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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) — The mother of a teenage boy fighting advanced bone cancer says words can’t express how her son appreciates what two of his heroes did for him. Jonathan Morales was visited by his favorite rapper, Joyner Lucas. The musician stopped by at Staten Island University

MAGGIE VALLEY, N.C. (AP) — As if seeing an elk running around the woods of western North Carolina wasn’t enough of a sight — imagine seeing one running around with pieces of a shredded hammock tangled in its antlers. News reports say a man called the sheriff’s department in Haywood County

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Usually when you lose something on a beach, you figure it’s long gone — especially after a long time. But that wasn’t so for a Florida man who lost his high school ring on Cocoa Beach the day after his 1970 senior prom. Kenneth Board has been reunited with

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — It was an “arrival” at the Charlotte, North Carolina airport, all right — just not one that was displayed on the terminal message boards. A woman heading to Charlotte from Tampa, Florida went into labor during her flight Wednesday. The flight crew alerted the

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — It was a task almost as tough as finding a needle in a haystack. But a group of hikers is getting credit for recovering a wedding band in a snow-covered stretch of a New Hampshire mountain trail. WMUR-TV in Manchester reports Bill Giguere of Massachusetts recently

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) — Fake frogs? It’s a real thing. A high school in Florida has begun using synthetic frogs for students to do classroom dissections. J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey began using the fake amphibians last week — becoming the first school in the world to

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — It was quite the interesting catch for a Michigan angler who uses a magnet to pull things out of the water. WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids says Joseph Alexander fished out a World War I-era grenade from the Grand River. After posting images online, Alexander said people

LORIS, S.C. (AP) — Talk about a horse with unbridled ambition. Fire officials in Loris, South Carolina were called out to a barn this past Sunday to check out a horse that somehow managed to leave its stall and climb into a hayloft. It wouldn’t be easy for the horse to get up to the hayloft

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — If a trial judge takes a catnap during a trial, is it a reason for an appeals court to dog the entire proceeding? The Kansas Supreme Court has laid that argument to rest with a ruling on Wednesday. The state high court says a defendant’s guilty verdict in a firearms case