ROCKLAND, Maine (AP) - When Virginia Oliver started trapping lobster off Maine's rocky coast, World War II was more than a decade in the future, the electronic traffic signal was a recent invention and few women were harvesting lobsters.
Turns out cows can be potty trained as easily as toddlers. Maybe easier.
VIENNA (AP) - Ethiopia's Derara Hurisa was disqualified for wearing the wrong shoes after winning the Vienna Marathon on Sunday.
BERLIN (AP) - Is anyone missing an ostrich?
Beards aren't just cool and trendy - they might also be an evolutionary development to help protect a man's delicate facial bones from a punch to the face.
CALLAHAN, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man won $1 million in a lottery game the same day he and his wife opened an auto repair shop.
RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) - An employee cost a New York county at least $6,000 in electricity bills by allegedly secretly installing dozens of machines at his workplace in a cryptocurrency scheme, authorities said Wednesday, announcing charges against him.
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - A man fed up with a private road in poor condition near his southwest Florida business has a novel solution: plant a banana tree in a pothole to warn motorists away.
PARIS (AP) - Jean-Pierre Adams, the former France and Paris Saint-Germain defender who spent 39 years in a coma, has died. He was 73.
GUIDONIA MONTECELIO, Italy (AP) - Identical twins, identical results.
ROME (AP) - Border police at Rome's main airport on Sunday prevented a Naples tobacco shop owner suspected of running off with a customer's winning game ticket from boarding a flight to the Canary Islands, Italian news reports said.
ROME (AP) - Italian police on Saturday were hunting for a Naples tobacco shop owner who allegedly ran off on a motor scooter with a customer's "scratch and win" game card, which had clinched the top prize of 500,000 euros ($580,000), Italian news reports said.
