May 24 - By Associated Press
Police say a roving group of cows crashed a small gathering in a Massachusetts town and bullied the guests for their beer.

May 24 - By Heather Hollingsworth, Associated Press
In the plains of central Kansas, tornadoes are so unremarkable that guests barely flinched as a barrel-racing bride wed her bull-riding groom with a twister dropping from the sky just miles away.
May 24 - By Associated Press
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May 24 - By Associated Press
Wildlife agents in Washington state were ready to release a captured cougar back into the wild, but it didn't want to go.

May 24 - By Associated Press
Even robots like to have fun. NASA's rover on Mars showed off its playful side by snapping a picture of its own shadow. It's the latest self-portrait since the rover, named Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2004.
May 24 - By Associated Press
Police say two western Pennsylvania men mistook a woman's Bible carrying case for a purse when they tried to snatch it from her, knocking her to the ground.

May 23 - By Raphael Satter, Associated Press
Three bandits were foiled in Britain when their attempt to pry open a stolen cash box ran up against a new security system that slathered the bills with glue.
May 23 - By Dinesh Ramde, Associated Press
A Wisconsin man whose camcorder was briefly stolen has found a way to get back at the suspected thief: He uploaded to YouTube a video that the suspect took with the camera, a clip in which the man reveals his name, shows his face and admits he stole the camera.
May 23 - By Associated Press
A San Francisco supervisor who said he consulted a Ouija board before a vote now says he was joking — and the only spirit he was summoning was the spirit of humor.

May 23 - By Katy Daigle, Associated Press
A state in western India has declared war on animal poaching by allowing forest guards to shoot hunters on sight in an effort to curb rampant attacks on tigers and other wildlife.
May 23 - By Associated Press
The saga of lunar rock traveling from the first moon landing in 1969 to the Las Vegas Strip in 1987 and back to NASA in 2012 recalls other moon rock stories. Here are a few:
May 23 - By Ken Ritter, Associated Press
It's been a long, strange trip for what appears to be several tiny chips of lunar rock that found their way into a casino mogul's hands after being collected by the first men on the moon.

May 22 - By Maria Cheng, Associated Press
European researchers are planning to use new techniques to analyze DNA that could help crack the mystery of whether Bigfoot exists.
May 22 - By Associated Press
Pittsburgh Public Schools officials are investigating an impromptu field trip of sorts that occurred when two 6-year-old students wandered away from their school and walked to the city's Children's Museum a few blocks away.
May 22 - By Associated Press
An Iowa man stopped outside a Dubuque bar with a small zebra and a parrot in his truck has been charged with drunken driving.

May 22 - By Associated Press
A Silicon Valley software executive put fake bar codes on Lego sets at various Target stores, bought the toys at a steep discount, then sold them online for thousands of dollars, authorities said.

May 22 - By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press
Who's going to win the European Championship? Time to ask an elephant — or a pig.