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Mary Horomanski of Erie, Pa., received a bill of more than $284 billion. The Erie Times News reports that's more than the combined national debts of Hungary and South Africa.

Walter MacFarlane and Alan Robinson, who live in Hawaii, have been best friends for 60 years. Thanks to one of those DNA genealogy kits, they found out they have the same mother.

John Hoopingarner of Ohio got an email announcing a bicycle race in Birmingham. He signed up and planned the trip to Alabama before realizing the race was in Birmingham, England. He went any way.

In 2009, the Kepler telescope was launched to search for other planets. But when astronomer Tabetha Boyajian asked thousands of amateurs to comb through Kepler's data, they found something unexpected.

That is one of the questions studied by scientists who received Ig Nobel Prizes at Harvard University, at the ceremony put on by the otherwise-august institution for the past 27 years.

The Marburg Avenue bridge, which connects Oakley and Hyde Park, re-opens to traffic Saturday afternoon. A ribbon cutting is planned at 3 p.m.

New guidelines from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology are changing the definition of high blood pressure. Patients with blood pressure...

Unsuspecting attendants at a Hungarian music festival got a surprise when they tried to use a certain portable toilet. Instead of being a real bathroom, it led to a secret rave.

Lots of local, regional & national "music notes" this week. Here's Elaine Diehl:

Some Americans on a student exchange program brought pasta home and cooked it in a pot with no water. The pasta went up in flames and the fire department was called.