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Frederick Woods, now 70, was 24 when he and two other men kidnapped 26 school children and their bus driver in Northern California and buried them.
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Woman Charged With Murder After Kiss With Inmate During Visitation Goes Horribly Wrong
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- KABC – Los Angeles
Naked man steps out of truck after crash in Van Nuys, walks away
A bystander's video shows a man stepping out of a pickup truck after a crash in Van Nuys and calmly walking away from the scene.
- Miami Herald
Woman fakes being stranded, then kills Florida college student who stopped, AL cops say
“Yesterday my world ended.”
- The Daily Beast
Paralyzed Highland Park Shooting Victim, 8, Is ‘Hopeless’ and ‘in Constant Pain,’ Family Says
via GoFundMeIn the wake of the Highland Park Fourth of July parade mass shooting, the story of 8-year-old Cooper Roberts’ survival was embraced by many following updates on the boy’s recovery.And more than a month after the massacre, Roberts is long out of intensive care—but his family says he is now in “constant pain” and “hopeless, sad, and angry” at the realization he is paralyzed.In a sobering and gut-wrenching statement released Tuesday, the Roberts family said they want people to see the u
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Vanessa Bryant learned that the LA Sheriff's Department deleted graphic photos of the crash that killed Kobe and Gianna from an LA Times story, chief testifies
A former media relations captain testified that the sheriff's department never reached out to Vanessa Bryant or other victims' families about the photos.
- Associated Press
In Mexico resort, squatters make a stand against developers
Unchecked development has hit this once laid back beach town on Mexico’s Caribbean coast so hard that developers are now eager — even desperate — to build condominiums and hotels in a shantytown. While police are trying to evict squatters so towering condos can be built next to wood and tarpaper shacks, residents are fighting back, saying they are tired of foreign investors excluding local people from their own coast. In the latest clash on July 27, police accompanying a backhoe fired tear gas and tried to knock down some squatters’ homes in the shadow of a new, balconied condo building.
- KTTV
Video shows man fighting teen in Valencia, prompting sheriff's department investigation
A video of a man fighting with a teen in Valencia has gone viral and the LA County Sheriff Santa Clarita Valley Station is investigating.
- Macon Telegraph
Toddler playing with bubbles finds missing 82-year-old with Alzheimer’s, GA reports say
Nina Lipscomb had been missing for four days when the boy found her alive.
- People
'Doesn't Seem Real': Family, Friends Grieve 2 Brothers Who Jumped from ' Jaws Bridge'
One brother's body has been recovered, while the other remains missing, per multiple reports
- KIRO
Seattle to clean up stretch of Interurban Trail filled with encampments, trash
Neighbors told KIRO 7 that people have changed their walking patterns to avoid the area.
- NextShark
Japanese hikers survive 10 days lost in the wilderness — immediately apologize for ‘causing trouble’ upon rescue
Two Japanese women who spent 10 days lost in the mountains immediately apologized to emergency responders for “causing trouble” after being rescued. The two unnamed hikers, a 61-year-old from Nagoya and a 69-year-old from Ichinomiya, were climbing the 1,895-meter-tall (approximately 6,217 feet) Mount Misen in central Japan, reported The Asahi Shumbun.
- CBS News
Remains of two children found in two suitcases auctioned in New Zealand
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- Associated Press
Salman Rushdie attacker 'surprised' the author survived
The man charged with stabbing Salman Rushdie on a lecture stage in western New York said in an interview that he was surprised to learn the accomplished author had survived the attack. Speaking to the New York Post from jail, Hadi Matar said he decided to see Rushdie at the Chautauqua Institution after he saw a tweet last winter about the writer's planned appearance. Matar, 24, said he considered late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “a great person” but wouldn't say whether he was following a fatwa, or edict, issued by Khomeini in Iran in 1989 that called for Rushdie’s death after the author published “The Satanic Verses.”
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Homeless single father in China who sells balloons at night with his daughter goes viral
A homeless single father dubbed “Balloon Father” on Chinese social media went viral after he was seen selling balloons at night with his young daughter. The father decorated a luggage bag with balloon dolls and filled the inside with cotton-padded quilts, everyday necessities and materials for balloon creations. Residing in Xuchang, Henan province of central China, the father explained that he brings his daughter along with him as he does not want to leave his daughter alone.
- WJW - Cleveland
Couple arrested for sex on ferris wheel at Ohio amusement park
A couple was arrested and charged with public indecency after police say they engaged in a sexual act on the Giant Wheel ride at Cedar Point.
- Miami Herald
A Florida doctor put Xanax and Ambien in a woman’s drink. She didn’t know what he did
Pouring powder analyzed as alprazolam (brand name: Xanax) and zolpidem (brand name: Ambien) in a woman’s drink at a Boca Raton restaurant’s bar cost a Palm Beach County neurologist his medical license this week.
- Miami Herald
A Keys boater spotted a suspicious package. Here’s what 70 pounds of cocaine looks like
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- WJAX
ASPCA helps Union County deputies rescue more than 50 dogs, cats from ‘filthy conditions’
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- Modesto Bee
Mastermind of infamous California kidnapping granted parole after 44 years in prison
Fred Woods was considered the mastermind behind the 1976 kidnapping of 26 children and a driver.