Weird

The owner of a New Jersey pet store where a $7,000 parrot was stolen a few weeks ago is now the victim of an attempted homicide, police and colleagues say, after someone shot her in the face with a crossbow. There’s no immediate indication the shooting and theft at Birds by Joe 2 on Route 46 in Saddle Brook are…

The TSA said a gun frame had been jammed in the bottom of a boot, below a sock that was stuffed in behind it in an effort to conceal the weapon. The rest of the handgun — the slide, spring and gun magazine loaded with 12 bullets — was detected among plastic building blocks inside a Black Panther LEGO set.

New York repealed on Friday a seldom-used law over a century old that made it a crime to cheat on your spouse — a misdemeanor that once could have landed adulterers in jail for three months.

Known locally as the “Ghost Bridge,” neighbors said the stone bridge that is usually under feet of water dates back 200 years. It is still fully intact and now completely exposed, making for a rare sight and intriguing photo to snap.

A New York man who turned a rescued squirrel into a social media star called Peanut is pleading with state authorities to return his beloved pet after they seized it during a raid.

A 13-foot Burmese python was confiscated from an upstate New York man who was keeping the still-growing snake in a small tank, authorities said. The state Department of Environmental Conservation said it got a complaint about an illegally owned snake in New Hartford on Aug. 28. Environment Conservation Police Officer Jeff Hull responded and found t...

Nuisance or neighborhood beautification project? The debate appears to be moot at this point. The controversy stems from the so-called “Bed-Stuy Goldfish Pond,” a sidewalk puddle near a leaky hydrant in Brooklyn where someone kept dumping fish in an effort to turn the hole into a sort of street aquarium. Some lauded the uniquely Brookly...

A New Jersey man faces charges after officers found an antique handgun in his carry-on luggage, according to the Transportation Security Administration.

Officials say a flight to Manchester, New Hampshire was diverted to Buffalo, New York, after a man allegedly exposed himself and urinated in the aisle of the airplane. Federal prosecutors say the 25-year-old Oregon man was arrested and charged with indecent exposure Wednesday after the flight landed at Buffalo Niagara International Airport. He was ...

A school bus aide in Connecticut was arrested after he bit a 9-year-old boy during a ride, according to police — part of a strange pattern of abuse that went on for weeks.

Peafowl, meaning males and females, left the Bronx Zoo on Memorial Day — and some didn’t come home. The Bronx Zoo says it picked up five of the rogue birds after seven ditched the park. They’re free-roaming, the zoo says, so they occasionally stray. They typically don’t go farther though and return on their own. One of the r...

The whale, identified as a sei whale, was caught on the ship’s bow when it arrived at the Port of Brooklyn on Saturday, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fisheries spokesperson Andrea Gomez said.

A toll collector at the Jersey Shore called out of work after she said she had a feeling something bad was going to happen. Hours later, a garbage truck crashed into the toll plaza where she works.