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Florida authorities said they found cocaine and methamphetamine wrapped around a man’s penis during a traffic stop, but the man denied the drugs were his. Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies said they stopped a vehicle driving without its lights on at 4 a.m. last Saturday. WFLA-TV reports the driver was arrested on charges of DUI and marijuana possession. Authorities said...

An unsigned letter, a phony return address — and a cardboard box full of cash. That’s what one professor found as he was going through old mail in his office at City College of New York.

Emergency crews in Santa Barbara launched a rescue attempt with four-wheelers, a drone, engines and a truck for what turned out to be a mannequin with long-flowing hair clinging to the side of a cliff.

A man in Queens is crying fowl after an animal attack on his way to work left him bloodied and concerned for his neighbors’ safety — but it wasn’t a dog, cat or even a New York City rat that went after him. His aggressor was a rooster.

A sumo wrestler that may have spooked the horses has been knocked out of the Olympic equestrian ring.

One widely circulated video posted to Facebook shows the animal charging through a woman’s front yard as a swarm of cops give chase.

The video has gone viral, with more than two million people having watched a mouse takes bites out of a pricey slab of veal in the butcher’s case at the Whole Foods in Columbus Circle

Just about anything can be purchased online in today’s world, but what one woman put up for sale has a lot of people taking notice: She posted her entire Brooklyn wedding up for sale on TikTok — and for a great price

Video of a bizarre and shocking burglary in Queens shows a thief break a window of a frozen yogurt shop in Queens and take some items from inside — as two young children stand by and even hold a light to aid in the robbery, police said.

A New York City woman discovered an entire empty apartment located through a hole behind her bathroom mirror — and videos of her solving the mystery and making the unsettling discovery have gone viral on TikTok.

Don Draper can be found by the restaurant’s bar, naturally, while Michael Strahan, Jimmy Fallon, Al Roker and Audrey Hepburn are seated at tables that have to remain empty under New York’s coronavirus restrictions

The California Highway Patrol busted a carpool driver in Baldwin Park, and to be honest, it’s a bit difficult to figure out how they even spotted the mannequin in the passenger seat. The dummy, complete with face mask, reading glasses, sunglasses in his — or its? — shirt pocket, and baseball cap, is a pretty good fake — the dummy...

At least three MTA employees secretly turned a storage room below one of the platforms at Grand Central Terminal into a private “man cave,” complete with a futon, TV, exercise equipment, a fridge and beds, the agency’s inspector general said Thursday. “Many a New Yorker has fantasized about kicking back with a cold beer in a prime piece of...

A nearly 90-year-old woman who suffers from Alzheimer’s was close to losing her home after the nickel and penny she owed in taxes in 2019 accrued to more than $300 in interest

A couple of pilots got quite a surprise while approaching Los Angeles International Airport over the weekend, when they spotted somebody apparently flying at about 3,000 feet in the air with a jet pack.

Several residents in California and in at least 27 states reported having received mysterious unsolicited seeds in the mail from China, the California Department of Food and Agriculture said in a statement Tuesday. The CDFA reported that it is communicating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the odd shipments. Sometimes they are labeled as jewelry with a Chinese return…

It took rescuers over three hours to free a Yuba County paraglider who became entangled in power lines Wednesday.

Joslyn and Jaxon are twins that don’t share a birth date, a birth year, or even the same birth decade. Sister and brother were born separately at Indiana’s Ascension St. Vincent Carmel Hospital – one in 2019, the other in 2020.

A man who set off fireworks near a theater as his friend made a marriage proposal created panic among moviegoers who mistook the fireworks for gunshots, leading to 911 calls and an evacuation, authorities said. Howell Township police responded to the Xscape Theater around 6 p.m. Wednesday and soon learned the theater manager had confronted a man who had lighted…