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Bears in the park have been eating constantly to build up their body fat for hibernation. The fattest bear will be picked next week — on what the park calls Fat Bear Tuesday.

John Richards, 96, founded the society 18 years ago to fight the "much abused" punctuation mark. He's ending the group because he says folks these days don't care about using apostrophes correctly.

Jim Beaver told the Haywood County Sheriff's Office on Thanksgiving that an elk was stuck in his yard after getting caught up in a hammock, local news outlets report. A deputy helped to free the elk.

Duke has one of the most storied programs in all of men's college basketball. That didn't matter Tuesday night when the Blue Devils were beaten by unranked Steven F. Austin State University.

Officials in West Java distributed 2,000 pet chicks to elementary and middle schools. Now kids can swap Angry Birds for baby birds, Twitter for tweets!

In this case, the grass really is greener on the other side. While in real life the bovines have to put up with gloomy Moscow weather, their headsets display green fields and summer sun.

Peter Alexander of NBC News tweeted that a mouse fell out of the White House ceiling onto his lap. Reporters posted videos online showing a mouse and many distracted reporters.

At the Siesta Key Oyster Bar in Sarasota, customers sign dollar bills and they're stapled to the walls and ceiling. Every couple of years, employees pull off the bills and donate the money to charity.

Anti-government protests have continued after a mainland extradition bill was withdrawn.

When the Lancashire family learned a hardback copy of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sold for more than $35,000, they decided to auction their copy. Their book sold for more than $57,000.