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Houssein Hamze was sleeping in his home one night when he woke up to the sound of a dog barking. Alarmed, he got up to check on the dog, his first rescue pet and moments later, a bomb dropped next to his home with a piece of shrapnel landing just where he had been sleeping…
The brothers had some business experience at home because their parents run a local tree service company. A bike ride to a local dump led Massachusetts brothers Kirk and Jacob McKinney to start a business that has grown into a multimillion-dollar junk-removal company.Kirk was a teenager when he found a pair of working speakers at…
An anonymous donor has given Cincinnati $1.8 million to restore 228 acres of forest at French Park in Amberley Village. The five-year project is being described as the city’s largest reforestation effort in a park in nearly 100 years. According to WVXU, the restoration will focus on removing invasive plants, planting native trees, improving wildlife…
Most people who have heard of giant sequoias can usually name one tree: the General Sherman Tree. Far fewer realise that another extraordinary giant stands only a short distance away in California’s Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The General Grant Tree does not hold the title of the world’s largest tree, yet its dimensions…
A Florida neighbourhood dispute over dog poop allegedly spiralled into a bizarre confrontation involving thrown feces, a physical fight and a child’s metal scooter. Trey Decloedt, 35, was arrested by Lake County Sheriff’s deputies on August 8 after an altercation with his neighbour in Leesburg, Florida, according to reports citing the arrest affidavit. The dispute…
19-year-old Alli Renee Singh died after the car in which she was traveling plunged into ocean in Santa Cruz, California. A 19-year-old US Santa Cruz student, Alli Renee Singh, was killed when a car that she was not driving plunged off Santa Cruz’s iconic West Cliff Drive on August 13. The fatal crash took place…
In 1998, a Tucson resident named Brad Lancaster took a saw to the curb outside his home and cut six openings into it, creating small channels to divert rainwater off the street and into the space between the sidewalk and the road. Cutting into a public curb without permission was against city rules, and Lancaster…
Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa says US should replace H-1B visa with a startup visa now. Indian-American investor Vivek Wadhwa said the US should absolutely end the H-1B visa program as it is doing more harm than good to both the US and India. Wadhwa said the visa program once played an important role in making…
In a remote corner of Southcentral Alaska, state biologists carried out a dramatic restoration: they treated an entire lake with rotenone, a plant-derived piscicide, to wipe out an invasive population of northern pike. After the treatment, post-surveys confirmed the pike were gone. The next step was rebuilding what had been lost. In June 2013, the…
3-month residency renewal option for domestic worker introduced in Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia has rolled out a more flexible residency permit renewal system for domestic workers, allowing employers to issue or renew iqamas for periods as short as three months through the Absher platform.The new service, introduced by the Ministry of Interior through the General…
