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Bradley Carlisle, a 37-year-old community theatre actor from suburban Atlanta, has become the first professional Santa Claus in the US with Down syndrome. He was also inducted as an honorary member of the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame after completing one of the largest Christmas performer schools in the US in late August. From…

Spending half a million dollars on a house makes sense. So does dropping that on a condo or an investment property. But what if it’s used for a ‘beach key’? On Martha’s Vineyard, an island off the south coast of Massachusetts, people are laying down $650,000, but not for the love of the vineyard. Not…

At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren and teenagers, were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a ravine on the mountainous Fogo island in Cape Verde, local media and officials said Sunday.The crash took place late Saturday (local time) on the Campanas de Cima mountain road in northern Fogo. The bus veered off…

After a 25-acre Lake Erie wetland was reconnected A restored 25-acre coastal wetland on the southern shore of western Lake Erie was used continuously by millions of aquatic animals after it was reconnected to nearby waterways, according to a four-year acoustic monitoring study led by researchers at the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The scientific…

I-17 Improvement Project using foam glass aggregate as a new innovative construction material Engineers in Arizona have used an unusual material to expand a major interstate: tens of thousands of tonnes of crushed recycled glass. During the expansion of Interstate 17 north of Phoenix, construction crews used ultra-lightweight foam glass aggregate at 19 locations along…

Loretta Thornton says noise and fumes have affected her quality of life, while her power bill has doubled. (ABC News: Bradley McLennan) After serving in the US military during the Gulf War, veteran Loretta Thornton settled in a wooded home in Memphis, Tennessee. Living with post-traumatic stress disorder, she named her house ‘Serenity’ and spent…

Jaguar Land Rover may cut up to 4,000 jobs as it targets £1.7bn in savings amid mounting financial pressures. Tata Motors-owned Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is opening a voluntary redundancy programme that could see around 4,000 jobs cut over the next two years, according to a UK media report. The development comes nearly a year…

For hunters across Kentucky, the search for land to hunt has always meant a precarious dance with property owners. They never knew if they could go to the same place the following year. All because of the 30-day opt-out agreement. These temporary agreements could be cancelled with just 30 days’ notice. For families, this was…

Lester trained women to work as typesetters at a time when the field was largely dominated by men. (Photos: Found SF) For 138 years, the remains of Lisle Lester, a Fond du Lac woman who became known as a journalist, publisher, actress and advocate for women’s rights, remained unclaimed in a New York mortuary. Now,…

US sanctions on Iran undermined by $9B in funds still passing through American banks (AI-generated image) The US is trying to squeeze Iran out of the global financial system. But a Wall Street Journal investigation has found that billions of dollars linked to Iran still pass through US banks each year, exposing a striking weakness…