Offbeat News

A day after giving birth to septuplets, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman said Sunday she's only seen her babies on television and hopes to hold them and name them soon.

You'll recall the tiger attack that occurred last Christmas at the San Francisco Zoo. In it, Paul Dhaliwal and his older brother Kulbir, along with their friend Carlos Sousa Jr., were attacked by a tiger who escaped from her enclosure.

In an effort to stop speeders once and for all, they built a 100 foot long and 2 foot high winding speed block in the middle of the Jing Zhuang highway.

Call him Sir Nils Olav. On Friday, Nils Olav, or actually, the third such King Penguin named Nils Olav, was knighted.

An Indiana grandfather won $3 million in a lottery jackpot because he forgot his glasses.

A woman had to be cut free after impaling her arm on three-inch metal spikes attached to a statue of the Hindu goddess Kali.

LONGVIEW, Texas (AP) -- A 35-year-old Texas woman has been jailed after police say she made her 12-year-old daughter drive her to a bar.

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) --A Baptist minister in central Pennsylvania has been sentenced to one year in jail for stealing the identities of his church members.

The new football season is barely under way but already one relationship appears to have crumbled under the strain after this banner was placed above a main road in Birmingham.

All right, I can understand criticizing McCain over say, his proposed tax cuts ... which cuts taxes for the rich far more than for any other group, while Obama's plan will favor the middle class, but criticizing him because he likes ABBA?

Alone and in labor, Jessica Higgins found the first place she could to give birth _ her front lawn.

Police in Providence, R.I., say an unmarked car that officers had been driving for several years came with a surprise - a half-pound of cocaine hidden behind the radio.

Joe Braun thought he bought a Brett Favre Packers jersey for his wife for Christmas six years ago.

ERIE, Pa. - Officials at the Erie Zoo say one of their new Amur tigers is too shy to explore a new $500,000 exhibit.

A man in Hong Kong had to be cut free from a steel park bench after he placed his male sex organ in a hole and got stuck.

Le Xing, 41, told police he thought it would be fun to have sex with the Lan Tian park bench in Hong Kong. Once he began the act with the bench and got aroused, he became stuck and called police.

A former Pennsylvania police officer has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for pulling over a woman to give her his phone number.

HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) -- Phony coyotes set up to discourage ducks and geese from gobbling up seeds and fresh shoots from wetlands plants didn't fool the fowl, but humans were another matter. Hammond Port Authority Director Milan Kruszynski said his office has fielded several calls from passing motorists who mistook the two-dimensional cutouts on islands in Wolf Lake for dogs.

HICKMAN, Neb. (AP) -- Talk about your one-horse town. This burg of 1,084 residents is just that.

CINCINNATI (AP) -- An Ohio man who says he doesn't trust paper money has delivered enough coins to cover half the price of a brand new pickup truck.

The former Wisconsin Texas Roadhouse cook who intentionally shoved hair into a customer's steak is going to jail.

Ryan Kropp was sentenced to six months behind bars and three years probation on Tuesday.