BOSTON (AP) — Boston’s famous Skinny House has sold for a nice fat price. Zillow reports that the home that hit the market in August for $1.2 million sold Thursday for $1.25 million. Real estate agency CL Properties posted on Facebook that the home went under agreement for over list price in less than one week. A plaque on the…
CYBERSPACE (AP) – Remember the 1983 Cabbage Patch Craze? The forerunner to store stampedes for must-have gifts like Furby’s and Tickle Me Elmo may end up making the doll a Hall of Fame member. Cabbage Patch Kids are among the playthings being voted on for induction into the National Toy Hall of Fame. Also on the ballot are the Fisher…
Graveside service for Belinda Denise Burton, age 63, will be Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 12:00 PM at Parkway Memorial Gardens. Ms. Burton died Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at her residence. Visitation for Ms. Burton will be Monday, September 20, 2021 from 10:00 AM until 6:00 PM at Mercer Brothers Funeral Home. For additional information, contact Mercer Brothers Funeral Home…
LAKE WORTH, Texas (AP) — A military training jet has crashed in a neighborhood near Fort Worth, Texas, injuring the two pilots and damaging three homes. Authorities say both pilots managed to eject from the plane before it crashed Sunday in Lake Worth, which is just west of Fort Worth. Police Chief J.T. Manoushagian said at a news conference that…
NEW YORK (AP) — A very special document will be auctioned off later this year — a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution. Sotheby’s announced Friday — appropriately on Constitution Day — that in November it will put up for auction one of just 11 surviving copies of the Constitution from the official first printing produced for the delegates to…
MADRID (AP) — A volcano on Spain’s Atlantic Ocean island of La Palma has erupted after a weeklong buildup of seismic activity, prompting authorities to speed up evacuations for some 1,000 people. Some lava flows are now creeping toward isolated homes. The Canary Islands Volcanology Institute reported the eruption Sunday on Cumbre Vieja, which last erupted in 1971. Huge plumes…
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Court of Appeal has ruled that doctors can prescribe puberty-blocking drugs to children under 16. That overturns a lower court’s decision that a judge’s approval should be needed because children considering gender reassignment are unlikely to be able to give informed consent to the treatment. The appeals court disagreed, ruling Friday that it was up to…
NEW YORK (AP) — Chris Rock on Sunday said he has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and sent a message to anyone still on the fence: “Get vaccinated.” The 56-year-old comedian wrote on Twitter: “Hey guys I just found out I have COVID, trust me you don’t want this. Get vaccinated.” Rock has previously said he was vaccinated. Appearing on “The…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A trailblazing tourist trip to orbit has ended safely with a splashdown in the Atlantic. A SpaceX capsule carrying four people parachuted into the ocean just before sunset Saturday, right off the Florida coast where their chartered flight began three days ago. The all-amateur crew was the first to circle the world without a professional…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine boxing icon and senator Manny Pacquiao says he will run for president in the 2022 elections. Pacquiao accepted the nomination of his PDP-Laban party at its national convention on Sunday, saying that the Filipino people have been waiting for a change of government. The 42-year-old boxer added “I am a fighter, and I will always…
