13+ hour, 37+ min ago   (123+ words) Firefighters responded to a pond in Kentucky where a horse wandered out onto the ice and found itself unable to stand on the slippery surface. Stranded horse rescued from frozen pond in Kentucky Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Firefighters responded to a pond…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (137+ words) Feb. 2 (UPI) -- A South Carolina man stopped at a convenience store to satisfy his craving for a bag of pretzels and ended up winning a $200,000 lottery prize. The Upstate man told South Carolina Education Lottery officials a hankering for salty…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (113+ words) Jan. 30 (UPI) -- An Ohio man said his father's tradition of giving scratch-off lottery tickets as Christmas presents resulted in his winning a $100,000 prize. The Columbus man told Ohio Lottery officials his father has a tradition of using tickets as stocking…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (240+ words) Jan. 30 (UPI) -- An 11-year-old juggler from Wisconsin broke a Guinness World Record by using a pindaloo to make 51 rotations in under 30 seconds. Caleb Hunter used his pindaloo -- a u-shaped juggling tool that takes a ball in one hole and spits…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (190+ words) Jan. 30 (UPI) -- Wildlife officials in Colorado came to the rescue of a bighorn sheep that wandered out onto a frozen river and fell halfway through the ice. Colorado Parks and Wildlife said personnel stationed in Gunnison learned Monday afternoon that…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (149+ words) Jan. 29 (UPI) -- A Maryland man collected a $50,000 prize from a scratch-off lottery ticket less than two years after winning $250,000 from another scratch-off game. The Silver Spring man told Maryland Lottery officials he bought his $50,000 Cash ticket at the Sunoco gas…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (142+ words) Jan. 27 (UPI) -- An Ohio woman received a bouquet of scratch-off lottery tickets as a birthday gift from her best friend and scored a $20,000 prize. The Canton resident, identified only as Wendy, told Ohio Lottery officials her best friend, Carrie, presented…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (158+ words) Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A Michigan man shopping for a scratch-off lottery ticket at a gas station went with a "random pick" and scored a $2 million top prize. The 53-year-old Wayne County man told Michigan Lottery officials he visited the Jefferson Fuels…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (154+ words) Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A Kenyan environmental activist broke a Guinness World Record by keeping her arms wrapped around the trunk of a tree for 72 consecutive hours. Truphena Muthoni, 22, earned the title for the longest marathon hugging a tree when she surpassed…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (119+ words) Jan. 22 (UPI) -- Police in New York responded to a burglary alarm at a Suffolk County bank, and arrived to find the suspect was a deer that crashed through a window. The Suffolk County Police Department said officers were summoned to…...