SAN FRANCISCO – Officials say a San Francisco rail station filled with smoke due to sparking from a track insulator. No injuries or damage were reported. Bay Area Rapid Transit spokeswoman Alica Trost says smoke was reported on the platform of the Powell Street station about 8:45 a.m. Friday. Trost …
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TOLEDO, Ohio – A 450-year-old German artifact that was used to tell time and to make astronomical calculations will be returned to a German museum from which it was likely stolen, according to the Toledo Museum of Art. The device, called an astronomical compendium or astrolabe, disappeared from the Gotha …
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MOBILE, Ala. – Before Eli Thompson was born, his father joked that he hoped he wouldn’t pass on his nose to his new son. But moments after Eli’s birth, an air of seriousness — and concern — filled the room. Mother Brandi McGlathery tells Al.com (http://bit.ly/1CNf7kN ) she knew immediately …
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LOS ANGELES – What do you get when more than 1,100 ukulele enthusiasts gather and begin playing their instruments? Lots of noise, but not a new world record. Crowds gathered Saturday in the Little Tokyo neighborhood of Los Angeles in a second annual attempt to set a new mark for …
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SALT LAKE CITY – A man has been arrested after crashing through a fence and sprinting from police onto a runway at the Salt Lake City airport early Monday. The 8-minute chase started on a public road near Salt Lake City International at 3 a.m. when an airport police officer …
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SEATTLE – Seattle police say they aren’t pursuing charges against a shirtless man with a hammer who managed to get himself stuck in a basketball hoop. Officer Drew Fowler said Monday the man was not booked into jail but sent to a hospital for a mental health evaluation. The man …
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ROXBURY, Maine – A couple of varmint vandals are hitting a small western Maine town hard. A skunk and a groundhog have caused damage to three flat stone markers at a cemetery in Roxbury, a town with a population of fewer than 400 residents. Renee Hodsdon, treasurer and tax collector, …
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Federal and local officials have rescued 13 previously missing children, whom authorities determined to be at risk of human trafficking, in and around Memphis. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), which worked with the U.S. Marshals Service, Homeland Security Investigations, Memphis Police Department and Tennessee Department of Children’s Serviceson the …
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A Texas man has been arrested after the body of a missing woman was found inside a home Sunday. Detectives in the Dallas suburb of McKinney received a tip that a body may be located at home in the 600 block of Pearson Avenue, authorities said. They obtained a search …
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A magnitude 3.6 earthquake rattled northern Illinois and parts of three other states early Wednesday, awakening some residents and spurring reports to 911 about homes shaking, the U.S. Geological Survey and police said. The small earthquake was detected about 4:41 a.m. local time and was centered about sixth-tenths of a …
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