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Karen King is reopening Alleva Dairy, America’s oldest cheese shop, this Sunday inside Chelsea Market after losing her Little Italy location of 130 years. King, a native of Whitestone, Queens, bought the original Mulberry Street store in 2014 with her…
Brittany Cardinal has spoken out about the coyote attack that left her with facial wounds and her daughter unharmed. Cardinal, 35, of Surprise, Arizona, was enjoying a windy Sept. 6 afternoon with her four-year-old girl when the ordinary day turned…
A Florida couple discovered a stranger had been hiding beneath their bed throughout the night inside their locked hotel room, police confirmed. The pair, who had checked into Provident Doral at approximately 9 a.m. Last Wednesday, were asleep with the…
A Greek mother who raced against a government age limit gave birth Wednesday in Athens to a daughter conceived from an embryo she had frozen 22 years earlier. Cristina Rapti-Tzelepi, 54, delivered the 3.49-kilogram baby at a hospital in the…
Cassanda and Jacob Maurice have broken down the true cost of feeding their ten children in Utah. The couple, parents to Steven, 17, Christopher, 15, identical twins William and Ryan, 14, fraternal twins Max and Spencer, 12, Thomas, 10, Henry,…
Federal agents discovered more than a ton of methamphetamine concealed inside cabbage shipments crossing the US-Mexico border this week. The Drug Enforcement Administration’s Houston division released footage Thursday showing agents unpacking heads of cabbage from cardboard boxes, with one clip…
Meg Hamp, a former colleague of Lindsay Clancy, broke down in tears during an Oprah Winfrey podcast as she recalled the accused child-killer’s emotional reactions to childbirth. Hamp, who worked alongside Clancy as a labor and delivery nurse at Massachusetts…
Audio capturing the violent impact of the second hijacked plane striking the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, is drawing renewed attention as the nation marks 25 years since the attacks. The recording, featured in the documentary 9/11 The…
A San Jose mother was arrested Wednesday after automated license plate readers flagged her vehicle, police said, capping a saga that began with a viral roadside confrontation and expanded into a broader criminal investigation. Lindsay Hansen, 47, was booked into…
A passenger was dragged for roughly 50 metres after his foot became trapped between a moving train and the platform at Agra Cantt Railway Station in Uttar Pradesh, India, before railway police and bystanders pulled him to safety. The incident…
David P. Craig watched thousands of Vaux’s swifts spiral into a “swift’nado” above a Salem, Oregon church last Sunday. Craig, a professor at Willamette University, stood shoulder to shoulder with neighbors, families and students as dusk fell over Salem First…
Brooks Nader is defending her topless boat outing with her father by pointing to his eyesight. The Sports Illustrated model, 29, told Entertainment Tonight on Thursday that Breux Nader “didn’t even notice” she had ditched her bikini top during the…
Ryanair is disputing eyewitness accounts that a passenger was partially sucked out of a shattered window during a July 10 flight from Greece to Germany. Serbian businessman Ljubisa Karović, 61, was seriously injured when a window at seat 11F was…
A driver in a San Francisco 49ers jersey flipped his car onto its side in Santa Cruz, California, after a bizarre series of low-speed collisions. The motorist, traveling at approximately 5 mph, swerved across the roadway and struck the side…
The Russian Orthodox Church has shipped a fragment of a medieval prince’s hand to soldiers fighting in occupied Donetsk in what it calls a morale-boosting mission. The church, which backs President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, said the relic from…
Former National Alliance member Lawrence W. Myers, 68, has been identified by multiple ex-associates as the mysterious informant known as “F-9” who allegedly received $1.2 million in Southern Poverty Law Center donor funds while carrying on a romantic relationship with…