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    OLIVEHURST, Calif. (AP) — A paraglider spent three hours trapped in power lines before being rescued in northern California. The paraglider, who wasn’t immediately identified, was facing the ground with the wires as his only support when first responders arrived Wednesday

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The salvage firm that has plucked silverware, china and gold coins from the wreckage of the Titanic now wants to recover the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Machine that transmitted the doomed ship’s distress calls. Lawyers for R.M.S. Titanic, Inc., called witnesses before

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — You can say a man trying to rob a chicken joint in Louisville, Kentucky picked the wrong “date” to pull off the heist. That’s because the date he tried to rob the place — was the day two police officers were at the eatery on a date night. Elizabethtown Police

SALISBURY, N.C. (AP) — He stopped to do a good deed for a fellow motorist — and almost lost his life in the process. Authorities in North Carolina say a FedEx truck driver stopped to help a motorist stranded in the left lane on I-85. But when 24-year-old Jeremiah Cribb saw a

NEW YORK (AP) — If you have ever used computer shortcuts like “cut,” “copy” and “paste,” you might want to tip your cap to a man named Larry Tesler. The Silicon Valley pioneer who invented the valuable keyboard tools for those who type for work, school or home has died. In 1973, he

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — He tried to get a man’s goat — literally — but got arrested, instead. Authorities in Stafford County, Virginia say they got a call from a property owner who spotted a thief on his land — and was holding him at gunpoint. The farmer says his wife went outside

TOOELE, Utah (AP) — A Utah man whose body was found in a freezer exonerated his wife by leaving a typed, notarized note saying she bore no responsibility in his death.   The note left by Paul Edward Mathers cleared the late Jeanne Souron-Mathers, though there are still questions remaining

DALLAS (AP) — Italy has its Leaning Tower of Pisa. And now Dallas has a rival leaning tower. In this case, the “Leaning Tower of Dallas” came into being when an 11-story building that was being imploded failed to fully implode. The core of the building survived — and that’s when the

CROYDON, N.H. (AP) — When the police chief of the New Hampshire town of Croydon was told he was being stripped of his duties, he took the news quite literally. Tuesday night, Richard Lee was told the town was disbanding its one-person force, leaving the policing to state police. Lee was told to

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man is upset that he can’t bring a life-sized cutout of President Donald Trump for emotional support during his kidney dialysis treatments. Nelson Gibson tells WPBF that no one took issue with the pictures of the president he brought to help him get