Since before the age of dinosaurs it has burrowed unbothered beneath the monsoon-soaked soils of remote northeast India — unknown to science and mistaken by villagers as a deadly, miniature snake.
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Dog adoption lottery winners taking puppies found in a suitcase in Ohio to their new homes
Six bulldog-mix puppies found in a suitcase next to a trash bin in Ohio now have new homes. Winners of a lottery to adopt the puppies and their mother picked them up at an animal shelter near Toledo on Tuesday. The Blade newspaper in Toledo (http://bit.ly/KckEEX ) reports that one family chosen to adopt the dogs drove
China Overtakes India as Top Gold Consumer
China took over from India as the world’s top consumer of gold in the first quarter, cementing expectations that China will be the dominant buying force in the gold market in 2012. [!] Report this news Processing your request, Please wait....
200-year-old shipwreck found in Gulf of Mexico
An oil company exploration crew’s chance discovery of a 200-year-old shipwreck in a little-charted stretch of the Gulf of Mexico is yielding a trove of new information to scientists who say it’s one of the most well-preserved old wrecks ever found in the Gulf. “When we saw it we were all just astonished because it was
Police: 5 found dead in Oregon in apparent murder-suicide
Police were investigating the deaths of three Oregon children and their parents as an apparent murder-suicide Wednesday after authorities found the bodies of the children and their mother at a burned home and then that of their father in a car hours later. Authorities have not identified the victims, and police say they don’t have other
Newlywed in wedding dress found fatally stabbed in Burbank home
A newlywed who was found fatally stabbed in her wedding dress Sunday afternoon was murdered in what police are calling a domestic incident. Estrella Carrera, 26, was found stabbed to
2 charged with murder in killings of Florida teens whose bodies were found engulfed in flames
Authorities say two men have been charged with first-degree murder in the killings of two teenagers whose bodies were found engulfed in flames along a central Florida trail. The Orlando Sentinel says 30-year-old Jesse Brandon Davis and 31-year-old Hector Manuel Rodriguez also have been charged with kidnapping in the deaths of 16-year-old Nicholas Presha and 18-year-old
Man accused of more than a dozen stabbings in 3 states found guilty of murder in Michigan
A man suspected of fatally stabbing five men and wounding nine others in and around a Michigan city two summers ago was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the first case to go to trial. Jurors rejected the insanity defense put forth for Elias Abuelazam, finding him guilty of stabbing 49-year-old Arnold Minor in August 2010