Category Archives: Offbeat News

Stack's Bowers Galleries sold the last pennies ever minted in America for $16.76 million on December 12. The California auction house handled 232 three-coin sets for the United States Mint, each conta...

Students at St. Mary's Episcopal all-girls school in Memphis designed a custom wedding dress for Taylor Swift as part of a Cinderella-inspired STEM project. The third-graders completed the dress just ...

Roy Marsh, 86, received a $334.50 littering fine in Lincolnshire, England, after enforcement officers saw him spit out a reed that blew into his mouth during strong winds. "As I was sitting there, a g...

Naumai Johnson received six months home detention after admitting to 26 charges including theft, shoplifting, and threatening behavior worth thousands of dollars. Her crime spree included stealing a $...

A raccoon discovered intoxicated in an Ashland ABC store bathroom on November 29th has broken into businesses multiple times, animal control says. "Supposedly this is like the third break-in he's had,...

A Washington, D.C. family has received more than 100 Amazon packages meant for the Arlo hotel during the past six months. Brittany, who requested only her first name be used, believes hotel guests mis...

A total of 1,435 couples broke the Guinness World Record for most couples kissing underneath mistletoe during a Saturday event in Washington, D.C. The DowntownDC Business Improvement District organize...

Sharon Czaplinsky, 45, faces her second public indecency charge in three months after a November 30th incident at a Marathon Winn-Dixie parking lot. Deputies responding to a 911 call about public sexu...

Missouri authorities summoned cowboys Wednesday after a collision between two tractor-trailers on Interstate 70 in Oak Grove released 13 cattle onto the highway. The Missouri Highway Patrol confirmed ...

Lawton Chiles Middle School in Oviedo entered a brief "Code Red" lockdown after an automated weapons detection system misidentified a clarinet as a gun. The AI system spotted a student carrying the mu...