Police said they plan to charge a man accused of taking a 155-year-old doorknob from the historic Tybee Island Lighthouse in coastal Georgia. The man, who hasn’t been publicly identified, was arrested in Indiana on Wednesday, one week after authorities say he stole the hardware from a door at the […]
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Chinese American butcher speaks out after dead cat intentionally left in her Sacramento parking lot
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) – The owner of a Sacramento butcher shop is looking for help identifying a man who left a dead cat in their parking lot Monday night. Mad Butcher Meat Company has been in business for more than 30 years in Sacramento, with the last five on Florin […]
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How an Oregon woman built a camper van and left everything behind
Most people spent 2020 feeling claustrophobic while stuck in their homes. Brooke Weeber spent the year downsizing into an even smaller living situation. The Portland-based artist and adventurer has successfully made the switch to “van life,” traveling and living practically full-time out of a camper van that she designed and […]
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Woman left horrified after discovering two-way mirror & wires hooked up to cameras inside hidden wall in her new home
YOU can get a good sense of your new home when looking around – but it’s not until you move in that you really discover all its weird and wonderful quirks. When 18-year-old Annabell Mickelson and her family recently moved into their new home in Arizona, they were aware it […]
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Parisian Chic Meets New York Glamour in Susan Gutfreund’s Left Bank Apartment
Photo credit: Alexandre Bailhache From Veranda Updated on Decemeber 21, 2020: Auction paddles at the ready! Christie’s will be hosting a series of sales net month highlighting the furniture and objets d’art which once decorated Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gutfreund’s New York apartment on Fifth Avenue. Design lovers are […]
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I thought I’d have left London and be in my dream country home by now
It is 350 miles from Hampstead Heath (via the ferry at Pembroke) to East Ferry, where one of my bridesmen has offered to lend me his cottage near the Irish coast. I leave my life packed in a 50 sq ft storage unit and head off with a suitcase and […]
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Wild parrots escaped into this N.J. town more than 30 years ago and they never left
This story originally published in December 2019. When you think of the borough of Edgewater, in Bergen County, you probably think of high-rise apartment buildings with sweeping views of the New York City skyline. If you look a little closer, you’ll find something else that makes this urban community stand […]
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‘Amazon economy’ gives the left a mandate for bold economic reform
This week expect to see political pundits once again coalesce, based on a superficial reading of the electorate, around the narrative that the election results are a mandate for center-rightism, a cautionary tale against progressive aspirations for a dramatic reshaping of our market-based political economy. That is a misreading of […]
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We left the UK for Portland expecting a liberal dream. That wasn’t the reality
It was Labor Day. We were having a barbecue in our back garden when gale-force winds started out of nowhere. As we scrambled to hold down plates and glasses, our neighbour’s horse chestnut trees swayed menacingly, their leaves swirling around us. Over the next hour, smoke filled the air and […]
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Left and Not-So-Left unite against Trump
NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Biden introduced the breadth of his political coalition to a nation in crisis Monday night at the Democratic National Convention, giving voice to victims of the coronavirus pandemic, the related economic downturn and police violence and featuring both progressive Democrats and Republicans united against President […]
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Illness and a Texas detour left Bru McCoy hurting. Clay Helton helped him turn a corner
A mysterious illness left USC receiver Bru McCoy is a bad frame of mind. It took a one-on-one meeting with coach Clay Helton to help McCoy turn a corner. (John McGillen / USC Athletics) Drenched in sweat, short of breath, Bru McCoy sank into the leather of his dormitory room […]