Weird News Files

A bunch of Brooklyn bees have been coming home looking flushed. Tests confirmed the bees were riddled with Red Dye No. 40.

The Chia Obama, a Chia pet-style Obama sculpture on which people can cultivate a head of green hair, has been recalled from Walgreens’ and RiteAid stores throughout the US.

A California woman who befriended a homeless woman and let her sleep in her car told police she didn’t know where to turn when the woman unexpectedly died — so she drove the body around for months along with a box of baking soda to hide the smell.

Cincinnati Bengals receiver Chad Ochocinco has his own cereal line, but it turns out the Pro Bowler is promoting more than just a breakfast snack.

A Nova Southeastern University Ethics professor has been picked up and charged by police for loitering and allegedly peering in his neighbors windows.

The parents of a New York teen killed in a car crash five years ago are suing the city’s medical examiner for keeping their dead son’s brain on display in a jar at the morgue for months without telling them.

Jarrette Schule was cutting down trees on his rural property in Comal County, Texas when he noticed a green metallic tube on the muddy ground. A closer inspection revealed a decal that read: “Guided Missile and Launcher, Surface Attack.”

An Arlington woman, 62, told detectives evil was at work when she allegedly forged more than $73,000 worth of checks to herself from the church where she was an administrative assistant.

As the economy goes South, Roxanne Usleman’s Psychic business is booming with visits from men in the business world, high-powered jobs, stock market and Wall Street.

Caryl Jones ordered an iced tea at the drive-through of the McDonald’s near her Northwest Baltimore home. But that’s not what she got, according to her lawsuit. Instead she was served: “T”: Triazinetrione — Dichloro-s-Triazinetrione Dihydrate — better known as “McD Sanitizer.”

LightningGPS, a leading supplier of GPS Tracking Devices, is offering free holiday rental of devices to schools and churches across the country to assist in keeping track of their nativity scenes.

A top level Republican IT consultant who was set to testify in a case alleging GOP election tampering in Ohio died in a plane crash late Friday night.

A cardboard figure of a person inside a Somerset County bank kept armed police at bay for 90 minutes.

A Tucson father separated from his infant more than 17 years ago, has found his son on MySpace.

A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island, New York Wal-Mart Friday morning seeking bargain sale items.

A Pleasantville, N.J., family said their pet dachshund, which went missing nearly five years ago, has been found by a Pittsburgh animal shelter.

A Delta baggage worker got a bit of a fright before Halloween when she opened a jetliner’s cargo door and found a cheetah running loose amid the luggage.

A judge has thrown out a Nebraska legislator’s lawsuit against God, saying the Almighty wasn’t properly served due to his unlisted home address.

A mother who angered fellow parents when she wore a holstered pistol at her 5-year-old daughter’s soccer game got her concealed weapons permit back yesterday after a judge overruled a sheriff’s decision to revoke it.

A McDonald’s cashier called 911 after a Vero Beach drive-thru customer offered to pay for his meal with marijuana.