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If you know cats, you know they can be nothing but stubborn at times. So one fighting off a bear really shouldn’t come as a surprise, and that’s exactly what happened. A black bear wandered into the wrong backyard in British Columbia and got run off by the last thing it expected, a house cat. …

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A Virginia family has lost its year-long fight to keep a data center power line out of its backyard. This week, state regulators approved the route for new Dominion Energy transmission lines through their Ashburn neighborhood. That includes being run through the property of a woman who had planned to retire there. The decision cleared …

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Priced out of buying a home in New York City, one American family did something most people only daydream about. They moved to Italy and bought a house for about $13,000. Cassandra Tresl, her husband Alex Ninman, and their young daughter left New York for a small town in Italy’s Abruzzo region. That was a …

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A woman who works from home says her neighbors put a kiddie pool in the one spot guaranteed to drive her crazy, directly under her office window. The catch is that these aren’t random neighbors. They’re close friends, the sort who were in her wedding. They also have an entire acre of land to work …

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A backyard s’more cookout in California took a scary turn when a small fire ended up burning two children. The tabletop device used suddenly shot flames toward the kids and caught their clothing on fire. Both were hurt badly enough that they needed to be airlifted to a regional burn center. A father who rushed …

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An 83-year-old woman died in the place she loved, her garden, doing what she loved the most: taking care of it. Martha Irene Van Egmond was found dead on Saturday at her home in Bolton, Mississippi, after spending time among her flowerbeds. According to WLBT, the Hinds County coroner believes she died from heat exposure …

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President Trump’s new executive order on regenerative farming has been pitched as a win for soil, farmers, and even American health in general. But what does it mean for the food you actually eat? The order is actually built around fuel and specific farming methods, but the effect it’ll have on your grocery cart is …

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It started with the smell of gas. A crew installing fiber-optic cable on Hiram Lane had hit a buried gas line, and around 3:20 p.m. on Thursday, June 25, someone called 911. Crews got there fast. Then, within about two minutes of their arrival and before anyone could shut the gas off, it ignited. A …

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A package showed up at a southern Indiana home, and with it, an Amazon contractor. But instead of pulling in the driveway to deliver a package, they decided to ruin the freshly-cut lawn with some heinous tire tracks. A doorbell camera caught the whole thing. She then dropped the package at the door. Then she …

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A necklace may not be much to fight over, but it all depends on who it belongs to. This one, according to a Reddit post, belonged to a 23-year-old man’s grandmother. It was the one she wore every single day, and before she died, she made it clear who she wanted to have it. That …

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