Tiny jellyfish-like creatures with a stiff top sail and a blueberry hue became stranded on some Palm Beach County beaches early this month, driven ashore by the whimsies of wind and the push of ocean currents. Unlike the more common Portuguese men-of-war, with their conspicuous balloon-style float and menacing tentacles, the so-called by-the-wind sailors are […]
Three researchers maneuvered through the darkness of an underwater cave in Japan. It was the same cave off Okinawa Island where a new species of crab with degenerated eyes and a white body had recently been discovered. So the divers were exploring the cave in hopes of discovering their own rare new creatures, according to […]
Your chance of being born on leap day is less than 0.1%, yet when the TODAY show put out a call for leapers (people who were born on Feb. 29), we received over 1,000 responses … and 23 leapers traveled to Studio 1A today. Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb, Al Roker and Craig Melvin spoke with […]
Don Henley completed his testimony in New York on Wednesday in the Hotel California lyrics trial. Henley, one of the founding members of the Eagles, claims approximately 100 legal-pad sheets of handwritten notes used to craft the iconic 1976 album were stolen before unscrupulously popping up at auctions. It’s an unusual criminal case in which […]
In Wilmington, we see dead people. Not only is there a thriving “ghost tour” industry, but those tours sometimes go into stories of Wilmingtonians who died or were buried under unusual circumstances: Samuel Jocelyn, supposedly buried alive at the cemetery at Fourth and Market streets; or Nancy Adams Martin, the young woman who died at […]
It’s easy for lottery winners to justify extravagant spending, but Alvin Turner and his wife are apparently not average. He only spent $1 for a North Carolina lottery ticket, then refused to believe it when the numbers lined up for a $624,134 prize. The odds of matching all five numbers in the Cash 5 drawing […]
The petroleum industry in Texas had an unusual year in 2023: it produced more crude oil and natural gas in the state’s history, but declining exploration and production indicators could be sending a different message about the future. The Texas Petro Index, a monthly measure of growth rates and cycles in the Texas upstream economy, […]
One of Florida’s endangered panthers was discovered dead on Feb. 1 after a freight train ran it over in a highly unusual incident, state wildlife officials say. The 2.5-year-old male panther was walking a railroad trestle over Fisheating Creek in Glades County when it was apparently caught off guard, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation […]
Special counsel Jack Smith used a routine legal filing Friday to offer a forceful public rebuttal against Donald Trump’s claims that his criminal prosecution for allegedly hoarding classified documents has been infected by politics and legal impropriety. The 68-page document began with what Smith’s team described as an effort to correct false assertions the former […]
US President Joe Biden has won New Hampshire’s largely symbolic Democratic primary, prevailing in an unusual write-in effort after he refused to campaign or appear on the state ballot. Mr Biden easily defeated his main challengers, Minnesota representative Dean Phillips and self-help author Marianne Williamson, two outside contenders who were on the ballot along with […]
While most of Donald Trump’s children remain under the spotlight, there has been a lot of speculation on what his youngest, Barron Trump, has been up to, especially since college is right around the corner for him. Many believed that Barron and Donald had somewhat of a rift happening because of a reported disdain for […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review lower-court rulings that make it harder for cities in the western United States to prevent people from sleeping on the streets when there aren’t enough beds in homeless shelters. The justices will hear an appeal from the city of Grants Pass, in southwest Oregon, that […]