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An LSU undergraduate missed out on a life-changing $1 million (£760,000) prize on national television after missing two field goal attempts during ESPN’s College GameDay broadcast in Baton Rouge. The high-stakes challenge saw sports analyst and former NFL punter Pat McAfee offer $500,000 from his own money. Show sponsor Home Depot then matched the amount,…

The organization is developing a comprehensive master plan that will determine how the building can be restored, adapted and maintained over the long term. On an island shaped by storms, tides and generations of coastal life, one old hotel is getting a chance to tell its story all over again. According to an online report…

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…

3100 Sonoma Mountain Rd, Sonoma A huge 1,100-acre estate high on the slopes of Sonoma Mountain has sold for $38.5 million (£29.2 million), setting a record for the highest residential property sale ever recorded in California’s Sonoma County. The large agricultural property, known as The Summit and located at 3100 Sonoma Mountain Road, was bought…

‘Britain’s Yellowstone’: restoration project aims to take the greed out of land acquisition A nature restoration company has bought 7,500 acres of Northumbrian moorland for £8.5 million, starting a large rewilding project that aims to eventually hand the land to a charity or local community once investors have been repaid. The purchase of Emblehope Moor…

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…

Judge Tanya Chutkan orders Trump administration to give 48-hour notice before work on 250ft Arlington arch. A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to notify the court at least 48 hours before carrying out any work at the site of a proposed 250-foot triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery.US District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued…

Islamic Center of San Diego. (AP Photo) The FBI warned the parents of one of the teenage suspects about his concerning comments regarding school shootings on the dark web just days before a shooting at a California mosque left three people dead, according to a lawsuit filed by his mother.According to the Associated Press, federal…