of urban cowboys in a two-day round-up of a herd of cattle that broke out of a fenced-off pasture and decided to go into town.

A St. Louis-area man is facing criminal charges alleging that he used a prosthetic penis to try to pass a drug test.

A man accused of using a prosthetic penis to try to pass a drug test is now facing charges in eastern Missouri.

Police in a far Northern California city are asking for the public's help in identifying the suspect in a botched burglary. But if the man is wearing the same bright pants and jacket seen in surveillance footage, they may not need it.

State troopers in northern New Jersey didn't have to go far to make a pot bust. They didn't even have to get in their cruisers.

Police say a pair of eyeballs found in a medical box in a Kansas City gas station's trash bin aren't human.

A former mansion caretaker denied that he drank four dozen bottles of well-aged whiskey worth $100,000, claiming it would have been unsafe to drink and saying the booze had "evaporated" instead.

A Georgia woman has been reunited with her camera and photos after the camera she lost during a 2007 trip to Hawaii washed ashore in Taiwan.

Talk about streaming media: The Philadelphia Phillies' top minor league affiliate is set to debut what it calls a "urinal gaming system" at its ballpark in Allentown.

An Illinois man accused of stealing 21 tons of Wisconsin cheese has been arrested in New Jersey.

Fed up with the neighbors? Pipes burst in the kitchen? Or, you just want to get away from it all for a while?

They say you can get almost anything at Wal-Mart. But the Pennsylvania Game Commission says one deer hunter took it too far.

The groundhog is off the hook.

Sometimes a mop sink is just a mop sink.

A Southern California man's car ended up on his neighbor's roof in an unusual accident over the weekend.

Feel like having chocolate at Easter in Belgium? Well, send a letter and really lick that chocolate-flavored postal stamp.

A Utah bomb squad thought a package marked "Army" was suspicious, but it was just part of an elaborate plan by a guy trying to ask a girl to a dance.