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Here's a look at 13 events — good, bad and otherwise — that have occurred on a Friday the 13th.
After accidentally dropping her phone into an Olympic National Forest outhouse, a woman used dog leashes to tie herself off so she could reach it. She ended up falling into the toilet headfirst.
The man who inhaled the drill bit said he now keeps the it on a shelf at home.
In Rio de Janeiro, two rescue dogs have turned local mascots and budding online influencers after joining their rescuers' ranks, wooing their growing audience, one bark at a time.
Here's a look at some of the strangest news stories from the past week.
One of two flamingos that escaped from a Kansas zoo during a storm 17 years ago has been spotted on the coast of Texas, wildlife officials said.
Almost 60 years after artist Yves Klein's death, a receipt he wrote to prove ownership of his invisible artwork is up for sale, with Sotheby's estimating that it could fetch up to$551,000.
Friday the 13th has long been viewed as bad luck, but do bad things really happen more often on those days? Here's a look at 13 events — good, bad and otherwise — that have occurred on a Friday the 13th.
Contestants must carry a pancake in a frying pan and flip it at the beginning and end of the 415-yard race. The event began in Olney, England in the 15th century.
Also, check out more of this week's stranger news stories (like a man getting arrested for trying to enter a tiger enclosure after breaking into Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo).
The painting, dating from the 1930s, shows three torsos and heads with hair but no facial features; the vandal drew eyes on two of them with a ballpoint pen.
The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia is losing its executive director.
The new southbound Rappahannock River crossing on Interstate 95 opened in October, but crews continued work on the project.
It was February when Laura Santos remembered that she’d filled out an online application to appear as a contestant on “Wheel of Fortune.”
Fredericksburg City Council has multiple plans in place to slow traffic in the downtown area.
Preservation effort by Central Virginia Battlefield Trust and American Battlefield Trust looks to thwart development threats on State Route 3 in Spotsylvania County.
A Virginia sheriff says a 69-year-old woman who went missing last week has been found alive in a dense pine forest less than a mile from her home.
A hand surgeon has testified that Johnny Depp could not have lost the tip of his middle finger the way he told jurors it happened in his civil lawsuit against ex-wife Amber Heard.
Nature lovers hoping for a spot on Grandfather Mountain's inaugural synchronous firefly tours were disappointed Monday morning.
The Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 4-year-old county boy who died earlier this month with a large amount of THC in his system, court records show.
A registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday after someone reported that he was hanging around a school bus stop in Stafford County, police said.
Torri Robinson unintentionally killed in 2020 following an argument at a cookout on Vantage Place between her friend and her brother over Donald Trump; alcohol was involved.
Virginia State Police are looking for a King George County man who police say used his cousin’s name and information when he was arrested on a DUI charge in March.
Neighbors of Amazon’s data-centers site in Culpeper are suing the county supervisors to nullify their recent rezoning of a Stevensburg tract for the development.
More than 200 people gathered at the Montana State Capitol in Helena Tuesday to rally for abortion access after a draft opinion was released suggesting the U.S. Supreme Court will vote to overturn its landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
Montana has its own state Supreme Court opinion ensuring the access to pre-viability abortions — the 1999 Armstrong ruling.
Montana’s congressional Republicans praised the likely end of abortion rights under the 14th Amendment on Tuesday following a leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion.