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A mouse sits on top of hay stored by Bruce Barnes on his family's farm near Bogan Gate, Australia on May 20, 2021. Vast tracts of land in Australia's New South Wales state are being threatened by a mouse plague that the state government describes as "absolutely unprecedented." Just how many millions of rodents have infested the agricultural plains across the state is guesswork. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)
Plague of ravenous, destructive mice tormenting Australians

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Editorial Roundup: Iowa

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FILE - In this Monday, July 27, 2020, file photo, farmer Joe Marszalkowski holds a prosthetic leg that he found the day before in a soybean field on his farm in West Addison, Vt. The leg was lost by double amputee Chris Marckres while skydiving on Saturday. (Jack Thurston/NECN and NBC10 Boston via AP, File)
'Calamari comeback,' topless voter: New England's weird 2020

By William J. Kole Dec. 28, 2020 08:58 AM EST

FILE - In this Monday, July 27, 2020, file photo, farmer Joe Marszalkowski holds a prosthetic leg that he found the day before in a soybean field on his farm in West Addison, Vt. The leg was lost by double amputee Chris Marckres while skydiving on Saturday. (Jack Thurston/NECN and NBC10 Boston via AP, File)
'Calamari comeback,' topless voter: New England's weird 2020

By William J. Kole Dec. 23, 2020 09:00 AM EST