Aug. 28 is Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day. Here’s how to help children prepare for loss of a pet and how to remember them after they’re gone.
Author: Saleen Martin, USA TODAY
World chess organization FIDE issues ban on transgender women competing in women’s events
A world chess organization said: “The player has no right to participate in official FIDE events for women until further FIDE’s decision is made.”
Remains of Myshonique Maddox, Georgia woman missing since July, found in Alabama woods
Myshonique Shontrell Maddox, 28, was reported missing out of Columbus, Georgia on July 22. Her remains were found in a wooded area in Alabama.
Indiana mom dies at 35 from drinking too much water: What to know about water toxicity
Ashley Miller Summers’ family is in mourning after she drank too much water and died. Experts say water poisoning is real and preventable.
Dream homes, vacations and bills: Where have past lottery winners spent their money?
Not everyone who wins the lottery gets extravagant purchases: A recent winner planned to use a portion of the winnings to pay off her church mortgage
Great Wolf Lodge rooms will be available for $84 soon. Here’s how to book one.
Great Wolf Lodge’s $84 sale is only on Aug. 4 because the park is always climate controlled to 84 degrees. Here’s how to get the discount Friday.
The Indian Ocean has a spot with lower gravitational pull. Researchers think they know why.
Once sinking slabs from a prehistoric ocean moved years ago and reached the Earth’s mantle, plumes formed, creating the low spot, researchers say.
‘My night watchman, my postman and guardian’: How this ‘hearing cat’ takes care of his owner
“I used to sort of lay awake,” Genevieve Moss said. “But now I can sleep knowing that Zebby’s going to be there.”
Pineapple Pepsi? It’s a thing. The tropical soda returns exclusively at Little Caesars.
The soda is part of Little Caesars’ Pineapple Pair-Up Combo, which includes a 16-ounce Pepsi Pineapple and a large pizza.
‘Devastated’: 150-year-old St. Louis cathedral-turned-skate park destroyed in fire
A fire broke out Wednesday night at St. Liborius Cathedral, a 150-year-old church in north St. Louis that was a skate park and community center.