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5-year-old boy with autism found dead in pond near Orange County home

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A missing child search ended in tragedy Thanksgiving morning after the body of 5-year-old Aaron Peña was recovered from a pond near his Orange County home, according to deputies. Peña’s mother, Melissa Stanton, said the 5-year-old was non-verbal with autism and wandered away from his home Wednesday. The boy’s home is … Read more

Panorama Drive Palatine IL breaking news: Parents speak out after 2 kids die following rescue from pond by The Clayson apartments

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PALATINE, Ill. (WLS) — The parents of Romalice and Ro’Siah Brooks described the two brothers as inseparable, sadly, even in their final moments. “I’m broken, but I know in time things will get better. But, right now, I don’t see it,” said Teghan Ivy, their mother. The boys died after falling into an icy pond … Read more

The British pound just crashed 5% to a 37-year low against the US dollar today — here’s why currency carnage continues across the pond

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The British pound just crashed 5% to a 37-year low against the US dollar today — here’s why currency carnage continues across the pond On Monday, the British pound dropped to a record low against the U.S. dollar. The U.K.’s currency lost 4.7% overnight to trade at $1.035. That’s below the previous record of $1.05 … Read more

‘Shoebert’ the spectacle seal leaves Beverly pond, waddles to police station

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A gray seal that has become a spectacle in Beverly crawled out of the freshwater pond where it’s been drawing onlookers and waddled to look the city’s police station.The seal, nicknamed Shoebert, was first spotted in Shoe Pond last week on the west side of the Cummings Center, a business park. As NOAA Fisheries and … Read more

Seal remains spectacle in Beverly pond, follows biologists’ boat

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While a gray seal continues to swim in a freshwater Massachusetts pond, drawing onlookers to the area, animal control officials and biologists are gathering information in case they need to rescue and move the animal. The seal, nicknamed Shoebert, was first spotted in Shoe Pond last week. The pond is on the west side of … Read more

Across the pond, Queen is mourned by those who were never her subjects

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The mourners began pouring in to Myers of Keswick, a small British grocery store in the New York borough of Manhattan, on Thursday morning even before Queen Elizabeth II’s death, on the hunt for tea towels, royal memorabilia, Cornish pasties and other small tokens of Britishness to mark a moment in history. But when the … Read more