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    Eliza Murphy

    Eliza Murphy

    Eliza Murphy

  • Newlyweds Dance Their Way Through Six Countries During Honeymoon

     Just because the wedding reception is over doesn’t mean the dancing has to stop. Or at least that’s what this happy couple thinks. For 18 days, newlyweds Larry and Abbey Plawecki, of Indianapolis danced their way across six countries during their honeymoon. “I’m going to...

  • High School Ring Returned 50 Years Later

    Scuba diver Brad Swain found a high school class ring at the bottom of a Connecticut lake nearly 50 years ago, and spent about 40 years tracking down its owner. Earlier this month, the freshly cleaned and polished ring — a gold band with a...

  • Former Marine Raises $4K for Dog Reunion

    Former Marine Shaun Duling, 27, is taking the Corps’ creed, “Leave No Man Behind,” to a whole new level. When Duling completed a year-long contract in Afghanistan earlier this month, he was heartbroken that he had to leave behind one of his closest companions, a...

  • Baby Panda Takes First Steps at San Diego Zoo

    We first met this adorable little guy on “Good Morning America” when he was only 47-days-old and had just opened his eyes. Now, the San Diego Zoo’s panda cub is 11 weeks old, and getting stronger by the day. The panda, who still doesn’t have...

  • Baby Elephant Dramatically Rescued From Muddy Pit in Kenya

    It looks like a scene plucked straight out of “The Lion King,” except this dramatic rescue of a baby elephant in Kenya is real. On Oct. 8, this eight-month-old baby elephant got stuck in a five-foot-deep muddy pit in Amboseli National Park. As any worried...

  • Gap Pulls 'Manifest Destiny' T-Shirt From Shelves After Social Media Outcry

    Gap has pulled from its shelves a black and white T-shirt printed with “Manifest Destiny” across the chest, after backlash from consumers who say the slogan is racist toward Native Americans. When the item first went on sale about a month ago as part of...

  • Omaha Third-Grader Dresses Up as Historical Figure Every Day

    It’s certainly not unusual for little girls to enjoy playing dress up, but one third-grader in Omaha, Neb., is taking the hobby to a whole new level. Stella Ehrhart may be only 8 years old, but she sure knows her history. Every day she goes...

  • 300-Pound Pumpkin Plucked From Illinois Farm Stand

    Unless it magically turned into a carriage at midnight to get Cinderella safely to the ball, the 300-pound pumpkin that used to adorn an Illinois farmstand was stolen. Or at least that’s what Hammer’s Farm Market owner Roger Hammer, of Peoria, Ill., believes happened. “The...

  • Top 20 Best Cities for Trick-or-Treating

    For all you serious candy seekers hitting the streets this Halloween, look no further. Today, real estate website Zillow.com announced the results of their fourth-annual Trick-or-Treat Index, ranking the top 20 best cities for little ghosts and goblins around the nation to collect the most...

  • Makeup Artist's Haunting Halloween Transformations

    For Angie Davis, better known by her stage name, Goldie Starling, creating hauntingly elaborate makeup tutorials was a passion she never expected to garner so much attention. “It just started as another creative outlet. It’s mind blowing. But it’s so rewarding because I love doing...

  • Bike Thief Leaves Handwritten Apology Note, Plus $10 for New Lock

    It seemed miraculous enough to Paul Gilmour that police recovered his bike, but even more surprising was the thief’s handwritten apology note that came along with it. “A police officer brought me my bike, undamaged. But there was also this handwritten letter from this guy,”...

  • Illinois Eighth-Grader With Cerebral Palsy Scores Dream Touchdown

    No, this isn’t a scene from the beloved football film, “Rudy.” But it sure comes close. Jack McGraw, a 13-year-old, eighth-grade student at Haines Middle School in St. Charles, Ill., was given the opportunity to achieve his dream of scoring a touchdown Oct. 2 at...

  • 'Mystery Monkey' on Lam After Biting Fla. Woman

    The elusive “Mystery Monkey of Tampa Bay” is still on the loose after it bit a St. Petersburg, Fla., woman Monday. The monkey, a wild rhesus macaque, has become a popular figure among locals in the Tampa Bay area. For several years, the monkey had...

  • Las Vegas Hoarder Among 'Worst Cases Ever Seen'

    Authorities in Las Vegas call it “one of the worst cases of hoarding ever seen.” Kenneth Epstein, 55, lives in a duplex in the Sun City Summerlin Retirement Community he inherited from his mother when she died in 2010. The home has been cited by...

  • Florida Woman Photographs 'Fireball' in Thunderstorm

    Rita Krill, 53, of Naples, Fla., got a little more than she bargained for while shooting a severe thunderstorm in her backyard Oct. 5. “It was about 100 feet from my yard,” Krill said. “I was out there videoing it. My puppy was out there....

  • Soldier Surprises Family at South Carolina Football Game

    About 85,000 football fans at the University of South Carolina’s Williams-Brice Stadium witnessed a very special surprise for one family during the halftime show at the much-anticipated University of Georgia game  Saturday. “I was just doing something for the family, and I guess it just...

  • Anniversary Surprise for Husband at Airport: Wife Wearing Wedding Dress

    Lacy Matthews, 48, of Parker, Colo.,  is certainly getting more wear out of her wedding dress. On Oct. 3, she put it to good use again, exactly 14 years to the day after she originally wore it. At 8:15 in the morning, Matthews surprised her...

  • Michigan Man Lip Dubs His Way Into Marriage

    Bradley Jansen, 24, of Grand Rapids, Mich., sang, or actually lip dubbed, his way into the heart of his girlfriend, Emily Kaplan, also 24, forever this past Memorial Day weekend. Kaplan thought she was just out for a leisurely trip to Tunnel Park in Holland,...

  • Father in Iraq Watches Birth of Twins Via Skype

    No mountain was high enough, no river was wide enough, and no valley was low enough to keep one Montana man from watching the birth of his baby twins on Sept. 25 at North Valley Hospital in Whitefish, Mont. Jon Zimbelman, 31, Skyped with his...

  • South Carolina Violinist Makes Pop Music Sound Pretty

    Seth Gilliard, 22, of Charleston, S.C., definitely knows how to pull some strings, or rather, play them. The southern violinist, who just graduated from Furman University in May, is taking the music scene by storm with his classical renditions of mainstream pop songs. “I did...