One officer was named Trooper of the Year in 2009 by the Florida Highway Patrol. The other had years of experience with the DEA.
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They thought they heard a bird stuck in the walls. It was actually a Harry Potter toy.
A noise-making toy version of Hedwig, Harry Potter’s snowy owl, led a U.K. resident to think that a bird was actually trapped within a wall.
How 1,200-year-old eggs from a 9-foot tall, 1,500-pound bird led to a scientific breakthrough
“This is the first time a taxonomic identification has been derived from an elephant bird eggshell,” said co-author Gifford Miller from CU Boulder.
‘Chilling’ video shows the moment a lithium-ion battery started a fire at NY supermarket
A massive fire sparked by a lithium-ion battery on a scooter at a Bronx supermarket left seven people injured on Sunday, authorities said.
‘A nightmare’: Man who nearly got death penalty for murder he didn’t commit is declared innocent
Maurice Hastings was convicted in a 1983 murder and sentenced to life in prison. He was released in October and declared factually innocent this week.
An Easter Island ‘first’: New, indigenous moai statue found in volcano’s dried-up lake
The newest Easter Island statue was found lying on its side and is just over 5 feet tall. Carbon-14 dating will be used to assess its age.
They were going to the mall. They ended up lost and stuck in a snow-covered SUV for days.
Kimberly Pushard and Angela Bussell were headed to the Maine Mall on Feb. 21 when they got lost. They were found days later stranded in an SUV.
‘So unreal’: New York sisters named valedictorian and salutatorian, going to Yale
“We’ve been working for this since ninth grade and we dreamed of this moment … it just feels so unreal,” said Victoria Guerrier.
When his copilot died, a pilot thought it was a joke and kept flying, report says.
Shortly after takeoff, the copilot’s head rolled back. The pilot knew the man well and thought he was pretending to take a nap.
An Alabama college student disappeared in 1976. His remains were identified 47 years later.
Kyle Clinkscales, 22, was traveling back to Auburn University on Jan. 27, 1976 but never arrived. His remains were found in December 2021.