Zoo officials trying to establish North America's first elephant sperm bank have been slowed by bureaucratic hurdles but hope South African officials will approve shipping frozen elephant semen to the United States in about a month.
Cheri Schumann would like Kennewick High School's class of 1971 to know she is very much alive.
France is the home of the baguette, that savory, crisp staple of a fabled gastronomy. But just try getting a fresh one in the evening, or on a holiday, or even in August, when many of the country's 33,000 bakeries are closed.
Authorities are investigating the discovery of a decomposing blue shark in the woods of New Hampshire.
In an effort to control the Big Island's wild donkey population, about 100 of them are being taken to California.
A candidate who ran for New York governor because "the rent is too damn high" says he's being evicted from his rent-controlled Manhattan apartment because his landlord wants to charge a new tenant more.
Scientists have identified an orange-colored gunk that appeared along the shore of a remote Alaska village as millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets.
A Pittsburgh man has been arrested after police say he cut down a city-owned tree, which the man claims contributes to basement flooding.
Police say an apparently remorseful thief who stole a woman's wallet in a New Hampshire supermarket showed up at her door days later to return $90 and a GPS, and brought along an apology letter.
Trainers say a beluga whale seen bobbing to the music of a mariachi band on a wedding video taken at a Connecticut aquarium wasn't really dancing.
A pregnant suburban Chicago woman was so determined to finish the Illinois bar exam that she completed the test even after going into labor.
A peacock with a sense of adventure — and a good sense of direction — has flown back home to New York's Central Park Zoo. On Tuesday, humans flocked and tweeted as the peacock left the zoo for a perch on a Fifth Avenue window ledge. It had good taste: A condo there reportedly sold for $22.5 million in 2009.
The Alaska hair salon made famous for Sarah Palin's up-do is getting the reality show treatment in a two-part series to be aired in September on TLC.
With his return to Arizona, Todd Heap's football career has come full circle.
Those big checks that Netflix talks about sending to TV and movie studios for online rights are starting to be cashed on the other end.
A large oak tree that played a key role near the end of "The Shawshank Redemption" was heavily damaged during a storm last week.
A 10-year-old Oregon boy scribbled a note on binder paper, stuck it into a bottle and tossed it into the ocean. A year later and 2,000 miles away, a 9-year-old girl exploring a Hawaii shoreline found the bottle floating in a tide pool.