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Human Chain of 80 Saves Family Drowning in Riptide Current

Matthew McDonald

Two boys got caught in a riptide in the water off Panama City Beach, Florida, and when their seven family members swam out to get them, they got stuck in it, too. That's when a woman who had just found a discarded boogie board went out, and her husband helped organize a massive human chain that saved them all.

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Bike Lane Proposal Dividing Vermont’s Largest City

Matthew McDonald

A slight majority of a neighborhood in Burlington, Vermont support a new bike lane on North Avenue, according to a survey, but critics say the survey is flawed. The thoroughfare has been reduced from four lanes to three lanes to accommodate the bike lane as part of a pilot project, and not all residents are happy about that.

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