A Missouri woman who bought some scratch-off lottery tickets on impulse said they were on her counter three weeks before she discovered one was worth $20,000. Kristen Fritschie of Hallsville told Missouri Lottery officials she made an impulse buy a few weeks ago and purchased some scratch-off tickets, including...

A Colorado wildlife photographer helped rescue an elk that she spotted with its antlers tangled in a swing near a resort. Jackie Crivello said she was on her way to take photos of wildlife in Rocky Mountain National Park early Wednesday morning when she spotted the elk with its antlers tangled in the swing. "I...

Firefighters climbed to the roof of a Massachusetts high school to rescue a seagull that had impaled its wing on a lightning rod. The Fairhaven Fire Department said workers at Fairhaven High School contacted authorities Tuesday to report a seagull with its wing impaled on a rooftop lightning rod. Firefighters...

A South Carolina man captured video of a safety-minded alligator crossing a road by using the designated crosswalk. Pawleys Island resident Jimmy Card posted a video to Facebook showing the alligator crossing a road at Huntington State Park. The gator obeys the rules of the road by using the crosswalk. The...

Staff at a German company broke a Guinness World Record by cramming 956 people onto a single raft at the same time. Employees of DHL Paket GmbH gathered at lake Otto-Maigler-See in Cologne and used wooden planks, poles, rope and rubber rings to construct a series of rafts that were then combined into a single raft. The...