Ferris wheel ride world record broken in Chicago
CHICAGO (AP) -- A manager of Chicago's Navy Pier rode the tourist spot's Ferris wheel for more than two days - 384 times, up and around - bringing the world record for the longest ride to the birthplace of the amusement park favorite....
Funeral home has bicycle hearse for 1 last ride
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) -- An Oregon funeral home in Eugene offers natural burials where the ride to the person's final resting place is on the back of a three-wheeled bicycle....
Birth of anteater has Conn. zoo staff puzzled
GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) -- An anteater has given birth at a Connecticut conservation center, prompting officials there to wonder how the mother conceived....
Alaska man runs onto frozen lake to avoid jail
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Anchorage police say a young man who didn't want to return to jail ran out onto the uncertain ice of an Alaska lake to escape officers armed with an arrest warrant....
Exhibition of secretly shot photos upsets NYers
NEW YORK (AP) -- Residents of a New York luxury apartment building are livid over an exhibition of photos secretly snapped through their apartment windows....
Denmark's de Forest wins Eurovision song contest
MALMO, Sweden (AP) -- Denmark's Emmelie de Forest has won this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune "Only Teardrops," despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine....
Aussie minister sorry he 'liked' exposed teen pic
SYDNEY (AP) -- An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself....
Wash. state woman spots stolen car in drive-thru
KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) -- A Washington woman whose car was stolen from her apartment complex saw the stolen SUV hours later - in the drive-thru of the McDonald's restaurant where she works....
Texas senior, 18, bags 800-pound record alligator
HOUSTON (AP) -- A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator - the heaviest ever certified in Texas - on his first alligator hunt....
NBC hires news division chief from Britain
NEW YORK (AP) -- NBC went out of the company and out of the country to find a president for its news division, on Monday naming the first woman to hold the top job....
