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Anne Boykin- Smith, master planner for Georgia Tech’s capital planning and space management department, called the sheep being used to graze on the campus’s kudzu a sustainable solution that doesn’t require herbicides typically used to get rid of invasive plants.
Nathan Bradley, a Georgia state trooper called to assist four Newborn, Ga., children after their parents were killed in a Halloween car crash, said a GoFundMe page he set up to help the family has raised more than $ 400,000 from about 10,000 donors.
Mohamed Elsaka, 31, of Springfield, Mo., was charged with identity theft after authorities said he used ID cards from a wallet left in his taxi to open a phony bank account and was arrested as he tried to activate a debit card.
Robert Pettus, pastor of the Macedonia Apostolic Church in Selma, Ala., said a daylong gun buyback program resulted in the church paying $ 75 each for 51 handguns, rifles and shotguns that were turned over to police.
Glenda Sullivan of Panama City, Fla., got her high school class ring back after losing it nearly three decades ago after Phillip Mazaruk, using a metal detector, found it buried about 10 inches deep near a lake and then tracked her down to return it.
Christy Kroboth, licensed in Texas as a “nuisance alligator trapper,” was called in to subdue a partially blind, 800- pound alligator known as Godzilla and cart him away to a reserve after the gator began wandering outside a Houston- area shopping center.
Robert Fidler, a 66- yearold English farmer, was ordered to demolish the mock- Tudor castle he built and hid behind piles of straw bales and tarpaulins on his farm about 20 miles south of London without planning department permission.
Arlen Braud and Michelle Gallagher led a team of Louisiana lawyers who are believed to have set a Guinness World Record for the world’s largest pot of gumbo, at 5,800 pounds, which included 1,500 pounds of shrimp, 500 pounds of crabs and 40 gallons of oysters, in a competition held in Larose, La.
Ryan Chester, 18, a senior at North Royalton High outside of Cleveland, won a $ 250,000 scholarship in the Breakthrough Prize competition for his 7- minute film that uses simple props and hand- drawn graphics to explain Einstein’s special theory of relativity.