ST. GEORGE, Utah, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Fire and animal control officials in St. George, Utah, said firefighters carried snakes from a burning trailer, saving 11 of them.
FARGO, N.D., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- An environmental artist in Fargo, N.D., says she paints the snow on her home's yard a different color each time flakes fall.
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Two twin brothers were born in different years thanks to their mother giving birth late New Year's Eve in Tampa, Fla., the boys' father says.
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- A Las Vegas woman says she needs more than an apology and $5,000 from a real estate company that carted away all her belongings in a mistaken foreclosure.
DETROIT, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Expressive old-timey words such as "bamboozle," "bloviate" and "charlatan" deserve to return to regular usage, U.S. advocates say.
LONDON, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Britain's oldest twins, Betty Richards and Jenny Pelmore, celebrated birthday No. 102 on New Year's Day with family and friends.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- An 80-year-old Missouri man with a pellet gun said he robbed a bank and tried to hold up another so he could give away the money, court documents show.
MONTREAL, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- Two Montreal-area women said they would head to British Columbia to retrieve a dog that spent three days by his master's body in a lonely trailer.
DONGOLA, Ill., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- An Illinois family says they've found a profitable business raising deer as a source of the retail product they sell in 1-ounce spray bottles -- deer urine.
ST. AUSTELL, England, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A British road sweeper who left his machine in a disabled parking place while he picked up a broken bottle was given a parking ticket.
BOURNEMOUTH, England, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A mother of five in Bournemouth, England, said she is making thousands of dollars renting out her driveway to travelers at a nearby airport.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A New York surgeon said the New Year's Eve package he offers includes concert tickets, airfare, accommodations and a pair of new breasts.
WEST CHESTER, Ohio, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- It wasn't a Spam lamb local police in Ohio found in a display microwave at home furnishings store IKEA -- it was a real lamb's head, officials said.
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EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A young Washington state man says a woman he met on MySpace had a nasty surprise for him -- she took in his car with his laptop and other possessions.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- An Oregon sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to two years probation and ordered to stay off booze for using a stun gun in a strip club.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A man who allegedly used a taxicab Thursday to get to and from a motel robbery in Knoxville, Tenn., was arrested a short time later, in the cab, police said.
CAIRNS, Australia, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- An Australian woman who watched with her two children as a python swallowed a baby wallaby in their yard said Thursday she could not have saved the joey.
