A high school basketball team manager hit an incredible buzzer beater in his first game
As the final seconds ticked off the clock and the buzzer sounded, Atlanta’s Pace Academy team manager Daniel Lucke, 18, found himself mobbed by…
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Nearly $1 million worth of shark fins seized by wildlife inspectors in Florida
Nearly $1 million worth of shark fins were seized in Miami, Florida, after the boxes they were hidden in were intercepted by US government officials.…
Continue Reading Radioactive dinosaur skull helped researchers make new discovery
Allosaurus was a fierce predator at the top of the dinosaur food chain millions of years before Tyrannosaurus rex claimed its “king of the…
Continue Reading Weeks after a deadly earthquake, Puerto Rico is rattled again
A magnitude 5 earthquake on Tuesday struck Puerto Rico, where people are still on edge from a series of quakes after last month’s deadly 6.4…
Continue Reading Sand dunes can communicate, or at least give their neighbor a shove
Sand dunes are inanimate objects, so they don’t think or feel, but they can communicate with their neighbors and let them know they need space,…
Continue Reading This 7,000-year-old well is the oldest wooden structure ever discovered, archaeologists say
Archaeologists have discovered a 7,000-year-old Neolithic well in eastern Europe, which they believe is the oldest wooden structure in the world. The…
Continue Reading Package labeled ‘Bag Full of Drugs’ leads to Florida arrests
MIAMI (AP) — Two men charged with drug trafficking could have done a better job hiding their wares than using a package labeled “Bag Full of…
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Walgreens will pay $7.5 million to settle with California authorities after employing unlicensed pharmacist
Walgreens has agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle a consumer protection lawsuit brought by California authorities who said the company employed an…
Continue Reading A company sent an Ohio man 55,000 copies of the same letter
A man from Twinsburg, Ohio, was expecting to receive a letter in the mail. Instead, when Dan Cain went to the Twinsburg Post Office to find 79 bins…
Continue Reading Vague misconduct allegations anger Chicago school parents
CHICAGO (AP) — An investigation of a Chicago high school that led to the cancellation of the boys basketball season, and the removal of the…
Continue Reading Mississippi inmates call infamous prison unit slated for closure ‘a death trap’
Inmates inside Mississippi’s state prisons are describing inhumane and dangerous conditions that have them fearing for their lives, including…
Continue Reading Deborah Batts, the nation’s first openly gay federal judge, dies at 72
Deborah Batts, the nation’s first openly gay member of the federal judiciary, has died. She was 72. Batts died in her sleep on Sunday,…
Continue Reading Confirmed Wuhan coronavirus cases top 20,000 as China marks deadliest day
The spread of the Wuhan coronavirus shows no signs of slowing, as China reported another major spike in both confirmed cases and deaths in the region…
Continue Reading Wisconsin court: Bid to recover smuggled car can continue
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An attempt to recover a rare car that thieves smuggled from Milwaukee to Europe more than a decade ago can continue, the…
Continue Reading The asteroid that wiped out most life on Earth was a hotbed for bacteria. They were the first organisms to bounce back
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago almost took all of life on Earth along with it. The impact of the Chicxulub…
Continue Reading Top films were more diverse than ever before, study finds
NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood’s awards season may not show it, but the most popular films are increasingly diverse, a new study finds. According…
Continue Reading Part of London’s Soho evacuated for second day following discovery of unexploded World War II bomb
A busy area of central London has been shut down for a second consecutive day, after police found another part of an unexploded World War II bomb.…
Continue Reading Kenya’s longest serving President Daniel Arap Moi dies at 95
Former Kenyan President Daniel Arap Moi, who ruled the country for 24 years, has died, President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Tuesday. Moi was 95.…
Continue Reading Arrest warrant issued for former South Africa President Jacob Zuma
A South African judge said she was left with no choice but to issue former President Jacob Zuma with an arrest warrant after he failed to appear in…
Continue Reading This Chinese doctor tried to save lives, but was silenced. Now he has coronavirus
On December 30, Li Wenliang dropped a bombshell in his medical school alumni group on the popular Chinese messaging app WeChat: seven patients from a…
Continue Reading An 8-year-old boy paid off the lunch debt for his entire school by selling key chains
You may have heard of celebrities or multibillion-dollar companies donating money to cover students’ lunch debt. But Keoni Ching from…
Continue Reading A climate activist swam under the Antarctic ice sheet to prove how quickly glaciers are melting
Fifty-year-old Lewis Pugh says he was terrified when he plunged into the water of East Antarctica in nothing but swim briefs, a swim cap and goggles.…
Continue Reading 5 things to know for February 4: Iowa, impeachment, coronavirus, Weinstein, climate
The UK has only been out of the EU for a few days, and the two sides are already fighting about trade deals, economic models and everything else that…
Continue Reading The bodies of Kobe Bryant and 8 others killed in helicopter crash have been released to their families
The bodies of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna, and seven other people killed in a helicopter crash last month in Calabasas, California, have been…
Continue Reading A man was arrested after he tried to drive up ski slopes in Vermont
A New York man was arrested in Vermont after he attempted to drive up ski slopes, according to the Vermont State Police. Frederick Brechter, 59, of…
Continue Reading Scientists find another threat to Greenland’s glaciers lurking beneath the ice
Scientists have long known that higher air temperatures are contributing to the surface melting on Greenland’s ice sheet. But a new study has…
Continue Reading Police handcuff 16-year-old boy with autism while he was having seizures, mother says
A California woman says that instead of helping her 16-year-old autistic son when he was having a series of seizures, Fresno police hit and…
Continue Reading Harvey Weinstein accuser has a panic attack during cross-examination
A woman who testified in court that Harvey Weinstein raped her had a panic attack on the witness stand and abruptly ended her testimony during…
Continue Reading 36 migrants were found under a load of gravel in the secret compartment of a dump truck
A tip from an anonymous caller led police in Laredo, Texas, to a surprising discovery: 36 migrants trapped in a hidden compartment inside a dump…
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