Archive for February 2026

Usually, people get free budget cases when they buy a high-end phone, but an online commerce platform in China is turning that concept on its head, offering a high-end phone to anyone who purchases a collectible, gold-plated iPhone 17 Max phone case. Dubbed “Au99.99 Gold,” the limited-edition series of iPhone 17 Max phone cases comes…

A runaway cow seen wandering through roads and parking lots near a Florida grocery store was roped and wrangled by a cowboy on horseback.

Sheriff’s deputies in Minnesota came to the rescue of a deer that wandered into a resident’s backyard batting cage and got tangled in netting.

An Ohio man said a mistake he made while buying his usual Rolling Cash 5 lottery ticket led to his winning the $291,000 jackpot — plus $10.

The 410-pound aquatic mammal is on the mend after a coordinated rescue effort.

At just 40 feet tall, the Newby-McMahon Building in Wichita Falls isn’t very impressive, even when compared to regular-sized buildings, let alone skyscrapers. And yet it was supposed to be one of the most imposing skyscrapers of its time when it was designed in the early 1900s. The nickname ‘World’s Littlest Skyscraper’ is a dubious…

A thief who has been stealing underwear from a New Zealand school for over a year was finally caught on video and identified as a literal cat burglar.

Workers at a wastewater treatment plant in Kentucky sprang into action to rescue a deer that went for a late-night swim in a clarifying tank.

Firefighters in California came to the rescue of a dog found stuck behind a drainage grate neat a San Bernardino County intersection.

Colorado sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a “kangaroo” on the loose in a neighborhood and found a wallaby with an Instagram following.