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Apr 30 2024
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How ‘The Idea of You’ nailed age-gap dressing
Picture it: A spare concert ticket comes your way, leading to a chance encounter with an internationally renowned pop star. When performing at one of the most famous music festivals in the world, they stare past the blinding stage lights into the crowd to lock eyes with you. What transpires, naturally, is a whirlwind romance on the European leg of their sold out tour. It’s a fantasy that — in
CNN DigitalApr 30 2024
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Maui disaster inspires new Bay Area musical work debuting this weekend
On a family vacation to Hawaii last August, Theresa Wong witnessed some of the worst that nature can dish out, and some of the best that humans can do in responding to adversity. The Berkeley cellist, vocalist and composer had just arrived on Maui when Hurricane Dora slammed into the island, knocking out power to the hotel. It wasn’t long before smoke appeared on the horizon, but with limited
San Jose Mercury NewsApr 30 2024
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Sale closed in Cambridge: $5.8 million for a three-bedroom home
A spacious historic house located at 5 Ellsworth Avenue in Cambridge has new owners. The 2,513-square-foot property, built in 1864, was sold on April 12, 2024. The $5,835,000 purchase price works out to $2,322 per square foot. This two-story home has three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The home's outer design showcases a a gable roof frame, with roofing materials crafted from asphalt. The
MassLive.comNov 13 2023
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Newark high school student shot and injured in drive-by shooting during gas leak evacuation
NEWARK, N.J. -- A Newark high school student was shot and injured during a school evacuation on Monday. A gas leak at Central High School prompted a schoolwide evacuation at around noon. According to police, someone driving by shot the 15-year-old boy as he and other students were waiting outside. "Everything was normal and then poof, chaos," said Wilneidys Alcerro, a student. Chopper 2 showed
CBS News (Online)May 01 2024
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Horned lark named the Wisconsin's 'chonkiest, floofiest bird'
MADISON — The hefty horned lark has been crowned the winner of Fat Bird Week. Just as Katmai National Park and Preserve has "Fat Bear Week," Wisconsin just concluded its first-ever "Fat Bird Week," hosted by the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin. Nearly 8,000 voters weighed in on the race to find Wisconsin's floofiest fowl — its most ample avian — its chonkiest chirper. "With 60% of
Milwaukee Journal SentinelAug 04 2023
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Gov. Kotek signs self-service gas bill, effective immediately
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — On Friday morning, Gov. Tina Kotek signed a bill allowing Oregonians to pump their own gas. The bill came after a ban on self-service gas that last for 72 years. Under the new bill, Oregonians will have the option to pump their own gas, while stations will also have employees there to pump gas as well. The bill, which went into effect immediately after being signed,
KOIN 6May 01 2024
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Clark County School District looks west to recruit new teachers
The Clark County School District is targeting Southern California with its newest educator recruiting campaign, the district announced Tuesday. District officials unveiled the initiative with a screening of two professionally crafted videos that CCSD will post to social media with special efforts to pop up in the feeds of people living in Southern California, interim Superintendent Brenda
Las Vegas SunApr 30 2024
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Report: Drought continues to have negative effect on Nebraska groundwater levels
The most recent statewide groundwater level report from the Conservation and Survey Division in the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s School of Natural Resources found that groundwater levels continue to decline in most of the state. The long-term lack of rainfall combined with an increased need for irrigation has led to an average water depth decline in Nebraska wells of 3.15 feet since spring
Lincoln Journal StarOct 05 2023
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Check your numbers. A winning Powerball ticket was sold at a South Carolina gas station
Powerball’s grand prize remained unclaimed after Wednesday’s drawing, meaning the jackpot has swelled to $1.4 billion. But someone in the Midlands came extremely close to resetting the sweepstakes, buying a ticket that turned out to be one number shy of winning the grand prize, South Carolina Education Lottery officials said Thursday in a news release. While the person who bought the ticket in
The StateApr 30 2024
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Lawmakers clash over environmentalist groups’ influence on Interior Department
House lawmakers at a Natural Resources oversight subcommittee hearing sparred Tuesday over whether the Department of the Interior allows undue influence by nonprofit activist groups and private companies. Republicans on the oversight and investigations panel of the committee, led by Chairman Paul Gosar of Arizona, accused DOI Secretary Deb Haaland, of fostering close and potentially improper
Washington Times