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College students celebrating Memorial Day weekend by California’s Shasta Lake left behind hoard of trash, according to US Forest Service officials.Last weekend, approximately 3,000 students from the University of California, Davis and the University of Oregon partied at Shasta Lake, a 30,000-acre reservoir in the golden state, and left piles of debris cluttered around the lake.According to forest service officials, despite being asked to clean up after themselves, the students left behind trash including cups, cans, plastic wrappers and pool floats.Speaking to CBS, Shasta-Trinity National Forest recreation staff officer Deborah Carlisi said that staff members handed out trash bags to…

I First interview with Rob Burrow in April 2021. Motor neurone disease made him a prisoner of his own body. I was anxious before we started because it seemed like an impossible task. However, Rob has spent much of his life proving that he can overcome preconceptions.He was a giant of rugby league, playing almost 500 games for Leeds Rhinos, winning eight Super League titles and 18 caps despite standing 5ft 5in and weighing over 10 stone.He dazzled opponents and tackled opponents who were often twice his weight and more than a foot taller.From his earliest days in third grade…

The last time Igor De Santis ran for mayor in Ingria, a tiny village surrounded by forests and mountains near Turin, he won an easy landslide victory. But he faces a tough challenge in his bid for a fourth mandate, after his mother joined a rival camp.Ingria, one of the smallest villages in Italy, is home to 46 inhabitants. A further 26 people, registered to vote from abroad, make up the electorate.De Santis, 42, has led the administration since 2009 and had expected competition in the mayoral race from an opposition councillor, 70-year-old Renato Poletto. The situation became more complicated…

In December 2019, Burrow revealed that he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease. The following month he appeared in Jamie Jones-Buchanan’s testimonial game. He is pictured attending a deposition in January 2020 with his children Maya, Jackson and Macy. Photo: Allan McKenzie/SWpix.com/Shutterstock Source link

A New York City couple who were “magnet fishing” in a lake caught more than they had bargained for when they pulled out a safe that had $100,000 cash inside.James Kane and Barbie Agostini tossed a line with a strong magnet attached to the end into a lake in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens on 31 May, Friday afternoon.The couple managed to open the safe and found the cash, bundles of $100 bills, with an estimated value of $100,000, though the money was damaged by the water.In an interview with NY1, James Kane explained they began magnet fishing during…

Dog breeds must be “rebooted” through careful cross-breeding to save them from ingrained health problems, a leading expert has said.From French bulldogs with spinal and respiratory issues to cavalier King Charles spaniels with skull malformations and heart problems, many breeds are prone to specific disorders.But while efforts have been made to breed healthier pedigree dogs by screening for problematic traits, the approach has limits.Clare Rusbridge, a professor in veterinary neurology at the University of Surrey, said many diseases arose from a complex array of genetic variants, while the gene pool of breeds was often so small that there were simply…

The billionaire rightwing media mogul Rupert Murdoch has married for the fifth time, this time to retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova.The 93-year-old married 67-year-old Zhukova on Sunday at his Moraga vineyard in California. Pictures released by the Sun, a Murdoch-owned British tabloid newspaper, showed the couple smiling next to each other as Murdoch wore a yellow tie while Zhukova wore a long-sleeve white dress.Murdoch’s fifth wedding comes a little over a year after reports emerged last April of him dating Zhukova four months after he ended his two-week long engagement to Ann Lesley Smith, a 67-year-old conservative radio host.Murdoch met…

Medina Grillo’s hands-on experience of renovating her rented three-bedroom semi spurred the creation of a blog to help like-minded home-improvers. Now, almost a decade since its launch, it attracts up to 80,000 monthly visitors.When she first moved to Birmingham, she was working as a health professional and updating her house in her spare time. The family has now been there for eight years, but prior to this Medina and her husband had lived in seven rental properties. “When we first moved in, we spoke to the landlord and told him we were looking for something long-term as we’d already had…

Stormy Daniels has called for Donald Trump to be jailed after he was convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records.The adult film star, who was paid $130,000 as “legal expenses” for her silence about her affair with the former US president, warned the presidential candidate is “completely and utterly out of touch with reality”.“I think he should be sentenced to jail and some community service working for the less fortunate, or being the volunteer punching bag at a women’s shelter,” Daniels, 45, told the Sunday Mirror.Daniels said she feels “shocked” but vindicated after a jury at a New York…

AAryna Sabalenka and Paula Badosa stood quietly at the players’ entrance of the Stade Philippe-Chatrier, awaiting their third-round match at the French Open. waiting. There was no joking and no small talk. This is business. The two entered the court and staged a wonderful duel until the end.In addition to their three matches in the past three months, Sabalenka and Badosa have called each other best friends. They didn’t connect until the 2022 exhibition tiebreaker before Indian Wells, when both players were ranked in the top ten. While they weren’t the first friends to compete on the court, their relationship…