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WASHINGTON DC (AP) – Melania Trump is continuing the tradition of first ladies reading to children too sick to leave the hospital for the holidays. She’s also become friendly with a former leukemia patient at Children’s National

MOLINE – The District 7 Illinois State Police shared advice on social media Friday about how to properly distribute weight in your tractor trailer.  They suggested one should try to move the cargo in ways other than

MADRID (AP) — A 34-year-old British woman has been revived by Spanish doctors after enduring a six-hour cardiac arrest. Barcelona’s Vall d’Hebron hospital says Audrey Marsh got caught in a snowstorm in the Spanish Pyrenees on Nov.3

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Some people like ketchup. Some prefer jelly. But we likely all prefer that those disappointed with the condiments they get at a fast-food joint — not point guns to express their displeasure. Police

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — You’d figure it would take a bear of a person to cause $15,000 worth of vandalism damage to a single car. Or, it could just be a bear. That’s what officials at Kodiak’s

ICYMI, here's a video of yours truly attempting to use my discharges to power the lights on a Christmas tree. (SPOILER ALERT ::: Of course I pull it off. My phenomenal cosmic — well, bio-electric — power

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — This is a literal “dog gone” story. Authorities in Palm Beach County, Florida are trying to find the thief who has been targeting a certain high-end breed: French bulldogs. One was

MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) — Anyone who has ever driven over one can tell you: there isn’t much that is beautiful about a pothole. But residents of one Mississippi city are doing something to doll up one patch

CYBERSPACE (AP) — What’s the word — for 2019? According to Dictionary.com, the answer is “existential.” The annual choice reflects the concern that has faced many during the past 12 months. The site’s senior research editor says

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) — The mother of a teenage boy fighting advanced bone cancer says words can’t express how her son appreciates what two of his heroes did for him. Jonathan Morales was visited by his

MAGGIE VALLEY, N.C. (AP) — As if seeing an elk running around the woods of western North Carolina wasn’t enough of a sight — imagine seeing one running around with pieces of a shredded hammock tangled in

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Usually when you lose something on a beach, you figure it’s long gone — especially after a long time. But that wasn’t so for a Florida man who lost his high school

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It was an “arrival” at the Charlotte, North Carolina airport, all right — just not one that was displayed on the terminal message boards. A woman heading to Charlotte from Tampa, Florida went

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — It was a task almost as tough as finding a needle in a haystack. But a group of hikers is getting credit for recovering a wedding band in a snow-covered stretch of a

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — Fake frogs? It’s a real thing. A high school in Florida has begun using synthetic frogs for students to do classroom dissections. J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey began

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — It was quite the interesting catch for a Michigan angler who uses a magnet to pull things out of the water. WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids says Joseph Alexander fished out a World

LORIS, S.C. (AP) — Talk about a horse with unbridled ambition. Fire officials in Loris, South Carolina were called out to a barn this past Sunday to check out a horse that somehow managed to leave its

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — If a trial judge takes a catnap during a trial, is it a reason for an appeals court to dog the entire proceeding? The Kansas Supreme Court has laid that argument to rest

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A Florida family refused to make room at their Thanksgiving table for an uninvited guest, who was so angry at being left out that he repeatedly slammed the front door. Homeowner Chhaa

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A 71-year-old Alaska man has been arrested after being caught with $400,000 in illegal drugs hidden inside spoiled goat intestines at an Alaska airport. Authorities say Cenen Placencia of Kodiak was arrested last

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — No baloney: U.S. border agents seized more than 150 pounds of bologna from a driver entering the country from Mexico. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that the driver told agents at

ATLANTA (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a man will get extra prison time for using a cellphone to post to Facebook from the federal prison in Atlanta. Court records show that 32-year-old Brian J. Wilson pleaded guilty

DALLAS (AP) — A rare near-mint condition copy of the first Marvel Comics comic book has sold at auction in Dallas for $1.26 million. Heritage Auctions says the Marvel Comics No. 1 from 1939 sold Thursday. Heritage

CHELMSFORD, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman says she worried she had lost her wedding ring forever after it fell off her finger as she bagged groceries. Jan McGuire tells WBZ-TV she was bagging groceries at a

PARIS (AP) — A search is on for a red panda that broke out of a zoo in the Rhone region of southeastern France. Officials at the Saint-Martin-la-Plaine Zoo said the endangered animal was last seen 3

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Blame the Grinch or Mother Nature, but the annual Christmas in Ice sculpture park won’t open this year in North Pole, Alaska, because of a lack of ice. The event’s Executive Director says

  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say two men were arrested after they were stopped with about 3,800 pounds of fir boughs taken from the Willamette National Forest in Oregon for holiday decorations. The Marion County Sheriff’s

LOS ANGELES (AP) — FedEx says it’s investigating after a Los Angeles couple said a package flung over a fence into their yard injured their dog so badly he had to be euthanized. Keiko Napier and Mitchell

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A cat who has been missing for five years in Portland, Oregon, has been found in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Santa Fe Animal Shelter announced this week that Sasha the black

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities in Tennessee say a burglar spotted on a homeowner’s camera system fell through the attic of a home while trying to hide from police. Metro Nashville police say Justin Mangrum fell through

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police in Sweden say a wanted man was found asleep on a bed in a furniture store north of Stockholm. A police spokesman says the staff at the Ikea store in Uppsala contacted the

SAN DIEGO (AP) — California authorities have arrested a 16-year-old boy suspected of using a remote-controlled car to transport $106,000 worth of methamphetamine across the border. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Tuesday that the boy was arrested

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska woman on trial for waving a gun around inside a bar has been charged with stealing the same gun from an evidence box near the judge’s bench. Alaska State Troopers say

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — If you’ve ever wanted to own a small bi-weekly newspaper in Alaska but didn’t have the money, this could be your chance. The publisher of The Skagway News is willing to give the

WASHINGTON (AP) — A specially equipped Boeing 777 jet took off from Dulles International Airport on Tuesday carrying a true Washington celebrity: Bei Bei, a 4-year-old giant panda. Visitors to Washington’s National Zoo have watched him grow

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls police say an intoxicated man escaped injury when he accidentally fired his gun inside his pants pocket. The 24-year-old Sioux Falls man was arrested Monday for reckless discharge of a

OUTER BANKS, N.C. (AP) — It’s not officially Shark Week but for trackers along the East Coast, several great white sharks are putting on a show. The Charlotte Observer reports nine sharks tagged by the ocean data-gathering

HONESDALE, Pa. (AP) — A bagel shop manager in New York drove to Pennsylvania to return a key fob that a customer had left in his shop on Long Island. Diana Chong drove off from Bagels 101

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A movement is growing in North Carolina to prevent the act of so-called “opossum dropping.” The practice involves suspending an opossum in a transparent box on New Year’s Eve and slowly lowering it