Offbeat News

MILTON, Del. (AP) — A kayaker who discovered a message in a bottle floating in a Delaware river was able to reunite the letter with the woman who wrote it 35 years ago. Brad Wachsmuth told WBOC-TV this week he thought the bottle bobbing in the Broadkill River was a piece of trash when he

BERLIN (AP) — A tiny albino baby kangaroo has gone missing from a German zoo and authorities say they can’t rule out that she may have been stolen. The kangaroo named Mila was born last month at the Kaiserslautern zoo in southwestern Germany and has been a star attraction. She was last

DETROIT (AP) — Officials say a young woman who had been declared dead was discovered still alive at a Detroit funeral home. A lawyer hired by Timesha Beauchamp’s family says she opened her eyes as she was about to be embalmed. The bizarre events occurred Sunday in Southfield, Michigan,

ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. (AP) — A 150-pound tortoise who escaped from a Tennessee home has been returned after 74 days, managing to make it less than a mile during his slow and steady journey. Owner Lynn Cole told WKRN-TV on Friday that the African Sulcata Tortoise named Soloman crawled away from

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut town’s officials are showing comedian John Oliver what they think about his expletive-filled rant about their city — they’re naming the local sewage treatment plant after him. Mayor Mark Boughton announced the tongue-in-cheek move in a video

  LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — A live air-to-air missile found at a small central Florida airport has been brought to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. The unarmed French S-530 missile will be secured at the base until it’s disposed of. The missile was found Friday at Lakeland Linder