Weird

A New York man who turned a rescued squirrel into a social media star called Peanut is pleading with state authorities to return his beloved pet after they seized it during a raid.

A 13-foot Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank, authorities said. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said it got a complaint about an illegally owned snake in New Hartford on Aug. 28. Environment Conservation Police Officer Jeff Hull responded and found t...

Nuisance or neighborhood beautification project? The debate appears to be moot at this point. The controversy stems from the so-called “Bed-Stuy Goldfish Pond,” a sidewalk puddle near a leaky hydrant in Brooklyn where someone kept dumping fish in an effort to turn the hole into a sort of street aquarium. Some lauded the uniquely Brookly...

A New Jersey man faces charges after officers found an antique handgun in his carry-on luggage, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

Officials say a flight to Manchester, New Hampshire was diverted to Buffalo, New York, after a man allegedly exposed himself and urinated in the aisle of the airplane. Federal prosecutors say the 25-year-old Oregon man was arrested and charged with indecent exposure Wednesday after the flight landed at Buffalo Niagara International Airport. He was ...

A school bus aide in Connecticut was arrested after he bit a 9-year-old boy during a ride, according to police — part of a strange pattern of abuse that went on for weeks.

Peafowl, meaning males and females, left the Bronx Zoo on Memorial Day — and some didn’t come home. The Bronx Zoo says it picked up five of the rogue birds after seven ditched the park. They’re free-roaming, the zoo says, so they occasionally stray. They typically don’t go farther though and return on their own. One of the r...

The whale, identified as a sei whale, was caught on the ship’s bow when it arrived at the Port of Brooklyn on Saturday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez said.

A toll collector at the Jersey Shore called out of work after she said she had a feeling something bad was going to happen. Hours later, a garbage truck crashed into the toll plaza where she works.

Two men arrested in Newark are being called career criminals, but police say they aren’t stealing high-priced things like cars or jewelry. They’re allegedly swiping shopping carts, making off with tens of thousands of dollars worth of them.

The owner of an 34-year-old alligator seized by conservation officers near Buffalo, New York, is fighting for its return.

An ailing alligator was seized from an upstate New York home where it was being kept illegally, state officials said.

The 38-year-old crossed into New York with the hidden snakes on a bus from Montreal to New York City in 2018. The young adult snakes were hidden in the inner thigh of his pants in snake bags tied to the pants’ drawstring.