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Inflatable holiday costume is likely culprit for a COVID outbreak in California
In this Aug. 7, 2018 file photo, a doctor performs an ultrasound scan on a pregnant woman at a hospital in Chicago.
Pregnant women agonize over unknowns of taking the coronavirus vaccine
It was not clear how much wine was seized, or whether the sewage plant worker, Allen Maurice Stiefel, had intended to sell it.
Worker ran illegal winery in Alabama sewage plant, sheriff says
This undated photo provided by Forrest Fenn shows an estimated 2 million dollars of gold jewelry and other artifacts that Fenn has hidden for treasures hunters to find. Thousands have set off into the wilds of the West in search for Forrest Fenn’s cache of gold, jewelry and artifacts. But until now, none of the treasure hunters has been in such a dangerous predicament as Randy Bilyeu, who has gone missing along Rio Grande in northern New Mexico. (Forrest Fenn via AP)
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Man who found hidden $2 million treasure in the Rocky Mountains is revealed December 8, 2020 | 2:18 PM
Coronavirus
N.Y. Young Republican Club gala ignites political dispute over COVID-19 restrictions December 7, 2020 | 11:35 AM
Coronavirus
She couldn’t open for outdoor dining in LA County. The film crew next door could. December 7, 2020 | 11:27 AM
Big Cat Rescue
Volunteer bitten by tiger at Carole Baskin's Big Cat Rescue December 3, 2020 | 2:36 PM
In this Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, photo provided by Kelsea Dockham, rocks mark the location where a metal monolith once stood in the ground in a remote area of red rock in Spanish Valley, Utah south of Moab near Canyonlands National Park. The mysterious silver monolith that was placed there has disappeared less than 10 days after it was spotted by wildlife biologists performing a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep, federal officials and witnesses said. (Kelsea Dockham/Canyon State Overland via AP)
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'As they walked off with the pieces, one of them said, ‘Leave no trace'' December 1, 2020 | 2:27 PM
FILE - This Nov. 18, 2020, file photo provided by the Utah Department of Public Safety shows a metal monolith in the ground in a remote area of red rock in Utah. The mysterious silver monolith that was placed in the Utah desert has disappeared less than 10 days after it was spotted by wildlife biologists performing a helicopter survey of bighorn sheep, federal officials and witnesses said. The Bureau of Land Management said it had received credible reports that the three-sided stainless steel structure was removed on Nov. 27. (Utah Department of Public Safety via AP, File)
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Mysterious silver monolith disappears from Utah desert November 30, 2020 | 9:24 AM
Car News
Meet George Jetson? Orlando unveils plans for first flying-car hub in U.S. November 12, 2020 | 11:27 AM
Sven Spichiger, the managing entomologist at the Washington state Department of Agriculture, displays a canister of Asian giant hornets vacuumed from a nest in a tree behind him in Blaine, Wash., in October.
'Murder hornets'
A nest filled with hundreds of 'murder hornets' was destroyed 'just in the nick of time,' officials say November 12, 2020 | 11:12 AM
This Nov. 5, 2020 photo provided by Ariel Cordova-Rojas shows her riding in a car with Bae, a female mute swan, after the swan was rescued in the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, in the Queens borough of New York. Cordova-Rojas was assisted by a couple with a car who agreed to drive the swan and Cordova-Rojas to a nearby subway station. Later an employee of the Wild Bird Rescue met them at another subway station for transport to the organization's clinic on New York's Upper West Side. (Ariel Cordova-Rojas via AP)
Animals
NYC woman gets ill swan to clinic via foot, car, and subway November 11, 2020 | 2:18 PM
National
'I am literally looking inside the whale’s mouth' November 6, 2020 | 3:48 PM
A medical worker administers a rapid COVID-19 test to a traveler at San Francisco International Airport on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020.
COVID
COVID-19, in addition to stealing sense of smell, may also warp it November 5, 2020 | 11:28 AM
New York rat sinkhole
Rat Sinkhole
'He didn’t want to yell because he was afraid there were going to be rats inside his mouth' October 30, 2020 | 6:28 PM
02/08/2013 NEWBURYPORT, MA Alexis Lane (cq) 13, of Newburyport, got some air while sledding on March's Hill (cq) as a winter storm, expected to dump as much as 24 inches of snow in the region, intensified in Newburyport. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)
Snow days
New Jersey school district pledges to protect the snow day October 29, 2020 | 2:07 PM
In this courtroom sketch Keith Raniere, second from right, leader of the secretive group NXIVM, attends a court hearing Friday, April 13, 2018, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. In March federal authorities raided an upstate New York residence connected to the group and Raniere, who is accused of coercing female followers into having sex and getting branded with his initials, was later arrested in Mexico where the group also runs programs. Seated, from left, are defense attorney Paul DerOhannesian II, a US marshal, Raniere, and defense attorney Marc Agnifilo. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
NXIVM
Sex cult leader, facing life sentence, regrets nothing October 26, 2020 | 2:30 PM
Peter Madsen
Danish submarine killer briefly escapes from prison October 20, 2020 | 12:30 PM
A photo released by the Peruvian government shows the figure of a feline on a hillside in Nazca, Peru, this month.Credit...Johny Islas/Peru's Ministry of Culture-Nasca-Palpa, via Associated Press
World
2,000-year-old cat etching found at Nazca Lines site in Peru October 19, 2020 | 2:43 PM
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Woman missing for 2 weeks found safe in Zion National Park October 19, 2020 | 1:05 PM
No Polish Navy divers were injured when the munition exploded under about 30 feet of water off Swinoujscie, Poland.Credit...Poznan Technical University, via Associated Press
World
World War II-era ‘earthquake bomb’ explodes in Polish waters October 15, 2020 | 3:33 PM
An Alaska Airlines plane takes off from Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California on May 12, 2020. - The airline and travel industries have been devasted by the coronavirus pandemic as Stay-at-Home orders in Los Angeles, which began in mid-March and were due to end in mid-May, have been extended to July. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Jetpack sighted again above Los Angeles, this time at 6,000 feet October 15, 2020 | 3:25 PM
Amy Cooper was publicly shamed and lost her job after an encounter in Central Park that reignited discussions about false accusations made against Black people to the police. Credit...Christian Cooper, via Associated Press
Amy Cooper
Amy Cooper made 2nd 911 call to falsely accuse Black bird-watcher October 14, 2020 | 12:49 PM
Anchorage, Alaska Mayor Ethan Berkowitz addresses the Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Berkowitz on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020 admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with a female reporter, three days after she made online allegations against the married official. (Bill Roth/Anchorage Daily News via AP)
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Anchorage mayor resigns after admitting to 'inappropriate' relationship with TV anchor October 14, 2020 | 10:03 AM
National
She was going into labor. But she had a bar exam to finish. October 13, 2020 | 1:36 PM
FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016, file photo, Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz addresses reporters at a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska. Berkowitz on Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, admitted to having an inappropriate relationship with a female reporter, three days after she made online allegations against the married Berkowitz. (AP Photos/Mark Thiessen, File)
Alaska
Anchorage mayor apologizes for ‘inappropriate messaging relationship’ with news anchor October 13, 2020 | 9:35 AM
Ocean Spray teamed up with a local car dealer to give Nathan Apodaca a pickup truck after his video went viral.
National
Millions of views and a gift truck later, Nathan Apodaca keeps the vibe going October 8, 2020 | 10:39 AM
In an undated image provided to The New York Times, Rocco Sapienza, 80, who died after another man pushed him during a dispute at a bar in New York State. When Sapienza noticed a fellow customer not wearing a face mask, he confronted him — the customer responded by swiftly pushing him to the ground, the police said. (via The New York Times) -- NO SALES; FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY WITH NYT STORY MASK DISPUTE DEATH BY TROY CLOSSON FOR OCT. 6, 2020. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED. --
Coronavirus
80-year-old is killed in upstate New York after asking bar patron to wear mask October 7, 2020 | 10:28 AM
Crime
Grandparents are kidnapped, taken to Canada, ransomed for cocaine or $3.5 million October 6, 2020 | 3:00 PM
John Joseph Yozviak, 38, and Mary Katherine Horton, 37.
Crime
Parents face murder charge in death of girl with severe lice October 5, 2020 | 12:26 PM
Politics
Watch Chris Cuomo's heated interview with Ted Cruz October 1, 2020 | 10:47 AM
Clare Bronfman arrives at federal court, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Bronfman, the Seagram's liquor fortune heir and a wealthy benefactor of Keith Raniere, the disgraced leader of self-improvement group NXIVM in upstate New York convicted of turning women into sex slaves who were branded with his initials, faces sentencing Wednesday in the federal conspiracy case. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
NXIVM
Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman sentenced for fraud in NXIVM sex trafficking case October 1, 2020 | 10:03 AM
A photo provided by the Sea View Koh Chang resort, of the Sea View Koh Chang resort on the island of Koh Chang in Thailand. Under Thailand’s criminal defamation law, an American man was arrested in September 2020, after posting a negative review about the resort. (Sea View Koh Chang via The New York Times)
Travel
American could face prison in Thailand after posting negative reviews of a resort September 28, 2020 | 1:10 PM