NEW YORK -- New York City can be like a zoo sometimes, but a zebra running wild through the streets is not something you ordinarily see.
CHICAGO -- Wild baseball fans might be a standard sight at Wrigley Field, but a pair of wild coyotes milling around Chicago's historic ballpark -- surrounded on all sides by bars, restaurants and busy streets -- wasn't what one photographer was expecting on a busy Friday night.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- A Connecticut real estate agent has been charged with stealing a competitor's for sale signs from the front lawns of area homes.
ELMIRA, N.Y. -- A postcard mailed nearly 70 years ago has finally arrived at the former upstate New York home of the couple who sent it.
ANTIOCH, Calif. -- A Northern California woman whose home was robbed is pleading with the thieves to return just one item: a silver urn that contains her baby's ashes.
ATTLEBORO, Mass. -- A Rhode Island man police say used counterfeit $100 bills to make purchases at a Target store made a critical mistake.
CLEVELAND -- A woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children is standing in the cold at an intersection holding a sign warning people about idiots.
WEST HARTFORD, Conn. -- Police in Connecticut say a man stole a car used to deliver Chinese food and continued dropping off orders so he could keep the customers' money.
LOS ANGELES -- The show must go on, is the entertainer's credo, and it did just that in the nation's Porn Capital even after Los Angeles County voted to require performers to use condoms when filming sex scenes.
WASHINGTON -- Women have passed men on the nation's roads. More women than men now have driver's licenses, a reversal of a longtime gender gap behind the wheel that transportation researchers say is likely to have safety and economic implications.
NEW YORK -- The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on "Sesame Street" is taking a leave of absence from the iconic kids' show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.
POULTNEY, Vt. -- An ox that lived on a Vermont college's farm and was put down amid an outcry over the school's decision to process it into meat will be not used for food.
PASO ROBLES, Calif. -- A Central Coast candidate for mayor lost big this week.
TITUSVILLE, Pa. -- Eating Chinese takeout in front of a glowing fireplace is a pleasant enough way to spend an evening.
IRVINE, Calif. -- Animal activists want a California roadside memorial sign to honor fish killed during a container truck crash.
GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Sheriffs in five South Carolina counties are offering people a chance to turn in explosives, no questions asked.
SANTA FE, N.M. -- A New Mexico inmate on his way out of jail was quickly thrown back in after authorities say he stole another inmate's cash then treated himself to a hearty lunch.
PHILADELPHIA -- It was a very unusual delivery on a Philadelphia subway line.
BISMARCK, N.D. -- A man who used to own McDonald's restaurants in North Dakota is about $10,000 richer after selling a 20-year-old container of McJordan barbecue sauce to a buyer in Chicago.
PITTSBURGH -- A Pittsburgh woman is suing Democratic state Rep. Jake Wheatley, saying he only coughed up half of the $200 prize he promised the winner of a community day cake-baking contest.