Kyle Melnick

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Amber Hall saved for years to buy a house for her family in Centennial, Colo. She was happy until she noticed snakes in the wall of her garage.

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Alexander Witkowski, an Oregon dermatologist, found a 0.65 millimeter mole – the world's smallest skin cancer spot – under Christy Staats’s eye.

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Texas state Rep. Bryan Slaton (R) has resigned from his seat, one day before his colleagues were slated to vote on whether to expel him from the Texas House of Representatives after a committee unanimously recommended his dismissal over sexual misconduct with a 19-year-old aide.

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Rob Green, the mayor of Cedar Falls, Iowa, had first rejected a proposal to recognize June as Pride Month. He changed his mind after a city council meeting.

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Fredric Taylor, 101, missed his 1943 graduation at Cornell College for military training. Eighty years later, the Iowa school is inviting him back.

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The lawsuit filed Monday says that the decision to bar Zephyr "effectively removed" her from the legislative process and silenced her constituents in Missoula.

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Maureen Hvegholm, 84, was feeding stray cats near her home in Nevada when a firefighter approached. She was pushed to the concrete and later filed a lawsuit.

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A new study found that pet parrots enjoy video calling each other, providing them a sense of community.

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Se'Cret Pierce, 12, was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting in Hartford, Conn., on April 20. She was 2 years old when her father, Shane Oliver, died.