According to Berkeley Police, a resident on the 800 block of Colusa Avenue in North Berkeley notified firefighters on Friday about several bottles of hazardous substances in their basement.
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Tim Fang,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026
The pursuers yelled taunts, threw bottles, and expected the two women to settle their differences with a fistfight, according to court records.
The sky served up no shortage of spectacle in 2025 —from lunar liaisons, solar prominences and fleeting meteor showers, to aurora and nebula scenes that unfold on a scale almost too massive for the human mind to comprehend.
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Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
30 Dec. 2025
Some have suggested that the Bard had romantic liaisons with men, in part implied by sonnets that are charged with homoerotic elements.
Last year’s event included standout performances from artists such as Cut Chemist, along with appearances by producers and DJs digging through crates on the show floor.
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Holly Alvarado,
Daily News,
22 Jan. 2026
Officials say truckloads of antiquities were driven from the capital in 2023 — RSF members filmed themselves opening crates of mummified remains — and estimate total losses at $110 million.
During extremely cold conditions, the National Forest Foundation says, liquid sap inside tree trunks can act like water in a pipe.
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Owen Clarke,
Outside,
23 Jan. 2026
Upon our arrival to Wilderness Vumbura Plains, our guide, Kabo, skillfully navigates the Jeep between sandy hills and flooded grasslands, occasionally swerving to avoid tree trunks chewed down to their stumps by elephants.
Besides a few early offensive rebounds that led to easy buckets, the Sun Devils struggled to have any consistency, especially with several turnovers.
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Lawrence Dow,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
12 Jan. 2026
At times, mops and towels were absorbing so much water that workers were forced to bring buckets to the court to wring out the water before continuing their work.
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