Representative image of Florida Keys from Canva In 1956, a physician from Florida purchased a 7.9-acre island in the Keys at a federal auction, believing he had acquired a rare piece of private land where he could one day build a home. The island, known as Snipe Key, came with residential zoning and a chain…
Representative Image (AI-generated) What happens when thousands of worn-out tires reach the end of the road? In Michigan, some of them found their way back onto one. In 2025, more than 7,000 scrap tires were recycled into rubber-modified asphalt used on approximately 0.8 miles of Ellsworth Road in Pittsfield Township. According to the Washtenaw County…
Corie Walsh/Image: Will county adult detention facility A US mother who allegedly killed her 2-year-old son had been discussing the high-profile Lindsay Clancy case with friends just hours before the child was found dead.Corie Walsh, 38, faces three counts of first-degree murder after her son Barrett, who was also known as “Bear”, was found hanging…
The photo of Arthur Lundeen duct-taped to his seat after his violent and racist outburst on a plane went viral. The man whose photo on an American Airlines flight went viral as he was duct-taped to the seat by the crew and the other passengers has been identified as 67-year-old Arizonan Arthur Lundeen. He was…
In the late 1920s, mule deer were brought to California’s Santa Catalina Island, but years later they have grown into an ecological problem that no one is able to contain. Twenty-two animals were brought to the island between 1928 and 1933 and by 1947, the population was about 2,500. Originally native to mainland Southern California,…
Representative Image of an old hotel built around a renovated railway station near giant petrified redwood stumps (AI Generated Image) In the spring of 1923, John D. Coplen opened a hotel on his ranch in Florissant, Colorado, built around the town’s old railway station, which he had moved onto the property and renovated into a…
Image: Guinness World Records In 1985, Denise Bella Vlasis was simply a high-school student who happened to be good at singing and dancing. When her mother asked her to entertain children at a holiday party, she decided to perform a few songs by Madonna, whose career was rapidly taking off at the time. What seemed…
Representative Image of a historic schoolhouse surrounded by oak trees, showcasing restoration efforts after storm damage (AI Generated Image) In February 2021, two oak trees fell onto the Mark Prairie Schoolhouse in Clackamas County, Oregon, crushing the roof and damaging parts of the walls of the 1879 building. The schoolhouse had been built on land…
When Hurricane Matthew struck Florida in October 2016, New Smyrna Beach faced winds of more than 90 miles per hour and water levels around four feet above normal. Along the coast, those conditions put shoreline protection to a serious test. But one demonstration site emerged with an unexpected result. A living shoreline project supported by…
In 2018, a University of Hawaii study in Honolulu found that a planted green roof could stay noticeably cooler than a conventional white roof, particularly during the hottest part of the day. The research compared an existing white rooftop with a green roof covered in sedum plants, recording temperatures at the roof surface and in…