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A revoked Nevada license plate that was meant to “drive away” Californians is getting one last chance to go back on the streets.

By Associated Press July 10, 2023
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Hundreds of divers and snorkelers listened to an underwater concert that advocated coral reef protection Saturday in the Florida Keys.

By Associated Press July 10, 2023
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On Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell’s “An Elementary Treatise on Electricity” from the New Bedford Free Public Library.

By Associated Press July 10, 2023
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A Maine woman was bitten by a bear in her backyard while defending her pet dog, necessitating a trip to the hospital for stitches, officials said Friday.

By Associated Press July 3, 2023
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A California man is going to prison for running a cow dung-to-green energy scheme that authorities say was a load of manure.

By Associated Press July 3, 2023
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Police have hunted down a velociraptor that was stolen from outside a South Dakota arts and science center.

By Associated Press June 26, 2023
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A new study has found that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk with their kids.

By Associated Press June 26, 2023
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There has been much dreamy and not always credible talk of skies filled with flying and nonpolluting electric taxis.

By Associated Press June 26, 2023
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A drug syndicate that tried to smuggle tons of methamphetamine from Canada to Australia and New Zealand by hiding it in shipments of maple syrup and canola oil has had its ruse busted, authorities say.

By Associated Press June 19, 2023
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A suburban Chicago man faces firearm charges after police say he told officers he accidentally shot himself in the leg while dreaming that an intruder was breaking into his home.

By Associated Press June 19, 2023
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An abandoned litter of raccoons discovered at a construction site in northern Utah found new homes earlier this week after a construction crew uncovered the animals below the remnants of a demolished home.

By Associated Press June 19, 2023
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A Florida professor known as “Dr. Deep” has resurfaced after spending a record 100 days living underwater. Dr. Joseph Dituri raised his face to the sun Friday for the first time since March 1.

By Associated Press June 12, 2023
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A British man has been detained after climbing more than half way up the world’s fifth-tallest skyscraper in Seoul with only his bare hands.

By Associated Press June 12, 2023
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Former UFC champion Conor McGregor knocked out the Miami Heat mascot in a midgame bit that went wrong. Burnie — more specifically, the man who occupies Burnie’s costume — briefly sought medical attention Friday night after taking two punches from McGregor during a third-quarter stoppage of Game 4 of the NBA Finals between the Heat and the Denver Nuggets.

By Associated Press June 12, 2023
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While judges, lawyers and support staff at the federal courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire, keep the American justice system buzzing, thousands of humble honeybees on the building’s roof are playing their part in a more important task: feeding the world.

By Associated Press June 5, 2023
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A woman taking a Memorial Day weekend stroll on a California beach found something unusual sticking out of the sand: a tooth from an ancient mastodon.

By Associated Press June 5, 2023
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The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back.

By Associated Press June 5, 2023
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Hundreds of people visited a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a Black nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019.

May 29, 2023
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A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away.

By Associated Press May 29, 2023
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For those seeking to live in the most sustainable way, there now is an afterlife too.

By Associated Press May 29, 2023
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A tiff over Taco Tuesday is heating up, with Taco Bell asking U.S. regulators to force a Wyoming-based fast-food chain to abandon its longstanding claim to “Taco Tuesday” as a trademark.

By Associated Press May 22, 2023
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A city in northern Michigan has a new Mother’s Day memory: A 350-pound bear was in a tree for hours, watched by dozens of people, before it fell asleep and dropped onto mattresses below.

By Associated Press May 22, 2023
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The firing of two employees at a religious school in western New York is fanning the culture wars roiling parts of the United States.

By Associated Press May 22, 2023
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A man has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of stealing a pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in “The Wizard of Oz,” federal prosecutors in North Dakota say.

By Associated Press May 22, 2023
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One of Kenya’s oldest wild lions has been killed by herders and the government has expressed concern as six more lions were speared at another village on Saturday, bringing to 10 the number killed last week alone.

By Associated Press May 15, 2023

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