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Nashville songwriter Jerry Vandiver spends hundreds of volunteer hours trapping foxes sick with mange (Image Credit: Facebook/ @Jerry Vandiver) For one Nashville songwriter, answering a call for help can mean getting out of bed in the middle of the night and heading into the woods. At 78, Jerry Vandiver has spent the past seven years…

Priscilla Chan’s education initiative, The Primary School, is closing after a decade of operations and reportedly more than $125 million in funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI). Founded to combine education with healthcare and family support, the project sought to address challenges affecting children’s development and learning. Following the closure announcement, CZI committed more…

An unusual line across the otherwise open landscape of Australia’s Nullarbor Plain might have gone unnoticed if not for a caver looking at satellite imagery. While browsing Google Earth, he came across a long, narrow disturbance cutting through the remote terrain. There were no buildings nearby, no obvious roads and no reports of a storm…

Patrick Clancy, the former husband of Lindsay Clancy. (AP Photo) Patrick Clancy, the former husband of a US woman accused of killing their three children, has said he forgave her for their deaths, saying he would have been “eaten up inside forever” if he had not.In an interview with CBS News, Clancy said he believed…

They say some children are born prodigies, and when it comes to Ann Makosinski, the statement holds true. As a teenager living in Canada, her friend living in the Philippines told her that she couldn’t study at night since her family couldn’t afford electricity to turn the lights on. Soon she wondered if there was…

Beatrix Potter used the success of The Tale of Peter Rabbit to buy Hill Top, a 17th-century farmhouse and 34-acre farm in the Lake District village of Near Sawrey, in 1905. Potter was 39 and had already published six books with Frederick Warne & Co when she bought the property with proceeds from Peter Rabbit…

Image Credit: Left/Gage Skidmore/Right/Haughton High School Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott gifted more than $1 million to his alma mater, Haughton High School in Haughton, Louisiana, funding a new video scoreboard, described as one of the largest of its kind in the state, and a revamped weight room. The gift was honoured at a ceremony…

The estate, once known as Villa Vittoriosa, became Ross’s Promise Land. Rapper Rick Ross bought former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield’s Georgia estate for $5.8 million in 2014. The property, near Fayetteville, had a 45,000-square-foot mansion with 109 rooms, 12 bedrooms and 21 bathrooms, according to Architectural Digest. Ross later expanded the estate by buying…

Two of the most valuable cards in the collection: Ty Cobb (left) and Honus ‘Hans’ Wagner. Image Credit: Heritage Auctions/NPR The discovery of century-old baseball cards in an Ohio attic became one of the most remarkable finds in sports collecting. In 2012, cousins clearing out a family home in Defiance discovered a box containing roughly…

Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum dies at 76. Dubai has declared 10 days of official mourning following the death of Sheikh Ahmed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, younger brother of Dubai’s Ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum.According to Gulf News, Sheikh Ahmed, Deputy Chairman of Dubai Police and Public Security, died on Monday, September…