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Americans Are Naming The US States They'd Rather Avoid, And You Might Not Like What They Have To Say About Yours
"I call it the dead dog state."
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N.C. mayor says daughter was denied $750 FEMA aid promised by Kamala Harris after Hurricane Helene ‘wiped out’ her home
The amount she got ‘won’t even cover what’s in her refrigerator.’
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Toronto restaurant Banu vandalized, police investigating: 'My family didn't sign up for this'
Samira Mohyeddin, who owns Banu with her siblings, believes Ontario MPP Goldie Ghamari's social media post "incited" the action on the Queen West restaurant.
- People
Sean 'Diddy' Combs' Attorney Says 'Food's Probably the Roughest Part' of Mogul's Life in Prison
Sean "Diddy" Combs' trial date on sex crimes charges has been set for May 5, 2025
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Iowa teen who killed teacher must serve 35 years before being up for parole
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa teen who pleaded guilty to beating his high school Spanish teacher to death with a baseball bat must serve 35 years in prison before the possibility of parole, the state’s high court reaffirmed Friday.
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SC woman backs out of Facebook Marketplace buy and is arrested. She’s now suing police
A Myrtle Beach, SC area woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the Conway Police Chief and several of the city’s employees after she was arrested.
- People
Anderson Cooper Struck by Flying Debris from Hurricane Milton During Live News Report: 'That Wasn't Good'
Hurricane Milton hit Florida on Wednesday, Oct. 9 with heavy rain and strong winds
- People
A Passerby Thought He'd Found 2 Mannequins. It Turned Out to Be Slain 7-Year-Old and Her Mother
Kirkland Warren, 28, previously pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated murder and second-degree murder in connection with the deaths of Meshay Melendez, 27, and her daughter, Layla Stewart, 7
- San Luis Obispo Tribune
Man charged with raping 13-year-old girl during SLO home invasion enters plea
He was arrested several days after when detectives posed as the victim on a smartphone app, police said.
- CBC
Violent Thornhill theft of suitcase with money in it caught on video
York Region police say they are searching for at least three suspects after they stole a suitcase with a "quantity of cash" in a violent daytime robbery captured on video.The alleged robbery unfolded on Tuesday at about 5:10 p.m. at the exit of a commercial plaza in the area of Yonge Street and Meadowview Avenue in Thornhill.A man was driving his vehicle through the plaza parking lot when he was suddenly boxed in by a Lexus SUV and a Mercedes sedan, police said in a news release Thursday.Three s
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US Coast Guard rescues a man clinging to an ice chest in the Gulf of Mexico
A Coast Guard helicopter crew rescued a man who was left clinging to an ice chest in the Gulf of Mexico after his boat was stranded in waters roiled by Hurricane Milton.
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Hamilton man guilty of 2nd-degree murder in stabbing of teen cousin Mark Bistoyong at barbecue
WARNING: This story contains a graphic description of a fatal stabbing.A Hamilton man who stabbed his 16-year-old cousin at a family barbecue in 2023 has been found guilty of second-degree murder.Ontario Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman delivered that verdict in a standing room-only courtroom on Friday. Goodman will sentence Laureano (Lawrence) Bistoyong at a later date. Goodman called it a "heartbreaking event" that started out as a joyful birthday party.Around 50 people came to the courth
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Woman accused of throwing boiling water on 10-year-old boy faces aggravated assault charge
A 46-year-old woman from Longueuil, Que., who allegedly threw boiling water at a 10-year-old boy as he walked by her home is facing a charge of aggravated assault. Stéphanie Borel was arrested following the attack on Oct. 2 that left the boy with serious burns to his head, face, torso and back.She was released the same day on a promise to appear and under conditions, including not contacting the child and his family, said the Service de police de l'agglomération de Longueuil (SPAL). Borel is exp
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'It's gone': Hurricane Milton swamps lives, blows away retirement dreams in Punta Gorda
Residents of Punta Gorda emerged after Hurricane Milton raked across Florida to find roads flooded, homes water logged and dreams dashed.
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Two men, aged 18 and 20, arrested in Old Montreal fire that killed mother, daughter
MONTREAL — Two men, aged 18 and 20, were arrested on Friday in connection with an Old Montreal fire last week that claimed the lives of a mother and daughter from France, police said.
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Woman pleads guilty to trying to smuggle 29 turtles across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A woman from China pleaded guilty on Friday to attempting to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, across a Vermont lake into Canada by kayak.
- Reuters
In Russia, Ukrainian move to ban Moscow-linked church stirs anger
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Speaking behind the thick white walls of Moscow's ancient Danilov Monastery, Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk is adamant: people must not be forbidden to pray in their chosen branch of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. He speaks calmly but Yakimchuk is one of many Orthodox Christians in Russia who are angry about a law passed by Kyiv in August that targets a Russia-linked Orthodox church that long dominated religious life in Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's administration accuses the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) of spreading pro-Russian propaganda in time of war and of housing spies, charges it denies.
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1 dead and 23 rescued after elevator issue at Colorado tourist mine left some trapped 1,000 feet underground for 6 hours
One person has died and 23 people have been rescued after an elevator malfunction trapped them hundreds of feet underground at the Mollie Kathleen Gold Mine, a tourist mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado, officials said Thursday.
- People
Inside the Disturbing Case of a Wash. Man Accused of Murdering His 2 Brothers
Seth South was charged with two counts of murder and allegedly assaulted a detective