Cats dressed in everything from an Elvis costume to a sequined satin dress were strutting their stuff at New York's Algonquin Hotel.
Someone tried stealing a cast metal rooster from other's front yard during the middle of the night and left on the shoulder of the roadway.
A German tourist is nursing only small cuts and bruises after sliding 250 feet down a cliff on California's central coast.
A US scientist said Sunday he has discovered the globe's tiniest species of snake in the easternmost Caribbean island of Barbados, with full-grown adults typically stretching less than 4 inches (10 centimeters) long.
Eight boys in Michigan bounced for 24 hours in hopes of breaking a world record.
A 12-year-old girl fell into a chimney on the roof of her apartment building, plummeted 14 stories down the flue and landed almost unscathed in a pile of furnace soot.
A man whose girlfriend sat on a toilet for so long that the seat adhered to her body will spend six months on probation.
A Milwaukee man was accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn't start.
Two practical jokers are behind bars for setting their passed-out drinking buddy's crotch ablaze while boozing in Grover Beach.
San Francisco voters, never thrilled with George W. Bush, may give the US president a parting shot in November by naming a sewage plant after him.
Authorities said a man and his dog in a car survived a 200-foot fall down a remote cliff in southern England early Sunday morning.
A North Carolina man said he found out he was sharing his home with about 60,000 bees after he noticed honey oozing out a wall, local media reported Monday.