Tag: remains
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A Siberian tiger bit a man in China and remains on the loose, authorities say
HONG KONG — Authorities in northern China are searching for a wild tiger, after it attacked two men and left one of them needing surgery. Officials in Boli County in China’s northernmost province of Heilongjiang said in a statement that a villager was bitten on the left hand late Monday. The man’s injury was so…
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Skeletal remains in castle belong to Well-man from Norse saga, scientists say
For 800 years he was the stuff of Norse legend. Now scientists say skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle belong to the mysterious figure mentioned in a medieval saga. The new findings, using advanced DNA analysis and published in the journal iScience on Friday, connect the identity of the remains to a…
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A clearer picture of Helene’s fury begins to emerge as cut-off communities take stock of what remains
BAKERSVILLE, N.C. — In Mitchell County, a mountainous and remote North Carolina region made even more remote in the wake of Hurricane Helene, residents are trying to make sense of the unthinkable. “Where do we go?” asked Susan Allen Wroblewski, 70, who also calls Sarasota, Florida, home a few months out of the year. “We got…
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Book censorship slows but remains stubbornly high in 2024, American Library Association says
Two reports released Monday provide a mixed but compelling outlook on the wave of book removals and challenges as the annual Banned Books Week begins for schools, stores and libraries nationwide. The American Library Association found a substantial drop in 2024 so far in complaints about books stocked in public, school and academic libraries, and…
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Texas pipeline fire is out, vehicle and human remains are found
A fire that erupted from a Texas natural gas pipeline that was struck by a vehicle died down and was extinguished Thursday, the city of Deer Park said. A car struck the Energy Transfer pipeline on Monday and caused the fire, which sent a geyser of flame into the air and caused nearby homes to…
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Initial DNA test on remains believed to be of suspected Kentucky highway shooter is inconclusive
An initial DNA test on remains believed to be those of Joseph Couch, the suspect in the Interstate 75 shootings, was inconclusive, but an autopsy confirmed the cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot wound, state officials said. The soft tissue DNA test was “inconclusive due to extreme decomposition of the body,” and a further DNA…