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Heston Miller smiles at this year’s Arapaho festival with his blue snow cone in hand.
If you decorate your home with bales of straw during the fall months, you may not realize that having dry bales by the house actually poses a serious fire risk. But leaving them out in the elements to become wet bales can be problematic, too, over time. When you're done using them as decor, the best thing is to break up the straw and use it as mulch. It'll insulate plants or protect your vegetable garden, and come spring, it can be tilled right into the soil to break down into compost.
(AP) – All good things must come to an end and Matt Amodio's historic run on "Jeopardy!" did just that on Monday's show, leaving the Yale doctoral student with 38 wins and more than $1.5 million in prize money.
(AP) – North Carolina officials say nearly all of the 10,000 employees working in stateoperated health care facilities are fully vaccinated against COVID.
Gomez Addams gives Lukas, Alice and Mal Beinecke an Addams family history lesson. From left are Lane Gateley, Erin Giles, Wesley Javorsky, Gavin Houck and Oscar Hernandez.
(AP) – More than 130 countries have agreed on sweeping changes to how big global companies are taxed, including a 15% minimum corporate rate designed to deter multinationals from stashing profits in low-tax countries.
(AP) – Vladimir Putin paid scant attention to Fiona Hill, a preeminent U.S. expert on Russia, when she was seated next to him at dinners. Putin's people placed her there by design, choosing a "nondescript woman," as she put it, so the Russian president would have no competition for attention.
Red Tornado football fans, from the left, Skylar Adams, Aviance Hester, Maleigha Yadon, and Trynidee Yadon having fun at Friday night’s Homecoming game.
(AP) – With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their sleeves for a booster shot, millions of others who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine wait anxiously to learn when it's their turn.