It was a secret shame one reader carried for 60 years — the theft of a library book.

The mystery person anonymously mailed a copy of “Napoleon” by Emil Ludwig to the Toledo Public Library this week.

“I removed this book from your stacks in 1949 and did not check it out. I apologize,” the person wrote to officials.

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There’s a happy ending to the hot-air-balloon marriage proposal that deflated when the would-be groom dropped the ring.

The bauble fell 500 feet into West Branch State Park east of Akron.

The love of Ng’s life, Sonya Bostic, still said yes, and they found the ring in the brush after three days.

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A Chinese trucker wasn’t going let a smashed windshield stop him.

He simply — and stupidly — covered it all up with cardboard, then steered while hanging his head out the window to see the rocky road ahead.

Too bad it was freezing cold, because his eyes practically froze shut.

“I didn’t want to fall behind in my delivery schedule, and I couldn’t afford a repair,” he reportedly pleaded with police officials, who nonetheless yanked his license.

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Seaside vacationers in New Zealand are swimming in fear because of a bully dolphin.

A bad-boy bottlenose has been treating beachgoers like nautical nerds, overturning kayaks and tipping over skiers.

“He’s doing what we all do as teenagers,” a dolphin-behavior expert said. “He’s testing his boundaries, but he’s testing them on humans.”

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Dinosaurs are going extinct again in Mexico.

Someone stole a moving electronic behemoth worth $80,000 from a prehistoric entertainment exhibit where robot dinos as large as 42 feet long walk and move on stage.