weird news

New Mexico State Police say a woman who allegedly stole a postal truck has been arrested in Raton.

Police were notified about 8 a.m. Wednesday that a US Postal Service vehicle was stolen from the Maxwell area.

It was later located on Interstate 25, and that began a pursuit involving police officers.

Stop sticks were deployed to end the incident, and police say 34-year-old Chanel Eskleson of Raton was taken into custody.

Police say she has been booked into the Colfax County Detention Center on suspicion of theft, burglary, aggravated assault, criminal property damage and driving on a suspended licence.

Austrian train workers shut down their track-clearing operations to rescue a mountain goat after seeing it get buried in a deluge of snow they had been clearing from the rails.

Austrian news agency APA reported on Wednesday that two workers leapt out of the train and shovelled through the snow to reach the chamois, a type of goat-antelope. The animal was stuck in a snowdrift at the side of tracks in the Gesaeuse national park in central Austria.

They say the animal seemed transfixed by the oncoming train and didn't move away from the side of the tracks despite persistent honking.

After the chamois was freed, it loped away through the deep snow into a forest.

Austrian Railway OEBB released a video of the rescue, which quickly got thousands of views.

A reporter who helped police catch a robbery suspect last week followed up with another good deed by finding an 89-year-old suburban Detroit woman with dementia who had wandered away from home in sub-freezing temperatures.

WWJ reporter Mike Campbell was covering Barbara Kasler's disappearance when he spotted her Wednesday morning in her pyjamas and slippers along a street in Shelby Township.

Campbell took Kasler into his vehicle and cranked up the heat until police arrived. She was taken to a hospital for observation.

Campbell says he was just "in the right place at the right time", but police tweeted "We owe you lunch!"

Last week, Campbell helped police apprehend a man suspected of looting a fire-damaged shopping centre in the Detroit suburb of Warren.

A cat who went missing from suburban Detroit for two months turned up more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometres) away in Florida.

Dearborn resident Judy Sanborn was shocked when she received a call in December from BluePearl pet hospital in Tampa, The Detroit Free Press reported. Staff told her they had her 21/2-year-old tabby named Bandit.

Staff told Sanborn that a local resident had found the cat, who had been identified through his microchip.

Jose Calderon, an emergency veterinary technician manager at BluePearl, said that he has never seen an animal take such a long trip in his 30-year career.

"A block over, a street over, or maybe even [from] Orlando, which is an hour away from us. This is the farthest away I've seen," he said.

It's unclear how Bandit made the cross-country trek. Sanborn guesses he hitched a ride on a moving vehicle or was found by someone in Michigan on their way to Florida.