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A Long Island woman made an unusual discovery under her garbage can, one so alarming she called 911 Wednesday to report the find to police. Nassau County officers responding to the woman’s call for help found a lizard, a bearded dragon that happened to be catatonic, under the outdoor trash can in the area of New Hyde Park’s Lake...

When Linda and Billy Hutchinson were forced to shut down their Seattle “junk boutique” due to COVID-19, they got creative — really creative. Linda started started making elaborate costumes for taxidermied ducklings to sell on Etsy. She’s now sold thousands to people with a taste for the bizarre. And her next project is even weirder.

New York City police officers on Sunday rescued a skunk that was hiding in flowers sold outside a deli in Manhattan. In a video shared on Twitter by user JoeDuncanNYCSGP, police officers are seen trying to locate the animal outside the Morgans Market store at 13 Hudson Street. The rescue occurred around 9:50 a.m., authorities said, and the uniformed officers…

New York City police officers on Sunday rescued a skunk that was hiding in flowers sold outside a deli in Manhattan.

Rochester Ice Resurfacer Catches Fire on Rink

An 89-year-old woman with Alzheimer’s almost lost her home over pennies in back taxes, before her daughter contacted the town and the mayor to put a stop to it. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

A Lower East Side man got an unexpected addition to his clothing delivery, when he opened the packaging and found fully grown worms crawling inside, on the plastic bags and inside the clothing items themselves. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

Birds wearing tiny “MAGA” hats were released by the self-proclaimed radical group “P.U.T.I.N,” an acronym for Pigeons United To Interfere Now. KSNV’s Max Darrow reports.

Justin Bailey has no idea how a boa constrictor wound up inside his sofa. KSNW’s Jasmine Haynes reports.

A motorcyclist cited for turning his license plate upside down because he thought “it was cool” has lost another bid to rescind a traffic ticket he received.

Oklahoma store owner says he’s considering a ban on baggy clothing after an amazing ham heist. KFOR’s Chase Horn reports.

People in Brooklyn say a rooster has been running “afowl” through the streets. Molly Sandley found the rooster she named “Elizabeth Warrhen” on Thursday in front of a restaurant in Park Slope. She says the roaming bird was trying to roost on an inflatable Santa. Sandley brought the rooster home where he lived in the bathroom while she tried to…

People in Brooklyn say a rooster has been running “afowl” through the streets.

The banana duct taped to a wall at Miami’s Art Basel sold for $120,000 as an exhibit, but that didn’t stop David Datuna from eating the fruit — without permission. He says he did so because he was hungry. NBC New York’s Adam Kuperstein reports.

David Datuna is not your regular starving artist. When he took a bite out of the infamous “banana on the wall” at Art Basel in Miami on Saturday, the New York City-based artist says he did it because he thought the original $120,000 artwork was “genius.” “First of all, I respect [Maurizio Cattelan.] I think he’s one of the top…

Shiver me timbers! The New York Police Department says a replica pirate ship got stuck on a buried pier in New York Harbor on Monday.

A southeast Idaho teacher accused of feeding a live puppy to a snapping turtle in front of students has been acquitted of misdemeanor animal cruelty.

Jellyfish-like creatures have been washing up on the Texas coast.

There are some words that you can’t hear without cracking up. Researchers from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom conducted a study to find the funniest word in the English language. Do you agree with their conclusion?