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.
A homeowner is mulling the next step after a company mistakenly demolished a home she owned in southwest Atlanta.
Venezuelans became the largest nationality arrested for illegally crossing the U.S. border last month, replacing Mexicans for the first time on record.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. is ready to protect American forces or personnel in the Middle East should the Israel-Hamas war escalate as they expect.
Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister warned Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group that if it launches its own war, Israel would “cripple it with a force it cannot even imagine.”
A U.S. homebuyer must earn just over $114,000 to afford an average-priced home, according to a report from Redfin.
Cheddar News checks in with your coast-to-coast weekend weather forecast for Friday, Oct. 20, 2023.
Canada has removed 41 of its diplomats from India as tensions rise between the two nations.
An Army private who crossed the border into North Korea in July has been charged in military court with eight offenses including desertion.
The 2003 MTV Europe Music Awards in Paris have been canceled due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
A U.S. Navy warship operating in the Middle East shot down multiple missiles near the coast of Yemen.
