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CNNMother of mass shooting suspect called Apalachee High School with warning after getting alarming text, grandfather says
The mother of the teenager suspected of killing four people during a Georgia school shooting called to warn a school counselor prior to the shooting, the suspect’s aunt and grandfather said Saturday.
- CNN
Missing Washington hiker rescued a month after going missing ‘may have only had another day left’ alive, rescuer says
A hiker in northern Washington’s North Cascades National Park was rescued a month after he went missing in July, authorities said Saturday and according to one rescuer, it was just in time.
- The Daily Beast
Taylor Swift Literally Distances Self From Trump-Supporting Bestie Brittany Mahomes
Taylor Swift was spotted seated separately from bestie Brittany Mahomes at Thursday’s Kansas City Chiefs game after the wife of quarterback Patrick Mahomes came out in support of ex-President Donald Trump.Brittany Mahomes had been a frequent companion of Swift’s since she began dating Chiefs tight-end Travis Kelce, and the two typically sat together in the same suite at games—but Mahomes found herself in hot water with some Swift fans (and potentially Swift herself) after she liked a post from D
- CNN
A missing newlywed nurse has been found dead – and her neighbor arrested
Three days after a just-married Oregon nurse was reported missing, she has been found dead and police have arrested one of her neighbors.
- Charlotte Observer
Jail put ‘violent’ inmate in man’s cell and he was killed within 45 minutes, suit says
He was “subjected to not only a deadly but lengthy attack without it ever being heard or observed,” the lawsuit filed in California says.
- People
Judge Attacked in Courtroom in Viral Video Said She Thought She Was Going to Die, as Suspect Pleads Guilty
Video of the attack went viral, showing Deobra Redden charge the judge's bench and jump over to attack Judge Mary Kay Holthus
- Tri-City Herald
Key piece of evidence in D.B. Cooper investigation to be displayed at Tacoma museum
It’s the first time the artifact has been on display at the museum since August 2013.
- People
'Black Swan' Had a Gun in Her Bra the Night She Met Her Husband. 4 Years Later, She Killed Him
In July, a jury convicted Ashley Benefield of manslaughter in the shooting death of her estranged husband, Douglas Benefield
- People
Wife of Man Who Drugged and Invited Men to Rape Her Thought She Had Alzheimer's Disease Because of Blackouts
Gisèle Pélicot testified Thursday against ex-husband Dominique Pélicot, who has admitted to drugging her and inviting other men to rape her over the course of a decade
- PA Media: UK News
Husband cleared of murder did drown his wealthy wife for money, judge rules
Fraudster Donald McPherson was cleared of the murder of his wife Paula Leeson who died in 2017.
- Global News
Quebec man who imported 26K fake toonies gets jail time
A Quebec man is behind bars after trying to smuggle 26,000 fake toonies into the country, in one of Canada’s largest counterfeit schemes of its kind. Global News has learned the suspect will spend less than a year in prison, despite a long history of crime. Touria Izri reports.
- BuzzFeed
An Ex-Evangelical Conservative Woman Is Going Viral For Sharing How And Why She Stopped Supporting Trump
"I'll never forget that moment because that was the moment I think I literally within myself said, 'I think I've made a mistake.'"
- ABC News
15-year-old shot and killed in Maryland high school bathroom, 16-year-old student in custody
A 16-year-old student allegedly shot and killed a 15-year-old boy during an "altercation" in the boys' bathroom at Joppatowne High School in Joppa, Maryland, on Friday, authorities said. The 15-year-old, Warren Curtis Grant, was removed from the bathroom by other students and then attended to by school nurses and the principal, Harford County Sheriff Jeff Gahler said at a news conference. The teen was airlifted to a trauma center, the sheriff said.
- CNN
Video footage appears to show Russians killing surrendering Ukrainian soldiers
The troops stagger onto a dusty track, then onto their knees, hands placed on their heads. Seconds later, the Ukrainian drone footage shows, they lie motionless.
- Associated Press
2-year-old boy fatally stabbed by older brother in Chicago-area home, police say
A 2-year-old boy was fatally stabbed by his 6-year-old brother in Joliet, Illinois, police said. The child suffered multiple stab wounds from a kitchen knife inside a home Friday afternoon and later was pronounced dead at a hospital, Joliet police said. “Everyone in this incident is a victim,” Joliet police Sgt. Dwayne English told reporters.
- Biloxi Sun Herald
South MS man mutilated an endangered species off Florida coast. Now, he’ll have to pay
The Ocean Springs resident answered for his crime in federal court in Gulfport. Here’s what happened.
- PA Media: UK News
Deaths of three children found dead with father being investigated as murder
Dominik Swiderski, aged three, Nikodem Swiderski, two, and Kacper Swiderski, two, were remembered as ‘happy, active children’ by their mother.
- Global News
14-year-old girl charged with attempted murder after student set on fire at Saskatoon school
Saskatoon police say a 14-year-old girl has been charged with attempted murder after a student was set on fire at a Saskatoon high school Thursday. The girl appeared in provincial court Friday morning and was also charged with aggravated assault and arson.
- CBC
Here's why a judge let 5 former NHLers skip pretrial arguments in their sexual assault case
A judge is allowing five former NHL hockey players charged with sexual assault in a case that dates back to when they were with Canada's world junior team to skip the pretrial legal arguments for "compelling economic reasons."
- CBC
P.E.I. man sentenced to 6 years for 'very serious' sex offences
A 57-year-old Cornwall man was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for sexual offences he committed against a minor years ago.Justice John Mitchell called the assaults "very serious offences" as he sentenced Blair Shane Somers on charges of sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching of a victim under the age of 16. He was given credit for time already served in custody. The court heard that the victim was only 12 when Somers first assaulted her. At the time, he was in his 40s.A pu