A mom who had just picked up her kids from school got a perplexing message whens she scanned her $5 “Fast Play Yahtzee” lottery ticket at a Baltimore grocery, the Maryland Lottery said. The vending machine scanner told her to check with the retailer, lottery officials said in a Tuesday, March 5, news release. “I […]
The price tag of a home in the resort town of Whitefish, Montana, is kicking up some massive dust online, and people are completely flummoxed. The three-bedroom, one-bathroom home — which is 1,824 square feet — is listed for $1.1 million. Since it’s Montana, most figured the price reflected acreage. Surprise! It doesn’t. Exterior of […]
The political spotlight will be on Michigan on Tuesday when voters there cast primary ballots, and then again four days later when Republicans host an additional contest. The party adopted a novel and somewhat confusing hybrid nominating system this year, which will culminate on March 2 with a statewide nominating convention. Or two. Sign up […]
The Alabama Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 16 that frozen embryos can be considered “children” under state law, which was swiftly followed by multiple fertility centers, including the University of Alabama at Birmingham hospital and Alabama Fertility, putting in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments temporarily on hold while they sort through the possible legal repercussions. The […]
A Georgia man’s fishing trip became much more exciting when he pulled up a state-record catch, wildlife officials said. Emerson Mulhall, a 20-year-old angler from Cumming, was out fishing on Lake Burton when he got a tug on his line, according to a Feb. 21 news release from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources. The […]
A “confused” pensioner with Alzheimer’s disease died after she was pushed over in a bank by a 26-year-old who was angry she had held up the queue, a court has heard. Myra Coutinho-Lopez, 82, was a regular customer at Lloyds Bank in Howardsgate, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, and was well-known to the staff, but sometimes […]
Federal prosecutors mistakenly claimed in a court filing that a photo of sawdust they found while searching Hunter Biden‘s electronics was cocaine, attorneys for the president’s son said Tuesday. The sawdust picture was used in a court filing detailing incriminating information that prosecutors said they turned up while executing a search warrant of Biden’s laptop […]
A pilot’s “inadequate planning” and “distraction” led to a plane crash that killed eight people off the coast of North Carolina in 2022, officials said. The National Transportation Safety Board attributed the defining event of the crash to “loss of control in flight” in a report published Jan. 30. The assessment details how the pilot […]
President Biden garnered the attention of some social media users on Friday after he delivered a speech in Pennsylvania and appeared “confused” landing in Delaware later that evening. Shortly after Biden’s trip to Blue Bell, Pennsylvania — where he delivered a campaign speech marking three years since the January 6 Capitol riot — the 81-year-old […]
A senior rescue dog has been left heartbroken after being returned to the shelter she was adopted from a decade ago. Dori Scofield, the president of Save-A-Pet Rescue in Port Jefferson Station in New York, told Newsweek that Molly the 10-year-old cattle dog mix is “confused and sad” after circumstances beyond her control saw her […]