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The Independent

The pound was boosted by data showing retail sales ticked higher last month, after a boost from the Euro 2024 football tournament.

FTSE 100 slips amid strength in sterling after strong UK retail sales

 A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public. Auckland City Mission told reporters on Wednesday that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets — which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers. New Zealand's police have opened a criminal investigation. The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take...

Food bank unknowingly distributes candy made from meth

Red Lodge, MT

 Authorities euthanized a black bear in Montana after it mauled a three-year-old girl near Yellowstone National Park on Sunday.The incident happened about 10pm at a private campground south of Red Lodge, Montana. The child was taken to a hospital in Billings, about 62 miles away.Authorities with the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) set up a trap at the campsite on Sunday night and worked with the campground owner to evacuate the site by Monday morning. More traps and snares were set when the campground was fully evacuated.Officials captured the bear on the afternoon of 12 August and it...

Black bear mauls 3-year-old girl in tent just north of Yellowstone National Park

Businesses claim checks on food and plants have caused higher costs

Post-Brexit border controls slammed as ‘chaotic’ as system charges customers for checks that never took place

California State

 A rare deep-sea oarfish was discovered floating at La Jolla Cove, off the coast of California, by a group of kayakers on Saturday, 10 August.The creature, which can grow up to 36ft long, is only the 20th fish of its kind to have washed up in the state since 1901, according to Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist and fish expert Ben Frable.In some cultures, the sighting of an oarfish is considered an omen of natural disasters.This creature was discovered two days before a 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck California.

Rare ‘Doomsday fish’ considered ‘bad omen’ found by kayakers

Missouri State

A Missouri woman has been arrested on charges alleging she orchestrated a scheme to fraudulently sell Elvis Presley’s Graceland property in Memphis

Woman charged with trying to defraud Elvis Presley's family through sale of iconic Graceland

A century-old rail lift bridge that crosses the U.S.-Canada border has collapsed

Rail bridge collapses on US-Canada border

Canton, OH

Canton, MI

 A man in Canton Township, Michigan, allegedly shot and killed his neighbor because the man's daughter touched his mulch. Nathan Morris, 35, was killed just before noon on Saturday. "On Saturday, while taking a stroll with his family in his neighborhood, his daughter touched the mulch of one of the neighbors," according to the Michigan GOP in a statement by RNC National committeewoman Hima Kolanagireddy. "The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family. Nathan sent his family home and said that he would try and diffuse the situation, but instead was shot and killed."According to the...

Father shot dead by neighbor in argument over daughter touching ‘mulch’ on property

Ohio State

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The Lantern

On Tuesday, licensed Ohio dispensaries began legally selling non-medical marijuana to consumers; however, the drug’s possession, growth and/or usage are still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus. Credit: Jefferee Woo/Tampa Bay Times/TNS [Original caption: Four citizen-led petitions with proposals to update Dallas’ charter hit the 20,000 valid signature threshold to make it on the Nov. 5 election ballot, including one that would ban police officers from arresting or citing people carrying less than four ounces of marijuana.] As of Tuesday, students 21 and older can now legally purchase marijuana in Ohio.

Dispensary sales of recreational marijuana began Tuesday; possession and usage still prohibited on Ohio State’s campus

Gymnast Rhys McClenaghan and swimmer Jack McMillan said they are proud of their success and support each other in any way they can.

‘Times are changing’ – NI Olympians speak about coming together as one

An accountancy firm raised the alarm on social media warning others of the scam

Fake HMRC scam letters target small business owners in latest attack

 Remarkable new scientific research at Stonehenge has revealed an extraordinary new mystery. Mineralogical tests on the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument show that this central rock, known as the altar stone, was brought to Stonehenge from the far north of Scotland.The altar stone is arguably the most ritually important stone in Stonehenge, because it is the rock that marks the intersection of the prehistoric temple’s two most important celestial alignments – the winter solstice sunrise to summer solstice sunset alignment, and the summer solstice sunrise to winter solstice sunset alignment. It’s already known that some...

Mystery of Stonehenge deepens after ‘jaw-dropping’ discovery

One mom said her two sons became ill after ingesting products from former councilman’s store

City councilman jailed for six years, forfeiting monster truck and $1.9m, for selling drugs

 Hannah Jacobs' mother paid tribute to her "vivacious" daughter after an inquest concluded that the 13-year-old, who had a severe dairy allergy, died after drinking a Costa Coffee hot chocolate following a “failure to follow the processes in place to discuss allergies."The teenager suffered an “immediate reaction” after drinking the beverage, which should have been made with soya milk, while out with her mother in February 2022.In a statement read by her legal team, Abimbola Duyile called for better awareness of allergens in the food industry."It is clear to me that although the food service industry and medical professionals are required to have allergy training, the training is really not taken seriously enough," she said.

Listen: Hannah Jacobs’ mother makes heartbreaking statement after inquest

A 14-car convoy was reportedly part of the security detail protecting the couple alongside the vice president

Inside the ring of steel protecting Harry and Meghan as they tour Colombia

Bebe King, six, Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, were stabbed to death at the class

Yoga instructor who tried to save children in Southport rushed back to hospital

Springfield, IL

President Joe Biden has signed a proclamation to establish a national monument to commemorate the 1908 race riot in Springfield, Ill

Biden signs order to establish 1908 Springfield race riot monument as he looks to burnish legacy

Cody, WY

A reporter at a small local newspaper has resigned after a competitor discovered he was using artificial intelligence to write stories and fabricate quotes.A quote from Wyoming's governor and a local prosecutor were the first things that seemed off to Powell Tribune reporter CJ Baker. Then, it was some of the phrases in the stories that struck him as nearly robotic.The dead giveaway, though, that a reporter from a competing news outlet was using generative artificial intelligence to help write his stories came in a June 26 article about the comedian Larry the Cable Guy being chosen as the grand...

Reporter caught using artificial intelligence to create fake quotes and stories

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Total Apex Sports & Entertainment

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

The mother of Natasha Ednan-Laperouse, who died in 2016 after eating sesame in a baguette, said she wanted more support from Government.

Government says it is ‘too busy’ to appoint allergy tsar – charity co-founder

The FTSE 250 commercial recruitment firm has already warned it was set for a ‘subdued summer’.

Hays set to reveal profit slump amid tough recruitment market

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