A Michigan man said his day took a nosedive when the Detroit Lions lost their playoff game, but quickly improved when he won a $500,000 lottery prize.

One of Claudia Ortiz's neighbors telephoned her early Monday morning, telling her that the street outside their Detroit homes ...

A Chicago nonprofit is asking social media users to help name a "remarkably rotund" beaver caught on camera in the city.

Harsh cold descended on the nation's midsection Monday as a polar vortex gripped the Rockies and Northern Plains on the heels of weekend storms that pummeled the Eastern U.S. with floods, killing at ...

Caper and Katherine are northern tree shrews, small mammals native to Southeast Asian forests who spend their days foraging ...