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Meet Hudson Lightfoot, the 16-year-old Orillia teen who started window cleaning with a bucket and squeegee at 13 (Image Credit: OrilliaMatters) At 16, Hudson Lightfoot is balancing high school with a business he started when he was just 13. What began as a simple window-cleaning operation in Orillia has since grown into Marchmont Window Cleaning,…

File photo: California governor Gavin Newsom (Picture credit: AP) California has officially banned child marriage after Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation setting 18 as the minimum age for marriage and domestic partnerships in the state.Assembly Bill 1267, authored by Democratic Assemblywoman Gail Pellerin of Santa Cruz, repeals provisions that previously allowed minors to marry with…

cannabisRepresentative image When Corrine and Doug Thomas bought a property in Humboldt County, California, in 2021, they expected to take ownership of a home and land. Instead, they inherited a legal dispute connected to the previous owner’s alleged cannabis operation. County officials sought more than $1 million in penalties against the couple, along with roughly…

The Clinch River project will use the BWRX-300, a boiling-water reactor developed by GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy The United States has taken a significant step toward a new generation of nuclear power with approval for construction of what is set to become the country’s first commercial small modular reactor (SMR). According to Reuters, the…

Representative Image of a vibrant landscape of chalk grassland and wildflower meadows at Lyscombe National Nature Reserve (AI Generated Image) In March 2024, Dorset Wildlife Trust and Natural England acquired 335 hectares of chalk downland and farmland at Lyscombe, around 10 miles north-east of Dorchester. The former organically managed farm was acquired for nature conservation…

A Connecticut man paid $35 for a small blue-and-white porcelain bowl at a yard sale near New Haven in 2020, unaware that he had stumbled upon an exceptionally rare Chinese imperial-era artefact. The unnamed antiques enthusiast suspected the bowl might be special and later sent photographs to Sotheby’s for an evaluation. Specialists identified it as…

Sixty years ago, a house was reconstructed at Woodlawn, a National Trust-owned property outside of Washington, DC, after a historic and hard-fought battle to save it from destruction. Originally built in Falls Church, Virginia for Loren and Charlotte Pope, the 1,200-square-foot Frank Lloyd Wright home was under threat due to the construction of the new…

Casa Encantada, a 40,000-square-foot Bel-Air mega mansion, known as Los Angeles’ most iconic estate, has found a new owner in billionaire investor Peter Thiel. According to a report by LA Times, the venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder quietly bought the property through a limited liability company at a foreclosure auction in Pomona in July this…

In 2011, Tori and Chris Gerbig were not setting out to build a large fashion retailer. They were a young Kentucky couple with an interest in affordable women’s clothing and about $300 to put into a small online venture. Writing for CNBC in 2022, Tori revealed that she was still working in insurance, at that…

​Financial troubles forced Gilcrease to give up control of his collection and museum to the City of Tulsa in 1955. Thomas Gilcrease was just nine-year-old when he became eligible for a 160-acre land allotment in Oklahoma through his Creek tribal membership in 1899. The land, near present-day Glenpool, later became part of the Glenn Pool…