Fans, audience members, cast and crew of the Broadway musical Rock of Ages set a world record in New York for the largest air guitar jam session. The event Wednesday, which directly followed a matinee performance of the five-time Tony Award nominated musical, involved 810 people strumming along to music on imaginary guitars.

Police in Connecticut said a Sasquatch sighting reported by a motorist turned out to be a teenager in a gorilla costume. Authorities said a woman driving on Unquowa Road in Fairfield called police at about 10:30 p.m.

Experts said a popular YouTube video of a moving, slimy mass in a Raleigh, N.C., sewer depicts a colony of tubifex worms or invertebrates called byrozoan.

A New York gas station attracted a 3-block-long line of motorists with a promotion offering regular unleaded gas for $1.49 per gallon. The BP station in the city's Queens borough sold gas at the discounted price from noon to 2 p.m.

Firefighters in New York said they used the Jaws of Life to free a 2-year-old boy whose head had become stuck in a metal fence at a public park. Toddler Leon Stanley's father said the boy put his head through the bars of the fence at Mother Cabrini Park and became stuck when he tried to stand up without realizing the bars narrowed near the top, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. It all happened so fast, the boy's father said.

A plane traveling from Charlotte, N.C., to Los Angeles made an unexpected stop in Albuquerque when a passenger shed his clothes and refused to cover himself. Passengers on the US Airways flight Tuesday said the man, identified by authorities as Keith Wright, 50, was sitting between two sleeping

A New Jersey man said a black bear attacked him in his driveway and stole his Italian hoagie. Henry Rouwendal said he was in the driveway of his Vernon home at about 10:30 p.m.

A New Zealand airline has created an in-flight and online hit with a safety video featuring a pilot and cabin crew dressed only in body paint. The Air New Zealand Bare essentials of safety video features the pilot and crew going through the plane's safety procedures while dressed only

Police said a 10-foot python discovered in a New York couple's driveway may have been a pet that was released once it became too large to keep. John and Karen Trapani said they discovered the snake in their driveway as they were preparing to leave for work Wednesday morning, the New York Post reported Thursday. It was startling, because we never got to see something like this before -- weird but true, John Trapani said. It was like watching the Discovery Channel, Karen Trapani said. Police arrived at about 9 a.m.

More than one-third of the members of the Scottish Parliament failed to show up for a speech by Queen Elizabeth II marking the body's 10th anniversary. Officials were drafted at the last minute Wednesday evening to fill the places of the missing members so the queen would not be addressing a phalanx of empty seats, The Times of London reported.

AP - The Iron County sheriff's office said an inmate tried to escape from a correctional facility by fashioning a fake bomb. Sheriff's Deputy Aaron Pallesen said the 28-year-old inmate cornered an officer in a lobby while holding what looked like a silver device with a red detonator.

A Connecticut woman's close encounter with the mythical beast, Sasquatch or Big Foot, turned out to be nothing more than a boy in a costume. Fairfield police said a woman driving last Tuesday night called police to report that she "almost hit Sasquatch,"...

AP - A Connecticut woman's close encounter with the mythical beast, Sasquatch or Big Foot, turned out to be nothing more than a boy in a costume. Fairfield police said a woman driving last Tuesday night called police to report that she "almost hit Sasquatch," which was standing in the middle of the road.

AP - Police say a Connecticut girl overheard her mother's screams during sex and thought she was being assaulted, so she rounded up some friends to attack the woman's companion.

Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research.

A cat which disappeared from its home in Cornwall turned up safe and well - on the set of Question Time.

AP - It must rank among the easiest fires ever to put out. Zurich authorities say police and firefighters were called to the house of an elderly woman early Thursday after she reported her television set was burning. When they arrived, they discovered no signs of fire or smoke.

Police used a Taser on a pastor and pepper spray to disperse his congregants Wednesday after the pastor allegedly interfered with a traffic stop in the church parking lot. Congregants say they were in the Iglesia Profetica Peniel church for an early morning...

Insurance won't fully cover a Canadian woman's replacement windshield in Winnipeg because no one knows from where the sheet metal that fell on it came. Winnipeg Sun employee Tanya Slusarczyk was reading in her parked car during the weekend as she waited for her boyfriend to finish work on