(UPI) A North Carolina woman won $346,088 from a Cash 5 lottery drawing, her second major jackpot after previously winning $100,000 less than a year ago.

Newport resident Cathy Noe told North Carolina Education Lottery ...Read More

(UPI) A Royal National Lifeboat Institution crew in England responded to a report of a stranded person in the water -- but arrived to discover it was an RNLI training dummy lost by another crew two weeks earlier.

The RNLI...Read More

(UPI) A penguin that escaped from an animal encounter event on a Japanese island was found two weeks later after traveling more than 18 miles.

Gekidan Penters, a group that organizes animal encounters, said a 6-year-old ...Read More

(UPI) A pair of South African farmers harvesting their crops made a startling discovery: a record-breaking plum weighing in at 16.3 ounces.

Dean and Deon Barnard, owners of the Oppie Plaas Boerdery farm, said they never ...Read More

(UPI) Emergency responders in Indiana experienced "a first" when a medical call ended with firefighters rescuing a monkey that got loose and scaled a building.

The Luce Fire Territory said in a Facebook post that ...Read More

(UPI) A Massachusetts woman taking a walk in the woods with her dog came across a mysterious pinecone formation she believes might be an art installation.

Margaret Zeitouny said she and her dog were walking along a trail ...Read More