PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
A family discovered more than one million pennies while cleaning out their late father's home in Los Angeles, and the valuation could be about one million dollars. Now the standard value for one million pennies is $10,000, but these copper pennies were made before World War ll. The U.S. started making pennies out of zinc-covered steel in 1943 when copper was needed for the war. The pennies were found in boxes, crates and sacks.
'DOCTOR DEEP SEA' RESURFACES
On May 13, Joseph Dituri broke the Guinness World Record for 74 days living under water without depressurization. He finally surfaced on Friday after staying underwater for 100 days in total. Dituri, known as "Doctor Deep Sea" was living in an undersea lodge at the bottom of a 30-foot-deep lagoon in the Florida Keys. He said it was "never about the record' for him" but instead about extending human tolerance underwater.
Cheddar News checks in with your coast-to-coast weekend weather forecast for Friday, Nov. 3, 2023.
Astronaut Thomas Kenneth Mattingly, who helped bring the crew of Apollo 13 back to earth after an explosion threatened their lunar mission, has died at 87.
A former Pennsylvania nurse who was accused of killing two people at a nursing home now faces additional murder charges.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel to press for more humanitarian aid to be allowed into besieged Gaza.
Desmond Mills Jr. became the first of five officers charged to reverse course.
The 31-year-old was convicted on all seven counts and faces up to 110 years in prison at his sentencing hearing in March.
Thursday's one good thing.
A wildfire in southern California doubled in size as firefighters battled flames fueled by the Santa Ana winds.
Cheddar News checks in with your mid-day coast-to-coast forecast for Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023.
A wildfire in southern California doubled in size as firefighters battled flames fueled by the Santa Ana winds.
