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FERNDALE, Mich. (AP) — Residents of the Michigan town of Ferndale have seen roaming their streets dancing hippos, sharks and bears — not to mention a Pikachu, a Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, Mr. Potato Head and a T-Rex. And no, it isn’t due to day-drinking. The occasional parades are done by

BOSTON (The Boston Globe) — A Boston police officer used an electronic mating call Monday to help capture a peacock that had escaped from a nearby zoo. The Boston Globe reports the officer lured the curious peacock that had escaped from Franklin Park Zoo into a fenced-in yard while playing a

HARLAN, Iowa (The Des Moines Register) — A psychological evaluation of a Kansas man who sought legal permission in Iowa to engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife has concluded that he’s not insane but merely angry over their child custody arrangement. David Ostrom asked a court in

MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) — The burly mountain man whose awestruck reaction upon seeing a double rainbow propelled him to internet stardom and turned him into a folk hero has died. The Modesto Bee reports that Paul Vasquez died Saturday at a hospital in Mariposa, California. He was 57. Ten years

WALKER, La. (AP) — You may have heard chicken has become scarce in some grocery stores because of the coronavirus. But in Louisiana, there’s no shortage of antics from what police call an “aggressive chicken.” The Walker Police Department has gone on social media to list the fowl deeds

WASHINGTON (AP) — Some say it might have been the flush heard around the world. But we may never know what caused the sound that interrupted part of yesterday’s phoned-in oral arguments before the Supreme Court. On the audio, heard live, Justice Elena Kagan asked a question of an attorney

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — You’d figure if you played the same lottery numbers for 30 years straight, odds are you’d come up with a winner. That wasn’t true for a player who Colorado lottery officials identify as “Joe B.” That’s because he didn’t just win one $1 million Powerball

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida deputies have arrested a man they say was living out his quarantine on a shuttered Disney World island, telling authorities it was a “tropical paradise.” Orange County Sheriff’s deputies found Richard McGuire on Disney’s Discovery Island on