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.

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…

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.

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.

A drunk man celebrating his 29th birthday was arrested early Saturday morning after he rode a horse onto the 91 Freeway in Long Beach, officials said.

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?

A New York ice cream store is serving grasshoppers as an accompaniment to it scoops.

Twenty-eight drivers competed for five hours on a nine-mile course in a tractor race in Russia.

A motorcyclist in Australia is lucky to be alive after a mattress flew off a truck and hit him while he was traveling 50 mph in a tunnel. The driver says he only suffered minor cuts on his hands.

The Great Dane from Michigan that held the title of world’s tallest dog has died at age 5.