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Navajo robotics team heads to international competition
SALT LAKE CITY - A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition. The teenagers have w...
Aug 7, 2018
Maryland mom tested positive for opiates after eating bagel
TOWSON, Md. - A Maryland woman has discovered that eating a poppy seed bagel before giving birth carries serious consequences. Elizabeth Eden told WBAL-TV in Baltimore she was in labour in April when ...
Aug 7, 2018
NTSB: Failure to fix rail crossing led to fatal bus crash
JACKSON, Miss. - A train crash into a tour bus that killed four in Mississippi last year stemmed from the railroad and the city failing to improve an unsafe rail crossing, federal safety regulators co...
Aug 7, 2018
Former Malaysian PM faces new charge of money laundering
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will face a new charge of money laundering on Wednesday over a multibillion-dollar graft scandal at a state investment fund, the an...
Aug 7, 2018
ABC to celebrate 90 years of Mickey Mouse
LOS ANGELES - Mickey Mouse is getting the full star treatment as the iconic character turns 90 this year. ABC on Tuesday announced “Mickey’s 90th Spectacular,” a two-hour prime-time ...
Aug 7, 2018
Canada's Auger-Aliassime stuns Pouille to advance to 2nd round at Rogers Cup
TORONTO - Felix Auger-Aliassime has heard his name pronounced incorrectly so many times it doesn’t even faze him anymore. After beating a Top-20 opponent for the first time in his career Tuesday...
Aug 7, 2018
N.S. recognizes black refugee settlement as historically significant
HALIFAX - A Halifax-area community settled by black refugees who escaped enslavement in the United States two centuries ago has been named a provincial heritage property. The settlement in Beechville ...
Aug 7, 2018
Records: Pilot killed in 2013 wrote letters to Taylor Swift
NASHVILLE - National Transportation Safety Board records show the Canadian pilot killed in a 2013 Tennessee crash had written multiple letters to singer Taylor Swift. WSMV-TV obtained the internal rec...
Aug 7, 2018
Bathroom Reading: “Moby Dick” Typed On Six Rolls Of Toilet Paper
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The White Whale on TP Herman Melville's whale-hunting epic is one of the cornerstones of American literature. The narrator introduces us to colorful charac...
Aug 7, 2018
California lawmakers ask DMV officials about long lines
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Hours-long wait times at California Department of Motor Vehicles offices in recent months have been unacceptable, the agency’s leader told lawmakers at a Tuesday hearing in ...
Aug 7, 2018