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Nov. 22 (UPI) -- Officials with a national monument in Florida said an unusual object washed up on the beach this week: a vintage streamer trunk from the 1930s. The Fort Matanzas National Monument said in a Facebook post that the trunk was found washed up on a park beach near St. Augustine late last week. "While nothing of interest was found within this trunk, it itself is a unique piece of history," the post said. The post said the trunk was from an aptly-named brand called Neverbreak Trunks. The black trunk dates from the 1930s and was manufactured by...

Who would have thought that the sinking of the Italian super luxury liner Andrea Doria outside New York Harbor 59 years ago would still be a Page 1 newspaper story? But it is, or was, when the Boston Sunday Globe ran a long story Aug. 9 about Tom Pritchard, 64, a seasoned scuba diver, who went missing July 21 searching for the wreck, making him at least the 15th diver to die at the site.

Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.

<p>This year California needed a real choice in the governor's campaign and a Republican candidate who could offer a credible alternative to the mediocre incumbent, Democrat Gray Davis. Instead it got Bill Simon, an empty suit who can't even mount a decent smear on his opponent.</p>