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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Imagine the buffet. Forty-thousand oysters, lobster worth $400,000 and a cache of crabmeat all wer…

LIMA, Peru (AP) — A group of shamans gathered Monday on a sacred hill overlooking Peru’s capital city to carry out an a…

Workers at one of America’s busiest airports intercepted the cargo from a passenger coming from Africa.

More than 300 bird species call Massachusetts home, but the purple gallinule isn't one of them.

A good laugh is also good for your heart, immune system and many other health benefits.

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. (AP) — Sometimes kids drop the phone after hearing Santa won't show up if they'…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A blunt critique of Mexican bread by a British baker sparked a cascade of social media outrage, ulti…

The Lake Travis Independent School District posted a video of James "Buddy" Bush reminding students about the…

A former manager of the Harvard Medical School morgue in Boston was sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing and…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racin…

BALTIMORE (AP) — Cyclist Barnaby Wickham has collected more than 700 lost hubcaps, mostly on bike rides around Baltimor…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian accident investigators on Thursday released dramatic images of a skydiver’s para…

The now-infamous raccoon who got drunk after breaking into a Virginia ABC store in Hanover County is apparently a seria…

Getting trapped in quicksand is a corny peril of old movies and TV shows, but it really did happen to one unfortunate h…

The Port Authority has many resources, but a lasso isn’t one of them.

BISHOPVILLE, S.C. (AP) — ’Twas three weeks before Christmas, and in the prison yard, a drone-dropped package was found …

PARIS (AP) — Retired French tennis player Caroline Garcia has rejected a $270,000 sponsorship deal for her podcast from…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A pup that was swept out to sea by a rip current must be feeling doggone lucky after her unlikely resc…

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A seal walked into a bar. Or to use a technical term, it galumphed. The creature was app…

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in thei…

The masked burglar broke into the closed Virginia liquor store early on Saturday and hit the bottom shelf, where the sc…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities are mystified over a brazen theft over the weekend from a Christmas Nativity scene …