Police and wildlife trappers were called to a South Carolina highway Wednesday morning to remove a large alligator that wandered onto an on-ramp.

Police in a Massachusetts city are warning of a bear spotted knocking over fences and approaching windows of area homes.

A Florida firefighter “jumped into the flames” to rescue an endangered fawn that she spotted running into a brush fire.

Firefighters in California climbed out on an apartment building ledge to rescue an escaped little dog that ended up stranded.

A semi truck crash in China caused a slippery mess when the trailer spilled its load of more than 100,000 duck eggs into the roadway.

The California Highway Patrol gave a police escort to a family of geese found walking across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

A California sheriff’s office received an early-morning visit from some local black bears that scampered off after being told the office wasn’t open yet.

A large alligator paid a visit to a Florida middle school and was recorded by witnesses walking along the sidewalk outside the building.

Animal control officers in California said they were called to remove a rattlesnake that turned out to be a harmless rubber cobra.

A Virginia man who won $1 million from the state lottery said it was his third major jackpot — and his second in only two months.