It was a nice way to ring in the new year.
A Utah man who lost his high-school class ring six months after receiving it has just gotten it back — 45 years later.
Brent Aguirre got a Facebook message from a couple who said they found the ring with his name inscribed.
Aguirre doesn’t remember where he lost it so long ago and the finders can’t recall where they discovered it.
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James Bond has a British scientist stirred up.
Professor David Phillips, head of the Royal Society of Chemistry, says villains like Dr. No in the 007 saga have given nuke power a bad rap.
“Fossil fuels have to be eradicated for people to live in a healthy environment,’’ he said. “Let’s say yes to nuclear and no to Dr. No’s nonsense.’’
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These “brainy” smugglers weren’t very smart.
Egyptian customs officers grabbed 420 pounds of frozen cow brains that three Sudanese travelers were trying to sneak into the country.
The brains, a tasty item on restaurant menus, would have netted the smugglers $1,500, but were confiscated because authorities couldn’t be sure they had been properly preserved.
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A Russian villager who bought wooden crates so he could build a fire for warmth instead wound up with a lot of firepower.
He paid a truck driver $15 for more than 60 wooden boxes to use in his winter stove. It turned out there were 79 Kalashnikov assault rifles and ammo inside.
The rifles had left a manufacturing plant and were headed to a recycling plant.
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Sometimes the human eye is better than an infrared camera.
Pilots of two Dutch Air Force F-16 jet fighters setting out on a training mission pitched in to help local cops trying to track down a suspect fleeing on foot.
The man’s car had crashed into a canal and he raced across a wet field.