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Cage sold the estate amid millions of dollars in back taxes. Actor Nicolas Cage sold his large Rhode Island estate for $6.2 million in 2011, four years after buying it for $15.7 million. Cage had originally put the property on the market for $15.9 million in 2008, but eventually accepted less than half of that…

A 70-year-old hiker who disappeared during a solo trip to Michigan’s remote Isle Royale National Park has been found alive after more than a week, ending a search that involved police, search dogs, aircraft and fellow backpackers. According to the U.S. Coast Guard, Craig Berg was located injured and suffering from hypothermia on September 12…

The property covers 2.34 acres and has about 14,595 square feet of interior space. (Photos: Realtor) Ron Popeil’s longtime Beverly Hills family home has gone on the market for $25 million, nearly five years after the infomercial pioneer died in 2021, Realtor reported.Popeil and his wife, Robin Popeil, bought the property in 2002 for $7.5…

North Carolina acquired more than 342 acres without using local purchase money; the mountain property is now moving toward becoming Buncombe County’s largest public park (Image Credit: Buncombe County, North Carolina) A 342-acre mountain property west of Asheville has moved another step closer to becoming a public park, with Buncombe County now developing the master…

Image Credit: Valerie Warhol/Carnegie Magazine The discovery of a new spider species did not begin in a remote forest or during an expedition. It happened inside a museum, where two amateur spider enthusiasts were working through specimens that had remained largely unnoticed for years. Valerie Warhol, an informatics assistant, and Amy Bianco, a part-time volunteer…

The Weekly Vine         Note: The following excerpt is from The Weekly Vine, a TOI newsletter for LinkedIn. You can also get it in your inbox.Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine.Jean Paul Sartre once said – and I am guilty of repeating this ad nauseam (pun intended) – that freedom is what…

Atlantic City’s iconic Steel Pier is up for sale, offering a rare chance to buy an operating amusement park built over the Atlantic Ocean, along with the rights to extend the property much farther into the sea. The asking price is $85 million, according to a report by the New York Post.The nearly 1,000-foot-long pier…

Henry Hill at Manassas National Battlefield Park in Prince William County Virginia A major data-centre campus planned beside a historic Civil War battlefield in Virginia has been abandoned after years of community opposition and legal challenges. The Prince William Digital Gateway, proposed along Pageland Lane in Prince William County, would have brought up to 37…

The birds live in the Sand Sagebrush Ecoregion, which stretches across southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas and a small part of western Oklahoma. (American Bird Conservancy photo) Colorado’s lesser prairie-chicken population has fallen from more than 80,000 birds in 1975 to just 89 breeding males, according to a 2024 data. To restore the population of the…

Conservation challenges remain part of the conversation and the anniversary panel will examine issues facing the Minnesota River Valley, including water quality, flooding and development along the river’s bluffs. Half a century ago, a stretch of Minnesota river country faced a very different future. Plans for landfills and development threatened the Minnesota River bottoms, prompting…