Tag: around the web
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Leah Pritchett soars at 327 mph, new speed record at Bandimere
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save MORRISON — Leah Pritchett broke the Bandimere Speedway speed record Saturday to lead Top Fuel qualifying in the Dodge Mile-High NHRA Nationals. Pritchett had a 3.799-second run at 327.19 mph in the final session for her second straight No. 1, third of the season and…
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230-plus obstacles in one race sets world record for fun
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The rat race, metaphorically speaking, is nothing to aspire to. It represents a craven desire for money and power through one’s career. Even if you win the rat race, as a favorite teacher of mine liked to say, you’re still a rat. The Rat Race…
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Ex-postal worker admits stealing packages that had marijuana
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save NEWARK, N.J. — A former postal service worker has admitted stealing several packages containing marijuana that passed through the mail processing center where he worked. Akeem Cauthen pleaded guilty Thursday to theft of mail. The 30-year-old Newark man faces up to five years in prison…
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Trump says Air Force One to get red, white and blue makeover
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says Air Force One is getting a patriotic makeover. Trump says the familiar baby blue color on the presidential aircraft will give way to a red, white and blue color scheme. Updated models could be in service before the end…
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A crocodile killed an Indonesian man — so his village slaughtered nearly 300 crocodiles
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The villagers buried Sugito on Saturday, but putting his body into the ground was not a calming act of catharsis. Instead, mourners in the Sorong district of West Papua, Indonesia, gathered shovels and hammers, clubs…
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Lava crashes through roof of Hawaii tour boat, injuring 23
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save HONOLULU — An explosion caused by lava oozing into the ocean sent molten rock crashing through the roof of a sightseeing boat off Hawaii’s Big Island, injuring 23 people Monday, officials said. A woman in…
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A 71-year-old man tied a gun to a weather balloon to fake his own murder, police say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Palm Beach Gardens Police Department’s first homicide investigation of 2018 opened in late January — rather early in the year, considering that Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., is basically a live-in golf course of 50,000…
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‘Why are you still here?’: Inside the last Blockbuster in America
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man parked his motorcycle on the sidewalk Saturday morning, ruining the aesthetic of the last remaining Blockbuster in the contiguous United States. “You can’t park there,” general manager Sandi Harding told the man as…
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Arizona man arrested after trying to pull over troopers
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PHOENIX — Arizona authorities say a 44-year-old uniformed security guard is accused of impersonating a police officer by trying to pull over an unmarked car that happened to contain two state troopers patrolling a Phoenix freeway. The Department of Public Safety says Matthew Allen Disbro…
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Jaguar escapes New Orleans zoo and moves from one enclosure to next, killing trapped animals
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A jaguar at a New Orleans zoo slipped out of its enclosure and went on a killing rampage sometime Saturday night, attacking four alpacas, an emu and a fox trapped in their own habitats before zoo officials managed to sedate it. The big cat was…