Weird News

It's not as scary as creepy clowns or people licking doorbells, but it's still weird.

Behold the new Queen of Sweden!

Yep, a cat that can let you know if there are spooky things happening about.

One of my favorite things to watch on Youtube are videos of reporters goofing up. We expect reporters to be above human error and it is HILARIOUS when they mess up.

Almost everyone has had an overdue library book at some point. We check out the book, read it, get busy with life, and totally forget when it needs to be returned. Normally, it's no big deal... Pay a fine and it's all good. But that's not what happened to a 5-year-old girl in Charlton, Massachusetts.

Every year, Michigan’s Lake Superior State University asks people which words and phrases have been so overused that they should be essentially banished from the English language. The school just released their list for 2012, and it’s certainly stirring up debate.

In recent months, Latin leaders, including Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez, Paraguay’s Fernando Lugo, Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff and former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have all been diagnosed with cancer. Simple coincidence — or an American plot?

Adam Wheeler, a former Harvard student kicked out of the university for false statements on his admissions application, has been sent to jail for including the school on his resume when applying for a job. For violating this condition of his probation, he now faces a possible two-year sentence.

In the days before the internet, people who were rude to waitstaff and/or didn’t tip properly could go about their shameful lives in relative obscurity. Welcome to 2011. The rules, they have changed.

Growing up, I remember going swimming at Redbrush Park Lake in Seymour. Or in the pond on my grandparent's farm. And I'd never heard of this amoeba until last week when it was featured on the show "Rookie Blue." Then, today, I see stories popping up all over the place about kids being infected.

Very rarely am I speechless. Reading this story, however, left me with no words... A 4 month old in Grain Valley, Missouri, has been left with only two thumbs and a pinky after a pet ferret attacked him. The babies' parents, Ryan and Carrie Waldo, called 911 around 2:30 A.M., telling dispatchers that their pet had chewed off 7 fingers.

A delivery driver in New York has a very big fear....the fear of driving over bridges.  Usually most of his deliveries are in one neighborhood, but recently he had to take something over the Verrazano Bridge.  He couldn't tell the boss no.  So to calm his fears, the guy pulled out a bottle of vodka.  He crashed into a tree and police responding to the scene found his blood alcohol content at four