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Month: January 2025

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Hood River Police seize Drugs and a Weapon in Traffic Stop

January 30, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Hood River Police seize Drugs and a Weapon in Traffic Stop

The HRPD urges residents and friends to exercise responsible behavior and refrain from driving or allowing others to drive while impaired. We have repeatedly emphasized the importance of this issue, as impaired drivers often exhibit […]

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Nikola Jokic says the surging New York Knicks are a ‘top-5 candidate’ to win the NBA title

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Nikola Jokic says the surging New York Knicks are a ‘top-5 candidate’ to win the NBA title

NEW YORK (AP) — Two years after he won an NBA title, Nikola Jokic views the surging New York Knicks as a “top-five candidate” to end their 52-year championship drought. The Knicks beat Jokic’s Denver […]

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Caitlin Clark declines invite to a 3-point shootout at NBA All-Star weekend

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Caitlin Clark declines invite to a 3-point shootout at NBA All-Star weekend

Caitlin Clark is going to wait until Indianapolis hosts the WNBA All-Star weekend to enter her first 3-point contest. Clark’s representatives said Wednesday that the Fever star declined an invitation to participate in a special […]

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Objections flow in on NCAA settlement over ‘unnecessarily harsh’ impact of roster limits

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on Objections flow in on NCAA settlement over ‘unnecessarily harsh’ impact of roster limits

Most of the objections posted so far to the lawsuit settlement set to alter the college-sports model concerned the impact roster limits will have on players in so-called “Olympic sports,” some of whom have already […]

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A gift for the obvious helps send one woman to jail

January 29, 2025 GNCadm1n Comments Off on A gift for the obvious helps send one woman to jail

It seems one Florida woman’s misguided confusion over irony and the obvious may have landed her in jail. Well, that, and the methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia in her possession.  Thirty-one-year-old Teryn Acri was a passenger when the […]

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Challenge your mind and your friends to Random Trivia!

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The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was in what restaurant commercial?

Mikhail Gorbachev starred in a famous international television commercial for Pizza Hut in 1997. The ad, which originally aired in 1998, was shot in Moscow and featured the former Soviet leader visiting a Pizza Hut restaurant in Red Square with his granddaughter.

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Who was Sherlock Holmes’s assistant?

Sherlock Holmes' legendary assistant, biographer, and roommate is Dr. John H. Watson. A former British Army doctor wounded in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, Watson serves as Holmes’s emotional anchor, moral compass, and the first-person narrator for the vast majority of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.

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What popular toy was invented by taking empty pie plates are throwing them in the air?

The Frisbee is the popular toy you are thinking of. College students in the 1930s and 1940s (famously at Yale University) would toss empty pie tins from the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut. The students would yell "Frisbie!" to warn others of the incoming tins. This popular pastime inspired inventor Walter Morrison to create a better-flying plastic version. The toy company Wham-O bought the design in 1955, and eventually released it under the name "Frisbee" as a tribute to the pie company that started the craze. 

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What reddish-colored ant common in the southern U.S. delivers painful, venomous stings that can cause severe allergic reactions?

The red imported fire ant (or simply the fire ant) is the reddish-colored ant common in the southern U.S. that delivers painful, venomous stings capable of causing severe allergic reactions.

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What is the only US state with an official jelly?

Louisiana is the only US state with an official state jelly. In fact, it has two: mayhaw jelly and Louisiana sugar cane jelly, which were both officially adopted by the state legislature in 2003. 

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