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A North Carolina man who tried his luck at the Carolina Keno lottery game won $100,000 — his second-largest lottery prize in seven years. Dewey Croom, of Marion, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials he bought his Carolina Keno ticket from the Sugar Hill Food Mart in Marion on Sunday, but he didn’t check the […]

A 2017 rookie card signed by Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes sold for $4.3 million — the highest price ever paid for an NFL card. The 2017 National Treasures NFL Shield Patrick Mahomes Rookie card, which was autographed by the player, fetched the record amount in a private sale brokered by PWCC Marketplace, the […]

Police in New York said members of the community helped rescue six kittens heard crying from inside a storm drain. The Plattsburgh Police Department said officers were called to an intersection at which a resident heard kittens crying from inside a storm drain near where an adult cat, suspected to be the mother, was found […]

Virginia health officials and insect experts are trying to determine the origins of mysterious bug bites being reported by residents of one county. Locals in Arlington County said they have received what initially appear to be mosquito bites, but the bumps quickly swelled to much larger than what would normally be expected. “It started to […]

A metal detecting hobbyist and the owner of a matchmaking company in New York reunited a man with the high school class ring he lost 46 years earlier. Dan Milovich, a lieutenant with the Buffalo Fire Department, said his doctor recommended that he try to walk more for exercise after some health issues, so he […]

A Texas police department shared body camera footage from the capture of an alligator found “swimming naked” in a hot tub “without regard to the owner’s wishes.” The Fulshear Police Department said in a Facebook post that officers responded to a report of an “unknown suspect” that wandered into a resident’s back yard “and decided […]

Animal rescuers in Ontario are trying to find a loose llama spotted wandering through residential neighborhoods in a rural area of the province. The Cambridge Humane Society said the llama was spotted multiple times this week in the Arkell and Puslinch communities, south of Guelph. Rudy Gwinner snapped a photo of the llama about 2:30 […]