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Pennsylvania Dog Rescued After 2 Nights in 15-Foot Sinkhole

February 18, 2016 1:30 PM EST After their golden retriever, Skye, went missing on Monday night, Ron and Megan Holmes discovered that she had fallen down a sinkhole near the Penn State Arboretum. Skye’s owners had first lost track of her when Megan let her off her leash while on a walk during a snowstorm, according to the Centre Daily Times. “We understand we were in the wrong to let her off leash,” Ron said.

Religion: Get Ready, The Pope Is Coming

(2 of 3) The biggest advance protest, however, has been about the money being spent. Texas Catholics are dishing out $2.5 million for his visit to San Antonio. In San Francisco, $600,000 will be spent just for press facilities; preparing the places where the Pope will appear will cost an additional $1 million. Such seemingly large outlays have angered some who believe the money would be better spent on the poor.

See Maureen O'Hara's Classic Career in Pictures

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Sleigh Bells, "Rill Rill" - The Top 10 Everything of 2010

"Rill Rill" is the most accessible song on Sleigh Bells' loud, abrasive and wonderfully distorted debut album Treats. But that doesn't mean it's not daring. The song begins in a jangly dreamlike haze, then morphs into a bold, bring-it-on mantra about early high school life. ("Wonder what your boyfriend thinks about your braces?/ What about them?/ I'm all about them.") It's light and young and like nothing your parents — heck, even your older siblings — ever listened to.

South Carolina appoints youngest Judge, 25

Jasmine Twitty, 25, was on Sunday August 23 appointed as the youngest judge in the history of Easley, South Carolina. The College of Charleston graduate is also a member of the Upstate Network Young Professionals Board, which is recognised for promoting the development of young proifessionals and serving social and community action. One can only but wonder the amount of great things that lie ahead for her. ncG1vNJzZmivp6x7scHLrJxnppdksLC5zK6loqyZmsBwv9Oum56mpGSurq3ZoqWgZaOkwrW0jJyYq6ecnruiecCpp6ihnqnAbsXOrqWgnaOpeqvBw6CcZmplZLW6vo%2BwpW4%3D

Squishy, Slimy 'Spaghetti Meat' Chicken Is the Result of Modern Farming Practices

It looks like spaghetti noodles, Dr. Casey Owens, a University of Arkansas professor, told the Wall Street Journal . These weird chicken breast fillets are easily pulled apart by hand or easily ripped with your fingertips, the outlet writes. Spaghetti meat popped up in 2015 and makes up roughly 4 to 5 percent of breast meat samples, researchers estimate. Researchers also call tough, leathery chicken breasts "woody meat.

The 10 Best Songs of 2023

While the streaming-age unbundling of albums broke down the idea of what a single could be even further, the year’s best songs all shook things up in their own right. Club-ready tracks from Beyoncé, Peggy Gou, and Kylie Minogue got people moving; cuts by post-punkers and pop-punkers, whether upstarts or legends, amped up the vibes; and a collaboration between música mexicana stars Peso Pluma and Eslabon Armado showed that there are still new parts of the pop world for American listeners to discover.

The 50 Greatest Romantic Movies of All Time

It’s the closest thing there is to a universal genre. That’s because, with rare exceptions, everyone falls in love, or at least wants to. And when you think about it, almost every movie is a love story.

The Crash of 1929 | TIME

Seventy-nine years ago this week, the New York Stock Exchange experienced the worst financial panic the country had ever seen. There have been more crashes since — with bigger numbers and bigger losses — but nothing quite rivals the terror and devastation of Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929. When President Calvin Coolidge delivered his 1928 State of the Union address, he noted that America had never “met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time.

The People of Afghanistan Deserve So Much Better Than This

Whatever your views on the war in Afghanistan, we probably agree on one thing: it should not have ended this way. Giving up the idea of a peace agreement between the Afghan government and the Taliban, appearing to cut and run, and abandoning our allies and supporters in the most chaotic way imaginable, after so many years of effort and sacrifice, is a betrayal and a failure impossible to fully understand.