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Mysterious Bones Discovered on Second Highest Mountain in California May Be Remains of Lost Japanese Internee
A skeleton recently found on California’s second-highest mountain could be the remains of a Japanese-American man who disappeared from an internment camp during the waning days of World War II.
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US Water Polo Team: Balcony Accident United Us as a Group
The U.S. water polo team says that a fatal nightclub collapse in South Korea that injured some of team members united them as a group and gave them new perspective to make the best out of life. Team members and other competitors from the world swimming championships were celebrating an unprecedented third straight world title for the U.S. women’s water...
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Seminole Hard Rock Job Fair Looks to Fill Over 600 Positions
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood looking to fill over 600 positions in a job fair.
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Nearly 20 Rare Albino Alligators Eggs May Hatch at Florida Animal Park
The eggs are the product of their 25-year-old mom, Snowflake, and their 14-year-old father Blizzard – both of whom have been at the park for nearly two years.
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World's Largest Bee, Once Feared Extinct, Rediscovered in Indonesia
The world’s largest bee, last seen by a scientist in 1981, is not extinct after all, NBC News reported. A single female was found and documented earlier this year on an Indonesian island, an Australian university and other groups said Thursday. The bee, Megachile pluto, also known as “Wallace’s giant bee” — named after British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace who...
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No Signs of Life in Hotel Rubble, Week After Indonesia Quake
French rescuers on Friday were unable to find the possible sign of life they detected a day earlier under hotel rubble, a week after the destructive earthquake and tsunami struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, killing more than 1,550 people and burying hundreds in mud and debris. The five-member International Emergency Firefighters team said late Thursday its sensor “detected the presence of...
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Wells Fargo to Cut Up to 10 Percent of Workforce Over Next 3 Years
Wells Fargo, the third-biggest U.S. bank, plans to lower its employee headcount by 5 percent to 10 percent in the next three years as part of its ongoing turnaround plan, the company announced Thursday. The bank has 265,000 employees, meaning the reduction would result in a loss of between 13,250 and 26,500 jobs.
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Boys Rescued From Cave, Once Stateless, Get Thai Citizenship
Three young soccer players who were trapped with other team members for almost three weeks in a cave in northern Thailand were granted Thai citizenship on Wednesday along with their 25-year-old coach. All four had been stateless, and their lack of citizenship deprived them of some basic benefits and rights, including the ability to travel outside of Chiang Rai, the...
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Thailand's Soccer Boys Prepare to Ordain as Buddhist Novices
The young soccer teammates and their coach who were rescued after being trapped in a cave in northern Thailand took part in a Buddhist ceremony Tuesday as they prepared to be ordained to become Buddhist novices and monks. Eleven of the boys and their coach prayed to ancient relics and offered drinks and desserts placed in gilded bowls to spirits...
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Scientists Say Fossilized Footprints Tell Tale of Sloth Hunt
Researchers studying a trail of fossilized footprints on a remote New Mexico salt flat have determined the tracks tell the story of a group of Ice Age hunters stalking a giant sloth. Park naturalist David Bustos says the series of tracks and adult and children’s footprints found at White Sands National Monument shows someone followed a now-extinct giant ground sloth,...
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2 Miramar Police Officers Suspended from SWAT Team After Parkland Shooting, Officials Say
Officials say two Florida police officers who responded to last month’s school shooting from a neighboring city have been temporarily suspended from the SWAT team.
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Mennonite Investigator Who Won't Testify Goes Back to Jail
A defense investigator in a death penalty case has been jailed indefinitely for refusing to testify for prosecutors, saying that helping their effort to execute a defendant would violate her religious beliefs. Greta Lindecrantz, a Mennonite who opposes capital punishment, refused for a third day Wednesday to answer questions in court about her work as part of a death penalty...
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Team USA Advances to Semifinals With Win Over Great Britain
There were eight different scenarios for what would happen if the U.S. men’s curling team defeated Great Britain Tuesday night. There were also eight scenarios for what would happen if they lost, none of which featured them making the semifinals. Sitting on a record of 4-4, the U.S. was in a win-and-you’re-in situation, and they knew it. Luckily for John...
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Florida ER Nurse in Viral Video: ‘Wash Your Stinking Hands'
A nurse’s Facebook rant about the “cesspool of funky flu” in emergency room waiting areas is getting a lot of attention.
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Dallas Cop Killer Sang ‘Proud Mary' in Standoff: SWAT Officer
For the first time, an officer who helped take down the shooter in the July 7, 2016 ambush is talking publicly about what happened.
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Olympic Committee Was Told in 2015 of Suspected Abuse of Gymnasts
Two months after USA Gymnastics was alerted that team doctor Larry Nassar might be molesting its star athletes, the organization notified the head of security for the U.S. Olympic Committee of the breadth of the brewing scandal, NBC News reported. “USA Gymnastics has recently been made aware of potential sexual misconduct committed against one or more of its national team...
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Team USA Is Pretty Excited for NORAD to Track Santa This Year
Members of the U.S. Olympic teams joined the military team that tracks Santa Claus’ gift-giving journey on Christmas every year to get excited for the tracker in 2017, and they were pretty excited about it.
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Lindsey Vonn Representing People of US — Not Trump — At Olympic Games, She Says
American alpine skier Lindsey Vonn is making it clear she’ll be representing her country, but not her president, when she participates in the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang.
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‘It Happened So Fast': University of Florida Law Student Injured in Las Vegas Shooting
A University of Florida law student who was shot in the back at a Las Vegas concert said she narrowly missed being paralyzed and was in “disbelief” when the gunfire erupted.
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Long-Endangered Snow Leopard Upgraded to ‘Vulnerable' Status
The elusive snow leopard — long considered an endangered species — has been upgraded to “vulnerable,” international conservationists said Thursday. But experts warned the new classification does not mean they are safe. The animals still face serious challenges including poaching and loss of prey in their high Himalayan habitat. “The species still faces ‘a high risk of extinction in the...