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An Emperor Penguin chick hatched at SeaWorld San Diego last month has overcome long odds, becoming the first new arrival in more than a decade, the marine park announced Wednesday. While there have been 22 other Emperor Penguin chicks hatched at SeaWorld over the last several decades, this latest chick is the first since 2010. The San Diego marine park is the only facility in the Western Hemisphere where Emperor penguins can be found. The only others, outside of Antarctica, are located in China and Japan, said Justin Brackett, Curator of Birds at SeaWorld San Diego. SeaWorld waited for more th......

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man who opened fire at a funeral home in south Kansas City Friday morning, injuring four people, was drunk and had been asked to leave before the shooting, according to one employee. The employee, who said his wife was inside the Elite Funeral Chapel at the time, said after staff asked the man to leave he was seen exiting but then returning with a gun. “He went out and one of the other guys that works in there saw him with a gun and he told everybody he had a gun,” the employee said. The man returned and shot a woman as she was sitting on a couch in the funeral home, the e......

Not so fast, Mr. President. Outgoing presidential COVID adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci on Monday walked back President Joe Biden’s assertion that the coronavirus pandemic was “over.” A lot depends on how we respond to current variables and future virus variants, the nation’s top infectious disease expert said during a fireside chat with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. And much of that is up to the American people. “How we respond and how we’re prepared for the evolution of these variants is going to depend on us,” Fauci said. “And that gets to the other conflicting aspect of thi......

SAN JOSE, Calif. — There’s a record for highest-altitude hair cuts — and it just got shattered. San Jose resident Heather Werner is on an expedition to summit Mount Everest this month, her latest exploit toward fulfilling a bigger challenge. “Heather’s goal is to summit the highest peak in each of the seven continents — known colloquially as the ‘Seven Summits,'” says her husband, Chris. If all goes well, Everest will be her sixth, with only Alaska’s Mount Denali remaining. But Heather, a hair stylist and owner of Campbell’s Foundations Hair Studio, may have already broken a record we didn’t e......