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Tuesday’s Games AHL Playoffs Calder Cup final Texas 5 Toronto 2 (Series tied 3-3) — MLB American League Boston 6 Baltimore 4 Minnesota 6 Detroit 4 Tampa Bay 4 Toronto 1 Chicago White Sox 5...
Jun 13, 2018
This Artist Paints With His Palms
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Handstamping Art Russell Powell of San Jose, California, stamps his art onto paper after carefully painting his palms. One day, while teaching art at an el...
Jun 12, 2018
5 Weird Americanisms And Their Origins
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Americanisms Have you ever paid attention to the things we say? My neck of the woods? Shooting the breeze? Riding shotgun? They're such timeworn clichs, we...
Jun 12, 2018
Psychograph: The Pseudoscientific Phrenology Machine
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Phrenology Phrenology has been called pseudoscience, quackery, and fringe. During the 1800s, however, the study of the bumps on a person's head was fast be...
Jun 12, 2018
Search and Rescue wraps up spring conference in Nordegg
Rocky Mountain House Search and Rescue concluded the 2018 Mountain Rescue Association Spring conference on Sunday. The Mountain Rescue Association is made up of teams from around the world who cover e...
Jun 12, 2018
UPDATE: Two remand escapees arrested east of Innisfail, one still missing
Two more of the men who broke out of the Red Deer Remand Centre last night have been arrested. Tuesday afternoon, Innisfail RCMP responded to a call for assistance from the Blackfalds RCMP regarding a...
Jun 12, 2018
Tigers lose injured Cabrera for season in 6-4 loss to Twins
DETROIT - The Detroit Tigers lost much more than a game on Tuesday night. Miguel Cabrera ruptured his left biceps tendon in the third inning of a 6-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins and will have season-e...
Jun 12, 2018
Man charged with murdering Red Deer woman has schizophrenia: Mother
A "critical witness" took the stand in a Red Deer courtroom Tuesday on day two of a second-degree murder trial. Justice Adam Germain described Carrie Koizumi as such as she took the stand at the secon...
Jun 12, 2018
Rep. Sanford loses GOP primary, attacked for Trump criticism
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Over more than two decades, South Carolina voters forgave U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford for his quirkiness, his infidelity and his lies. But they could not forgive him for his criticism of P...
Jun 12, 2018
Saudi-led forces open assault on Yemen port city of Hodeida
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen’s exiled government launched a fierce assault Wednesday on the crucial port city of Hodeida, the biggest offensive of the year...
Jun 12, 2018