A grocery delivery arriving around 11 p.m. was late enough to get Denise Angelone’s attention. The sound that came next made her check the cameras. Someone was jiggling the handles of her front door. Angelone, who lives in King County, Washington, was expecting an Amazon delivery. The person outside was the delivery driver, and her…
Richmond car owners were left in disbelief when they walked back to their cars on Tuesday, September 1, realizing their windshields had been shattered. Police say a man smashed around 90 vehicles during the incident. Richmond Police responded around 11:16 a.m. to a report of someone damaging vehicles near East Grace and Ambler streets, close…
What started as a quick stop at a gas station turned into an unexpected rescue mission for one Florida man after he found eight abandoned puppies hanging around a dumpster. Instead of leaving them behind, he brought the puppies along with him on his travels. Brendon Leslie was driving to Mississippi when he made a…
A damaged trailer can make getting away from a crash considerably harder when it draws a line back to your house. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says that is essentially what happened after a large pickup truck towing a trailer ran over residential mailboxes and garbage bins in Polk County, Florida. The driver left after…
The St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office has watched enough boat-ramp arguments to offer some advice. The Florida sheriff’s office put out a warning ahead of a busy boating weekend: do some practicing before you get to the ramp. There will be people waiting. Directions will start coming from more than one person. Hand signals will…
Shedd Aquarium announced the deaths of two beluga whales on Sept. 2, one week after disclosing the loss of a third. Rain was a 20-year-old female who arrived from Marineland in August. Beethoven, a 34-year-old male, had lived at Shedd for decades. Rain and Peekachu reached Chicago on the same Aug. 13 transport. Beethoven belonged…
Brentwood residents have grown accustomed to seeing the same woman relieve herself on neighborhood sidewalks. One neighbor remembers mentioning it years ago, only to learn there was apparently nothing unusual about the sight anymore. “Oh yeah, she does that every morning,” Wendy Kush recalled a neighbor telling her. Kush had tried to get the woman…
A man somehow ended up inside a San Francisco garbage truck early Wednesday morning, and nobody realized he was there until someone heard yelling coming from the back. That was already a bad place to be. The truck had been collecting commercial dumpsters on its route when the man was loaded in with the trash….
A Southern California birder managed to photograph something generations of cartoon viewers were taught should never happen. Alexander deBarros was conducting a bird survey at the Chatsworth Nature Preserve on Aug. 29 when he spotted a coyote running through the area with something in its mouth, according to KTLA. DeBarros quickly took a few photos…