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The father of a 20-year-old Florida man who leaped from the 11th floor of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship 57 miles from shore last week believes his “master diver” son is still alive, according to a report. Francel Parker told the Daily Sun that his son, Levion Parker, works on a commercial fishing boat and said that he had multiple …

New York’s state budget is poised for another delay as backroom negotiations over a sweeping proposal to drive new housing construction continue to hold up the spending plan. Lawmakers in the state Senate passed a stopgap bill Thursday that will keep government funded and extend the budget deadline until April 15. The Assembly is expected to approve the measure on …

A library in Colorado recently received the unexpected return of a book that was due back in ’19. The year 1919, that is. The copy of “Ivanhoe: A Romance,” a novel by Sir Walter Scott, was originally due back at the Fort Collins Public Library and Free Reading Room on February 13, 1919. Instead, the person who checked it out …