Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
Breaking updates and happenings from across the United States.
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A 24-year-old maths teacher has resigned after allegedly sending a student nude photos and asking if he wanted to play "naked hide and seek". Kelsie Schmidt is said to have sent X-rated images to a 17-year-old at Beulah High School in North Dakota last August. According to court documents, Schmidt, who was…
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This weekend, a pregnant woman was stabbed to death in Tempe, Arizona while working as a Lyft driver. The victim, 39-year-old Kristina Howato, was in her third trimester when she was fatally attacked by a man she had just dropped off outside an apartment complex in the early hours of…
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A woman's Facebook video has gone viral on social media this week, which shows a fellow passenger ranting angrily at her because of her weight, while on a flight from Las Vegas to New Jersey. The footage, which was filmed by nursing leader Norma Rodgers, shows an unidentified blonde woman going into…
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During the 1970s, Theodore 'Ted' Bundy went on a killing spree that ended the lives of at least 30 female victims - one of whom was just a child. He was arrested multiple times for his crimes, but twice managed to escape from jail and continue his rampage. Finally, in 1978,…
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One man from Florida was recently arrested for the theft of medication, but that wasn't the only bad thing that happened to him that night. Peter Hans Emery, 56, was reportedly staying at someone else's home when he decided to steal from their medicine cabinet, according to the criminal complaint.…
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When it comes to retirement, some take the time to do all the leisurely things they just didn't have time for during their working life, while others can't help but fall back into some part-time role or volunteer work. But for this couple, from a small town in Michigan, it…
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A clerical error on the part of the New York City's Police Department has led to a violent sex offender felon being released early after assaulting a 57-year-old female churchgoer. As a result of this, the police now believe that this glaring mistake may have given him the opportunity to…
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A woman has been rescued by firefighters after being trapped inside a billionaire's New York apartment elevator for an entire weekend. Marites Fortaliza, a 53-year old housecleaner, was left abandoned and stuck inside the lift for a total of three days, without food or water, before the owners returned home. They contacted the…
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Last Friday, January 25th, a young man launched an unprovoked attack on an older US Navy veteran in New York. The incident was caught on camera, and very quickly went viral after being posted on Facebook Live. "Brutal attack on an elderly male. Our communities will not stand for this…
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A woman who recently gave birth to two twin baby boys has mysteriously disappeared, and now her mother is making a public appeal for any information regarding her whereabouts. Savannah Spurlock, a 22-year-old mom, vanished in Lexington, Kentucky, on January 4. She was last seen exiting a bar late at night…
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A three-year-old boy who was missing for three days has been found alive and well, and says that he was kept company by a bear as his family breathes a sigh of relief. He had disappeared earlier this week, and although his family called the police almost immediately, he had…
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The debate over border control between the United States and Mexico has been running hot for years, but the concept of building a wall between the two countries has definitely come more to the forefront since Donald Trump began his campaign for the 2016 presidential election. The ongoing conflict between…
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On its 35th day, the longest government shutdown in United States history has finally come to an end. (For a little while, anyway!). According to officials on Capitol Hill, President Trump and Congressional leaders have reached a agreement to re-open shuttered government agencies for three weeks. This agreement does not…
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After an investigation took place in Memphis, Tennessee, a sexual relationship between a teacher and a student was revealed - but that wasn't all there was to the story. In addition to the secretive affair between the 16-year-old former high school student and the 24-year-old algebra teacher, records have shown…
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Last week, controversy plagued the University of Oklahoma after one student was kicked out of her sorority for an offensive video. The woman filmed her friend as she applied blackface and appeared to use racial slurs, and the footage soon spread online after it was posted to Snapchat. The sorority…
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A once-prominent Mormon 'conversion' therapist has come out as gay and wants to start dating men. David Matheson, one of the best-known practitioners of the condemned pseudoscientific practice of trying to change sexual orientation, came out in a social media post on Monday in which he stated that "being in…
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A three-year-old boy has been found alive after going missing for two days. Casey Hathaway was found caught in a thorn bush in freezing temperatures on Thursday night following a two-day search of a wooded area. Hathaway, who lives in Craven County, North Carolina, was found soaking wet and calling…
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In October 2015, a white woman in Evanston, Illinois called the police to report that a man was stealing a car. Then she followed him in her own vehicle, so she could tell dispatchers his location. However, that man was actually 25-year-old Northwestern University PhD student Lawrence Crosby, and he…
