Birgitte Kallestad died earlier this week. A stray puppy she rescued in the Philippines bit her months ago, but doctors didn’t know she had rabies.
Author: Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY
Child finds $40,000 worth of meth in Lego box from consignment shop
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Colorado teen who plans to become Marine tackled suspected shooter
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After eating raw rodent’s kidney for ‘good health,’ couple die of bubonic plague, spark quarantine
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Man falls 70 feet into Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano — and survives
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World’s highest dump? Mount Everest is covered in tons of trash and dead bodies
A clean-up team in Nepal recently brought down more than three tons of garbage from Mount Everest in an effort to rid the peak of pollution.
Like Americans, Austrians are forgetting the Holocaust. These are the shocking numbers
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Are these ‘Yeti’ footprints? The Indian Army says so
In a tweet that sparked disbelief and social media jabs, the Indian Army said its mountaineer spotted footprints of the “mythical beast ‘Yeti.'”
‘Catastrophic breeding failure’: Second largest emperor penguin colony ‘all but disappeared’
Antarctic’sHalley Bay colony of emperor penguins has seen a “catastrophic breeding failure” over the past three years linked to melting sea ice.
Parents who reported 5-year-old son missing charged with murder after boy’s body found in shallow grave
The body of AJ Freund, who was reported missing last week, was found covered in plastic and buried in the grave inWoodstock, Illinois, police said