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Recent Examples of kelpieZinna, a kelpie mix, was found in her crate inside the home.—Kirsty Hatcher, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025 Arakawa had brought the kelpie mix named Zinna home from a veterinary hospital on Feb. 9 after a procedure, Mendoza said.—Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2025 Zinna, a 12-year-old Australian kelpie mix, likely died of dehydration and starvation, according to a New Mexico Department of Agriculture veterinary lab report.—Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 15 Mar. 2025 The kelpie mix was found in a crate, while the couple's other two surviving dogs had access to a doggy door.—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025 But the dead dog is now believed to be their Australian kelpie mix, Joey Padilla, owner of the Santa Fe Tails pet care facility which is involved in the surviving dogs’ care, said to The Associated Press.—Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 7 Mar. 2025 One of the couple's three dogs, a kelpie mix named Zinna, was also found dead in a crate in a bathroom closet near Arakawa, while two other dogs survived.—arkansasonline.com, 9 Mar. 2025 Gene Hackman and his wife Betsy Arakawa's dog Zinna, a kelpie mix, was also found dead in the couple's home on February 26.—Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 8 Mar. 2025 Authorities are also awaiting necropsy results to determine how the couple’s kelpie mix died.—Dalia Faheid, CNN, 8 Mar. 2025
What do the Krampus, a horde of undead elves, bloodthirsty changelings, and William Shatner have in common?
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Huntley Woods,
EW.com,
19 Dec. 2024
Many people believed that faeries were capable of all sorts of wicked tricks: Stealing babies or children and replacing them with changelings, making devilish bargains, trapping people in the Otherworld for eternity.
Kids consider costumes ranging from spooky goblins to little angels, and parents begin considering how to ration the candy collected after a long night of trick-or-treating.
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Sen. Dan Hall,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
This is your starting point, and where the brother from the story encountered the water goblin.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community helped Santa’s elves during the recent holiday season in collecting nearly 1,700 toys and bikes that were then donated to local organizations for distribution to families in need in the Twin Cities metro area.
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Jacqueline Devine,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
The story follows Ferrell as Buddy, a human man raised by Santa's elves, who ultimately leaves the North Pole to search for his biological father (James Caan) in New York City.
Wear green and watch leprechauns and other merrymakers walk by in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
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John Coffren,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Mar. 2025
In the United States, March 17 is typically associated with large parties and parades, green beer, Irish food and drink, and motifs like shamrocks, leprechauns, and pots of gold.
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Cori Sears,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Mar. 2025
Created via motion-capture performances, puppets and voice acting, these haphazard CGI troll wannabes seem supremely out of place in a movie full of humans and one chatty mirror.
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Brian Truitt,
USA TODAY,
19 Mar. 2025
The next advantage logically follows from the previous one—minimizing the risks of theft and exhausting litigation with competitors and IP infringers (for example, pirates or patent trolls), which could arise in the event of an incomplete legislative framework.
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