st. PETERSBURG — The married 50-year-olds escaped the shadow of Disney World to check out central Florida’s latest attraction. For 2½ hours Friday night, Randy Land was mostly a magic kingdom to itself. Especially after that first-inning home run by the dude who inspired it. “I would normally work (Friday), but I traded with someone…
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Palm Beach County commissioners OK land swap to build homes west of Boca Raton
The Palm Beach County Commission on Wednesday by a 5-2 vote approved a land-swap usage proposal that will allow GL Homes to build 1,000 luxury homes on 682 acres in the Agricultural Reserve west of Boca Raton. In exchange, the builder would give up land in the Acreage and build a water resource project there….
U-Haul lands vertically in 2 am crash on NC highway and social media is dumbfounded
A driver who somehow landed a U-Haul vertically along a North Carolina highway has captured the imagination of social media, and questions continue to outnumber answers. The crash happened just after 2 am on Friday, April 28, on Highway 70 near Kinston, and it resulted in the driver being trapped about 15 feet straight up…
Mike Perry cracks Luke Rockhold for second round TKO
Mike Perry continues to cruise in barenuckle competition. Perry, who entered with two fights of barenuckle experience, welcomed former UFC middleweight champion Luke Rockhold for his debut. The fight served as the main event of BKFC 41 at 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, Colo. It was intense while it lasted, but Perry stood tall with his…
161-acre Salt Spring property sold to nature conservancy
Purchased for $9 million, the property on Reginald Hill at the south end of Salt Spring Island features a mature coastal Douglas-fir forest, Garry oaks, rocky bluffs and multiple wetlands. The Nature Conservancy of Canada has acquired 161 hectares on Salt Spring Island, protecting it from potential future development and logging. The property on Reginald…
Suns Among Favorites to Land Raptors’ Fred VanVleet
Getty DeMar DeRozan and Fred VanVleet The Phoenix Suns are one of the favorites to land one of the best point guards in the NBA. According to the latest odds from Sportsbetting.ag, the Suns have the sixth-best odds (+700) to acquire Fred VanVleet. The Toronto Raptors All-Star can become an unrestricted free agent this summer…
The Japanese lunar lander may have crashed, the company says after losing contact
A photo of the Moon taken from the ispace lander’s onboard camera from an altitude of 100km above the lunar surface (ispace) A Japanese startup’s attempt to land the first ever commercial spacecraft on the Moon on Tuesday ended unhappily when the company’s crew lost communication with the craft. It now believes that the lander…
The Creative Ways Ukraine Finds and Detonates Russian Land Mines
Soldiers in Ukraine rely on creative tools to identify and detonate Russian land mines. Troops told The New York Times those tools including dead animals, fiberglass rods, ropes, and hooks. Russian land mines could pose a long-term threat to Ukrainian civilians. loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a…
Craig Breedlove, online land-speed recordholder, dies at 86
Associated Press Craig Breedlove, who set land-speed records by topping 400, 500 and 600 mph in jet-powered cars nicknamed Spirit of America, has died. He was 86. Breedlove died at his home in Rio Vista, California, on April 4. His wife, Yadira Breedlove, said the cause of death was cancer. Breedlove battled Tom Green and…
Microsoft land buy outside Milwaukee slated to become $1B data center
Microsoft has agreed to buy a $50 million parcel of land in southeastern Wisconsin meant for Foxconn after the world’s largest electronics manufacturer failed to fulfill grandiose promises to build a massive facility that would employ thousands of workers. Microsoft plans to build a $1 billion data center on the 315-acre parcel in Mount Pleasant,…