| Trump appears to accidentally share Twitter dis Posted: 15 Aug 2017 05:12 AM PDT  The Twitter user who called President Trump a fascist and frequently shares anti-Trump sentiment, joked Tuesday that the president "agrees with him."
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| Could Trump's Comments Lead To a GOP Presidential Primary? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:21 PM PDT  Trump's media availability drew intense criticism from the right. Former GOP Rep. David Jolly says today may be the start of a primary movement to replace Trump. He joins O'Donnell and Jarvis DeBerry to discuss Trump's long pattern of bigoted behavior.
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| Man beaten at protest says police were indifferent to attack Posted: 15 Aug 2017 02:32 PM PDT  McLEAN, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man says police failed to come to his aid as he was beaten by white supremacists during Saturday's violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, that led to three deaths.
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| Why Barack Obama is Our Most Viral President Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Barack Obama's post Charlottesville tweet just broke the record for number of likes. How did Obama crack the social media code?
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| Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:37 PM PDT ![Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says]( "Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says") By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace whipped two South African women in a Johannesburg hotel room with an electric cable, the mother of one victim said, adding that the attack must be punished. Debbie Engels told Reuters her daughter Gabriella, a 20-year-old model, suffered a gash on her forehead that required eight stitches and another on the back of her head that needed six. Engels did not witness the attack and Reuters has not been able to verify key aspects of the allegations independently.
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| Nigeria suicide bombers kill 28, wound 82 Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:10 PM PDT  Three women suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance to a camp for displaced people in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, killing 28 people and wounding 82, local sources said. The attack -- the latest in a string of assaults in the troubled region -- took place in the town of Mandarari, 25 kilometres (15 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, said Baba Kura, a member of a vigilante force set up to fight jihadists. "Three female bombers triggered their explosive outside of the IDP (internally displaced persons) camp... killing 28 people and wounding 82 others," Kura said.
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| Baltimore Quietly Removed All 4 Of Its Confederate Statues Overnight Posted: 16 Aug 2017 04:48 AM PDT  All four of Baltimore's Confederate statues were removed overnight, just days after a white nationalist rally erupted into chaos and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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| Scientists solve mystery of ‘Frankenstein dinosaur’ Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:05 PM PDT 
A dinosaur that puzzled researchers thanks to the incredibly puzzling design of its body finally has its place in history thanks to a team of scientists from Cambridge and the Natural History Museum in London. The Chilesaurus, which has been nicknamed the "Frankenstein dinosaur" due to it appearing as though it were patched together from other, unrelated dinosaur species, has now been labeled a transitional species that helps to bridge the gap between herbivorous dinosaurs and the more iconic meat-eaters like the Tyrannosaurus rex. After its fossils were initially discovered, Chilesaurus was thought to be a part of the Theropod group of dinos — which includes the T. rex— due to its advanced digestive system. Those creatures, which are considered "lizard-hipped," were carnivores, but the Chilesaurus didn't appear to be particularly well-suited for consuming meat. After extensive examination of the fossils, the researchers are now declaring that Chilesaurus was in fact a plant eater. As it turns out, the puzzling creature is actually a member of the group called Ornithischia — meaning "bird-hipped" — dinosaurs that also includes recognizable herbivores like the Stegosaurus and Triceratops. The team believes Chilesaurus was a essentially a stepping stone between the two groups, acting as a branching-off point. "Before this, there were no transitional specimens — we didn't know what order these characteristics evolved in," Matthew Baron, Cambridge Ph.D. student and contributing author of the study, said of the research. "This shows that in bird-hipped dinosaurs, the gut evolved first, and the jaws evolved later — it fills the gap quite nicely."
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| Here’s Where You Can See Every Total Solar Eclipse for the Next 50 Years Posted: 16 Aug 2017 06:00 AM PDT  Check out where and when the next total solar eclipses will take place
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| Saudi Arabia Shows How it Would Shoot Down Qatari Plane Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:12 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia and allies Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have accused Qatar of funding terrorist groups abroad.
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| Maryland judge denies DC sniper Malvo's bid for new sentence Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:58 PM PDT  Lee Boyd Malvo, who as a teenager participated in the sniper attacks that killed 10 people and terrorized the Washington region, will not get a new sentence in Maryland, a judge said in a ruling released Wednesday.
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| Charlottesville: Black protester Deandre Harris ‘beaten with metal poles’ by white supremacists Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:48 AM PDT  More than $118,000 (£91,700) has been raised for an African American man who was brutally beaten by a group of white supremacists in a horrific attack in Charlottesville. Shocking pictures and footage were captured of Deandre Harris being chased by a gang of white men before he was savagely beaten with what appear to be poles at the protests in Virginia this weekend, leaving him needing hospital treatment. The 20-year-old was left covered in blood with a broken wrist and needing eight staples for his head wounds when the attack happened in a parking garage near Charlottesville police station.
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| U.S. court rules Arkansas can block Planned Parenthood funding Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:41 PM PDT  A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed a ruling that prevented Arkansas from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood following the release of controversial videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis reversed a ruling forbidding Arkansas from carrying through with Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson's directive to suspend Medicaid reimbursements to a Planned Parenthood affiliate.
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| SeaWorld Orca Dies After Long Battle With Lung Infection Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:55 AM PDT  An orca at SeaWorld San Diego was euthanized Tuesday evening after a long battle with a bacterial respiratory infection.
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| Objects spotted near suspected MH370 crash site - Australia Posted: 16 Aug 2017 02:03 AM PDT  Several "probably man-made" objects were floating near the suspected crash site of MH370 just weeks after it vanished, Australian researchers revealed Wednesday, more than six months after the hunt for the doomed jet was called off. A massive underwater search for the Malaysia Airlines plane, which disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board, ended in January after no trace of the aircraft was found in a 120,000 square kilometre (46,000 square mile) zone in the remote southern Indian Ocean off Australia's west coast. On Wednesday, two new studies said photos taken by French military satellites two weeks after the plane's disappearance, but not released to the public, showed at least 70 identifiable objects floating close to the so-called "northern area".
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| Scholars say Trump went afoul in lumping Lee with founders Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:07 PM PDT  Both were great generals. Both Virginians. Both came from slave-owning plantation families.
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| Swiss Hotel Apologizes for Singling Out Jews in Signs Posted: 15 Aug 2017 09:47 AM PDT  The hotel defended its signs requiring only Jews to shower before using the pool facilities.
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| Student, 18, Arrested After Allegedly Threatening Teacher's Life On Facebook: Cops Posted: 15 Aug 2017 05:38 AM PDT  Desiree Zio is charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily harm.
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| KKK Grand Dragon says I'm 'glad' Heather Heyer died in Charlottesville Posted: 16 Aug 2017 02:36 AM PDT  A Ku Klux Klan leader has said he is happy a woman died while taking part in a protest against white supremacists in Charlottesville. Heather Heyer was killed after a car drove at speed into a crowd of anti-fascist protesters in the Virginia city over the weekend and left scores injured. The 32-year-old counter-protester was one of hundreds who descended on the city to protest against the largest gathering of white nationalists in America in decades.
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| How To Wash Radioactive Material From Your Body After A Nuclear Blast Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:04 AM PDT  According to certain guidelines, hair conditioner could bind radioactive material to your hair after exposure.
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| Iran's military chief in rare visit to Turkey for Syria talks Posted: 16 Aug 2017 07:27 AM PDT  By Parisa Hafezi and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish and Iranian military leaders held talks on Wednesday over cooperation in the Syrian conflict and counter-terrorism, officials said, during a rare visit to NATO-member Turkey by the Islamic Republic's military chief of staff. Turkey's ties with Washington have been strained by U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, and the visit by Iranian General Mohammad Baqeri is the latest sign that Ankara is increasing cooperation with other powers such as Iran and Russia. Baqeri met his Turkish counterpart on Tuesday and Turkey's Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli on Wednesday in what Turkish media said was the first visit by an Iranian chief of staff since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
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| Alabama woman found after almost a month wandering lost in the woods Posted: 15 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT  A woman in Alabama has been reunited with her family after being lost in the woods for a month, sheltering among the trees and surviving on mushrooms and berries. Lisa Theris, 25, was found on Saturday afternoon after she finally reached a road, and managed to signal to a motorist for help. She had lost 50lbs and was covered in scratches and insect bites, but was not severely harmed. "I've been doing this now going on 15 years and I've never seen anything like it," said Chad Faulkner, of the Bullock county sheriff's office. "Her will to live is incredible. I hate to classify it as a miracle, but it's a miracle." Lisa Theris Miss Theris had set off into the woods near Midland with two men, who broke into a hunting lodge in Midway. She told her family that she did not want to be part of the robbery, and so ran away from the pair. On July 23 her family reported her missing. The two men, Manley Davis, 31, and Randall Oswald, 36, were arrested and charged following the theft of $40,000 (£31,100) worth of goods, including four-wheel drive cars and chainsaws. "She's not familiar with this area and apparently on the night she ran, she went into the woods at night and got lost," said Raymond Rodgers, sheriff of Bullock county. Miss Theris told police that she drank water from the streams and tried to walk to safety, but ended up disorientated and walking in circles. "We didn't ask her too many questions," said Mr Rodgers. "We want to make sure her health is good so we got her on to the hospital. We did not interrogate her at that time." Mr Faulkner said they expect to have more details about Miss Theris's movements in the coming days. Elizabeth Theris, her sister, said the missing woman was now back at home in Louisville, Alabama. Lisa Theris's legs, covered in scratches and bites "She is severely weakened, she is in pain, she is emaciated," she said. "There is not an inch of her that has not been affected. "We are lucky that she is alive, she is so strong and has made it through so much." Her brother, Will, said that she was "standing strong and full of jokes as ever." He added: "The next few weeks will be rough, but she is handling it all like a trooper."
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| New tower fuels concerns over changing face of San Francisco Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:31 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 60 stories above the ground, construction workers climb makeshift stairs and cross narrow steel planks to put the finishing touches on Salesforce Tower, now San Francisco's tallest building.
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| Argentina warns US against military move on Venezuela Posted: 15 Aug 2017 02:42 PM PDT  US Vice President Mike Pence heard more complaints from Latin American allies Tuesday about President Donald Trump's warning of a possible US military option to deal with the crisis in Venezuela. "The use of force is not the way," but rather political pressure, Argentine President Mauricio Macri said at a news conference alongside Mike Pence, who is on a tour of Latin American countries.
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| KKK Members Convicted In Plot To Kill Black Inmate While Working As Prison Guards Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:20 AM PDT  Two former Florida prison guards who were members of the Ku Klux Klan have been convicted of plotting to murder a black inmate after his release.
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| Has Natalee Holloway's Body Been Found? Remains Reportedly Discovered in Search for Missing Teen Posted: 16 Aug 2017 02:17 PM PDT  The Alabama teen vanished during a school trip in 2005.
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| Confederate statues taken down in Baltimore in the dead of night Posted: 16 Aug 2017 05:11 AM PDT  Confederate statues in Baltimore have been removed days after the white supremacist protests in Charlottesville. Journalists in the Maryland city tweeted from the scene as the statues were taken down from public places in the dead of night. The City Council voted days ago to remove the statues. Crane is here at #Tubman (Wyman) dell park to remove the #JacksonandLee monument pic.twitter.com/rU8hqVYAcB— Baltimore BLOC (@BmoreBloc) August 16, 2017 The memorials include the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument on Mount Royal Avenue, the Confederate Women's Monument on West University Parkway, the Roger B Taney Monument on Mount Vernon Place, and the Robert E Lee and Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson Monument in the Wyman Park Dell. And there they go. Lee and Jackson sailing through air onto flatbed truck in Baltimore at 3:40 AM. An amazing sight. pic.twitter.com/4SzRYRiVOB— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 16, 2017 Removal of the statues follows the unrest in Charlottesville when neo-Nazis and white nationalists marched over plans to taken down the monument to Robert E Lee, who commanded the Confederate army of northern Virginia. The Baltimore City Council voted unanimously Monday to remove four Confederate monuments immediately. The fourth and final #Confederate monument in Baltimore is gone. pic.twitter.com/BSgumFuIVH— J. M. Giordano photo (@jmgpix) August 16, 2017 They had all come down early on Wednesday morning. Small crowds gathered at the momuments as they were removed. Baynard Woods, the editor of the Baltimore City Paper, said the mood was "celebratory". "The police are being cheerful and encouraging people to take photos and selfies," Mr. Woods said. They rode in on the Lost Cause. They rode out on a flatbed truck. pic.twitter.com/CfRlluk5s0— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) August 16, 2017 Other cities and states are considering removing their Confederate monuments following the clashes at Saturday's rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. According to the New York Times, one city councilman said the statues should be destroyed, not just moved. "These people were terrorists. They were traitors. Why are we honoring them?" Councilman Brandon M. Scott said at a meeting on Monday. Charlottesville far-right protest
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| Jeff Sessions says Charlottesville car attack 'could be a hate crime' Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:02 AM PDT  Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the attack on counter-protesters at a neo-Nazis rally in Charlottesville "could be considered a hate crime". Mr Sessions said federal authorities were waiting for more details from the investigation before filing charges over the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer who was killed when a car ploughed into a group of anti-fascist protesters at the white supremacist event last week.
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| Rebels say they shoot down Syrian military jet, army confirms crash Posted: 15 Aug 2017 10:20 AM PDT ![Rebels say they shoot down Syrian military jet, army confirms crash]( "Rebels say they shoot down Syrian military jet, army confirms crash") The Syrian military said on Tuesday that one of its jets crashed in southern Syria, state television reported, hours after Western-backed rebels said they had shot it down and captured the pilot. State-owned Ikhbariya television quoted a Syrian army source as saying an investigation was under way to determine what caused the crash. Rebels released photos of a pilot they identified as Major Ali al Hilwa, with bruises on his face, and the wreckage of a jet they said was a Russian-built MiG brought down by anti-aircraft guns.
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| Scary video shows a bear charging a dog in Alaska Posted: 15 Aug 2017 04:55 PM PDT  A mama black bear was caught on camera charging a Siberian husky at a campground in Alaska. The recently released clip, from a campground in Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, shows a bear and her three cubs approaching a trailer from the woods on July 5. When the bear spots the dog it delivers a bluff charge, and the bear and husky get into a brief fight off camera. A woman can then be heard yelling at the bear, which returns to its cubs and runs away. Tom Henderson, who uploaded the video earlier this month, said in an email that his wife is the person heard yelling in the clip. Fortunately, the dog was unharmed in the scuffle, despite its screams. Henderson also said that bear sightings are not uncommon in the camp, though they have not had a problem like this before. Unfortunate interactions between humans and wildlife are unfortunately common in the area. In June a man was mauled after brown bear with a sow got defensive. Mashable has reached out to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for additional information.
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| Family: FBI knew Oklahoma bomb plot suspect is schizophrenic Posted: 16 Aug 2017 12:54 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The family of a man accused of attempting to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van outside an Oklahoma bank says he is a paranoid schizophrenic and that the FBI knew it.
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| US will 'know how to face' anti-Semitism: Israel president Posted: 16 Aug 2017 12:55 PM PDT  Israeli President Reuven Rivlin expressed shock Wednesday over anti-Semitism at a recent US white supremacist rally, but said American leaders would succeed in dealing with "this difficult challenge". Rivlin wrote to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to convey his "support and solidarity for the American Jewish community" after the unrest in Charlottesville. "The very idea that in our time we would see a Nazi flag -- perhaps the most vicious symbol of anti-Semitism -- paraded in the streets of the world's greatest democracy, and Israel's most cherished and greatest ally, is almost beyond belief," he said.
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| German Car Companies Are Driving the Country Off a Cliff Posted: 16 Aug 2017 12:01 PM PDT  "Made in Germany" used to mean reliability. Now it means collusion.
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| Dear Ivanka: It's Time To Decide Which Side Of History You're Going To Stand On Posted: 16 Aug 2017 09:46 AM PDT  I know you've probably got a lot on your plate right now but we really need to talk about your father and what a shit show this week has been.
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| Can You Be Fired for Being a Racist? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 02:10 PM PDT  It depends on where you work
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| Florida Stripper Kills Partner, Stabs Him In Eyes And Shoves Wood In Throat Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:02 AM PDT  A Key West, Florida, man died Tuesday after an alleged attack in his home by his stripper partner.
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| The Nevada Highway Patrol retires its last Ford Crown Vic Posted: 16 Aug 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Starting in 1978, Ford began cranking out cars on its full-size rear-wheel-drive platform, and it didn't stop doing so until 2011. Over the course of that run, the most prolifically produced machine was undoubtedly the Ford Crown Victoria. It was the go-to vehicle for taxi fleets and police departments, but it's since been replaced.
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| Paul Ryan opponent says he believes 'pizzagate' conspiracy Posted: 14 Aug 2017 07:09 PM PDT  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — House Speaker Paul Ryan's Republican challenger says he believes an unfounded right-wing online conspiracy theory dubbed "pizzagate."
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| FBI 'reopens investigation into Clintons at Trump lawyer's request' Posted: 16 Aug 2017 09:43 AM PDT  The FBI has reportedly reopened an investigation into a meeting between Bill Clinton and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch - a runway tarmac encounter during the election campaign that Donald Trump claimed was an attempt to influence a probe into his rival's use of a private email server. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) made a request for the FBI to reopen its consideration of their push for documents relating to the meeting. The chief counsel for the ACLJ is Jay Sekulow, one of the people on Donald Trump's legal team.
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| At least seven dead in suspected gang attack at Guatemala hospital Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:20 PM PDT  At least seven people were killed and 12 others injured on Wednesday after suspected gang members attacked a hospital in the capital in a bid to free a jailed associate who went there under police supervision for a checkup, officials said. "Anderson Daniel Cabrera, a gang member from the Mara Salvatrucha, was coming for a medical review," police spokesman Jorge Aguilar said, adding the suspected gang members "are suspected of wanting to rescue him." Police arrested five of seven suspected gang members who were armed with assault rifles when they attacked Guatemala City's Roosevelt Hospital, although Cabrera escaped, Aguilar told reporters.
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| 'It still fits': Engagement ring missing for more than a decade turns up on garden carrot Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:46 AM PDT  A woman who was resigned to never seeing her beautiful engagement ring ever again - and had bought a smaller one as a replacement - was shocked when her daughter-in-law found it on a carrot. The family had harvested some carrots from their farm in Alberta, Canada, for dinner, and one had grown around the engagement ring, which was then pulled from the ground. Mary Grams, 84, had lost her beloved ring in 2004 while she was in the garden, and thought she would never see it again. "I recognized it right away," she said. Mary Grams, 84, got her missing ring back when her daughter-in-law found it while harvesting carrots on the family farm in Alberta, Canada. Credit: CBC News She thinks she lost it while pulling a large weed from the garden. "We looked high and low on our hands and knees," she told CBC news. "We couldn't find it. I thought for sure either they rototilled it or something happened to it." Mrs Grams has had the ring since 1951, a year before she married her husband, Norman. Mary, 84, says she didn't know if they were kidding or not, but when her granddaughter brought the carrot over - she knew: "It's mine!" #yegpic.twitter.com/Ft7IMUeSMR— Sarah Kraus Global (@SarahNKraus) August 15, 2017 The ring was found by her daughter-in-law, Colleen Daley. "I knew it had to belong to either grandma or my mother-in-law," she said, "because no other women have lived on that farm. "I asked my husband if he recognized the ring. And he said yeah. His mother had lost her engagement ring years ago in the garden and never found it again. And it turned up on this carrot." A few weeks after losing her engagement ring, Mary bought herself this one, much smaller, to replace it. #Camrosepic.twitter.com/sg9WN4y1Pb— Sarah Kraus Global (@SarahNKraus) August 15, 2017 Mrs Grams said she is pleased the ring was found. "I'm going to wear it because it still fits," she said.
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