A 90-year-old Rhode Island barber is putting down his clippers after 68 years. Tony Manzi has cut five generations of hair at Manzi’s Barber Shop in Cranston. The Providence Journal reports (http://bit.ly/1QTeSgg ) the man known locally as Tony the Barber is set to retire Thursday. Manzi says he’s “down… Read More

Wildlife experts and law enforcement officials on Monday worked to keep a determined elephant seal off a Northern California highway that it has repeatedly tried to cross, snarling traffic in the area. California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Andrew Barclay said callers first reported the 500-pound mammal was trying to climb… Read More

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The founder of an Indianapolis medical facility said Monday that a former unpaid student intern who claimed Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning used a banned substance in 2011 didn’t even work at the clinic until two years later, long after the NFL star was undergoing treatment. Dr…. Read More

A French prosecutor says choosy thieves returned a delivery of police armbands they say they inadvertently stole while targeting luxury goods. Vienne prosecutor Matthiew Bourrette told the Dauphine Libere newspaper that five masked thieves robbed a delivery center in Saint-Quentin-Fallavie on Dec. 22, making off with a shipment of Louis… Read More

For more than 100 years, the cloistered nuns known as the Pink Sisters have worked in shifts to ensure nonstop prayer in Philadelphia’s Chapel of Divine Love. Now, to address their shrinking numbers and ensure their prayers continue for another century, the Roman Catholic Holy Spirit Adoration sisters have begun… Read More

Two Pennsylvania women say the pre-Christmas discovery that they’re sisters is nothing short of a holiday miracle. The Progress in Clearfield reports 78-year-old Barbara Smith, of Pottsville, and 77-year-old Sandra Fitzgerald, of Apollo, met for the first time on Sunday. They hugged, shared stories and laughed. Fitzgerald’s son-in-law was studying… Read More

Meadowlark Lemon, a basketball legend who spent more than two decades touring with the Harlem Globetrotters, died yesterday at the age of 83. Famed for his patented half-court hook shot, Lemon became one of the most recognizable faces in basketball and was an inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall… Read More

Like consumers around the globe, Indians are flocking to the online marketplace in droves these days. But there’s one unusual item flying off the virtual shelves: Online retailers say cow dung patties are selling like hot cakes. The patties — cow poop mixed with hay and dried in the sun,… Read More

Looks like Old Saint Nick wasn’t the only one using the chimney this Christmas. KPNX-TV in Phoenix reports that firefighters were called to a home Christmas morning to help free a cat trapped in a chimney. Adrienne Gill says her daughter, who is visiting from California, brought her new pet cat… Read More