A small church in Brattleboro, Vermont is learning the hard way that desperate times call for desperate measures. With fledgling funds, the congregation faced a difficult decision: cut off services to the homeless, or sell an invaluable piece of church

Vultures are being killed in South Africa so believers can smoke their dried brains and have visions of lotto numbers, luck at the horse races or more customers.

The killing of about seven elk cornered in a farm pasture in eastern Skagit County has spurred state officials to close the elk archery season in the area and angered others who either witnessed or heard about the killings.

The Brevard Zoo won't know more for weeks about why its 7-year-old male jaguar stopped breathing during a routine physical and eventually died, but its director of animal programs says the staff response to the crisis was "textbook."

The Bureau of Land Management captured 74 mustangs in northern Nevada on the first day of a two-month roundup expected to relocate about 2,500 wild horses to other lands.

Last month, marine scientists counted more than 1,500 sea lions on fabled Pier 39, a record number that delighted tourists and baffled experts. Why so many? Why were they sticking around? But now, almost all of the sea lions are gone, leaving the expert

A woman called 999 to say her cat was "doing her head in" because it was playing with string, a police force said today.

On September 14, 1998, a thin, bespectacled Malaysian named Wong Keng Liang walked off Japan Airlines Flight 12 at Mexico City International Airport. He was dressed in faded blue jeans, a light-blue jacket, and a T-shirt emblazoned

In case Michael Vick doesn't know what courage is, here are just a few examples. There are thousands of others. Courage is the soldier who is on 100 percent disability from combat wounds who is now working almost every hour of every day with physical

Scientists have been tracking a pack of wolves in the Arctic this winter through a high tech collar that is sending GPS coordinates to a satellite which then emails the information back to researchers