The University of Kansas closed two of its campuses -- in Lawrence and Overland Park, both near Kansas City -- through Friday because of the weather.

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Bob Lawrence, Director of Wildlife at West Midlands Safari Park, said people often bought exotic pets without realising what they were taking on.

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In 1936 Ernest Lawrence, the Nobel Prize-winning atom-smasher, visited Tuxedo Park.

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