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Photos show airship captains and Victorian inventors flocking to a New Zealand steampunk festival
Photos show airship captains and Victorian inventors flocking to a New Zealand steampunk festival

ŌAMARU, New Zealand (AP) — The small, rural town of Ōamaru, New Zealand, has become an unlikely world capital for the retro futuristic genre of steampunk.

Altar-ed plans: US midfielder gets 1-day leave from World Cup training for his own wedding
Altar-ed plans: US midfielder gets 1-day leave from World Cup training for his own wedding

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) — American midfielder Brenden Aaronson had a good excuse to miss the U.S. World Cup team's training session Friday — he was getting married.

What to know about Manhattanhenge, NYC's sunset spectacle
What to know about Manhattanhenge, NYC's sunset spectacle

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City residents and visitors look up at the sky to experience a phenomenon twice a year known as Manhattanhenge.

Bryce Harper bristles at blowback from toothbrushing technique. Just a squeeze, from tube to tongue
Bryce Harper bristles at blowback from toothbrushing technique. Just a squeeze, from tube to tongue

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper bristled at the blowback from his toothbrushing technique that he displayed over a sink inside a San Diego hotel bathroom.

Pigeons may be navigating with their liver, study suggests
Pigeons may be navigating with their liver, study suggests

NEW YORK (AP) — A surprising gut feeling may help pigeons find their way home.

Florida man breaks into store with chainsaw, steals $12K worth of Pokémon cards
Florida man breaks into store with chainsaw, steals $12K worth of Pokémon cards

A West Palm Beach man allegedly broke into a Lake Park store to steal Pokémon cards — using a chainsaw.

Gotta go: Home player Arthur Gea takes emergency bathroom break during French Open debut
Gotta go: Home player Arthur Gea takes emergency bathroom break during French Open debut

PARIS (AP) — Home player Arthur Gea ran off the court for an emergency bathroom break early in the first set of his French Open debut on Sunday.

A round of a-paws for ‘La Perra,’ winner of the Palm Dog award at Cannes
A round of a-paws for ‘La Perra,’ winner of the Palm Dog award at Cannes

CANNES, France (AP) — A round of a-paws for “La Perra,” winner of this year’s Palm Dog award at the Cannes Film Festival. The Chilean movie took the top canine prize Friday, a day before the festival's official awards ceremony.

Tractors, ATVs and golf carts, oh my: Michigan seniors arrive at school in style on Tractor Day
Tractors, ATVs and golf carts, oh my: Michigan seniors arrive at school in style on Tractor Day

CARLETON, Mich. (AP) — Chase Harvell rolled into the Airport High School parking lot Friday in southeastern Michigan one final time before next week’s graduation.

Joey Chestnut to defend hot dog eating title while on probation after pleading guilty to battery
Joey Chestnut to defend hot dog eating title while on probation after pleading guilty to battery

Competitive eater Joey Chestnut is on probation after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor battery charge. The reigning champion and 17-time winner of Nathan’s Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest will still compete in the July 4 spectacle. The competitive eating sensation was accused of slapp.

Holy deception: Rome's 'sexy priest' calendar star never set foot in a seminary
Holy deception: Rome's 'sexy priest' calendar star never set foot in a seminary

A calendar featuring close-ups of young, handsome priests has been a popular Rome souvenir for two decades. However, many of those photographed aren't actually priests. A now 39-year-old flight attendant has been the cover model for most of the last 23 editions. He was just 17 when he posed for t...

Lettuce introduce you to the live frog found in this grocery store salad bag
Lettuce introduce you to the live frog found in this grocery store salad bag

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — When Australian farmer Rhys Smoker announced he’d found a live frog in a bag of lettuce, his housemates didn’t believe him.

Cardinals manager Marmol buys tickets for fans to recreate shirtless revelry
Cardinals manager Marmol buys tickets for fans to recreate shirtless revelry

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol believes in the “no shirt, no problem,” mantra.

Winner pays $9 million in charity auction for a private lunch with Warren Buffett and Stephen Curry
Winner pays $9 million in charity auction for a private lunch with Warren Buffett and Stephen Curry

Someone paid more than $9 million to have lunch with basketball player Stephen Curry and Warren Buffett, and the legendary investor also promised to match the winning bid so both their favorite charities will benefit.

Museum's 'Knight Rider' replica car got a speeding ticket. It hasn't gone anywhere in years
Museum's 'Knight Rider' replica car got a speeding ticket. It hasn't gone anywhere in years

It's a mystery on the streets of New York City. What traffic law violator with unpaid fines is driving a black Pontiac Trans Am that looks like the car with the talking computer from the 1980s TV series “Knight Rider," and even has the same license plate?

Report: Child bit by sloth at NC family-run zoo

A child was bitten by a sloth at the Aloha Safari Park in Harnett County, a United States Department of Agriculture inspection report said. The report said the child was bitten on the face during a “public interaction event” where visitors can hold a sloth in their lap while an attendant supervi

Gastonia police: Suspect wanted in motorcycle theft found in hospital ceiling

According to the Gastonia Police Department, officers said a Flock camera alerted them to two stolen motorcycles shortly after noon in the area of Armstrong Park Road.

South Florida officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming details in 'The Rip' are too real
South Florida officers sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, claiming details in 'The Rip' are too real

MIAMI (AP) — Two South Florida police officers claim Ben Affleck and Matt Damon 's recent action thriller “The Rip” used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers' personal and professional reputations, according to a defamation lawsuit.

A faint meow in the rubble of a Mississippi tornado leads to a stunning rescue
A faint meow in the rubble of a Mississippi tornado leads to a stunning rescue

As storm chaser Ashton Lemley picked his way through a tornado-ravaged Mississippi trailer park, he heard the unmistakable meow of a kitten pierce the predawn darkness.

A massive 11,000-carat ruby has been unearthed in Myanmar’s war-scarred gemstone heartland
A massive 11,000-carat ruby has been unearthed in Myanmar’s war-scarred gemstone heartland

BANGKOK (AP) — Miners in Myanmar have discovered a rare ruby of enormous size, considered to be the second-largest by weight ever found in the conflict-battered Southeast Asian nation, state media reported Friday.

Spring plans meet snow in Denver as a late storm could be the season's biggest
Spring plans meet snow in Denver as a late storm could be the season's biggest

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — While some Americans were gazing at tulips and mowing lawns, people in Colorado and Wyoming were getting out their snow shovels.

Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected
Male coyote swam 2 miles to Alcatraz Island, twice as far as biologists had expected

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A lone coyote stunned biologists and others when it paddled its way to remote Alcatraz Island earlier this year, a former federal prison in the San Francisco Bay surrounded by swift, choppy waters notorious for thwarting prisoners' escapes.

A real WKRP radio comes to Cincinnati, decades after the sitcom about a fictional station
A real WKRP radio comes to Cincinnati, decades after the sitcom about a fictional station

The radio station WKRP isn't dead, and it's now live on air in Cincinnati. The call letters from the fictional station featured decades ago in a CBS sitcom were adopted by stations in the Cincinnati market in time for the Monday morning drive. The station's co-owner says delighted listeners have ...

A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley's comet debris
A bright moon may dim the Eta Aquarid meteor shower made up of Halley's comet debris

NEW YORK (AP) — The Eta Aquarid meteor shower soon will light the sky with debris from Halley's comet. But a bright moon will spoil the fun this year, making the display harder to glimpse.