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LOCATED: VSP issues Amber Alert for 12-year-old in Virginia Beach
(WSET) — UPDATE: Virginia State Police have located Juan Sebastian Mejia Acevedo. BEFORE: VSP issued an Amber Alert on behalf of the Virginia Beach City Police Department for a child abduction.
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Cocaine seized; 2 arrested after years-long drug trafficking investigation in Roanoke: VSP
According to VSP, their Star City Drug and and Violent Crime Task Force, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the City of Roanoke Police Department worked together to execute two search ...
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VSP Vision Completes Eyemart Express Acquisition
RANCHO CORDOVA, Calif., Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its work to expand access to affordable, high-quality eye care and eyewear, VSP Vision ™ announced today it has completed the ...
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Botanic Gardens must team up to save wild plants from extinction
The world's botanic gardens must pull together to protect global plant biodiversity in the face of the extinction crisis, amid restrictions on wild-collecting, say researchers. A major study of ...
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Visitors flock to New York botanic garden for a whiff of a flower that smells like a rotting corpse
One by one, visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden pulled out their phones snap pictures of the rare blooming plant before leaning in to brave a whiff of its infamously putrid scent, which ...
The New York Times28d
This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
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Rare corpse flower blooms at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, crowds drawn to its "stinky cheese, foot smell"
NEW YORK — A rare corpse flower has bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where people waited in line for hours to get a whiff of its unique scent. Gardener Chris Sprindis has been caring for ...
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Putricia the putrid corpse flower at Sydney Botanic Garden basks in internet fame
Putricia the big stinky corpse flower which bloomed at the botanic gardens in Sydney on Thursday has been visited by almost 20,000 people. Almost a million more have followed the plant's journey ...
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Storm Éowyn Edinburgh: 166-year-old tree among 15 lost in high winds at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
A 166-year-old tree which was the tallest at Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden has been damaged ‘beyond recovery’ during Storm Éowyn. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh ...
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Scotland's botanic gardens launch emergency appeal as cost of damage from Storm Eowyn runs to six figures
When Simon Milne woke up on Saturday morning, he braced himself for what he would find when he saw in person the aftermath of Storm Eowyn on Scotland’s Royal Botanic Gardens. Gusts of up to 82 ...
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Corpse flower ‘Putricia’ begins long-awaited stinky bloom
The corpse flower - nicknamed “Putricia” - began unfurling at Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden for the first time in 15 years on Thursday afternoon. The rare titan arum, a type of carrion ...
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Corpse flower blooms at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens for the first time
An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...