The Summary A nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton sold for a record $44.6 million at auction Wednesday. Sotheby’s, which handled the sale, described the fossil as the best-preserved Stegosaurus specimen of its size ever found. The buyer’s identity was not publicly disclosed. A 150-million-year-old, nearly complete Stegosaurus skeleton sold for a record $44.6 million at auction … Read more
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The body of award-winning Portland chef Naomi Pomeroy, who drowned in a tragic tubing accident over the weekend, was recovered Wednesday after a multi-day search, officials said. Pomeroy, 49, was tubing Saturday with two others in the Willamette River near Corvallis, when she was suddenly pulled under the water after getting caught on a snag. … Read more
A man who was arrested near a Republican National Convention security zone Monday was concealing a firearm in a “tactical” backpack, police said. The arrest took place about 1 p.m. on the 1200 block of North 11th Street, the Milwaukee Police Department said in a statement. Police determined the 21-year-old man did not have a … Read more
LAS VEGAS — The Mirage is about to vanish from the Las Vegas Strip. Gambling ends and the doors close Wednesday at the iconic tropical island-themed hotel-casino that opened in 1989 with a fire-spewing volcano outside, and Siegfried & Roy’s lions and dolphins inside. Frenzied final days have seen standing-room crowds wagering to win $1.6 … Read more
A foreign policy specialist who once worked for the CIA and on the White House National Security Council (NSC) has been indicted on U.S. charges she worked as an unregistered agent of South Korea’s government in exchange for luxury goods and other gifts. Sue Mi Terry advocated South Korean policy positions, disclosed nonpublic U.S. government … Read more
Archaeologists recently discovered five musket balls at Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts and traced them back to the event marked in history as “the Shot Heard ’Round the World,” which precipitated the American Revolutionary War in 1775, park officials said. The 249-year-old musket balls were discovered by archaeologists doing “compliance activities” in preparation … Read more
Everybody poops, but how often people go could reveal a lot about their long-term health, according to research published Tuesday in the journal Cell Reports Medicine. The study of more than 1,400 healthy adults found that people who pooped less frequently also had signs of decreased kidney function. People on the other end of the … Read more
Residents who evacuated their homes Tuesday amid flooding were allowed to return after an inspection of the Nashville Reservoir dam in Illinois determined it was safe, authorities said. Two failures of the dam had earlier prompted authorities to urge hundreds of people to evacuate. On Tuesday morning, the Washington County Emergency Management Agency issued an … Read more
Jack Black announced that Tenacious D, his rock band with longtime friend Kyle Gass, would cancel its remaining tour dates after Gass made a joke on stage about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. At a concert held in Sydney on Sunday, the duo celebrated Gass’ birthday with a cake. According to video … Read more