She’s no Holy Mother, but we’re still pretty impressed. A captive snake in southeast Missouri has become pregnant and given birth without any interaction with a member of the opposite sex, twice in two years. The Missouri Department of Conservation’s Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center says it appears that a… Read More

The Philadelphia science museum already was hosting a blockbuster exhibit of Lego sculptures and preparing to unveil a huge display of Holy See treasures for the pope’s visit when administrators got a serendipitous inquiry. Would they like to see a model of the Vatican that a priest built entirely of… Read More

Talk about morons. According to the Associated Press, two suspects in a drug store burglary in Roswell, Georgia chose one of the worst possible places to make their getaway: the police station. Police say the men ran from the business, ending up at the back gate of the Roswell police… Read More

Encouragement poured in from across the nation for a 14-year-old Muslim boy whose homemade electronic clock led to his suspension from school, with President Barack Obama, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and a NASA scientist among those offering support. As word spread that Ahmed Mohamed had been placed in handcuffs after… Read More

QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — Police conducting a raid at a suspected drug dealer’s home south of Boston made an unusual discovery — a stolen 2004 Red Sox World Series ring. Quincy police had been watching the home for several months, and on Tuesday they executed a search warrant after witnessing… Read More

Busted! Comedian and TV star Steve Rannazzisi told a detailed story about working for Merrill Lynch on Sept. 11 in a podcast hosted by Marc Maron. The comedian said he felt jostled when the tower next to him was struck and he escaped to the street, despite hearing loudspeaker messages… Read More

It has radical animal rights group squealing, but on Wednesday, scientists defended the practice of shooting pigs in the head. Researchers in New Zealand secured live pigs to a surgical table and shot them in the head with a pistol as part of a study on blood-spatter patterns. The government-funded… Read More

MIAMI (AP) — Police say they’ve arrested a man days after a complaint that someone was spotted crawling under library tables and smelling a woman’s feet at Florida International University. Miami-Dade police say 52-year-old Eddy Juan was arrested Tuesday and charged with violation of sexual offender registration, fleeing and eluding,… Read More

These seniors had what it took to pull off a narrow escape in the face of an out-of-control wildfire. Ranch managers Don and Martha Grimm barely escaped with only the clothes they were wearing as a destructive, fast-moving fire roared toward their Northern California home. Now they have to rebuild…. Read More