Firefighters in Plum Borough, Pennsylvania have rescued a puppy that fell into an abandoned well over the weekend by pulling it through a pipe using a vacuum cleaner.

The firefighters decided to use the household appliance when they could not get Benny Palombo's Shih Tzu puppy from the well after three hours.

A resident of an east Anchorage neighborhood has recreated a giant snowman in his front yard bringing back the holiday attraction but reviving complaints about the public nuisance it causes.

"This is feel good, it's Christmas, lets see the smiles on the kids, you know I love it, you see those little kids here and their eyes get huge," said Billy Powers in defending the 25-foot Snowzilla in Airport Heights, according to KTVA.com.

A map obtained by police from a convicted burglar led to the discovery of buried treasure near the Ronald Reagan Freeway in Los Angeles. The unearthed treasure was a collection of antique watches, necklaces, and diamond rings, including a canary diamond ring suspected to be worth $400,000.

Authorities Tuesday followed the directions on a map taken from Robert Caveda, who was imprisoned on December 18 for several charges including residential burglary. The map, police said, was hand-sketched, and had an "X" marking the area where the treasure was buried.

The owners of a trout farm in Southampton were more than amazed to discover why they losing their fishes after a photographer caught on camera the trout fleeing one by one from the fishpond onto a nearby river.

Capturing the fishes' escape with the aid of his camera, wildlife photographer Dennis Bright, 59, describe the scene as incredible.

It was in invitation no thief could ever refuse.

The organizers of the Basel Shift Festival found this out when a thief ran off with the book titled "Steal this Book."