Picasso, Matisse, Monet works stolen from Dutch museum

Thieves have stolen paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet and other famous modern artists from a museum in Rotterdam, Dutch police say. Works by Paul Gauguin, Lucian Freud and Meyer de Haan, were also among the seven paintings stolen from the Kunsthal museum overnight, police said on Tuesday. Neither the police nor the museum […]

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1,200 Pound Cow Runs Amok Downtown, At Least One Injured

  A Montana man suffered broken bones and sore ribs after being pummeled by a 1,200-pound black Angus cow that ran amok through downtown Billings on Tuesday. Morgan Logan, 52, was released from the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, a day after the cow ran through Billings for nearly two hours before being shot by police. […]

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Early photo of New York fetches $62,500

One of the earliest photographs in existence sold for $62,500 at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The photo, which was estimated to bring in anywhere from $50,000 to $70,000, was sold to an unidentified buyer. The 5.5-by-4-inch, black and white daguerreotype shows a New York country estate

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