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Former sports superstar Bo Jackson helped pay for the funerals of the 19 children and two teachers killed in the Uvalde school massacre in May, revealing himself as one of the previously anonymous donors who covered costs for families after one of the deadliest classroom shootings in US history.
Jackson, whose rare success in both the NFL and Major League Baseball made him one of the greatest and most marketable athletes of the 1980s and 1990s, told the AP that he felt compelled to support the victims’ families after the loss of so many children. He said he was trying to “put a little sunshine in someone’s cloud, a very dark cloud.”
“I know every family there probably works their butts off just to do what they do,” he said. “The last thing they needed was to shell out thousands of dollars for something that never should have happened.” Jackson said he felt a personal connection to the city he’s driven through many times. Uvalde has been a regular stop for a bite to eat or groceries before a long drive farther west to visit a friend’s ranch on hunting trips.
Three days after the attack, Jackson and a close friend flew to Uvalde, briefly met with Gov. Greg Abbott, and presented a check for $170,000 with an offer to pay for all funeral expenses. Abbott announced it as an anonymous donation during a May 27 news conference.
Other fundraising efforts have since raised millions to assist families, but
Jackson’s donation was an early point of light for the grieving families. And though Jackson suggested he hasn’t kept it a secret, he hadn’t spoken publicly about what moved him to make the trip to Uvalde and the donation until this week. “Uvalde is a town that sticks in your mind. Just the name,” Jackson said. “I don’t know a soul there. It just touched me.”6 Shop In RI
Decrepit Zero-Bedroom Home Sells for ’Head-Scratcher’ Price
nine-room home as having just one bathroom, with a kitchen that Insider describes as “[appearing] to date to World War II.” Compass real estate agent Todd Wiley tells Insider the home was snatched up in a conservatorship sale, and that the most they’d hoped for was around $1.6 million—until “the human spirit of competition took over” at the live auction where the home sold, leading to the “head-scratcher” of a closing price. The listing also deems the home “the worst house on the best block,” and indeed, the Real Deal notes that updated residences of that size in that neighborhood can fetch $4 million and higher. But Wiley tells Insider $2.8 million is more the norm, and that fixer-uppers like this tend to fall more in the $1.4 million to $1.6 million range. Redfin notes that last month, the median home price in Noe Valley was just over $2 million. Of the home with no bedrooms, which is zoned for up to two residences, the Real Deal simply notes: “Welcome to the Bay Area housing market, where it seems that nothing—not a pandemic, not growing safety concerns, nor soaring construction costs—can arrest surging prices for even the most derelict of properties.” “Peak San Francisco,” one Instagram account dedicated to profiling extravagant, odd, or otherwise eyebrow-raising homes snarks. A commenter on that post wryly adds: “That would go for $450 a night on airbnb.”
When Creditor Comes Calling, Cruise Ship Flees to Bahamas
Passengers aboard the Crystal Symphony cruise ship were supposed to dock in Miami on a Saturday in January. Instead, they ended up in the Bahamas after the US issued an arrest warrant for the ship, meaning it would be seized upon arrival. The ship, owned by Crystal Cruises, changed course and sailed to Bimini after a US judge said a US marshal could board the ship and take it over due to a lawsuit over millions of dollars in unpaid fuel. “We all feel we were abducted by luxurious pirates,” one passenger posted to Facebook. Another said passengers were “scared” not knowing what was going to happen. They were ultimately ferried to Fort Lauderdale from Bimini
The long-running case of a former deep-sea treasure hunter marking his sixth year in jail for refusing to disclose the whereabouts of missing gold coins has hit yet another roadblock. Research If paying a $6,600-a-month mortgage on a rundown home that doesn’t have a single bedroom seems steep to you, at least one person doesn’t agree. Per Insider, someone has scooped up such a property in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood, paying $1.97 million for scientist Tommy Thompson has been the boarded-up abode described in its Compass held in contempt of court since Dec. listing as a “contractors special.” The house is 15, 2015, for that refusal. He’s also said to be a “fantastic opportunity” for someone incurring a daily fine of $1,000, per the who wants to take a chance on it and can pay
AP. A hearing held Monday in hopes of cash—likely required “due to its extreme helping draw the case to a conclusion deferred state,” per the listing. ended with a federal judge giving The listing describes the 2,800-square-foot,
Thompson two months to find a new attorney ahead of yet another hearing.
Thompson’s case dates to his discovery of the SS Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, in 1988. The gold rush-era ship sank in a hurricane off
South Carolina in 1857 with thousands of pounds of gold aboard, contributing to an economic panic.
Despite an investors lawsuit and a federal court order, Thompson, 69, still won’t cooperate with authorities trying to find 500 coins minted from some of the gold, according to court records, federal prosecutors, and Algenon Marbley, the judge who found Thompson in contempt. Thompson has previously said, without providing details, that the coins—valued at about $2.5 million— were turned over to a trust in Belize.
After Thompson failed to appear for a 2012 Ohio hearing to discuss the coins, US marshals eventually tracked a day later on a trip that was reportedly not fun due to inclement weather. him to Florida in 2015 and arrested Days prior to the diversion, Crystal him. Thompson pleaded guilty in April Cruises’ owner, Genting Hong Kong, 2015 to skipping that hearing and was filed for bankruptcy and the ultrasentenced to two years in prison and a luxury cruise line suspended all voyages. $250,000 fine. But his criminal sentence Peninsula Petroleum says Crystal Cruises has been delayed until the issue of the and Star Cruises, a sister line, owe it $4.6 gold coins is resolved. million in unpaid fuel bills dating to last year. “Peninsula has not been paid
Thompson, who’s gone through several attorneys, is currently housed in a federal detention center in Milan, Mich. Thompson said that he’s having trouble finding a secure phone or computer for the maritime necessities provided to the vessel, and therefore proceeds to arrest it,” the company says of the Crystal Symphony in its complaint. That ship alone is allegedly responsible for more than $1 million of the costs. Workers connection to discuss his case with aboard the ship say many of them don’t potential attorneys. know when they’ll get off. 6 Shop In RI
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Minor League Baseball Spacecraft Lands on Mars - 300 million mile journey
Team’s Logo Goes Viral A NASA spacecraft designed to burrow beneath the surface of Mars landed on Minor league the red planet Monday after a six-month, baseball teams 300 million-mile journey and a perilous, occasionally get a six-minute descent through the roselittle cheeky, but hued atmosphere. Flight controllers at a new Alabama NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in team is seeing Pasadena, California, leaped out of their merchandise seats and erupted in screams, applause, fly out the door after it decided to talk and laughter as the news came in. a little trash. Meet the Madison-based “Touchdown confirmed!” a flight controller announced. The three-legged InSight Rocket City Trash Pandas, which spacecraft reached the surface after being slowed by a parachute and braking unveiled their logo on Saturday—a engines, the space agency said. Updates were coming in via radio signals that take raccoon lifting off in a trash-can like more than eight minutes to cross the nearly 100 million miles between Mars and rocket. "The name has gone viral," Earth. What you need to know, per the AP: managing partner Ralph Nelson said. "We eclipsed over $100,000 worth of The plan called for the spacecraft to go from 12,300mph to zero in six minutes flat merchandise in the first couple of days. as it pierced the Martian atmosphere and settled on the surface. Everybody and their brother is writing that they want merchandise."Official “Landing on Mars is one of the hardest single jobs that people have to do in team colors are "Space Black, Rocket planetary exploration,” said InSight’s lead scientist, Bruce Banerdt. “It’s such a Red, Sky Blue and Trashcan Gray." difficult thing, it’s such a dangerous thing that there’s always a fairly uncomfortably large chance that something could go wrong.”
Life expectancy has fallen for a 3rd year Mars has been the graveyard for a multitude of space missions. Up to now, the in a row in US success rate at the red planet has been only 40%, counting every attempted flyby, orbital flight and landing by the US, Russia, and other countries since 1960. The In 1918, the double whammy of World US, however, has pulled off seven successful Mars landings in the past four deWar I and the worldwide flu pandemic cades, not counting InSight, with only one failed touchdown. No other country drove down American life expectancy has managed to set and operate a spacecraft on the dusty red surface. for a third year in a row. A century later, another triple-year decline has InSight was shooting for Elysium Planitia, a plain near the Martian equator that been recorded—and this time, suicide the InSight team hopes is as flat as a parking lot in Kansas with few, if any, rocks. and drug overdoses are major causes. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual report, US life expectancy dropped to 78 years This is no rock-collecting expedition. Instead, the stationary 800-pound lander will use its 6-foot robotic arm to place a mechanical mole and seismometer on the ground. The self-hammering mole will burrow 16 feet down to measure the planet’s internal heat, while the seismometer listens for possible quakes.and 7 months in 2017, down around a month from the year before, the AP Nothing like this has been attempted before on Mars, where no lander has dug reports. Men could expect to live 76.1 deeper than several inches, and no seismometer has ever worked. By examining years, and women 81.1. Public health the interior of Mars, scientists hope to understand how our solar system’s rocky experts called the statistics alarming, planets formed 4.5 billion years ago and why they turned out so different—Mars noting that early deaths among middle- cold and dry, Venus and Mercury burning hot, and Earth hospitable to life. aged people did the most to bring life expectancy down After 22 consecutivew InSight has no life-detecting capability, however. That will be left to future rovers. years of steady rises. NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, for instance, will collect rocks that will eventually be brought back to Earth and analyzed for evidence of ancient life.
As the second anniversary of Prince’s death passed his heirs have yet to collect a dollar of his estimated $200 million estate. Bankers, lawyers, and consultants have earned millions from it. The long saga to settle the estate provides a cautionary tale about dying withThe survivor of a Hawaii shark attack has had run-ins with some of nature’s fiercest predators before. Specificalout a will, as Prince did when he died of an accidental overdose at his suburban Minneapolis studio ly, Dylan McWilliams has previously suffered bites from both a bear and a venomous snake, according to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser. The 20-yearold was reportedly bitten by a 6- to 8-foot tiger shark in the waters off Kauai while treating himself to some much-deserved boogie boarding after days of helping out the island’s victims of recent historic flooding. Just months earlier, McWilliams had to get nine staples in his neck after he was woken up by an angry 280-pound black bear while sleeping outdoors at a Colorado summer camp. That shocking encounter alone was enough to land McWilliams in national news—he told People he had to fight off the bear as it dragged him some 12 feet. McWilliams said he used a similar tactic with the shark, which he gave a swift kick before swimming for his life back to shore. However, it’s probably for the best that McWilliams didn’t try that with the pygmy faded rattlesnake that bit him three years ago while on a hike in Utah. McWilliams walked away from what was luckily just a “dry bite,” with only enough venom to make him sick for a couple days. So what’s this guy’s deal with run-ins and terrifying animals? “I’m either really lucky or really unlucky,” he told the Star-Advertiser.
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What you may know: U2’s new album, Songs of Experience, came out in early December. What you may not know: Bono apparently almost died while making it. That’s per a new interview with Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner in which the U2 frontman doesn’t reveal exactly what happened, but notes he considers it an “extinction event.” He explains that such a happening for people “could be psychological or it could be physical,” and for him it was physical. He says it was in sync with the “political apocalypse” going on in the US and abroad and that “you get warning signs, and then you realize that you are not a tank.” Bono also talks about how this neardeath experience shaped the album. But what has raised more than a few eyebrows is his assessment in the interview of the current state of the industry for male musicians and the “rage” that should be at the
10 Most Polite Stars of 2017 center of rock music. “I think music has gotten very girly,” Bono notes. “And there are some good things about that, but hip-hop is the only place for young male anger at the moment—and that’s not good.” That remark has spurred online eyerolling, with Rebecca Fishbein noting at Jezebel that white of Junior Cotillions, a group that trains kids male musicians are “relegated only in ballroom dancing (as well as to “act and to releasing their rage at being the learn to treat others with honor, dignity, least oppressed members of sociand respect for better relationships,” per its ety via mediums like film, televiwebsite), has released its annual list of the sion, national lawmaking, company “best-mannered” celebrities in 2017. The CEOing, and Twitter-threading.” person who would most earn Miss Manners’ And for the Independent, Roisin nod of approval: pro golfer Rickie Fowler, O’Connor says Bono’s remarks who showed “consistently well-mannered “reduce hip-hop to the laziest posconduct both on and off the golf course,” the sible stereotype of ‘aggressive’ black NLJC said in a statement to USA Today. masculinity,” while his “pejorative” “We believe this year’s student nominations use of the word “girly” seems to ig(and our ultimate winners) are a reminder nore that some of U2’s biggest hits that, whether you are a celebrity, athlete, mu- have been romantic ballads. “Rock sician, or politician, America’s young people music never was, and never should are watching and they do value character.” be, simply a place to channel male Last year’s top spot went to gymnast Sim- anger,” O’Connor writes. one Biles. Rounding out the top 10 this year, in addition to Fowler: Game of Thrones fans are going to Aly Raisman, Gymnast have to wait a while for the final season—and it’s only going to be six epiDeshaun Watson, Houston Texans QB sodes long. HBO has confirmed that the final instalment of its biggest-ever Joanna Gaines, Fixer Upper star and soon-to-be mom of five hit won’t be released until some time in 2019. It will be shorter than previous series, though some episodes may Sadie Robertson, Duck Dynasty star be extra-long. Production of Season 8 began in October and is expected to David Beckham, Former pro soccer player wrap up in mid-2018. Producers say multiple endings will be filmed to Selena Gomez, Singer avoid leaks The move gives George RR Martin more time to finish the next Thomas Rhett, Country music performer book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series, though the HBO series is still Matt Kuchar, Pro Golfer expected to reveal the end of the saga before his final book is released. MarMeghan Markle, actress and soon-towife of Prince Harry be tin is also involved with five Game of Thrones prequels now in development, reports Entertainment Weekly.
Hawaii Shark Attack Victim Also Had Bear, Rattlesnake Run-Ins
“Game of Thrones” Won’t Return Until 2019... Final Season Will Only Have Six Episodes
Prince's $200M Estate
Remains Untouched on April 21, 2016, and the heirs can’t quit squabbling. Here’s a look at where things stand: Even though it’s been nearly two years since Prince died, the executor of the estate, Comerica Bank and Trust, can’t split the money among Prince’s six surviving siblings until the Internal Revenue Service and executor agree on the estate’s value when Prince died. It’s not clear when that might happen. The IRS and state of Minnesota are entitled to collect about half, though the estate can stretch out the payments over time. Court filings several months after Prince’s death suggested that it was worth around $200 million before taxes. The actual value remains one of the biggest secrets in the case, hidden in sealed and redacted documents. The actual valuation could have gone up or down since then. That’s because the various attorneys, accountants, and industry experts at that point had not yet finished appraisals and deals for the use of his music, videos, and assets including his Paisley Park studio. An eastern Minnesota teen who asked her celebrity crush Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson to prom got a huge surprise when he actually responded, per the AP. Stillwater Area High School senior Katie Kelzenberg asked the actor to "Rock" it with her at the school's May 5 prom in a Twitter video posted last week, the Pioneer Press reports. The self-proclaimed fan was dressed like The Rock in the video, sporting a black turtleneck, jeans, a gold necklace, and fanny pack. She also showed off her collection of Johnson-related merchandise, including a pillow, T-shirts, and an action figure. Johnson's recorded response was played over the school intercom Friday. A Warner Bros. repre-
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Teen's Prom But Still sentative contacted school officials ThursCame Up Big day about the surprise message, says a spokeswoman for the district. Johnson said he admires Kelzenberg's courage but that he won't be able to attend prom because he'll be in Hawaii filming Jungle Cruise. Instead, Johnson rented out a nearby movie theater on Saturday for Kelzenberg and more than 230 friends and family to watch his latest movie, Rampage. Johnson even covered the cost of snacks and drinks for the theater. "I couldn't believe it. I was so surprised," Kelzenberg says. "I just kept thinking, 'He saw me! He knows who I am!'" Kelzenberg says she became a fan of Johnson's five years ago. Her favorite movies of his include Central Intelligence and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. 4 Shop In RI
Three Michigan State University scientists have been let in on a secret that has persisted since 1879: the location of buried glass bottles that make up an experiment that has gone on for more than a century—and will likely continue until the dawn of a new century. The experiment started in the late 19th century by botanist William on April 21, 2016, and the heirs can’t quit squabbling. Here’s a look at where things stand: Even though it’s been nearly two years since Prince died, the executor of the
Beal, who had a question: How long do estate, Comerica Bank and Trust, can’t split the money among Prince’s six surviving seeds stay viable underground? It likely originated from a real-world headache: siblings until the Internal Revenue Service and executor agree on the estate’s value when Prince died.
If farmers regularly weeded their plots, It’s not clear when that might happen. The IRS and state of Minnesota are entitled how long would weeds keep popping up due to seeds already present in the dirt? to collect about half, though the estate can stretch out the payments over time. Court filings several months after Prince’s death suggested that it was worth around $200 million before taxes. The actual value remains one of the biggest secrets in the case,
To get at an answer, he buried 20 glass bottles that contained sand and 50 seeds hidden in sealed and redacted documents. The actual valuation could have gone up or down since then. That’s because the various attorneys, accountants, and industry experts at that point had not yet finished appraisals and deals for the use of his music, from each of 21 different weed species, videos, and assets including his Paisley Park studio. explains MSU plant biology professor
Frank Telewski, the current caretaker of sentative contacted school officials Thursthe experiment. day about the surprise message, says a spokeswoman for the district.
Beal returned to the location known only Johnson said he admires Kelzenberg's to him every five years, dug up a bottle, and determined whether the seeds inside courage but that he won't be able to attend prom because he'll be in Hawaii filming Jungle Cruise. Instead, Johnson rented out would still germinate. He handed off the experiment to a colleague in 1910, and a nearby movie theater on Saturday for Kelzenberg and more than 230 friends and family to watch his latest movie, Rampage. over the years the intervals at which a Johnson even covered the cost of snacks bottle was unearthed were extended to every 10 and then every 20 years. Only and drinks for the theater. "I couldn't believe it. I was so surprised," Kelzenberg says. "I just kept thinking, 'He saw me! He one seed is still reliably germinating: knows who I am!'" Kelzenberg says she
Verbascum blattaria. became a fan of Johnson's five years ago. Her favorite movies of his include Central Intelligence and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.
About half those seeds in the bottle dug up in 2000 sprouted. This year, Telewski looped three younger colleagues in on the secret. Marjorie Weber was one of them, and marveled at finding the bottle. “The last person to touch it was professor Beal, 140 years ago, you know, this person who was writing letters to
Darwin,” she says. Once back in the lab, the seeds were scattered onto potting soil, and they’re now just waiting. Four bottles remain buried, meaning the last will likely be put to the test in the year 2100. Couple Plans Lavish Wedding at Someone Else’s Mansion Without Permission Courtney Wilson and Shenita Jones had an elaborate wedding weekend planned at a luxurious Florida mansion over the weekend. Just one problem: The 16,313-square-foot The Hearst Connecticut Media editorial Southwest Ranches home belongs board asked a pointed question: “Can not to them, as they claimed it did we talk about all these bears in CT?” But in their online wedding invitation, while the board expressed concern about but to Nathan Finkel, son of early the 5,500-plus bear sightings in the state IHOP franchisee Abe Finkel, who inherited his father’s share and grew it this year—more than double the number to 200 locations before selling off most of his portfolio nearly a decade ago. from 10 years ago—it didn’t seem to anticipate the bears’ possible interest in That’s the year Finkel put the 7.5-acre estate on the market for $7.25 million. local Amazon deliveries. It remains unsold, and Wilson came to check it out, claiming to be interested in buying it, the town attorney tells the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Then, Or at least the interest of one black bear, months later, he asked Finkel if he could use the backyard for his wedding. who showed up on a Bristol resident’s Finkel said no and thought that was the end of that. porch this week and swiped one of her newly dropped-off boxes. “You Until, that is, Wilson allegedly showed up at the gate with a friend Saturday think @amazon gives replacements for morning, preparing to set up for the big day. They apparently believed the bear thieves?” Kristin Levine posted property to be abandoned, not realizing Finkel still lives there, the town on Facebook, including video of the attorney says. Asked to leave by Finkel, Wilson allegedly claimed it was God’s package pilferer sauntering off with the will that he hold his wedding there and refused to. Police finally arrived and box in his mouth. made him skedaddle, and he was not charged with a crime. Levine tells NBC Connecticut she got an alert on her home security’s camera Oldest Survivor of Pearl Harbor Attack Passes Away that Amazon had delivered the package, When Japanese warplanes began attacking Pearl Harbor, Clayton Schenkelbut before she could make it outside to berg volunteered to drive a train packed with torpedoes to safety. Then he retrieve it, she received another alert. got a rifle and began shooting back. ”He didn’t think it was anything special,” “I was ... taken aback because I wasn’t his son said. ”He had a job to do and he did it.” The Navy veteran, thought to expecting anyone else in my driveway,” be the oldest survivor of the 1941 attack, died in a senior care home in San she says. That’s when Levine reviewed Diego. He was 103. In his last year, his family said, Schenkelberg caught the her camera’s footage and saw the bear, coronavirus but didn’t become ill. About 50,000 US service members were on casually walking out of the camera’s Oahu on the day of the attack; about 2,400 were killed and 1,200 injured. No frame with her package. official count of survivors exists, but Patrick Schenkelberg said he was told by officials that his father was the oldest. Stuart Hedley, a 99-year-old fellow She notes she later found the box, survivor, said that was his understanding, too. which contained a delivery of Angel Soft lavender-scented toilet paper, in a When Schenkelberg was honored at events, he deflected. ”We’re still paying neighbor’s yard. “It was hysterical,” she our respects to those who didn’t make it,” he said. Schenkelberg stayed in the tells NBC. “I knew nothing in there was Navy for two decades longer. He and his wife had seven children. ”He was going to be irreplaceable, so it was a fun an outstanding gentleman, very humble, and always ready to lend a hand,” afternoon for sure.” NBC News notes Hedley said. ”I’m honored to have called him a friend.” In 2019, Schenkelberg that because the bear’s ears were clearly was the only Pearl Harbor survivor to attend the annual commemoration tagged, it means the bear has already had at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego. He received a standing ovation. interactions with state wildlife officials. First-person accounts are important to understanding such events, a muWhether it’s stolen other Amazon seum official said, adding, ”When that history is gone, the story will change.” deliveries in general, and TP deliveries The daughter of a serviceman stationed in Hawaii, who survived the attack in particular, is unclear. herself as a 10-year-old, said, ”It will be sad when everybody’s gone.”
California Could Be The First State to Pay Addicts to Stay Sober
Frustrated by out-of-control increases in drug overdose deaths, California’s leaders are trying something radical: They want the state to be the first to pay people to stay sober. The federal government has been doing it for years with military veterans, and research shows it is one of the most effective ways to get people to stop using drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, stimulants for which there are no pharmaceutical treatments available. It works like this: People earn small incentives or payments for every negative drug test over a period of time. Most people who complete the treatment without any positive tests can earn a few hundred dollars. It’s called “contingency management,” and Gov. Gavin Newsom has asked the federal government for permission to use tax dollars to pay for it through Medicaid. Meanwhile, a similar proposal has already passed the state Senate with no opposition and is pending in the Assembly, where it has a Republican co-author. “I think there is a lot in this strategy for everyone to like,” said state Sen. Scott Wiener, the Democratic author. “Most important of all, it works.” A program covering 1,000 people could cost as much as $286,000, but that’s a pittance in California’s total operating budget of more than $262 billion. California has a law prohibiting people from profiting from treatment programs, but Wiener’s law would clarify that contingency management is legal under state law. Whether it violates federal law is still a question. “We don’t think it does,” Wiener said. His bill would require California’s Medicaid program to pay for the treatment while Newsom’s plan would let counties choose whether to participate. 6 Shop In RI
Al Capone’s Granddaughters Are Selling His Personal Items
Would you want Al Capone’s favorite gun? Or the dapper gangster’s diamond and pearl stick pin? It’s not just a thought experiment—his granddaughters are selling off some family heirlooms. The items are pretty nice things, with dollar values inflated by the mobster cooties all over them. The gun in question is a Colt .45, and there are family photos, a letter to his son sent from Alcatraz, some china figurines, and a couple of watches, all authenticated and appraised by Timothy Gordon of Antiques Roadshow fame. Figurines that would ordinarily go for $50 are expected to sell for more like $250 because of the connection to the world’s most famous criminal. The online auction is set for Oct. 8 at
Why, How, and How Often Witherell’s in Sacramento, California.
Do Couples Argue? The location and timing are not A YouGov poll of 1,000 people sought to zero in on why, how, and how often serious couples argue. (Those who defined their relationships as casual did not participate.) Some of the details: a coincidence. Capone moved to Florida after being released from prison. When his son, Albert Francis “Sonny” Capone grew up, he dropped the Capone and went by Albert Francis Jr., and moved to Northern California. That’s where he raised his Extremes: 8% of couples say the argue family, and that’s where his daughters every day and 3% say they never argue are concerned all of the family at all. memorabilia will burn up in a wildfire if they don’t sell it off soon. “This is The biggest percentage (16) was a tie: the second summer we’ve had our those who say they argue “multiple suitcases packed in case we were going times a year” or “once a year or less.” to be evacuated, and we knew there How: 26% of respondents say they raise was no way we could save these things their voice in an argument most of the that belonged to our grandparents,” time, compared with 19% who never Diane Capone said. do. More specifically, 12% resort to swearing or name-calling, but 53% say
Good Boy! Dog Leads Rescuers to Stranded Man
A border collie in California was treated to a fine dinner and extra beef jerky after helping a search and rescue team locate his owner—a hiker who took a very hard fall in Tahoe National Forest last Wednesday. According to KCRA, the 53-yearman tumbled 70 feet off a ridge, breaking his hip and several ribs. Authorities say it happened at night, and it wasn’t until noon the next day that he was able to scramble back to his camp. He managed to place an emergency call, but the signal was weak and the call dropped. Per KPIX, ”search-and-rescue was able to contact the victim’s friend, who pointed them toward the man’s campsite. He also told them to ”look for Saul,” per KCRA. The area was inaccessible by vehicle, per the New York Times, and it took about seven hours for rescuers to reach the man’s vicinity. Sgt. Dennis Haack of the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office said rescuers were approached by a black border collie, the aforementioned ”Saul,” who was jumping up and down and spinning in circles. ”One of the guys said it made eye contact,” Haack said, and they decided to follow him. After a few feet, Saul turned to make sure the people understood, and he then led them about 200 yards to the victim, whose injuries were described as ”traumatic,” per KCRA. The man was airlifted to the hospital, and Saul was taken to a local nonprofit for VIP treatment while his owner was in the hospital. Authorities are now praising Saul for acting in ”true Lassie fashion.” The man hasn’t been identified, and authorities described him as living ”somewhat of a secluded lifestyle.” A day later, the man was reunited with Saul, who then received an additional stick of beef jerky for good measure. they never do so in a spat. As for crying, 14% say it usually happens and 51% say it never does. Also of note: 19% say they give their partner the “silent treatment,” compared with 31% who never do so. As for the big question of what people argue about, here are the top 10:
