An Iowa baby couldn’t debut fast enough.
A police officer in Iowa City pulled over an SUV for speeding — and wound up helping frantic new parents deliver.
The driver jumped out of the vehicle after pulling over and yelled, “Sir, we’re delivering a baby right here, right now!” Officer Kevin Wolfe told KCRG-TV.
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Whoever wins this auction will need a lot of room.
The Ralph Engelstad Arena at the University of North Dakota is putting under the gavel a full set of “Home of the Fighting Sioux’’ letters — each two feet tall — that were removed from the building’s exterior. The set is about 70 feet long.
The Fighting Sioux nickname was dumped after the NCAA found it to be “hostile and abusive.’’
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A wacky Florida man marked the one-year anniversary of his arson arrest with another bust — for setting the vacant house next door ablaze, sheriff’s deputies said.
James Bates, on felony probation after his conviction last year, allegedly called dispatchers Wednesday to report the fire next door in New Smyrna Beach and reported, “The flames are going silly now. They’re going crazy,’’ cops said.
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In London, two members of Parliament locked in the House of Commons library accidentally after working late had two things going for them — stiff upper lips and Twitter.
MP Therese Coffey used the hashtag #librarygate to reach out. One follower responded, “Free the Westminster two!” and help soon arrived.
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Archaeologists announced a dramatic find yesterday — a lost 14th-century burial ground for victims of the bubonic plague discovered during excavations for a rail project in central London.
It may be the final resting place of 50,000 people who died of the “Black Death,’’ which broke out in 1348.