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In August, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani hosted a citywide scavenger hunt, inviting voters to scour the boroughs in search of historic political sites.

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He said that to "unlock" the £200m fund, the UK government had to find a commercial partner willing to invest in Grangemouth and that ministers were "scouring the earth" to do so.

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Local residents scoured the area as they helped with the search.

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A local resident, startled by the sound of the explosion, called the police later that evening, but officers who scoured the area after dark didn’t discover damage to the tracks, Tusk said.

After scouring records, Jeske found that shooting firefighters almost never happens: “The last time that happened was like 20 years ago, and it was like 25 years before that when the previous one happened.”

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