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They grew up on the same block. It wasn't until they moved across the country that they connected.
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Claire Friel and Christian Hurley grew up across the street from each other on New York's Long Island. Their parents claim they first met as babies — but it took decades and thousands of miles for them to get together.
Friel, now 25, and Hurley, now 26, met via dating app Hinge in L.A. But their childhood was full of near-misses.
"A bunch of really small, kind of kismet-type scenarios," Friel said. "We were probably constantly passing each other by and just never really noticing."
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Emergency crews are responding to a crash involving a Delta Air Lines plane that arrived Monday at Toronto Pearson Airport from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. Delta Air Lines Flight 4819, operated by Endeavor Air, crashed while landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport in Canada around 2:45 p.m.local time on Monday, February 17. All 80 people on board were evacuated. The CRJ-900 departed Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada will be in charge of the investigation and will provide any updates.
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If you get a text with web links claiming you're due a $1,400 stimulus check from what looks to be the IRS, don't click on it. The text is most certainly a scam, as the federal agency doesn't send such messages. Yet criminals are impersonating the IRS to trick taxpayers into sharing personal information by texting them fake alerts of their eligibility for extra money, warns the Better Business Bureau.
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"Significant and devastating flooding" in Pikeville, Kentucky — a small town in the eastern part of the state with a population of roughly 7,000 — has left the community submerged in water, the city's mayor Jimmy Carter said. Dozens of swift water rescues have been conducted since a deluge of rain hit over the weekend, flooding entire neighborhoods.