St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol believes in the “no shirt, no problem,” mantra.

Someone paid more than $9 million to have lunch with basketball player Stephen Curry and Warren Buffett, and the legendary investor also promised to match the winning bid so both their favorite charities will benefit.

Two South Florida police officers claim Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s recent action thriller “The Rip” used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers’ personal and professional reputations.

Miners in Myanmar have discovered a massive ruby, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the country.

Storm chaser Ashton Lemley was helping search through a Mississippi trailer park destroyed by tornadoes when he heard a kitten meowing from the rubble.

People in Colorado and Wyoming are getting out their snow shovels as a late-spring storm could bring Denver’s biggest snowfall of the season.

The radio station WKRP isn't dead, and it's now live on air in Cincinnati.

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will soon light the sky with debris from Halley’s comet.

New Zealanders are working to bring the kiwi back to the hills around Wellington.

A massive sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is charming tourists and locals at San Francisco's Pier 39.

Albany residents love Nipper, a giant dog statue perched atop a warehouse for nearly seven decades.

A French teen faces charges in Singapore after posting a video of himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and putting it back.

If you can't visit the original Liberty Bell in Philadelphia, you might find a dead ringer nearby.

Two paramedics helped deliver a baby girl on a Delta flight as it landed in Portland, Oregon.

A Cape Cod seafood company has donated a rare two-colored lobster to a science center, sparing the critter from the kettle because of its remarkable coloration.

A sheep at Clover & Bee Farm in Underhill, Vermont, gave birth to a rare batch of six lambs earlier this month.

The Palm Beach Zoo in Florida has two reasons to celebrate.

Seattle Mariners starter Logan Gilbert can thank his jersey for stopping at least one earned run Wednesday.

Two friends have claimed a bizarre record by driving a decades-old British three-wheel car about 14,000 miles from the U.K. to the southern tip of Africa for the longest trip by a three-wheel vehicle.

Three people in California have been sentenced for insurance fraud involving a person in a bear costume damaging high-end cars.

About 1 million bees temporarily took over an interstate exit ramp in East Tennessee after a beekeepers’ truck crashed and set them loose.

A suspected purse snatcher was rounded up after being chased through the streets of Manhattan by a mounted New York police office and his horse.

Two male runners in South Africa who were discovered fraudulently competing on behalf of female colleagues in a top marathon have been disqualified.

In September 1963, before Beatlemania, George Harrison visited his sister in the southern Illinois town of Benton.

Yuji, a 6-week-old patas monkey, wakes up every day clinging to a stuffed dog.

Germans are preparing a rescue operation for a sick humpback whale stranded off the Baltic Sea coast.

Crowds gathered at Mount Holyoke College’s Talcott Greenhouse to witness the rare bloom of “Pangy,” a corpse flower known for its powerful odor resembling decaying flesh.

They're called meat raffles, and they're a tradition in a few pockets of the U.S. They're featured mainly at neighborhood bars or at American Legion or VFW posts in Minnesota, Wisconsin and New York state.

A Parisian art enthusiast has won a Pablo Picasso painting with a $117 raffle ticket.

The world’s oldest gorilla living in captivity has celebrated her 69th birthday.

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has dismissed rumors about his health by doing jumping jacks and jogging outside his office.

In Havana, a special underwater bus has become essential as Cuba faces its worst energy crisis in decades.

A statue has been unveiled of Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki at the Seattle Mariners' T-Mobile Park.

A Buffalo-area man has given up his legal battle to reclaim his seized alligator, Albert.

Xander Schauffele’s tee shot on the par-5 eighth hole at Augusta National came to rest in somebody’s merchandise bag.

Scientists have found evidence that a 300-million-year-old sea creature previously thought to be the world's oldest octopus is actually a nautilus relative.

In 1989, an up-and-coming rock band from Washington called Nirvana played in Chicago for the first time at a club called Dreamerz.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal will no longer print its rival the Las Vegas Sun for the first time in decades, sharpening a longtime legal dispute between the southern Nevada newspapers.

Reports of the death of Jonathan, the world’s oldest living land animal, have been greatly exaggerated.

A lost border collie has been rescued alive after her owner fell from a tall waterfall in New Zealand bush.

A veteran South African politician is campaigning for mayor of Johannesburg by snorkeling in a giant, water-filled trench.

Chesney the kangaroo jumped an eight-foot fence to escape his petting zoo in Wisconsin, spending three days on the lam.

Travelers passing through Philadelphia International Airport may have expected long security lines, but the longest line was made of cheesesteaks.

It might seem impossible to get away from the constant barrage of news these days.

On shelves crammed with cuddly toy native animals in an Australian airport gift shop, one fluffy possum stood out because its brown eyes were moving.

Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare has sued a patient who refuses to leave a hospital room, even though doctors discharged her more than five months ago.

Two Massachusetts brothers have built a fleet of miniature Irish pubs on wheels.

The state of Oregon may soon have some new public property: A spectacular waterfall, beloved by generations, that was recently put up for sale on Redfin.

This stowaway truly was sly as a fox.

King penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.

Traditional reindeer racing has drawn an international crowd to the town of Salla in northern Finland.

About two dozen couples have taken part in the U.K. Wife Carrying Race, one of the country's quirkiest annual sports events.

A Spanish soccer team is asking Madonna for help in finding the club shirt she wore on stage during a concert in 1990.

Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys.

An independent researcher has asserted that a marble bust of Christ in a Roman church is by Michelangelo.

Florida coach Jon Sumrall has a new appreciation for the gator chomp.

A crocodile has been caught in an Australian creek on the temperate east coast far from the species' tropical habitat.

The Detroit Pistons and Cleveland Cavaliers were delayed for 18 minutes in the third quarter by a blaring horn Friday night after a power surge caused the overhead scoreboard to malfunction.

Officials in Florida say an injured mother manatee and her calf have been rescued from a river and taken to SeaWorld Orlando for rehabilitation.

A woman on probation for stowing away on an international flight has been arrested again after sneaking onto a flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Milan, Italy, A law enforcement official familiar with the matter said Thursday that Svetlana Dali was taken into custody Thursday at Milan’s Malpensa Airport.

A new study uses physics to uncover why sneakers squeak on the basketball court.

Hawaii lawmakers are weighing tougher ways to deal with feral chickens, as residents complain about noise, mess, and growing flocks.

A surprise participant in Wednesday’s action at the Milan Cortina Olympics had four legs and zero concern for race times.

Animal behaviorists partnering with the Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society in Florida traveled to Africa in August to help an endangered white rhino with a life-threatening, parasitic eye infection.

Logan Paul set a new world record by selling a rare Pokémon trading card for a staggering $16.5 million.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama has clarified comments he made about alien life on a podcast over the weekend.

Larry the cat is marking 15 years as Britain’s Chief Mouser at 10 Downing Street, a symbol of stability in turbulent political times.

Dozens of dogs dressed as alligators, fairies and superheroes have gathered at a Rio de Janeiro Carnival street party as their owners protested cruelty against pets.

For fans of the Milan Cortina Olympic mascots, the eponymous Milo and Tina, it’s been nearly impossible to find a plush toy of the stoat siblings in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.

Temperatures in northern Europe have been so low that Estonians can now drive across a 12 1/2-mile stretch of frozen sea.

Punxsutawney Phil, the legendary groundhog that lives in a tree stump in rural Pennsylvania, has issued the most highly anticipated weather forecast of the season: six more weeks of winter.

Punxsutawney Phil’s handlers say he’s seen his shadow and is therefore predicting six more weeks of winter weather.

Wildlife officials say a large exotic lizard was found buried in the snow in Rhode Island.

Scientists on a research vessel off the California coast are marveling at a rare find — a waved albatross was spotted soaring over the Pacific.

A Kentucky family battling extreme cold temperatures on their farm over the weekend opened their home to a newborn calf that was struggling in the deep freeze.

Scotty's Castle, built in the 1920s, is tucked away in the desert in Death Valley National Park and was one of the park's biggest attractions.

In a Rio de Janeiro prison, Brazilian women inmates showcased their talents in a singing contest on Friday.

Rhode Islanders have long been able to choose Mr. Potato Head for their specialty license plates.

Hundreds of people in Spain have watched horses gallop through flames as part of the centuries-old tradition called Las Luminarias.

Scientists have uncovered mummified remains of cheetahs from caves in northern Saudi Arabia.

A huge black bear has finally been evicted from a crawl space under a Los Angeles area house where it had been living since Thanksgiving.

Police say a Pennsylvania man who had about 100 sets of human remains is charged with stealing from a graveyard at the edge of Philadelphia.

A new study finds that some gifted dogs can learn the names of new toys by eavesdropping.

A dog traveling from a South Carolina shelter to a planned new home in Maine escaped during a bathroom break along the New Jersey Turnpike.

Firefighters in Rhode Island rescued a yellow Labrador named Phoenix on New Year's Day after he fell through an ice-covered pond.

A group of Peruvian shamans gathered in front of the sea in the Miraflores district of Peru’s capital city to carry out an annual ritual in which they make predictions for the upcoming year.

Doctors say just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus.

In a year of pop culture moments, some things were old and some things were very new.

A British baker's critique of Mexican bread has sparked outrage on social media, leading to a public apology.

Auction bidders spent top dollar for some of the final pennies to be circulated in the U.S. before the government ended the cent’s production.

Cyclist Barnaby Wickham has collected more than 700 lost hubcaps, mostly on his bike rides around Baltimore.

A drone dropped a package of contraband into the Lee Correctional Institution prison yard three weeks before Christmas.

Waymo's self-driving taxis have been in the spotlight for both negative and positive reasons.

Police have recovered a James Bond-inspired Fabergé pendant after six days of waiting for it to exit a suspect's gastrointestinal tract.

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language.

A baby seal has caused chaos by wandering into a bar in Richmond, New Zealand.

Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives.

Police in New Zealand are monitoring a man accused of swallowing a $19,000 pendant with the intention of smuggling it out of a jewelry store.

A raccoon broke into a closed Virginia liquor store and drank alcohol from the bottom shelves over the weekend.

A rare Fabergé egg crafted for Russia’s ruling family before the revolution has sold for more $30 million.