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A pair of Minnesota teenagers doing gardening at a friend’s house had a close encounter with a wandering black bear, and the incident was caught on camera. Hailey Nelson, 17, and Dori Arndt, 15, were working in the front garden Read more
Organizers of a hot air balloon festival in New Mexico announced they were awarded a Guinness World Record for launching 524 balloons at the same time. The organizers of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta said they originally set the record Read more
A Washington State University engineer’s robotic beetle, which weighs about the same as three grains of rice, earned a Guinness World Record as the lightest crawling robot. Nestor O. Perez-Arancibia, a Flaherty associate professor in engineering in the School of Read more
A Transportation Security Administration canine handler ended up putting his skills to the test with an entirely different species when he spotted a groundhog running around the runway at Washington Dulles International Airport. TSA Explosives Detection Canine Handler Shelby Tibbs Read more
An Idaho man walked more than 2 miles while balancing a baseball bat on his chin to earn a Guinness World Record. David Rush, who has broken more than 200 Guinness records to promote STEM education, took on the record Read more
A horse preparing for her first race in Kentucky escaped for a 30-minute run on the highway — and survived a barn fire just hours later. Horse trainer Michael Ann Ewing said the equine, Bold and Bossy, was preparing for Read more
A Maryland man said the split-second decision to buy the last scratch-off lottery ticket in a roll paid off when he scored a $100,000 jackpot. The 70-year-old Silver Spring man told Maryland Lottery officials that he normally buys only one Read more