Shocking video shows semi-truck dragging car down Illinois highway

The footage, captured earlier this week, shows a car being dragged by a semi-truck on Interstate 294 in the Chicago area.

IKEA customers forced to stay in store overnight during snowstorm

An IKEA showroom turned into a vast bedroom for customers and employees who were stranded by a snowstorm. They spent the night in the store, sleeping in the beds that are usually on show.

Wrong number in high school team's group chat leads to FaceTime call with Tampa Bay Bucs

When a group of Michigan high school basketball players accidentally added the wrong phone number to their group chat, it turned out to be Sean Murphy-Bunting of the Buccaneers. They FaceTimed with the cornerback and others -- including Tom Brady.

New tradition continues as grandma and man she mistakenly texted to come to Thanksgiving dinner reunite

It's a new holiday tradition of sorts that has been going six years strong. On Thanksgiving day, two strangers who were brought together by a mistakenly-sent text message reunited again for Thanksgiving.

‘Well-fed’ squirrel freed by rescuers after getting stuck in bird feeder

According to the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in England, a squirrel who may have had a few too many nuts found itself trapped in a bird feeder and had to be freed by an RSPCA rescue officer.

West Point cadets trying to steal Navy mascot grabbed the wrong goat

West Point cadets on a mission to nab the U.S. Naval Academy's mascot ahead of the annual Army-Navy football game infiltrated a farm near Annapolis, Maryland, chased the spooked goats, and grabbed one named Bill. But it was the wrong Bill. 

Strutting its stuffing: Turkey checks out reflection in window

A turkey did some peacocking near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, intently checking out its reflection in a window.

Reese's pie-size peanut butter cup for Thanksgiving sells out within hours

Reese’s this week debuted a 9-inch “Thanksgiving pie,” which is the largest Reese Peanut Butter Cup ever sold. And it sold out within a matter of hours.

Grandma, stranger she mistakenly texted set to spend 6th Thanksgiving together

A grandma and the stranger she mistakenly invited over to Thanksgiving have formed an unlikely friendship — and the two are set to celebrate their sixth holiday together.

That's one way to open hunting season - deer filmed running through Michigan church

When faith leaders arrived at their Sturgis church Monday morning, they found signs of breaking and entering. It soon became clear it wasn't a human that had broken in.

Wyoming girl, teddy bear reunited after year-long separation during Glacier National Park trip

Six-year-old Naomi Pascal lost a teddy bear she had since leaving an Ethiopian orphanage. Thanks to a sharp-eyed, compassionate park ranger, she has been reunited with the irreplaceable stuffed animal a year later.

Mom says TikTok laundry hack may have set her dryer on fire: 'Lucky to be alive'

Hailee Clarke from the U.K. posted a video to TikTok this month saying a fire started inside her dryer the same night she tried a popular laundry hack.

KFC creates holiday sweaters for its fried chicken buckets

The sweater comes with built-in mittens to safely carry your fried chicken to the holiday potluck or outdoors in the chilly weather.

The origin of viral 'signal for help' that saved teen from alleged abductor

A trending TikTok video is being credited for saving a missing teen in Kentucky. It is a gesture and a silent scream for help, one that people in the Tampa Bay area can also use to escape violence or abuse.

Elf on the Shelf jokingly banned by Georgia judge

Santa's little helper may be notably absent for Christmas this year as a Georgia judge jokingly banned the Elf on a Shelf. 

Truck tips over, spilling cases of wine on NC highway

The Winston-Salem Police Department in North Carolina had to shut down a stretch of highway for several hours to clean up the debris.

Northern lights illuminate sky near Denali National Park

Video was posted that showed the pink and green waves dazzling the night sky over Healy, a city southwest of Fairbanks and northwest of Denali National Park and Preserve, according to the source.