Chuck Valauskas, an attorney in Chicago, said "it felt like a 16-inch softball" when he got a 1-inch gash on his head while leaving work by walking too closely to a seventh-floor ledge where a pair of peregrine falcons are raising three chicks.
Jennifer Schuh was strolling on a beach off Monterey Bay, Calif., when she saw something unusual sticking out of the sand, and it turned out to be a foot-long mastodon tooth perhaps a million years old.
Angie Craig, a U.S. representative from Minnesota, threw a cup of coffee to escape an assailant at her Washington apartment, and the suspect's attorneys are calling for rehabilitation and mental health treatment after the attack showed no evidence of political motivation.
Garrett Santillo of Connecticut, who has a long history of threatening officials, awaits sentencing after being convicted a fourth time, with prosecutors saying he mailed 100 letters to politicians, judges and journalists warning, "You will die. You will all be killed."
Jeff Titus said he's "truly innocent" and "forgive me if I start crying" as prosecutors dropped murder charges after he spent 21 years in prison for the shooting of two Michigan hunters, with authorities conceding that key evidence about another suspect, a serial killer, was not shared with his lawyer.
Joe Carollo, a Miami commissioner and former mayor, was found liable for violating the rights of two Little Havana business owners by using his office to harass them after they supported his political opponent, and a jury awarded them $63.5 million.
James Harris, Detroit fire chief, noted "it could have been a lot worse" after some neighborhood residents were shaken up but a pilot and passenger were able to walk away when their small plane crashed through trees and between backyard garages.
Adria Jawort, an American Indian and a transgender woman who describes herself as something of a fashionista who dresses up but not in drag, nevertheless saw her appearance at the Butte-Silver Bow Public Library in Montana canceled in the face of a new state law and a public complaint.
Tony Evers, governor of Wisconsin, said he was "jazzed as hell" to be there as the anthems "YMCA" and "Dancing Queen" resounded and a gay pride flag was raised over the Capitol in a sign of support for the LGBTQ+ community at the start of Pride Month.