OFFBEAT NEWS:

It’s been a very happy holiday season for Alan Robinson and Walter Macfarlane. The two Hawaiians have been friends since sixth grade, which was more than 60-years-ago. It turns out they’ve actually been brothers this whole time.

Robinson was adopted and Macfarlane never knew his father. It turns out both men used Ancestry.com to find out more about their family histories. That’s how they discovered they are biological brothers.

“It was an overwhelming experience, it’s still overwhelming,” Robinson says. “I don’t know how long it’s going to take for me to get over this feeling. This is the best Christmas present I could ever imagine having.” According to Macfarlane, it’s a “Christmas miracle.”
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Raja the cat is quite a traveler. The feline went missing from its owners in Florida back in 2014. A concerned citizen brought Raja to a shelter in Georgetown, Delaware, where it was discovered the feline had been microchipped.

After doing some investigating, Raja’s owners, the Tuttle family, were found in Virginia. The Tuttles drove up to Delaware and were reunited with their kitty.
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On his big day, a groom stopped to get a haircut. He also picked up a Powerball ticket. And while on their honeymoon, the newlyweds discovered they were $50-thousand richer.

Naturally, they didn’t believe it at first and they called their parents to verify what they were seeing. After getting a $50K confirmation, they started jumping up and down.

Once they got back from their trip, the lovebirds stopped by the Maryland Lottery office. They plan on using their money to pay bills and start their lives together.

STUPID CRIMINALS:

If you’re a fugitive, you’ve got to lay low. Not only did Ernesto Rodriguez-Zazueta try to rob a store in the Newark, New Jersey airport, but he did so on the busiest travel weekend of the year. The 46-year-old, who was on the Drug Enforcement Agency’s most wanted list, put up a fight when officers tried to arrest him. Now Rodriguez-Zazueta is facing robbery, resisting arrest and hindering apprehension charges.

Michael Joseph Oleksik punched an ATM in Cocoa, Florida back in November. Why? Because it gave him more money than he asked for. The 22-year-old was caught on camera attacked the ATM. Oleksik then called the bank to explain that he was “angry the ATM was giving him too much money and he did not know what to do.” The bank decided to press charges, which means Oleksik now has a criminal mischief charge to deal with.