A vehicle in Wilmington, California, came to rest standing nearly vertical against the front porch of a home early Sunday morning after striking a utility pole, a parked car, and multiple fences along the Pacific Coast Highway. The homeowners were inside the residence at the time. They told reporters they heard a loud bang when …

A former NBA player has filed a lawsuit in central Indiana, accusing a Zionsville Town Council member and her husband of pressuring his dying grandmother to sign over a seven-acre family property a week before she died. The grandmother had dementia, thus she may not have been of sound mind when signing the deed. The …

An Odessa, Texas, man escaped his burning home with his dogs in tow after a lightning strike set the house on fire. He had been asleep when the accident happened, according to First Alert 7. The fire caused significant damage, but the man and his pets made it out safely. The only reason he woke …

A Florida man is asking the public for help getting his 7-foot shark back after someone stole it off his front porch, according to WINK News. The shark, named Sandra, is a fiberglass replica, not the real thing. Still, her owner says she is very much a member of the family. He was out of …

Louisiana is taking new grant applications from homeowners who want to upgrade to a hurricane-resistant fortified roof. The state will have substantially more money for the program this year than it has had in any year since it began. State lawmakers and Gov. Jeff Landry have just added $50 million more to the fund. The …

A homeowner in Buxton, North Carolina, hauled an entire oceanfront beach house, all 264,500 pounds of it, onto a new lot last week. This was done as a precaution before the Atlantic Ocean could swallow it the way it’s swallowed several of the houses around it. The furniture stayed inside the home during the move, …

Rostraver Township police in Pennsylvania served a search warrant at a home outside Pittsburgh last Tuesday and found more than 50 pigs living on the property, including roughly 10 inside the house itself. Some of the conditions inside were severe enough that officers reported becoming sick. The property has been condemned. The home belongs to …

An Uber driver in northern Arizona arrived for a pickup outside a woman’s home over the weekend and found her waiting on the sidewalk with a walker, a bag, and a phone. She approached his car and asked whether he was the “courier.” She had been waiting, she thought, for a courier sent by her …

A man in Fulshear, Texas, stepped outside his home on his morning walk and bumped into something blocking the front porch. He told police it had felt, at first, like an Amazon package against the screen door. He couldn’t have been more incorrect, however. It was actually an alligator. According to bodycam video shared by …

A Dolton, Illinois, homeowner is disputing a water bill from the Village of Dolton (a local neighborhood) for $4,296.47 after years of paying quarterly charges that she said never came close to that figure. Her usual bills, by her records, ran in the low hundreds of dollars. She said she doesn’t have the money to …