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Officials in an Ohio county said two escaped emus were rounded up this week — but another emu remains on the loose in the area. Highland County Sheriff Donnie Barrera said that deputies worked together with the owner of the two emus to get the flightless Australian birds back into their enclosure. Barrera said a […]

Wildlife officials in Oregon came to the rescue that “got a head start on decking the halls” when its antlers became entangled in Christmas lights. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife said in a Facebook post that rescuers responded to a call from the Dallas Police Department about a buck with its antlers covered […]

Employees at a Home Depot store in Tennessee worked together to track down the owner of $700 cash found in an envelope dropped in an aisle. Adam Adkisson, who works at the Bellevue store, said he spotted the envelope on the ground in aisle 22. “I didn’t think anything of it at first. I thought […]

The Toledo Zoo in Ohio announced the birth of twin polar bears, but the newborns won’t be on public display until next year. The zoo said in a Facebook post that mother bear Crystal, 24, gave birth to twins, her eighth and ninth cubs. The cubs, fathered by 18-year-old Nuka, are the first polar bear […]

A North Carolina woman scored two jackpots in one day when she won a $100,000 Powerball prize just hours after giving birth to her daughter. Brenda Gomez Hernandez, 28, of Concord, told North Carolina Education Officials she bought a Powerball ticket from the QuikTrip store on Warren C Coleman Boulevard in Concord, and she ended […]

Workers removing the base of a toppled statue in front of the Manitoba legislature discovered a 101-year-old message in a bottle decrying prohibition. Manitoba Legislative Assembly officials said the workers have been removing the base of a Queen Victoria statue that was topped by protests in 2021, and they recently found a broken bottle concealed […]

Firefighters in California came to the rescue of a cat that was stranded for five days on the roof of an apartment building. Bambi’s Army Rescue, based in Parlier, said a feline named Sammy made its way to the roof of a building at a senior apartment complex in Kingsburg and was stranded without food […]