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Coast Guard asks for help in Pacific

The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday asked mariners for help in finding a 60-year-old man sailing from California to Hawaii. Noel Rubio left Long Beach on Dec. 28 on the 32-foot (9.7-meter) sailboat Malulani, the Coast Guard said in a news release. He planned to arrive in Kaneohe on the… Read More

“Pineapple Express” floods Southern California

Heavy rain flooded California roadways and much-needed snow piled up in the mountains as the first of back-to-back atmospheric rivers pummeled the state Thursday. The storm focused its energy on the southern and eastern parts of the state after initially hitting the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday, where it… Read More

Greta Thunberg acquitted at trial Friday

Climate activist Greta Thunberg was acquitted Friday of refusing to follow a police order to leave a protest blocking the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year. The courtroom gallery erupted with applause as Judge John Law told Thunberg and her four co-defendants to… Read More

The “New Fire” New Year in Mexico

Guided by their ancestral lunar calendar, members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group celebrated their own New Year’s Eve — a little differently than the West’s traditional New Year. The Purepechas, who live in the western state of Michoacán, preserve the pre-Hispanic belief in the “New Fire” ceremony, a version of… Read More

“Death Star” awaits the Super Bowl

Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis called his new home the Death Star in 2020 — and the name stuck. Allegiant Stadium, with its black facade, in fact resembles the ominous space station from the “Star Wars” movie franchise that was capable of destroying planets. The futuristic stadium takes center… Read More

Famous head coach Bill Belichick needs a job

Bill Belichick has won more Super Bowls than any coach and more games than everyone except Don Shula. Still, he didn’t land a new job. An iconic coach who built a two-decade dynasty in New England and teamed with Tom Brady to lead the Patriots to six championships somehow got… Read More

Two saved from car… by men wearing nothing but towels

Not all heroes wear capes. Some don’t wear anything at all. With only towels around their waists, patrons aboard a floating sauna in a Norwegian fjord rescued two people whose car had plunged into the water. Sponsored: The FDA Rushed These Drugs Through The Approval Process, Don’t Take Them The… Read More

Groundhogs Day: Punxsutawney Phil says…

The spotlight was on Gobbler’s Knob in a small town western Pennsylvania early Friday morning, when handlers of a groundhog named Punxsutawney Phil announced whether he saw his own shadow and predicts six more weeks of winter or an early spring. Phil didn’t see his shadow in a ceremony this… Read More

Scientists: Skyscraper-sized asteroid to buzz Earth

An asteroid as big as a skyscraper will pass within 1.7 million miles of Earth on Friday. Don’t worry: There’s no chance of it hitting us since it will pass seven times the distance from Earth to the moon. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies estimates the space rock… Read More

New legalized gambling options to expand?

Dueling legislative proposals in Virginia backed by different gambling companies would open the door for an expansion of slot-like betting machines in businesses such as truck stops, restaurants and convenience stores. At the center of the debate are “gray machines,” arcade-style games that look similar to slot machines but involve… Read More