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Many people were stuck inside their homes because of all the rain on Friday. But one New York City resident got to roam outside their home thanks to the deluge and floods.

If you didn’t know that the butter cows unveiled at the start of the Iowa and Illinois state fairs weren’t made entirely out of butter, you are not alone — far from it, in fact.

A bizarre mishap is being blamed for a power outage in a New Jersey town over the weekend.

A German court says a landlord sunbathing naked in the courtyard of his building isn’t a reason for his tenants to reduce their rental payments. The case involved a building in an upmarket residential district of Frankfurt, which included an office floor. The landlord sued the human resources company that used the office after it withheld rental payments. The company...

A runaway pony in Alabama was charged with resisting arrest after leading police on an hourslong low-speed chase.

The cow was finally corralled after dodging cars and those trying to capture it Tuesday afternoon. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

Most people probably don’t think of Canarsie as cattle country. But a slaughterhouse escapee set off a full-scale urban round-up in the Brooklyn neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.

Ordinarily, a pet escaping its home and winding up in a neighbor’s residence wouldn’t be a big deal — except the pet in this instance was a 4-foot adult python.

Brian Thompson reporting on the Python that slithered underneath an apartment door.

Mexico’s president has posted a photo on his social media accounts showing what he says appears to be a mythological woodland spirit similar to an elf. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not seem to be joking when he posted the photo on Saturday of an “Aluxe,” a mischievous woodland spirit in Mayan folklore. The nighttime photo shows a branch...

Officials at the Bronx Zoo hope to remove the four-inch stopper once the alligator is healthy enough to undergo the procedure.

The nearly five-foot gator is undergoing treatment at the Bronx Zoo after it was spotted inside Prospect Park on Sunday. The alligator is still too weak and unresponsive to eat on its own, the zoo said, so it is being tube-fed, and was found to have ingested a sizable item.

A bizarre sight at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park caught maintenance staff by surprise on Sunday. Spotted inside the park was a 4-foot-long alligator that trained animal officials were able to capture the animal set loose. It’s not clear how the animal got there. “We’re grateful to our Parks Enforcement Patrol and Urban Park Rangers who snapped into action to capture...

A domestic king pigeon was found in NYC’s Madison Square Park, and it appeared to have been deliberately dyed before being released, a group said.

Two senior women and a man got stuck in a gaping sinkhole in a Long Island front yard Thursday, authorities say. Suffolk County cops say they initially responded to a home in Huntington Station just after 6 a.m. for a report of a woman stuck in a hole in the ground. When they arrived, they found her — and two…

TSA officers at JFK Airport likely see a lot of odd stuff in passengers’ bags, but what was found last week likely gave them paws: A live cat was found shoved into a checked bag.

TSA officers at JFK Airport likely see a lot of odd stuff in passengers’ bags, but what was found last week likely gave them paws: A live cat was found shoved into a checked bag.

An Amazon worker caused total chaos at a Staten Island warehouse early Friday, allegedly pulling a fire alarm — despite there being no fire — and spraying fire extinguishers on colleagues and throughout the building, according to people with direct knowledge of what happened. Cops and firefighters were called to the sprawling Bloomfield complex on Gulf Avenue around 6 a.m….

You’ve probably heard about Netflix’s new TV miniseries “The Watcher” by now. It’s one of the creepiest stories in New Jersey history and has held the streaming giant’s No. 1 spot almost constantly since it debuted last week.

A Long Island home has been condemned and its owner arrested after more than 300 animals and 100,000 roaches were allegedly found on her property, officials said Tuesday.