Weird

Police in a New Jersey town are telling residents to give them a call if they spot a certain peeper looking into their homes. No, it’s not a person. It’s a goat.

A Texas baker perfected her black frosting after receiving an order for what she thought was an “emo” cake.

Smart bees? That’s what they thought. A swarm set up a hive in a tree outside a New Jersey Starbucks, which may have been a wise choice if not for the foot traffic — or the prowess of “Frank the Beeman,” as his community fondly calls him. Frank Mortimer, adjunct instructor at the Cornell University Master Beekeeping Program,...

A nude man ran onto the 5 Freeway in Pacoima and was killed by a vehicle Sunday night. 

Some suspected the lead suspect was a man by the name of Al Dente (get it?) or his partner in crime, Lin Guini (hah). Others wondered if whoever dumped the food would be sent to penne-tentiary (OK, that one was pretty good). Though it wasn’t known if the food left there was pasta expiration date (last one, we swear).

No meatballs and no sauce were included in the pasta found in the Middlesex County town of Old Bridge, just mounds and mounds of spaghetti, ziti and elbow macaroni.

Expecting parents know that their baby can arrive at any moment. For one woman near Tampa, that moment came while she was in a car with her husband.

Better late than never? A book that was checked out of a New Jersey library in 1979 has turned up in a box of book donations at the Hopewell Branch of the Mercer County Library system. As a maintenance worker was sorting through the box looking for any wet or moldy books that would need to be thrown out, he…

Calling Uber customer service? Here’s what to do if you lost any of these items — and more from the 2023 list.

In a bizarre scene, a peacock believed to be from the Bronx Zoo caused quite the spectacle after escaping and biting a man on the sidewalk.

No, it’s not Nessie — but tales of a mythical Upstate New York water creature continues to captivate people to this day, as it remains one of the most searched-for monsters in the United States.

HBO’s hit show The Last of Us introduces a post-apocalyptic world infested by human zombies turned by a fungal infection. NBC New York’s Linda Gaudino sits down with New York Botanical Garden mycologist Dr. João Araújo on the facts about this real “zombie-ant” fungi.

New York City officials on Thursday marked two decades of the city’s 311 nonemergency answering system by releasing a top-20 list of those and other memorable calls.