Thursday, December 25, 2025

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Hunt for escaped killers expands to Vermont

DANNEMORA, N.Y. - The manhunt for two escaped killers expanded to campsites and boat slips in Vermont on Wednesday, and State Police said a female prison staff member being questioned may have had a role in helping the men.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

On the wild slide: Lake Placid site offers skeleton rides

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Sledding can be pleasant and pastoral, with big toboggans, snowy hills and rosy cheeks. And then there's skeleton sledding: belly down, head first on a sled the size of a throw rug, hard ice whooshing by your face.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 10 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Roommates find $40,000 inside lumpy couch

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. - For all the screaming and carrying on, their neighbors thought they had won the lottery. But it was a lumpy old sofa stuffed with $40,000 in cash that had three young roommates raising a ruckus.
COEUR D'ALENE PRESS | UPDATED 11 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

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