Mesa Fire breaks out near Lake Isabella
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1 dead, 1 missing after jumping from 'Jaws' bridge in Martha's Vineyard
Rescuers resumed a search Tuesday for a man who never resurfaced after jumping from a bridge made popular by the film “Jaws" in Martha's Vineyard.
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Pilot in North Carolina mysteriously dies after exiting plane and falling 3,500 feet, authorities say
Authorities say Charles Hew Crooks, 23, fell 3,500 feet, but are unsure if he jumped or fell out of the plane that was making an emergency landing.
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Scientists simulate spread of radiation in case of accident at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
OLENA ROSHCHINA - THURSDAY, 18 AUGUST 2022, 12:53 Based on the weather conditions observed on 15-18 August, in the case of an accident at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP), radioactive contamination would principally affect Ukraine, but it would also affect neighbouring countries.
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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.
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Woman fakes being stranded, then kills Florida college student who stopped, AL cops say
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Fact check: Fabricated CNN report of Brittney Griner DNA test
An altered image falsely claims to show CNN reporting Russian officials ordered a DNA test to determine if Brittney Griner is male or female.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Chicago Mom Loses Both of Her Feet After Boating Accident at Lake Michigan 'Playpen'
Lana Batochir, 34, was on a raft with friends when a larger boat reversed into them, police said, dragging Batochir and another with it
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'Doesn't Seem Real': Family, Friends Grieve 2 Brothers Who Jumped from ' Jaws Bridge'
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'Deadliest Catch' fleet witnesses unusual rocket launch: 'Did Russia shoot a missile, dude?'
Tuesday’s Deadliest Catch was intense as the fishing fleet near the U.S.-Russian border witnessed what appeared to be a missile launch.
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Seattle to clean up stretch of Interurban Trail filled with encampments, trash
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Remains of two children found in two suitcases auctioned in New Zealand
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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.
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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.
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A Keys boater spotted a suspicious package. Here’s what 70 pounds of cocaine looks like
This is the second large cocaine shipment found off the Keys in a week.
- 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.