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In 1929, Louisiana’s Oleander Hotel opened on hurricane-prone Grand Isle; 97 years later, residents raised $400,000 to save the island’s last historic hotel and turn it into a museum Pat McAfee has put more than $6 million of his own money into GameDay prizes and charity; Home Depot matched his $500,000 LSU offer, giving one student two kicks at $1 million, but both missed Meet Bradley Carlisle, the first professional Santa Claus with Down syndrome in the US: This suburban Atlanta man feared Santa as a child, and now he is honoured by the International Santa Claus Hall of Fame Amazon-linked Boeing 767 crashes off Miami runway, huge smoke plume seen in video In 2014, a tech entrepreneur bought a 1,100-acre Sonoma ranch for $12 million and spent about $33 million restoring it; 12 years later, it sold for a record $38.5 million