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US - Aug 24, 2026 - Albany Police Department issues BOLO for a man who picked $30 from the floor while shopping at Walmart; faces backlash, says no charges will be filed

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In 1988, Arthur creator Marc Brown bought a Martha's Vineyard estate for $700,000; after 37 years and writing half the books there, he sold it for $6.4 million

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US - Aug 24, 2026 - A California family once refused to sell land needed for the 1960 Winter Olympics; the state offered $103,000, but the owner demanded $440,000

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H-1B visa shock: Trump admin proposes hiking fee to over $100,000

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In 1982, Larry Walters floated in the sky for 45 minutes in his lawn chair tied to 42 balloons; 11 years later, he shot himself to death

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Harvard urges international students to return to US before September 15 as F-1, J-1 visa rules change

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Cops used electrocution gloves to subdue high school students in Omaha, now the school district and parents are pleading with police to stop: 'Supposed to be a safe space for students'

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An abandoned Mississippi shed was covered in snake skins; cameras revealed why gray ratsnakes kept returning

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US professor faces possible termination after 'word salad' remark during faculty meeting sparks discrimination probe

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In 1900, JP Morgan bought 117 acres including Maine's Sand Beach as a wedding gift; his granddaughter later donated about 100 acres to Acadia National Park

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Meet Iris Shen, the 17-year-old Texas student who tested potential blood-cancer drugs in clams; one treatment behaved similarly to human-cell tests and her research won $150,000

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A newlywed Washington couple turned scrap metal and old car parts into a Junk Castle that cost them just $500

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In 1934, an Arizona father began gathering rejected objects and desert Stone; 11 years later, the salvage had become an 18-room castle for his daughter

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Invasive Argentine ants are defending other pests in California's citrus groves and vineyards, troubling farmers and leaving natives hungry

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In 1914, San Francisco began its Hetch Hetchy water project in Yosemite: 112 years later, the system still serves more than 2.7 million people

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Kinzua Dam's construction displaced Seneca communities in the 1960s: 61 years after its completion, Allegheny Reservoir anchors one of the Northeast's biggest outdoor recreation complexes

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Massachusetts fishermen thought they had spotted a shark before landing a 1,260-pound blue marlin after a three-hour battle, coming just 142 pounds short of the world record

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She lost a grandson and dozens of guinea pigs in a house fire; today, she runs a Massachusetts sanctuary caring for nearly 400 abandoned guinea pigs

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In 1959, a 7.3 quake hurled a landslide across Montana's Madison River: 67 years later Earthquake Lake still floods the valley west of Yellowstone

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In 1955, the Army Corps closed Gavins Point Dam on the Missouri: 71 years later, Lewis and Clark Lake has grown into a Great Plains recreation hub

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Florida sank a 324-foot former New York sludge tanker off Pompano Beach; the wreck became an underwater casino reef with card-dealing sharks, poker tables and marine life

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In the late 1960s, a Washington art teacher collected car doors, washing-machine windows and scrap appliances: He turned the junk into a 1,200-square-foot castle for reportedly less than $500

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Four medaka fish flew aboard Columbia in 1994 to test whether vertebrates could reproduce without gravity; they laid 43 eggs and eight baby fish hatched in space

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Washington releases 20 lab-raised sunflower sea stars into the Salish Sea to restore the endangered species and damaged kelp forests

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This Ohio home built entirely underground hits the market for $850,000 with a grass-covered roof that the owners literally have to mow

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US sailor's father detained by ICE while son serves aboard USS Abraham Lincoln

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American bison had been hunted to extinction in Mexico; 160 years later the country introduced 47 bison in 2025 and the ecosystem is slowly restoring itself

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'Unlike any in 22 years': Oregon sheriff describes unusual case as five deaths probed as quintuple homicide

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A 175-year-old New Jersey family farm faced a 130-home housing plan; after six years of fighting, the owners kept the land

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Nevada wildfire: 90,000 people face evacuation as state of emergency declared

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In 1959, a California teenager began building a castle from bottles, car parts and scrap metal; decades later, it had towers and a giant clock

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In 2019, Florida began sinking mermaid-shaped reef sculptures; the project now has more than 300 habitat and art modules in South Florida

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In 2020, Phoenix coated 36 miles of roads to fight extreme heat; surfaces became 12°F cooler at noon, but heat exposure for pedestrians rose 5.5°F

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Alaska eradicated rats from a 6,869-acre Aleutian island more than two centuries after they arrived in a shipwreck; within two years some native bird populations had increased 200% or more and missing seabirds began returning

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In 2021, Alabama students began placing discarded Christmas trees along Gulf Coast dunes to trap sand; each year about 200 students now add roughly 3,000 native plants around them

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MAGA skids on maple syrup: US-Canada ties on a slippery slope

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Ohio mother was in Costa Rica when 18-year-old son died in car crash; hospital never contacted her, she later learned his body parts were removed as 'anatomical gifts' without consent

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A Detroit couple bought a vacant 1925 bank and neighboring bar for $66,000; 13 years later, one old bank vault is a den and another is a wine cellar

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In 1967, Henry Pigott sold his North Carolina island home to help create Cape Lookout National Seashore; a life estate let him stay until his death as Portsmouth Village's last male resident

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Texas police sergeant accused of using Flock cameras to stalk female coworker; he surrendered his law-enforcement licence and avoided prosecution

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Four children forced to live in semitruck cab for nearly 7 years; US couple arrested for alleged neglect

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50 years ago, this California sanctuary began saving some of the world's rarest gibbons, today, their morning songs are a remarkable story of survival

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Massive Burmese python seized at Coney Island after man showed illegal pet snake to crowd

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In 2021, Johnston Atoll eradicated invasive yellow crazy ants after an 11-year effort; the refuge is home to nearly 13,000 red-tailed tropicbird nesting pairs

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28-year-old Punjab man shot dead in New York while delivering pizza

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In 1968, a California man began building a castle from scrap steel, bottles and old motorcycles; 20 years later it had a 74-foot clock tower

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In 1984, Washington began capping the Seattle landfill under Gas Works Park; decades later, herons nested beside rusting towers on the old coal gas plant

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Texas turned an abandoned golf course into a 200-acre flood-control landscape; while still unfinished during Hurricane Harvey it held 100 million gallons of water

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Meet Peter Fernández Dulay, the Florida eighth-grader who asked four AI generators what scientists look like; only 17.4% of the images showed women alone

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In 2012, USDA and Broward students released 16 beetles in Florida to control air potato; the insects multiplied into the thousands and nearly defoliated the vines

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In 1968, a retired Texas railway worker began covering his home with flattened beer cans; 18 years and more than 50,000 cans later, almost nothing had gone to waste

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In 1988, a Texas man began wiring discarded objects together behind his small home; decades later, more than 60 tons of junk had become a walk-through cathedral

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In 1941, a 58-year-old California pioneer began building with salvaged cabins: He turned the material into a four-storey, 35-room desert pueblo

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Meet Frank Lucci, the 18-year-old Texas student who built a high-precision robot sensor for under $25; it is nearly 20 times cheaper than existing options

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In 1963, a Wisconsin artist began transforming her family's Lake Michigan home; nearly 40 years later, 60 concrete creatures filled the yard

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An Iowa couple bought an abandoned fire station for $90,000; nearly 10 years later, they had turned the black-mold-covered 1960 building into their family dream home

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A Michigan woman gave birth in the back of an Uber; one year later, the driver returned for the baby's 'One Wild Ride' birthday as her godmother

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