January 13, 2015 Corpse flower blooms, spreading its scent of blue cheese and dead flesh at California college The corpse flower has come alive.
January 13, 2015 Baby boy born on platform at DC subway station; Metro gives mother $100 farecard A woman who gave birth to a baby boy on a Metro platform in downtown Washington is getting $100 in subway or bus fare.
January 13, 2015 Police: 9-year-old digging for worms near his Arizona home finds gun and bullet in plastic bag A 9-year-old boy digging for worms in northern Arizona found a gun buried near his home.
January 13, 2015 Meter error leaves Dallas man with 2nd more than $66K wrong water bill, city apologizes A Dallas man says he's shocked to have been swamped with a nearly $67,000 erroneous water bill a few months after a similar computer error.
January 13, 2015 2-headed turtle at San Antonio Zoo so popular the critter gets her own Facebook page A two-headed turtle born last month at the San Antonio Zoo has become so popular that she has her own Facebook page.
January 13, 2015 Illinois man's missing high school ring returned to him after 65 years Diedrich, 82, now has his class of 1949 ring from J. Sterling Morton High School in Cicero thanks to a Waukesha, Wis., man who returned it to him after finding it with a metal detector in a lake near his home.
January 13, 2015 Illinois man's missing high school ring found in Wisconsin lake, 65 years after vanishing If finding a high school ring doesn't seem like a big deal consider this: Until a few days ago, the last time Dick Diedrich saw his ring he was living in suburban Chicago with his parents and Harry Truman was in the White House.
January 13, 2015 Massachusetts scratch-off lottery ticket recovered from trash wins couple $1 million A Massachusetts couple have won $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket that they dug out of the trash after inadvertently throwing it away.
January 13, 2015 Woman fined $500 for cursing after she was picked for jury, judge also tosses her from case A Pennsylvania woman has been fined $500 for cursing because she was frustrated with being picked to serve on a jury.
January 13, 2015 Swarm of bees delay US Airways Express flight from North Carolina Anderson said a beekeeper was summoned to the tug to remove the bees.