Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.
Because of the slope of the green, McLean and her partners couldn’t see where her ball landed after she teed [...]

No-one could accuse Bob Adams of moving too fast when he finally wed his childhood sweetheart - 70 years after their first date.
The pair fell for each other when they were just 13 years old but when Bob joined the Navy and was sent away to war, a brief fling with an Australian left Joy [...]

He was the kind of man who took care of things: His life-insurance premiums were paid; the house was renovated, and the cars had both been serviced. Now Cindy Barkway’s kitchen table is stacked with papers that never seem to stop arriving. Six months after her husband’s death, she is still dealing with the details.
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WHAT COULD BE the UK’s earliest underwater archaeological site has been accidentally found by Newcastle researchers while they were learning to scuba dive for a project elsewhere.
Experts believe the discovery to be the first ever evidence of Stone Age settlements in the British North Sea. The two sites are thought to have been occupied by [...]

One of two French hikers who survived seven weeks in the jungle of French Guiana on a diet of turtles and tarantulas was at death’s door when rescuers found him, his brother says.
Loic Pillois and Guilhem Nayral, both 34, had been missing since mid-February. They turned up Thursday after spending seven weeks living off river [...]