(UPI) Residents of a small Colorado town are pleading for the return of a stolen phone booth that served as the centerpiece of a public park for decades.

Cope residents Vickie Cecil and Lanny Payne said the phone booth was a major landmark in the town of about 56 people for some 50 years.

The booth, in its functioning years, originally sat ...Read more

(UPI) A Maryland man who won a $50,000 lottery prize said the winning ticket nearly ended up being thrown in the trash before he realized it was a winner.

The 50-year-old Waldorf man, who chose to remain anonymous, told Maryland Lottery officials he bought a Fast Play Lucky Numbers ticket from the US Fuel gas station in Waldorf and initially ...Read more

(UPI) Researchers at Purdue University earned a Guinness World Record with an unusual development: the world's whitest paint.

Xiulin Ruan, a professor of mechanical engineering at the West Lafayette, Ind., school, said the original aim of the project was to create a paint that would reflect sunlight from a building and thereby lower energy ...Read more

(UPI) Police in Colorado said some helpful high schoolers came to the assistance of an animal protection officer when a herd of goats got loose from a city park.

The Boulder Police Department said in a Facebook post that the goats were being used to get rid of weeds at Harlow Platts Park, but they got loose from their pen on Thursday when ...Read more

(UPI) A British gardener harvested 839 tomatoes from a single stem -- nearly double the Guinness World Record.

Douglas Smith, 43, of Stanstead Abbotts, England, said he planted his seeds in March, and this month he harvested 839 tomatoes from a single stem, or truss.

Smith's harvest almost doubles the 448 grown on a single truss by Guinness ...Read more

(UPI) Sheriff's deputies in Florida said it took some "teamwork by land, air and sea" to stop a runaway boat off the coast of a popular beach.

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said in a Facebook post that deputies responded to calls about a "subject in the water" off Pass A Grill Beach and they arrived to find a man had been thrown from his...Read more

(UPI) A British scientist with a passion for gymnastics put her skills to the test by breaking two Guinness World Records: most back somersault burpees in 30 seconds and fastest 100 meter forward rolls.

Bethany Lodge, a biotechnology researcher for an Oxford, England, firm, said she decided to take on the two records as a means of motivating ...Read more

(UPI) Firefighters in Colorado rescued a dog trapped in the tall reeds of a lake the morning after rescuing three people who unsuccessfully attempted to reach the canine.

The Pueblo Fire Department said rescue crews were dispatched to Lake Minnequa on Wednesday evening to rescue three adults who became stuck in the lake while searching for the ...Read more

(UPI) A Maryland woman said the arrival of her paycheck and a near-empty gas tank led to her winning a $50,000 lottery prize.

Brandy Hartman of Aberdeen told Maryland Lottery officials she and her husband stopped at the Royal Farms store in Aberdeen to fill up their gas tank, and while inside the store she decided to spend some of the paycheck ...Read more

(UPI) A moose was safely relocated after wandering into a Massachusetts city, running into traffic and hitting a car.

Drivers in Worcester said they spotted the moose charging through traffic Wednesday morning.

"I look in my rearview, and there's a moose that just literally ran right behind my car," Casey Thomas told WBTS-TV. I called 911 ...Read more

(UPI) A Mexican fan of the Disney-Pixar film Cars earned a Guinness World Record by collecting 1,200 pieces of memorabilia from the movie.

Jorge Arias of Mexico City said his collection of items related to the 2006 animated comedy began when his daughter asked him to buy toys of some of the characters so she could play with a neighbor.

Arias ...Read more

(UPI) A lamb brought to the University of Utah as a research animal is on the loose after escaping during its delivery to the school.

University officials said the ewe was one of five lambs brought to the James L. Sorenson Molecular Biotechnology Building, where researchers use lambs to study the infectious disease malaria.

The lamb broke away...Read more

(UPI) Sheriff's deputies in Wisconsin responded to an unusual situation when multiple 911 callers reported a pair of loose zebras walking down the middle of a road.

The Outagamie County Sheriff's Office said the two zebras were rounded up after being spotted on a Seymour-area road.

David Haupt, one of the 911 callers, captured video when he ...Read more

(UPI) An Australian couple said they will never forget their recent vacation after a lottery ticket they picked up during the holiday earned them a jackpot of more than $700,000.

The Logan, Queensland, couple, who chose to remain anonymous, told The Lott officials they were on vacation in Cairns when they bought ticket for Monday night's Monday...Read more

(UPI) A New York state man using his metal detector on the grounds of a high school unearthed a class ring that turned out to have been lost at a soccer game 10 years earlier.

Metal detector hobbyist Kris Haskins said he was treasure hunting at LaFargeville Central School when he found a class ring that belonged to a member of the school's ...Read more