Over a dozen puppies were saved from a sweltering van parked behind a New Jersey Walmart, authorities said. Animal welfare officials confiscated 26 French and English bulldogs, all between six and nine weeks old, that were found in the back of a van in 90 degree heat on Sunday, Pix11 News reported. “They were extremely...
An adorable pooch, swiped by during a Tinder date, was reunited with her grateful owner on Wednesday, police in New Jersey said. Maggie, a 2-year-old Maltese, had been missing since Sunday night after a dog sitter allowed her Tinder date and a pal of his inside the Leonia house she was watching, police said. Maggie...
UTRECHT, Netherlands — Els van der Heijden, who has cystic fibrosis, was finding it ever harder to breathe as her lungs filled with thick, sticky mucus. Despite taking more than a dozen pills and inhalers a day, the 53-year-old had to stop working and scale back doing the thing she loved best, horseback riding. Doctors...
Tonya Riley, a 24-year-old who works as a research assistant at a Washington, DC, think tank, would now be considered middle class by most standards. But neither of her parents attended college and she grew up with a single mother who lived below the poverty line. She excelled in high school and attended Brown University....
TAMPA, Fla. — The friendship of the four young roommates – though cemented in the dark trappings of an obscure neo-Nazi group called Atomwaffen Division – never seemed destined for bloodshed. One was described as a former science nerd, serving in the Florida National Guard. Two others worked temp jobs at a recycling plant and...
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. — A body found in central Arkansas has been identified as that of an Alabama woman. Arkansas State Police say the remains of 23-year-old Laramie Cline were found Sunday at Lake Pickthorne near Jacksonville, about 15 miles northeast of Little Rock. Her hometown was not immediately available. Police say the body was identified...
No reviews, no revenue. That’s the key takeaway from a new study published in Psychological Science, which finds that if two similar products have the same rating, online shoppers will buy the one with more reviews. Researchers at the Association for Psychological Science tasked 120 adults with comparing pairs of phone cases on Amazon, and...
A 26-year-old woman who was told she would likely lose her eyesight within 10 years was on a trip to Mexico with her sister last week, when she came down with a bought of food poisoning and died. Alexandra Noghaven, who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 9, had climbed pyramids and explored...
A man in Utah allegedly discovered his wife was poisoning him with eye drop solution after staying home from work to investigate potential causes of his illness, KSL reported. Dallen Tubbs allegedly discovered “numerous empty eye drop solution bottles with the tops pulled off them in a black, cloth bag with a zipper,” court documents...
TOKYO – A Japanese company has introduced a new role for SoftBank’s humanoid robot “Pepper” – a Buddhist priest for hire at funerals. Chanting sutras in a computerized voice while tapping a drum, the robot was on display on Wednesday at a funeral industry fair – the Life Ending Industry Expo – in Tokyo. Nissei...
For weeks, Robert Smalls had been watching them. Noting their comings and goings. It was risky, but it was the only way his plan would work. The year was 1862, and Smalls was an enslaved man, working on a Confederate steamship named the Planter. He had been observing the schedules of the Planter’s white crew...
BARTOW, Fla. — Authorities say a 20-year-old man sent child pornography to a Florida television news anchor’s Twitter account. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd tells local news outlets that Marchum Browning was arrested Friday and now faces federal child porn charges. Judd says Browning used a Twitter account to follow a Bay News 9 anchor...
You might need therapy if you pick this major. Clinical psychology is the least valuable major, according to a new study from TheCashlorette.com, a division of personal finance site Bankrate.com, which compared median incomes and unemployment rates for U.S. adults with just a bachelor’s degree across 173 different majors. This low ranking is because people...
MISSOULA, Mont. — A 30-year-old Indiana man who started a crowdfunding site to raise money so he could travel to Montana to be with his 14-year-old “fiancée” is charged with felony sexual abuse of children. William White of Montezuma, Indiana, was arrested Monday after reportedly spending the night with the girl at a Missoula homeless...
A dad of the year has come up with the perfect solution to get his forgetful son to text him back – an app that forces kids to respond. “ReplyASAP,” the new app invented by Nick Herbert, obstructs the recipient’s phone and sets off an alarm until a text or call is returned – even...
YOUNGWOOD, Pa. — Authorities say a woman’s daughter and granddaughter beat her and shaved her head because they thought she was listening to the Pittsburgh Steelers’ game too loudly on the radio. State police tell the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that 40-year-old Delores Amorino and her 17-year-old daughter, Sarah, turned down the TV volume when the older woman...
They know how to make a run for it. Manhattan police are on the lookout for a group of roughly 10 men who have robbed a slew of running stores in the city, according to ABC7 New York. In one incident this summer, the group burst into the Jack Rabbit Store on 63rd and 3rd...
Faded rapper Kidd Creole was arraigned Wednesday on his indictment for second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a homeless man. “Not guilty, sir,” the rapper, whose real name is Nathaniel Glover, told Justice Daniel FitzGerald during a brief appearance in Manhattan Supreme Court. The 57-year-old Glover, who is being held without bail, wore a...
Shopping online using only your voice is already a thing if you own an Amazon Alexa device like the Echo speakers or anything else that can run Amazon’s virtual assistant. But Amazon’s competitors don’t want to be left out, which is why they partnered up to compete in this nascent business. Google and Walmart are...
A sporting fan in the UK was recently forced to go without the liquor sandwich she so thoughtfully prepared for a day at the races. On Sunday, authorities at the Southwell horse track in Nottinghamshire, England, reportedly caught an attendee trying to smuggle an 11-ounce bottle of vodka into the venue by way of a...
The death of a college basketball player at his off-campus apartment in Indiana has been ruled a suicide, authorities said. Ball State basketball player Zach Hollywood, 19, was found dead Tuesday morning at an apartment in Muncie. The Delaware County coroner later determined that Hollywood, who was in his sophomore year with the Cardinals after...
President Trump took to Twitter on Wednesday to tout the “packed house” at his Phoenix rally despite photos showing a sparse crowd and news reports saying people began walking out during the rambling 76-minute speech. “Phoenix crowd last night was amazing — a packed house. I love the Great State of Arizona. Not a fan...
Body cam footage shows Major not only calling a black officer a “monkey,” she expresses desire to be part of white supremacy.
A Michigan man convicted of killing a man who expressed romantic interest in him on a TV show has been freed. Jonathan Schmitz, 47, spent 23 years in prison for the 1995 murder and was let out on parole Tuesday, CBS Detroit reported. Schmitz was invited to appear on a taping of the national daytime...
A onetime Texas high school football star, who was sentenced to 25 years behind bars without the possibility of parole for sexually assaulting a child, has been granted bond and released after a judge said his due-process rights were violated during a flawed police investigation. State District Judge Donna King said police did not corroborate...
