FAIRFIELD, Conn., July 2 (UPI) -- Police in Connecticut said a Sasquatch sighting reported by a motorist turned out to be a teenager in a gorilla costume.
Authorities said a woman driving on Unquowa Road in Fairfield called police at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday and reported she "almost hit Sasquatch," the Connecticut Post of Bridgeport reported Thursday.
FORT PIERCE, Florida - A man accused of chasing his girlfriend with a machete before strolling along Ninth Street drinking from a 16 ounce can of Keystone Ice is facing charges, according to a recently released arrest affidavit. Woman said her 50-year-old boyfriend, Robert Akin Brown, got mad because "she didn't want to be together anymore." (Continue story)
VERNON, N.J., July 2 (UPI) -- A New Jersey man said a black bear attacked him in his driveway and stole his Italian hoagie.
Henry Rouwendal said he was in the driveway of his Vernon home at about 10:30 p.m. Friday packing for a business trip when something struck him from behind, The (Newark) Star-Ledger reported Thursday.
"It blind-sided me. I was on the ground and I was thinking, 'What... (Continue Story)
NEW YORK, July 2 (UPI) -- Firefighters in New York said they used the "Jaws of Life" to free a 2-year-old boy whose head had become stuck in a metal fence at a public park.
Toddler Leon Stanley's father said the boy put his head through the bars of the fence at Mother Cabrini Park and became stuck when he tried to stand up without realizing the bars narrowed near the top, the New York Daily... (Continue Story)
RALEIGH, N.C., July 2 (UPI) -- Experts said a popular YouTube video of a moving, slimy mass in a Raleigh, N.C., sewer depicts a colony of tubifex worms or invertebrates called byrozoan.
Ed Buchan, an environmental coordinator with the Raleigh Public Utilities Department, said the video, which was posted to YouTube in April and was chosen Wednesday as the top viral video on the Internet by... (Continue Story)
NEW YORK, July 2 (UPI) -- A New York gas station attracted a 3-block-long line of motorists with a promotion offering regular unleaded gas for $1.49 per gallon.
The BP station in the city's Queens borough sold gas at the discounted price from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday while gasoline elsewhere in the city sold for about $3 a gallon, the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
NEW YORK, July 2 (UPI) -- Police said a 10-foot python discovered in a New York couple's driveway may have been a pet that was released once it became too large to keep.
John and Karen Trapani said they discovered the snake in their driveway as they were preparing to leave for work Wednesday morning, the New York Post reported Thursday.
"It was startling, because we never got to see... (Continue Story)
UK - A vet who paid for 20,000 leaflets to be printed after a customer's beloved cat was lost has now brought in sniffer dogs to track down the missing animal.
By Jeni Oppenheimer
Jodie Dawkins took her pet Lionel to the Honeybourne Veterinary Centre in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with a dislocated hip after he was hit by a car.
But the five-year-old escaped two and a half weeks... (Continue Story)
EDINBURGH, Scotland, July 2 (UPI) -- More than one-third of the members of the Scottish Parliament failed to show up for a speech by Queen Elizabeth II marking the body's 10th anniversary.
Officials were drafted at the last minute Wednesday evening to fill the places of the missing members so the queen would not be addressing a phalanx of empty seats, The Times of London reported.
ELK GROVE, California - A local teacher accidentally put pornography into a DVD that was meant to be filled with school memories from the past year, and nobody caught the error until after it was sent home, shocking parents and students alike. The Elk Grove Unified School District says they are investigating, but legal experts say it's unlikely that the teacher will lose her job. (Continue story)
