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An alligator is seen at the Everglades National Park, Fla. On Friday, a gator was reportedly spotted with human remains in its mouth in a canal in Largo, Florida.

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Florida authorities killed an alligator that was seen with human remains in its mouth

8:46pm September 23, 2023

by Emma Bowman

A 13-foot-8.5-inch male alligator was "humanely killed" and removed from the water, authorities said, after a local resident saw the reptile latching onto human remains in a Tampa Bay area canal.

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In a Portuguese town, the wine flows as free as a river — but no one is drinking it

5:38pm September 12, 2023

Roughly 581,000 gallons of wine poured out of two burst tanks at Destilaria Levira in Portugal Sunday, which led to a viral video of a "river of wine" coursing down a hilly street.

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A "river of wine" cascaded down the streets of a small town in Portugal, after two large tanks ruptured at a nearby distillery.

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Cascades of red wine flood a city's streets in Portugal after huge tanks rupture

12:11pm September 12, 2023

by Bill Chappell

A viral video from the scene shows a "river of wine" coursing down a hilly street, sluicing over curbs. The wine escaped from two tanks at a distillery up the hill.

Paula Rodriguez and her dog, Maia, were separated while on their way from the Dominican Republic to San Francisco on Aug. 18. Rodriguez was turned away by border agents and forced to catch a flight home without Maia, who was lost by Delta Air Lines staff.

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Owner reunited with her dog that roamed the Atlanta airport for 3 weeks

8:18pm September 11, 2023

by Dustin Jones

Maia the dog escaped from her carrier last month while being loaded onto a plane at the busiest airport in the world. An online community banded together to reunite her with her owner.

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A U.K. soldier accused of terrorism escaped prison strapped under a truck

5:54pm September 08, 2023

by Lauren Frayer

A manhunt is on in the U.K. for a terror suspect whose cinematic prison break has captivated the country. Former soldier Daniel Khalife escaped from a London prison strapped under a food truck.

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Is your dog a super good boy or girl? Here's the scientifically best way to tell them

5:53pm September 07, 2023

Researchers in Hungary have looked at whether the high pitched babble people use with their dogs scientifically resonates with pets.

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Reza Baluchi was taken in by the U.S. Coast Guard last week while trying to cross the Atlantic in a "hydro pod" made of buoys. Authorities in Flagler County, Fla., responded to Baluchi and his vessel in 2021 and posted photos of his vessel on Facebook.

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Coast Guard arrests a man trying to run a giant hamster wheel across the Atlantic

4:01pm September 07, 2023

by Laurel Wamsley

It was the fourth time the Coast Guard has intercepted Reza Baluchi on his attempts to self-propel his homemade vessel to destinations including Bermuda, New York and London.

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Millions of bees fell off a truck in Ontario. Local beekeepers jumped in to help

5:28pm August 31, 2023

Millions of bees spilled onto an Ontario highway Wednesday. Beekeepers sprung into action. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with one of the beekeepers, Mike Barber of Tri-City Bee Rescue, about the effort.

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Meet Peanut, the world's oldest chicken

4:40pm August 30, 2023

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Marsi Parker Darwin about Peanut, the world's oldest living chicken.

Australian woman is recovering after having a worm pulled out of her brain

6:56am August 30, 2023

A brain scan last year revealed an atypical lesion, but in the biopsy the surgeon spotted a worm. It's believed to be the first case of a worm invading and developing in a human brain.

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