Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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An unruly airline passenger has been arrested after slapping and spitting on an elderly man for not wearing a face mask. The dispute broke out on a Delta Air Lines flight from Tampa, Florida to Atlanta, Georgia on December 23. According to the Atlanta Police Department, Patricia Cornwall caused a…
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A Georgia mother has been reunited with her daughter - 42 years after she was taken from her at birth. This summer, Nancy Womac greeted her long-lost child Melanie Spencer with a tearful embrace after four decades apart. And their reunion was all thanks to a 2018 DNA test on…
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A lone gunman killed four people and injured three in a Denver area shooting on Monday. The suspect was eventually shot down by police. He died at the scene. Investigators have yet to determine a motive for the attack, which unfolded at several locations. Reuters reports that the shooting began…
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A 23-year-old woman graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio alongside her 88-year-old grandfather this month. Proving that age is just a number is Melanie Salazar and her grandfather Rene Neira, who collected their respective degrees together despite their 65 year age gap. Melanie - who earned a…
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A plane burst into flames after it reportedly crashed into a power line, leaving no survivors on board. The incident involving a Learjet 35 aircraft happened in the El Cajon area of San Diego, California, just after 7 PM local time on Monday, December 27. It is unclear how many…
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Violent drawings made by Ethan Crumbley were seen by his parents prior to the Michigan school shooting, the court has heard. Crumbley is accused of fatally shooting four students and injuring seven at Oxford High School in Michigan on November 30. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder,…
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At least 36 people were killed and dozens more injured in shootings across the US over Christmas weekend. While it was meant to be one of the jolliest weekends of the year, various parts of the US saw horrific shootings take place that have claimed the lives of at least…
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A prosecutor in the case against Rogel Aguilera-Mederos has said she will seek a reduced term of 20 to 30 years at a hearing next week. Aguilera-Mederos - a truck driver - was sentenced to 110 years for accidentally killing four people when his brakes failed on a Colorado interstate.…
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A Boston College student has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after consistently telling her boyfriend at the same school to end his life, which he eventually did, per BBC News. On Thursday, Inyoung You, 23, pleaded guilty as she accepted responsibility for her late boyfriend Alexander Urtula's death following verbal, physical,…
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A man from Iowa is on the naughty list thanks to his accidentally obscene Christmas lights display. TikTok user Amber Ann Zink shared a video of the embarrassing decorations titled "Just a tiny mistake" on the social media platform. In the clip, Amber's husband has placed the light-up Santa Claus…
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Kim Potter - the former Minnesota police officer who killed a young Black man after accidentally drawing a gun instead of a Taser - kept a straight face as she was found guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter on Thursday. The defendant was ordered held without bail after the verdict…
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A Georgia man who spent 23 years behind bars for a 1998 murder has finally been exonerated and freed. Devonia Inman, now 43, was serving a life without parole sentence for a 1998 robbery and murder of a Taco Bell manager in southern Georgia. However, according to his advocates, the…
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The widow of a man who was tragically killed in the 2019 Colorado truck crash has spoken out about outside opinions impacting the case. Doyle Harrison, 61, was one of four people killed in April 2019 after Rogel Aguilera-Mederos lost control of his truck and crashed into several cars as…
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Oklahoma sixth-grader Davyon Johnson has been hailed as a hero after one very busy day. On December 9, the quick-thinking 11-year-old saved a classmate from choking with the Heimlich maneuver. While most people would agree that saving one life was more than enough heroics for a day, Davyon proved he…
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A time capsule was finally opened on Wednesday after spending 133 years buried under a Civil War statue. The 1887 capsule was discovered last week in the pedestal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Virginia, CNN reports. It took historical preservation experts several hours to…
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A Utah billionaire has officially requested for the removal of his records from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a scathing letter to Mormon church president Russel M. Nelson. Jeff Green, the CEO and chairman of the online advertising company Trade Desk, wrote in a letter obtained…
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Minnesota police have confirmed that seven members of the same family all died from carbon monoxide poisoning. As reported by ABC News, the bodies of the family members - who all lived together - were discovered by relatives in the south Moorhead home on Saturday night. Concerns had been raised after…
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President Joe Biden has said that his prospects of running for office again in 2024 would only increase if Donald Trump was also to run again. Biden's comments came during a sitdown interview with ABC News anchor David Muir earlier this week. During their conversation, Muir asked Biden about his…
