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Woman finds rare two-headed viper outside her Virginia home
WAYNESBORO, Va. – New details were released Friday about a two-headed baby copperhead found earlier this month outside a home in Woodbridge, Virginia. The snake is currently being monitored by a state herpetologist after it was examined at the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro. “It appears as though the left head is more dominant – it’s generally more active and responsive to stimulus,” a spokesperson for the veterinary hospital said. “Radiographs revealed that the two-headed snake has two tracheas […]
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Company seeks pizza taste-testers – make up to $1,000 a day working from home
Portable pizza oven company Ooni is looking to hire people to taste-test its pizza – and they’re paying between $300 and $1000 per day, according to CNBC. “We’re hiring multiple people for a number of Pizza Taste Tester roles,” the company said in a statement. “These roles will be a unique mix of recipe development, product testing and brand ambassadorship – pizza, pizza, and more pizza!“ View this post on Instagram You might've noticed we've changed our account handle here […]
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Childhood cancer survivors marry 25 years after meeting as hospital patients
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Joel and Lindsey Alsup got married at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 25 years after they first met as cancer patients, according to WREG. “I get teary-eyed thinking about it,” Joel said. Turns out there was no better place for Joel and Lindsey Alsup to get married than at St. Jude on September 1st. “[It} was the first day of National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, because all of these pieces have come together to give us our […]
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Woman who stabbed, killed neighbor’s dog as it attacked her thought she was ‘going to die’
SANDUSKY, Ohio – A woman working in her Ohio backyard Sunday evening just happened to be using a knife that would end up saving her life. Julia Parsley was cutting zip ties from the fence of her Sandusky home when she said the neighbor’s pit bull got loose, came into her yard and went after her pit bull, Moo Moo, according to WJW. “My neighbor’s dog got loose out of her yard. It attacked my two dogs and it attacked […]
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Roseanne Barr says her character will die of opioid overdose on ‘The Conners’
Roseanne Barr said her namesake character will be killed off during the upcoming spinoff ‘The Conners’ in the wake of the controversy surrounding Barr’s derogatory tweets. Barr said in an interview on Brandon Straka’s YouTube show Walk Away that her character will die of an overdose “Oh ya, they killed her,” she said. “They have her die of an opioid overdose.” Barr called the decision “cynical and horrible.” “She should have died as a hero or not at all,” Barr said in the interview. […]
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FDA warns against ‘nitro puffs’ and other foods made with liquid nitrogen
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to avoid eating, drinking or handling foods prepared with liquid nitrogen just before they are sold. According to the FDA, liquid nitrogen can cause severe damage to skin and internal organs if mishandled or accidentally ingested due to the extremely low temperatures it can maintain. “When you eat something that is extremely cold, I’m talking much colder than ice cream, you’re going to get a frostbite-type injury,” Executive Director of […]
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Good Samaritan unknowingly stopped to help man hired to kill him: cops
DELTONA, Fla. – The killing of Carlos Cruz-Echevarria, a 60-year-old Army veteran, seemed random at first. But authorities now say it was all too deliberate. The body of Cruz-Echevarria was found Nov. 11—Veterans Day—near a disabled, stolen car on the side of a Deltona, Fla., road, the Orlando Sentinel reports. He had been shot in the head multiple times. His own truck was gone, later discovered burned some 30 miles away. This week, authorities arrested three suspects in the killing, which they […]
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Cop’s kind act after hearing widow ask for $3 of gas inspires strangers to donate
ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. – Seventy-five-year-old Delores Marotta used her cane to hobble into a metro Detroit gas station. She asked the attendant to put $3 on pump number three. A St. Clair Shores, Michigan, police officer overheard her request and surprised her by adding an extra 20 bucks of gas to her tank. On August 31, Officer Todd Bing watched Marotta use a couple of crumpled up dollar bills and some quarters to pay for less than a gallon […]
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Woman accused of killing husband with eye drops shot him with crossbow 2 years ago
YORK COUNTY, S.C. – A South Carolina woman accused of using eye drops to murder her husband may have also tried to end his life two years earlier, according to WSOC. Lana Sue Clayton, of York County, has been charged with murder and unlawful malicious tampering of food. Police say she poisoned her husband, Stephen Clayton, by adding eye drops to his water at their home in Clover from July 19-21. WSOC reported toxicology tests found poisonous levels of tetrahydrozoline — […]
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77-year-old Colorado man pleads guilty to poisoning bald eagles, other wildlife
MONTE VISTA, Colo. — A Colorado man pleaded guilty to poisoning bald eagles and other animals, Colorado Parks and Wildlife said Friday. The conviction followed an investigation by the agency. John L. Divine, 77, of Rio Grande County, pleaded guilty to 10 misdemeanors of illegal take of wildlife and using poisons to kill wildlife, according to CPW. Divine paid more than $8,000 in fines in April. Divine told CPW officers he put out the poison because coyotes were killing his […]
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Construction workers make 6-year-old boy’s dream come true
RICHMOND, Va. – A Virginia construction crew helped make a 6-year-old boy’s dream come true this week. Sully, who loves tractors, trucks and tools, was beside himself with excitement when the crew arrived to work on a project in front of his home on Hanover Avenue in Richmond earlier this week. “Anything construction: shovels and tools … he wants it for Christmas, he wants it for his birthday,” explained Sully’s dad, Sean Wallace. Sully got a chance to put his […]
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Man arrested for dumping bag of flour onto 68-year-old grandmother at Walmart
BEECH GROVE, Ind. – A man has been arrested after he brazenly poured a bag of flour onto a 68-year-old woman at an Indiana Walmart on Wednesday, according to Beech Grove police. The incident was captured on video by the suspect, Phillip Weaver, who then posted it online with the caption “Pouring flower on lady’s head,” police said. The video has since been taken down. According to a police report, it happened at about 10:21 a.m. at the store in […]
