WEIRD NEWS

An officially sanctioned hunt for a stash of precious jewelry looted by the Nazis during World War II and purportedly buried in a sleepy Dutch village has — like many previous searches — failed to unearth any treasure.

It's not unusual in Idaho to see a herd of sheep bleating as ranchers move them to higher elevation.

He is a senior at 16.

A seventh-grader in suburban Detroit is being hailed as a hero.

Officials in Nevada say a desert tortoise that is the focus of schoolchild predictions and local lore about the start of spring has emerged from its winter burrow at a nature preserve in Las Vegas.

Patch, sporting a jean jacket as she strutted down the runway, was crowned the winner of Drake University’s Beautiful Bulldog Contest.

Los Angeles Angels manager Phil Nevin says he's never been ejected twice from the same game — until Wednesday night.

Northern lights enthusiasts got a surprise mixed in with the green bands of light dancing in the Alaska skies: A light baby blue spiral resembling a galaxy appeared amid the aurora for a few minutes.

A 1-year-old Australian shepherd took an epic trek across 150 miles of frozen Bering Sea ice before being safely returned to his home in Alaska.

Somewhere in a remote stretch of forest near Maine’s border with Canada, rocks from space crashed to Earth and may be scattered across the ground — just waiting to be picked up.

Thanks to the pitch clock, the action is moving much faster at Major League Baseball games.

Fed up by an enormous pothole in his Los Angeles neighborhood, Arnold Schwarzenegger picked up a shovel and filled it himself.

The famous “Blue House” in Vilano Beach — which was badly damaged by past hurricanes — is now up for sale.

An Australian company has lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct mammoth.

German weekly Der Spiegel is reporting that Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II asked her hosts for a gift of two horses during her state visit to Germany in 1978.

Residents of Greenland have switched to daylight saving time and moved their clocks one hour forward for the very last time.

It was the stuff of novels: For years, a con artist plagued the publishing industry, impersonating editors and agents to pull off hundreds of literary heists.

An escape-artist bear from Missouri is headed to a Texas zoo with a moat in hopes it will put an end to his wandering.

Women in Berlin will soon be allowed to go topless, like men, at the city’s public pools.

A handful of motorists in Maine are appealing to keep their custom license plates after the state cracked down on naughty words, including unabbreviated expletives.

An 82-year-old Colorado man has been charged with selling and trading fake Michael Jordan basketball cards.

Riders on an Amtrak train that runs from Maine to Boston can continue buying alcoholic beverages during the 35-mile stretch of the trip that goes through New Hampshire as officials work out a “creative solution” to avoid violating a state liquor law.

UFC President Dana White is selling slap fighting as the next big thing in combat sport, and the Nevada Athletic Commission has sanctioned the Power Slap League for competitions.

Houston podcaster Nathan Reeves caught video of the startling moment that an SUV crashed into the cafe where he was recording.