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  • People in Portland sewers: Group coming up from manhole caught on camera

    Portland (KPTV) — A security camera outside a northwest Portland business caught three people climbing out of a sewer Thursday night. It all started when Kris Lake, door shop manager, saw a shoe outside their shop and wanted to know where it came from. He checked the surveillance video. “It was insane,” Lake said. What he saw was the manhole cover start to move and then pop up. A person comes out, and one after another, three people make their […]

  • Babe Ruth’s jersey sold at auction for a record-breaking $5.6 million

    It’s been more than a century since Babe Ruth started his baseball career, but the Bambino is still breaking records. A Babe Ruth New York Yankees jersey from 1928-1930 fetched $5.64 million at auction Saturday, making it the most expensive piece of sports memorabilia ever sold, according to the auction house. The previous record was a 1920 Babe Ruth jersey that went for $4.4 million. The record-breaking jersey was part of a collection of artifacts related to “The Sultan of […]

  • ‘He gave his life for our country’: Remains of WWII pilot found at sea, returned home

    CLEVELAND — It was a touching and fitting tribute nearly eight decades in the making. The remains of World War II Lieutenant James Lord were returned to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Saturday. Lord was flying a mission targeting gun positions over Italy near the France border when his plane went down into the sea near Corsica. The crash happened in 1944 when he was just 20 years old. His flagged draped coffin was received with full military honors as the sound of bagpipes […]

  • ‘I got a little getting even to do’: O.J. Simpson is on Twitter, and his first tweet is somewhat puzzling

    LAS VEGAS – O.J. Simpson is officially on Twitter, and he seems to want to set the record straight. His Twitter biography is simple and straightforward: “If you don’t see it here, I didn’t say it.” “Hey Twitter world,” Simpson begins cheerfully in his first post – a video. He already has over 267,000 followers. Coming Soon!!! pic.twitter.com/R1tXOuuLgO — O.J. Simpson (@TheRealOJ32) June 15, 2019 The Juice tweeted a 22 second video in which he said he knows there are […]

  • Minnesota 4-year-old takes great-grandfather’s SUV to buy candy

    BLAINE, Minn. – A four-year-old with a powerful sweet tooth reportedly took his great-grandfather’s car over a mile to a Speedway in search of candy, KMSP reported. Sebastian managed to navigate through rush hour traffic in his great-grandfather’s Hyundai Santa Fe Tuesday morning, police said. KMSP said the boy used a walker to reach the keys on a hook and then took off to the vehicle. Witnesses said they saw Sebastian – barely able to peer over the steering wheel, […]

  • ‘Water worshiper’ reportedly entering Oklahoma homes, businesses to turn on faucets

    WARR ACRES, Okla. – A man is accused of entering a couple’s home and leaving their water running, and the homeowners say they learned he’s allegedly done similar things for more than a decade. Mario Williams said he was at work Friday morning when his surveillance camera alerted him there was a stranger at his front door. At the same time, his wife called in a panic, saying a man turned on their hose out front before entering the garage. […]

  • Man in hazmat suit stalking Kansas neighborhoods has residents on edge

    He's dressed in white from head to toe, apparently covering his face so no one recognizes him, and he's showing up on home surveillance videos across the Overland Park, Kansas area.

  • Meet Angel, a miniature cow with two working legs and a new, loving family

    A miniature cow born into adversity now has the run – and roll – of her new home, thanks to love and generosity from her new dad.

  • Georgia children serenade mounted officers with their rendition of ‘Old Town Road’

    Two Atlanta police horses and their riders received a very warm welcome from children at a public pool when the kids performed Lil Nas X's "Old Town Road" for them, according to WSB.

  • Massachusetts seafood restaurant gets surprise 1-in-2 million blue lobster in its shipment

    EASTHAM, Mass. – Nathan Nickerson III almost couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw an unexpected pop of color in his seafood shipment earlier this week. It was one of many lobsters ordered by his restaurant, Arnold’s Lobster and Clam Bar, in Eastham, Massachusetts — except this one was blue. “I said, ‘I think we have something special here.’ I couldn’t believe the color,” Nickerson told CNN. “Everyone was circling around it, just wondering, ‘How did this happen?'” The restaurant […]

  • Chicago sisters thought they took brother off life support; then he walked in the front door

    CHICAGO — A group of Chicago sisters made funeral arrangements for a man they thought was their deceased brother. They were told he died after they’d made a series of medical decisions for him in the hospital. Then, they learned he  was not their brother at all. On May 13, Rosie Brooks said she got a phone call no one ever wants to receive, WBBM reports.  “She identified herself as Jennifer from Mercy Hospital,” Brooks said. “She was a social […]

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