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A bag holding six figures in cash sat unattended on top of a Bank of America ATM in Lewisville. A Texas barber found it, took nothing for himself and made sure all $128,514 reached police, according to CBS . Not a dollar was missing when officers went through the cash. The 37-year-old had gone to the machine on West Main Street with a 42-year-old woman to withdraw money when the pair spotted two bags, per a police report. One held the cash, and a smaller one contained 19 checks. Information on o

Paul Rooney swept floors, scrubbed bathrooms and tidied classrooms at Schuyler Elementary School in Kearny for 35 years before retiring in 2025. Along the way, his family says, he was paid about $15,000 less per year than his co-workers doing the same basic job — a disparity that led to a lawsuit and, this past September, a $185,000 settlement with the Kearny School District.

Earlier this year, I wrote about the mysterious emergence of dozens of people from New York City manholes. Various security cameras caught the act, making it seem like we were capturing rare glimpses of the Ninja Turtles emerging from their sewer lair. Some months have passed, and NYC officials have made breakthroughs in the case, and I’m thankful for it because it has led to some of the funniest writing I’ve ever come across, as The Guardian tried to explain to its readers who the Teenage Mutan

In June 2012, a woman bought a vacant Houston lot at the Harris County tax auction and began paying its taxes. Her husband mowed it. The man whose lifelong home stood beside the lot had, by his account, kept it cut for decades. One day, while the husband was mowing, he called the police, who "advised them to sort out their differences in court," the appeals court's opinion says.

Between rent, subway delays and the occasional rat encounter, New York doesn’t always feel like a place that adds years to your life. But the city’s health data offers a surprisingly encouraging counterpoint: New Yorkers live roughly four years longer than the national average. Provisional NYC Health Department figures put the city’s life expectancy at 83.2 years in 2024, its highest recorded level. Nationwide, life expectancy was 79 years that year, according to finalized CDC data—a 4.2-year ga

New York City officials admitted an administrative error wrongfully denied storage assistance to a Brooklyn mother before her storage unit was auctioned off. The auction resulted in the loss of irreplaceable personal items, including the ashes of Nina Davila's stillborn son, Shavon. The case has sparked a push for state...

Hundreds of thousands of French high school students have taken to the streets to protest against dilapidated buildings and teacher shortages.

Jim Thorpe won two Olympic gold medals in 1912, lost them a year later and waited 110 years to be restored as the sole champion.

Tony Orlando shared his side of the story of one of Barry Manilow's biggest hits.

Natasha Gregson Wagner was only 11 when an ordinary childhood sleepover became a moment she would never forget.