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The 1,500-year-old skeletal remains of a couple buried in an “eternal embrace” were recently found by archaeologists in China, reported Live Science. The exciting discovery, said scientists, offers a rare glimpse into people’s views toward love. According to the South China Morning Post, archaeologists first discovered the burial in June 2020. They were reportedly excavating a cemetery that had been unearthed by a construction project in northern China. Of course, researchers were completely unaware they were about to make a rare discovery....

A San Antonio couple has been charged with cruelty to livestock and torture after authorities discovered that they were harboring a bobcat and a tiger cub in their house, according to KSAT. Per News 4 San Antonio, the bobcat now resides at the Center for Animal Education in Bridgeport and the tiger cub at the Downtown Aquarium in Houston. On March 16, Bexar County sheriff’s deputies arrived at a home on Shane Road after one of the couple’s neighbors reported that they were keeping a bobcat as a pet....

One of the suspects, 34-year-old Laura Ashley Lee, was arrested on March 18. She subsequently told representatives for the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry (LDAF) that she and her boyfriend, 34-year-old Robert Lee Ramirez, had set the fires in order to drive snakes off their property and their neighbors’ properties. Officers set her bond at $3,500, according to KTBS 3. In a press release dated March 29, the LDAF describes Lee and Ramirez’s alleged crimes in more detail....

Stardew Valley is an open-ended country-life RPG that allows players to pursue relationships and friendships with the people in the town. The Mermaid’s Pendant is a key piece of this, allowing players to propose marriage. Engagement photo sessions are typically booked to provide an engaged couple with photographs for their upcoming save the dates and invitations for their wedding. RELATED: Stardew Valley Player Shows Off Cellar Filled With Barrels of Ancient Fruit Wine...

Whether it be building new structures, maintaining current courses, or constructing new ones, the crews behind the scenes need to be dedicated and adept. While their skills overlap with the construction and landscaping fields, a majority of the training this workforce needs takes place on the job. A portion of the crews is nomadic specialists, traveling each year to support maintenance so players across the country have the positive experiences they’ve come to expect....

The 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia on Friday quashed the state's motion to bring the arguments before the full court. In September, a three-judge panel ruled that New Jersey's law allowing sports betting conflicts with federal law and can't be implemented. A 1992 federal law banning sports betting made exceptions for four states: Delaware, Montana, Nevada and Oregon, all of which had some type of sports gambling at the time....

No, it’s a great idea - but then so was the 3-D movie until America discovered that the movies were as tacky as those cardboard glasses. There’s no longer any question that the wired nation is trial addicted. Whether starring Arnie Becker or Judge Wapner, courtroom histrionics may be the single most popular source of today’s home entertainment. The question facing the 24-hour Courtroom Television Network is one of quality rather than quantity: can excess yield success without getting mired in the tedious or resorting to the tabloidish?...

Navas completed a switch to PSG in September, with Alphonse Areola moving in the opposite direction to Madrid on loan. Last season, both Courtois and Navas competed for the number one spot at Madrid, with the media and fans often debating over which one should be named as number one choice. Now, those debates have been settled, with France goalkeeper Areola acting as Courtois’ understudy, but the former Chelsea shot-stopper affirmed there were no issues between himself and Navas....

The Red Bulls stunned Chelsea 4-2 in the ICC on Wednesday, but the Premier League champions recovered to register their first win of the new campaign in Charlotte, with goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois the hero. MORE: US loses to Panama, finishes 4th at Gold Cup | Gulati: Klinsmann’s job is safe After Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Victor Moses scored on either side of halftime for PSG and Chelsea respectively, Courtois made two saves and struck the winning penalty kick to triumph 6-5....

The people who participated in the selection of the watch list for the Bob Cousy Award, presented to the nation’s best college point guard, perhaps overlooked a player or two who might have been worthy of consideration. No doubt the people in Cincinnati are wondering why someone with Troy Caupain’s credentials — two years starting for NCAA Tournament teams, 13 points and 4.8 assists last season — was not included....

Heidi Hussli, 47, a Wisconsin native from Beaver Dam who taught German at Bay Port High School in Suamico of eastern Wisconsin, died Thursday following “a brief hospitalization related to COVID-19,” Howard-Suamico School District Superintendent Damian LaCroix confirmed in a statement. Hussli was reported to have been in classes the week of September 8 before falling ill over the weekend and being unable to return to school. She was reported to have been hospitalized at St....

The FTC’s data details consumer-reported fraud losses related to the coronavirus pandemic from the start of the year through Sunday. Nearly 35,000 fraud complaints related to COVID-19 have been filed so far, with 42.9 percent of those resulting in a monetary loss, the FTC’s report said. Those losses accounted for at least $23.3 million by Sunday, the agency said. Despite the monetary loss reflected in the data, Associate Director of the FTC’s Division of Consumer Response and Operations Monica Vaca told Newsweek the amount of fraud complaints the FTC has received this year is not unusually high....

The research, published in the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics, involved five children aged between two and five from Wuhan, the Chinese city that was the original epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. In four of these patients, the disease first manifested with digestive tract symptoms. The children visited the emergency department of Wuhan Children’s Hospital between January 23 and February 20, 2020, for problems unrelated to COVID-19, but later tested positive for the coronavirus at the facility....

China, where the virus was first detected in the city of Wuhan, has seen nearly 90 percent of its nearly 83,000 infected population recover, while over 3,200 have died. More cases are reported outside China than within but the country has seen an increase in imported cases. UK, France, Spain record highest daily death tolls A record number of new deaths in a day were reported in the U.K., Spain and France....

Five-times World Player of the Year Messi will miss the fixture with a thigh problem, giving the 21-year-old Atletico Madrid forward Correa a chance to add to his five caps. “There is only one Messi,” Correa told reporters after training on Tuesday. “I am happy to be here and if I am to replace him then I will try to do it in the best way possible and help the team....

Cortisone acne shots work quickly. Within 24 hours, you’ll notice treated blemishes softening, shrinking, and flattening. While they may not completely disappear, they will invariably be smaller and better able to heal themselves within a week. This article looks at how cortisone acne shots are given, who they are appropriate for, their benefits and side effects, and treatments that can help prevent future breakouts. Who May Benefit From Acne Cortisone Shots Cortisone shots don’t work on your run-of-the-mill pimples, nor do they reduce the build-up of pus in the swollen pustules....

Even so, despite a reputation for being a dirty player, Finnegan said Odell Beckham Jr.’s antics Sunday crossed a line. MORE: The images that defined Week 15 | NFL stars in a different sort of Star Wars “Some things are uncalled for. Some things are out of the context of football,” Finnegan told reporters (via the New York Daily News) after Carolina’s 38-35 victory against the Giants. “Once those things start to happen, you kind of ask, ‘What’s really going on?...

Comer and Poussaint’s manual answers nearly 1,000 child-rearing questions they’ve heard repeatedly from black parents across the social-economic spectrum. Comer teaches psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center. He’s spent more than two decades working with inner-city public schools. Poussaint teaches at Harvard Medical School and was a consultant to “The Cosby Show.” Their guidelines for how black families might deal with some common-and perplexing-issues: When a black child comes home from an integrated setting and says, “I’m white,” his parents may be surprised....

5G is in its early days, and coverage is extremely limited compared with 4G. Also, smartphone chipsets which support 5G are likely to be twice as costly as the 4G ones. This means the higher chipset prices is, the costlier the smartphones with 5G support will be. Experts also believe that companies will offer 5G as a premium feature meant for more expensive mobile device. This is because the margins are higher in this segment, thus making it easier to absorb the cost of chipsets....

Could this be a hint towards the future of the console? Could this be Sony working towards getting the PSP2 into developer’s hands? It might not be the nail in the PSP’s coffin but it certainly shows signs of Sony trying to urge development for the PSP2. Older dev kits and loaners will still be available to new developers but those that were currently being shipped out will no longer be available after November 15th....