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Owners reunited with pet cat they accidentally shipped with Amazon return
A cat may have used a couple of its nine lives when it was accidentally shipped with an Amazon return from Utah to California.
Bill that would make first-cousin marriage illegal in Tennessee passes but not without a fight
The bill as amended by Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Brentwood, would prohibit first-cousin marriage unless the parties to the marriage contract received counseling from a genetic counselor licensed by the board of medical examiners.
111-year-old British man born the same year the Titanic sank is now world’s oldest man
Born in the northwestern English city of Liverpool on August 26, 1912, John Alfred Tinniswood has lived through two world wars, as well as two pandemics, and also holds the record for world’s oldest surviving male World War II veteran.