June 19, 2013
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Associated Press Kelly Thorvalson, manager of the Sea Turtle Hospital at the South Carolina Aquarium, moves a loggerhead sea turtle stunned by the cold off New England to a tank in the aquarium Jan. 14 in Charleston, S.C. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced on Friday it was designating about 175 miles of shoreline along the Carolinas' coast as habitat critical to the recovery of the threatened turtles.
Carolinas called sea turtle haven
CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal agency is designating 740 miles of beaches from North Carolina to Mississippi as critical habitat for loggerhead sea turtles, including 175 miles in the Carolinas. W...
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Associated Press Rebecca Levey, mother of 10-year-old twin girls, sits in the girls' bedroom March 4 in New York. Levey, who also runs a tween video review site called KidzVuz.com and blogs about technology and education issues, explains that children need to understand the pitfalls of carelessly sharing personal information online.
Monitoring your kid’s activity on Facebook? That is so 2009.
WASHINGTON — After Friendster came MySpace. By the time Facebook dominated social media, parents had joined the party, too. But the online scene has changed - dramatically, as it turns out - and th...
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Associated Press The 1902 Kelch Rocaille Egg sits on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Feb. 19 in Houston as part of the largest private collection of items in the United States from Russian artisan Peter Carl Faberge. The Kelch egg was created by Michael Perchin, one of Faberge's head workmasters.
Couple puts Faberge collection on display
HOUSTON — It began 10 years ago while on a quest for French chandeliers. Instead, Dorothy McFerrin bought what she believed to be an Easter egg created by the famed Russian artisan Peter Carl Faber...
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Ships out of service longer than expected
MIAMI — Carnival Cruise Lines says the Carnival Triumph will be out of service longer than first expected after it was crippled by an engine fire in the Gulf of Mexico last month, leaving 4,200 peo...
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Lion takes on AirAsia with record jet orders
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Indonesia’s top discount carrier, which catapulted into the global aviation spotlight with record deals to buy Airbus and Boeing planes, is taking the battle for Asia’s bud...
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Woman sets fire to snake, which sets fire to home
TEXARKANA, Texas — Authorities say a northeast Texas woman recently learned a hard lesson: Don’t try to kill a snake by setting it on fire. The woman was cleaning the yard outside a home near Te...
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Associated Press Biologists with the state Division of Natural Resources take several measurements of an orphaned bear cub before placing her with her new foster family March 13 in Randolph County, W.Va. The cub was found near the Braxton-Webster County line.
Orphaned bear cub gets foster mom
ELKINS, W.Va. — Only an occasional peep escaped from the cardboard box a group of people had carried through knee-deep snow up a steep mountainside in Randolph County. Inside the box was an orph...
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Legoland to announce expansion
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — The world’s largest Legoland theme park will expand this summer to include a new ride and interactive play area based on the company’s popular Legends of Chima product line. ...
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Free things in Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM — The Dutch capital has plenty to celebrate this year, most notably the April 13 reopening of the magnificent Rijksmuseum after 10 years of renovations and, after a shorter facelift, the ...
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Knife found in back after 3 years
YELLOWKNIFE, NORTHWEST TERRITORIES — A Canadian man was just scratching what he thought was an old itch this week when it turned out to be a knife blade that had been buried in his back for almost ...
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