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Bob Barker’s historic Los Angeles mansion sells for $6.325 million after renovationPhoto credit (L-R): Wikipedia; Google maps street view A historic Hollywood Hills home once owned by longtime ‘The Price Is Right’ host Bob Barker has changed hands again, this time after an extensive restoration by interior designer Julia Dempster. The 1929 Spanish Colonial Revival…

A fake wedding to facilitate marriage-based Green Card in Massachusetts. A major fake marriage ring has been busted in Massachusetts that was operating for decades, performing as many as 18 to 20 sham marriages every year, charging between $38,000 and $40,000 per marriage. These marriages were part of a larger Green Card fraud as spouses…

Image Credit: AI Generated A Massachusetts coastal property became the centre of a legal dispute after its owner took out a $3.85 million mortgage on a house standing less than 14 feet from an eroding bluff above Cape Cod Bay. John Bonomi bought the Wellfleet property for $5.5 million in November 2021, but years of…

1890 Sherlock Holmes first edition found in charity shop sells for £11,520 (Image Credit: Wikipedia) A rare first-edition copy of The Sign of Four, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels, sold for £11,520 after being discovered among book donations at an Oxfam charity shop in Shrewsbury, England. According to Oxfam’s official press…

Black couple in Queens receive text message from broker that they believe was meant for the apartment owners. A couple has filed a lawsuit against a real estate brokerage company, an agent and several property owners after they said they were racially discriminated against when they were seeking to rent an apartment in Queens. A…

A Montana conservation group purchased a 70,000-acre ranch formerly owned by Texas billionaires, bringing its total land holdings to more than half a million acres. American Prairie announced the acquisition of Anchor Ranch in central Montana in 2025. The nonprofit aims to create the largest nature preserve in the Lower 48.According to Montana Public Radio,…

The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle (right) The Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, has said she was informed about “disturbing allegations” against her estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr, in 2018, after a letter containing the claims was sent to the Metropolitan Police in London.According to the BBC, Meghan said the letter was subsequently shared with…

French authorities announced the deployment of around 70,000 law enforcement personnel, including gendarmes (military police), as the country braced for potential violence during another weekend of student-led protests.According to French interior minister Laurent Nuñez, who announced the security measures, elite police units would help protect public buildings, including city halls, after rioters set fire to…

A rare early 19th-century Pennsylvania Dutch folk art drawing showing George Washington and an American eagle with 13 stars has sold at auction for $226,600 (£175,000). The artwork had remained hidden in a plain manila folder for more than six decades. The double-page ink and watercolour fraktur bookplate was made in Pennsylvania in the early…

Family members blocked the eastern half of Godfrey’s Pond Road with tree trunks, restricting the club’s access. (AI image) A New York family that owned half of a private road beside its 45-acre property has lost ownership of that portion to a neighbouring recreational club with around 1,500 members. The two sides had shared the…