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MIAMI (AP) — Official says customs officers at a Florida airport found nearly a half-million dollars being smuggled out of the United States hidden inside furniture. U.S. Custom and Border Protection said in a news release that officers at Miami International Airport seized $491,280 in

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A drone carrying marijuana, cigarette lighters and cellphones got caught up in a net above a Mississippi prison fence, resulting in the arrest of two men. State corrections officials said in a news release Wednesday that security video showed 33-year-old John Travis Ross

MERRIMACK, N.H. (AP) — An exotic African serval cat that escaped from its New Hampshire home earlier this week has been found safe and sound. Merrimack police in a Facebook post Friday say the 40-pound creature named Spartacus was was trapped near his home and is in good health. The animal has

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A dog has been credited with saving an Alabama family’s lives after his bark awakened them to a fire that was sweeping through their rental home. A North Shelby Fire Department official told AL.com the fire started on a grill and spread to the rest of the

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — The mayor of a Connecticut city says he will follow through on what was originally a tongue-in-cheek threat to name a sewage plant after comedian John Oliver if Oliver attends the plant’s naming ceremony. Danbury Mayor Mark Boughton said Sunday on WTNH-TV that he