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The man faces two years in prison, the maximum penalty for aggravated animal cruelty

The thieves stole thousands of pounds of crab meat from a tractor-trailer on Packer Avenue, police said.

The education bureau suggests teens who want to have sex could "go out to play badminton together" instead.

This year, more than 600 people registered for the event, with two coming from Canada and 108 from other states.

Controversial statue has been described by critics as ‘exploitative’ and ‘blatantly sexist’

Police say the man stole a trove of limited-edition coins themed on the hit children’s tv show.

Two black bears are being blamed for causing a bit of a ruckus in Connecticut. State officials say an adult bear and a cub got trapped inside a car in Winsted on July 15 and destroyed the vehicle's interior.

The Ohio Supreme Court says consumers can't expect boneless chicken wings to actually be free of bones.

Indigenous peoples have been playing stickball for centuries. It's perhaps the oldest game in North America, and every summer since 1975, teams have competed in Mississippi to become champion.

Some people develop a weird allergy to red meat after being bitten by a lone star tick yet find they can still eat pork from a surprising source - certain pigs originally bred for human organ transplants.

Zoos in hot weather states are working hard during the summer to keep their animals cool. At the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society in Florida, keepers throw big piles of ice into the black bear enclosure for the animals to wallow in.

The Downtown Aquarium in Denver has a new resident — a rare orange lobster that was rescued from a shipment of crustaceans delivered to a Red Lobster restaurant in Pueblo, Colorado.

Visitors are dumping the salty liquid on the ground, and authorities are concerned about its impact on plants and animals

The Australian island state is trying to drum up tourism during the Southern Hemisphere's winter

Police in Japan have sent papers to prosecutors concerning a woman under suspicion of violating the Road Traffic Act for allegedly riding an "electric suitcase" on a sidewalk without a license.

A Japanese man borrowed some of the luck of the Irish and broke a Guinness World Record by growing a 63-leaf clover.

To appreciate why Kendal Crawford couldn’t have been more pleased to get a pair of tiny handmade cars for her birthday, we need to go back to when she and her partner Shaun Stephens-Whale decided to adopt a pet.

If humans are to return to the moon, space agencies and governments need to figure out the legal, ethical, and practical dimensions of extraterrestrial waste management.

The 1,100-square-foot home in San Francisco's quaint, upscale Russian Hill neighborhood has three bedrooms and two baths. The price tag and unusual requests are definitely raising eyebrows among neighbors and prospective buyers.

When Diesel the donkey went missing near Sacramento, California, five years ago, owner Terrie Drewry assumed the worst. But then a hunter made a stunning discovery.

Some 580,000 glass coffee mugs are being recalled across the U.S. after dozens of burn and laceration injuries were reported by consumers

Black bear apparently opened the vehicle by lifting door handle with its mouth, after breaking into same car last year

A remote Australian community has taken revenge on a massive saltwater crocodile by eating the 3.6-meter (11.8-foot) beast blamed for devouring pets and chasing children.

A man named Optimus Prime was arrested earlier this week for car theft in south Austin.

The previously unknown variety of flat, circular fish was first documented by a New Zealand researcher in 2017.

Two back-to-back attacks occurred off the coast of Walton County within 90 minutes of each other, injuring a total of three people including two teenage girls

Lucy Morgan died four days after the incident

"That was maybe, maybe a little oops"

Funeral worker Ryan Smith was arrested after he was allegedly caught breaking into a dead man's Nebraska apartment with a body bag to steal a sex doll.

A district judge in Ann Arbor, Michigan, was astonished when a man with a suspended driver’s license joined a court Zoom call while driving a car.

An ambulance responding to a serious crash involving a moose in Algonquin Park also collided with a moose early Sunday, Ontario police say.

She waived the case, which is now closed, and paid $50 as the first installment of a $240 fine for the traffic violation after receiving a verbal warning for racing.

When are 706 people named Kyle in the same place not enough? When a world record is at stake. Another attempt Saturday by the city of Kyle, Texas, to break the world record for the largest gathering of people with one name has again fallen short.

The ruling stemmed from a legal battle between a developer with plans to open a Mexican restaurant and a local zoning commission.

A Thai stateswoman who is connected with the country's Democrat Party was caught in the act with her adopted son who is also a monk.

These fine-art painters command top dollar to immortalize their clients’ poodles and cockapoos.

Bird Piche, 24, remains in hospital, but her condition is ‘trending in the right direction’ following the incident in Buffalo, New York, on April 30

The US hospital which carried out the operation said Rick Slayman's death was not a result of the transplant.