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Lost dog found in Philadelphia after four years

A Wisconsin man drove across the country during a snowstorm to be reunited with the dog he lost four years ago in Philadelphia.

The Animal Care & Control Team of Philly said a dog was brought in as a stray earlier this month and scanned for a microchip.

The chip identified her as Cipi, a dog reported missing in the same area of the city four years earlier.

Leovigildo Ramirez, Cipi's owner, moved to Wisconsin a while after Cipi was lost. He made the 16-hour drive to Philadelphia during major snowstorms to bring Cipi home.

Ramirez said the pet ran off in 2022 while the family was bringing groceries into the house. He kept Cipi's microchip updated in the hopes that she would one day resurface.

"That was incredible," Ramirez told Fox 29 News of the reunion. "She is my best friend."

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11-year-old juggler breaks world record using a pindaloo

An 11-year-old juggler from Wisconsin broke a Guinness World Record by using a pindaloo to make 51 rotations in under 30 seconds.

Caleb Hunter used his pindaloo — a u-shaped juggling tool that takes a ball in one hole and spits it out the other — to break the record for the most loops of a ball with a pindaloo in 30 seconds, in the under-16 category.

"It goes out the front, it loops over back towards you, and it lands in the one that you're holding," Hunter told WBKO-TV. "You have to keep the momentum, but it's also fun to like play with it, see how high you can get it, see how fast you can go."

He said breaking the record took a lot of practice.

"Every time I practiced I usually dropped the ball before the 30 seconds was over. The first time I did it I got it and the ball fell exactly after 30 seconds passed, so even if I did make it one more time it wouldn't have counted, so it was like perfect," he said.

The boy said he was inspired to attempt the record by his father, a former Guinness World Record-holder.

"My dad actually has a biking world record from biking 6 states in under 24-hours," he said. "It got broken, but it's still super cool, and I thought I wanted one too."

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Punxsutawney Phil, Staten Island Chuck predict 6 more weeks of winter

Famed Pennsylvania groundhog Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow Monday morning, predicting six more weeks of winter.

Phil was pulled from his burrow Monday morning at Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney and his prognostications were interpreted by a man in a tuxedo and top hat in front of a crowd of thousands of onlookers.

The man revealed Phil had seen his shadow, predicting winter will last another six weeks.

A study released by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in 2025 revealed Phil has had an accuracy rate of only about 35% in the past couple decades.

Staten Island Chuck, who the NOAA study named as the most accurate weather-predicting groundhog with an accuracy rate of 85%, concurred with Punxsutawney Phil during his own Mo

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Michigan teacher earns Guinness World Record for 67-year career

A 90-year-old English teacher in Michigan was awarded a Guinness World Record for her 67-year career in the classroom.

Beverly Hannett-Price, who teaches English at Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills, was presented with her Guinness World Records certificate for the longest career as a language teacher (female) Monday at a surprise assembly convened in her honor.

Guest speakers at the ceremony included Courtney B. Vance, a former student who went on to become a Tony and Emmy-winning actor.

"She really taught me how to write and to put wonderful thoughts together, and because of that, we've stayed in touch," Vance told WXYZ-TV.

Hannett-Price, who started teaching in 1958, also counts actor Robin Williams and former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer among her former pupils.

"I have no plans for retirement. I love this school. I love teaching," Hannett-Price said at the ceremony.

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150-year-old bottle of alcohol found in Utah, tasted by experts

An archaeological team in Utah exhumed a bottle of alcohol estimated to be 150 years old — and experts gave it a taste test.

Ian Wright, Utah's state public archaeologist, said the bottle was among thousands of artifacts dating back to approximately 1870-1890 found on U.S. Forest Service land used by Alta ski resort.

"When they picked it up, it was still full. It still had a cork in it," Wright told The Park Record. "We realized, 'Oh my gosh, this is a real treasure.'"

Wright said the find is the only known intact bottle of alcohol to be found from the time period.

"They sometimes find them in Missouri and in places where the Mississippi has shifted and there's been a sunken boat or a ship, but never in Utah," he said. "We rarely find a bottle with a cork at all. Or if we do find one, the corks shriveled up and shrunk it inside of it, or just fragments of it. So that's pretty rare."

Wright's team enlisted the help of High West, Utah's oldest legal distillery, to analyze the bottle's contents.

The nearby Old Town Cellars provided a Coravin device to extract some of the liquid without damaging the cork.

Isaac Winter, director of distilling at High West, was the first to taste the liquid.

"I had a little bit of trepidation going into it, but you have to try it," Winter told FOX 13 Utah. "It didn't smell like gasoline, didn't smell like tobacco spit."

He said the flavor is "fruity, there's a little bit of leather, there's quite a bit of age on it."

Tara Lindley, director of sensory and product development at High West, said the flavors were complex.

"First, there was some kind of a, kind of an oxidized fruit note," Lindley said.

The experts said the liquid appears to be a low-alcohol beer, rather than liquor. They are now hoping to recreate the beverage.

"The very bottom of the bottle was sort of turbid — it was sort of milky. We're going to take that back and hopefully plate it out and find some usable yeast on it," Winter said.

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Lost ring found after 44 years buried on Mississippi beach

A Mississippi man who lost his class ring during a trip to the beach in 1982 was reunited with the treasured item 44 years later.

Darien Ladner said he lost his Pass Christian High School class ring while attending a party at Pass Christian beach with some friends during his senior year of high school.

"I searched and searched but could not find it," Ladner wrote on social media.

Ladner said he even returned to the beach with an assistant principal who offered to search with his metal detector, but they had no luck.

Ladner received a Facebook message earlier this week from Sammy Jewell, who told Ladner he had found the ring while treasure hunting with his metal detector at the beach.

"Whenever I got the message Monday morning, I was ecstatic, I couldn't believe it, because it's been 44 years," Ladner told WLOX-TV.

He was amazed to learn the ring had been found in the same spot where he lost it.

"From the time I lost it, which would have been between January and May of 1982, to now, we've had seven hurricanes and five tropical storms," Ladner said. "So that ring's been through a lot, not considering all the heavy equipment running up and down the beach."

He said the ring is in excellent condition, except for a small scuff.

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Wild turkeys terrorize Wisconsin neighborhood, chase postal workers

Residents of a southern Wisconsin town have been dealing with an unusual group of local ruffians: a flock of aggressive wild turkeys.

Janesville neighbor Lawrence Meyer, who recorded video of the turkeys chasing a postal worker down a neighborhood road, said his 8-year-old son also had a run-in with the birds while crossing the street.

"As he was approaching, crossing the street, the turkeys started chasing after him," Meyer told WMTV. "It's scary. Like these are big birds. They're as tall as my son. When they fluff their feathers, they're scary. They're huge to an 8-year-old."

He said the birds weren't always so aggressive.

"I love wildlife. At first, the turkeys were cool. They brought life to the neighborhood," Meyer said. "As it's developed, they've become a nuisance. They block traffic, they've caused accidents, they went after my mailman."

Jason Cotter, a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist for Rock County, said turkeys tend to flock together during the winter, but its not common for them to become as aggressive as the Janesville birds.

"It's more of a rarity than it is common," Cotter said. "We have heard of flocks in urban areas, obviously around the state, but these particular birds in Janesville have been seemingly causing a stir with folks getting in and out of cars, mailmen, children going to school."

Cotter recommended residents take steps to make themselves appear larger, such as carrying an umbrella.

The Wisconsin DNR said it is consulting with USDA Wildlife Services to come up with a plan to resolve the Janesville situation. Officials said the birds might end up being relocated.

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Stranded swan rescued from frozen river in Connecticut

Firefighters in Connecticut responded to a frozen river to rescue a swan that ventured out onto the ice and became stuck in place.

The Norwalk Fire Department said on social media that crews were called Tuesday to the area of the Wall Street Bridge on a report of a swan stuck to the ice covering the Norwalk River.

"Firefighters donned cold-water rescue suits and carefully entered the river to reach the animal," the post said. "Crews safely freed the swan from the surrounding ice and brought it to shore without incident."

The swan was taken to the VCA Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center.

"The swan is stable," veterinarian Melissa Salgado told the CT Examiner. "There were blocks of ice attached to him which we had to melt off using warm water, and he was given food and water. He's doing well and warming up. He has no serious wounds."

The swan will be released back into the wild once veterinarians give him the all-clear.

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Dream of mother leads S.C. woman to $13,000 lottery prize

A South Carolina woman said a dream about her mother led to her using her mom's phone number to play the lottery — and she ended up winning $13,000.

The Kingstree woman told South Carolina Education Lottery officials she woke up from a dream about her mother and decided to use digits from her phone number to play Pick 4.

The player visited Harry's Xpress on North Williamsburg County Highway in Kingstree and bought five tickets, each bearing the same special set of numbers.

Each ticket earned a $2,600 prize — earning the woman a total $13,000.

"I was super excited, so I left work early," the winner said.

She said she plans to use her winnings to take a vacation.

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Texas man folds 250 functional paper planes in one hour

A Texas man folded 250 paper planes in one hour — an average of four per minute — and proved they could fly to attempt a Guinness World Record.

Tyler resident Richard DeFreece, who first applied to Guinness World Records two years ago, said he got the go-head for his official attempt in December 2025, and he made his try at the record on Saturday.

DeFreece managed to fold 250 paper planes in the allotted time, besting the goal of 200 set by Guinness World Records.

Each plane was tested by an official at the end of the attempt to ensure they were all airworthy.

"It feels awesome," DeFreece told the Tyler Morning Telegraph. "It's a lot of hard work and practice that went into it and I'm glad to get the record."

He said breaking a world record is a longtime goal.

"I have always wanted to break a world record and I started thinking, 'What can I possibly do?' because I'm not the fastest and I'm not the strongest, so I started looking at obscure records," DeFreece said. "I contacted Guinness and they said the record was 200 for paper airplanes and I was like, 'OK, I think I can break that.'"

Evidence from DeFreece's attempt must now be reviewed by Guinness World Records to become official.

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