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(UPI) An Illinois man who attempted to rescue his pet parrot from the mud ended up being rescued by firefighters -- with the bird perched on his shoulders.

The Belleville Fire Department said witnesses summoned crews to ...Read more

(UPI) A musician whose family owns a commercial fishing business passed time on the boat by turning large pieces of kelp into a xylophone.

A video filmed aboard the boat off Clam Gulch, Alaska, shows the boat owner's ...Read more

(UPI) A Michigan woman who won a $100,400 Powerball prize said she actually purchased her lottery tickets by mistake.

Linda Keyanchuk, 64, of Westland, matched four white balls and the Powerball twice in the Aug. 8 ...Read more

(UPI) Firefighters in Connecticut said they executed an unusual rescue when a 2-year-old boy got his arm stuck in a Thomas the Tank Engine toy.

The Danbury Fire Department said firefighters and EMS crews were called to a ...Read more

(UPI) Authorities in Georgia are investigating the theft of a trailer loaded with $98,000 worth of ramen noodles.

The Fayette County Sheriff's Office said the trailer was parked at a Chevron station in Fayetteville on ...Read more

(UPI) A California family said their backyard pool has attracted the attention of a mountain lion and bobcat.

Sue Hodge of La Canada Flintridge said the first sighting occurred about two weeks ago, when she came face-to-...Read more

ANT-MAN AND THE WASP. 2.5 stars. So-so sequel to the funny original has Ant-Man helping Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) and The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly) rescuing the latter's mother from a subatomic prison, with interference ...Read more

(UPI) A team of doctors in Britain performed surgery on a woman with a swollen eyelid and found the cause -- a contact lens that had been in her eye for 28 years.

Doctors Sirjhun Patel, Lai-Ling Tan and Helen Murgatroyd ...Read more

On Wednesday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called for a boycott of the upcoming family wilderness drama "Alpha," which opens Friday, alleging in a press release that "multiple bison were reportedly ...Read more

How was your latest drive to the airport? Hopefully a lot less complicated and violent than the one Mark Wahlberg undertakes in his latest outing with frequent collaborator Peter Berg in "Mile 22." Working from a wordy, ...Read more

(UPI) Authorities in Britain are searching for a kangaroo that escaped from a zoo when it was chased by some children.

The 3-year-old wallaby, a smaller cousin of the kangaroo, escaped from the Wild Zoological Park in ...Read more

You have questions. I have some answers.

Q: I was always a fan of "Murphy Brown" and am looking forward to the series reboot this fall. However, I notice on all the promos for the show's return that all the characters are...Read more

Aretha Franklin, who died Thursday at 76, was a once-in-a-generation singer. She was the Queen of Soul, but she also ventured into -- and mastered -- virtually every style of music, from jazz and classical to rhythm and ...Read more

(UPI) A mother shared video of a great white shark jumping out of the water off Massachusetts to snatch a bass from the end of her son's fishing line.

Tabatha Eldridge, whose video was posted to Facebook by the the ...Read more

(UPI) A Slovakian woman was reportedly arrested after she played the same opera song on repeat for 16 years.

The woman, who was identified as "Eva" by Hungarian news site Parameter.sk, was charged with harassment and ...Read more