Posted: 10:32 AM Dozens of snakes are in good condition after a home in the Denver suburb of Brighton caught fire.

Posted: 7:44 AM A Route 66 motor lodge where Bill Gates and Paul Allen stayed while launching Microsoft Corp. is being redeveloped into apartments as part of a neighborhood revival project.

Posted: 6:57 AM Police have cited a 42-year-old Pennsylvania woman for disorderly conduct after she called 911 requesting a divorce and police assistance to make her husband leave.

Posted: 6:57 AM A Michigan judge whose smartphone disrupted a hearing in his own courtroom has held himself in contempt and paid $25 for the infraction.

Posted: 6:23 AM Authorities in southwest Oregon say two burglars took silver ingots, collectible coins, electronics and jewelry in a break-in last fall.

Posted: 7:45 AM Police say they've got the $3,200 engagement ring a New Hampshire allegedly swallowed during an attempted jewelry store theft.

Posted: 7:23 AM A circus veterinarian says the Asian elephant wounded in a drive-by shooting in Mississippi should be fully recovered within a few weeks.

Posted: 7:19 AM A northern Indiana man who called 911 and told dispatchers he was driving drunk and needed to be taken off the road got his wish when a sheriff's deputy arrived.

Posted: 8:59 AM A Montana man whose 12-year-old golden retriever ate five $100 bills hopes to be reimbursed by the federal government.

Posted: 6:26 AM An Iowa museum says an employee hid a presumed stolen African leopard tortoise in an elevator after finding the 18-pound reptile trapped behind paneling in her enclosure.

Posted: 5:07 AM Usually it's zombies causing a disaster, not saving the day.

Posted: 5:02 AM So the goat that walked into a Montana bar last weekend ... was stolen from a petting zoo.

Posted: 7:29 AM Odds are you won't get a cab in New Hampshire's largest city after police sidelined all 18 licensed taxis for inspection failures or failing to show up for inspection.

Posted: 7:00 AM A former Pennsylvania jail inmate says he didn't sneak a cellphone into the lockup in his prosthetic leg, though he acknowledged having it for a year as he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct.

Posted: 5:15 AM They say you can get almost anything at Wal-Mart. But the Pennsylvania Game Commission says one deer hunter took it too far.

Posted: 5:11 AM State troopers in northern New Jersey didn't have to go far to make a pot bust. They didn't even have to get in their cruisers.

Posted: 4:07 PM The White House, busy with its annual Easter Egg Roll, also managed to pull off an April Fools' prank.

Updated: 5:21 PM A clerk found a pair of eyes just sitting in a package on top of a trash can outside a gas station in Kansas City.

Posted: 6:07 AM A Georgia woman has been reunited with her camera and photos after the camera she lost during a 2007 trip to Hawaii washed ashore in Taiwan.

Posted: 6:04 AM Talk about streaming media: The Philadelphia Phillies' top minor league affiliate is set to debut what it calls a "urinal gaming system" at its ballpark in Allentown.

Posted: 7:26 AM A Utah bomb squad thought a package marked "Army" was suspicious, but it was just part of an elaborate plan by a guy trying to ask a girl to a dance.

Posted: 7:23 AM In the months since the Newtown, Conn. school massacre, gun rights supporters have repeatedly compared U.S. gun control efforts to Nazi restrictions on firearms, arguing that limiting weapons ownership could leave Americans defenseless against homegrown tyrants.

Posted: 6:12 AM A Southern California man's car ended up on his neighbor's roof in an unusual accident over the weekend.

Posted: 5:16 AM The live-in caretaker of a western Pennsylvania mansion is facing criminal charges for allegedly drinking more than $100,000 worth of the owner's whiskey.

Posted: 7:45 AM Talk about junk in the trunk.