The blue of its feathers stood out even against the blue of the pre-dawn light. It was a male mountain bluebird, of course, ...

In return, they laid more eggs than I could eat. In summer when insects were their chief diet—ants being plentiful, and ...

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A plea deal has been reached for a man charged with the late May 2022 traffic death of another man. What was the punishment?

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The truth is that however I choose to express myself will not live up to the weight of these facts: Vincent died, and then ...

Instead, the officers discovered a koala sitting beside the back door on a dog bed ... and said it struggled to climb over the fence before falling to the ground with a loud thud.

As a former British middle-distance runner and two-time Olympic gold medallist, Dame Kelly, 54, is no stranger to getting up ...