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The Independent

 A charity working with homeless people in Auckland, New Zealand unknowingly distributed candies filled with a potentially lethal dose of methamphetamine in its food parcels after the sweets were donated by a member of the public. Auckland City Mission told reporters on Wednesday that staff had started to contact up to 400 people to track down parcels that could contain the sweets — which were solid blocks of methamphetamine enclosed in candy wrappers. New Zealand's police have opened a criminal investigation. The amount of methamphetamine in each candy was up to 300 times the level someone would usually take...

Food bank unknowingly distributes candy made from meth

‘Aaron and I are not okay,’ reality TV star told fans on Wednesday

Love Island USA’s Kaylor Martin reveals relationship status with Aaron Evans before reunion

One mom said her two sons became ill after ingesting products from former councilman’s store

City councilman jailed for six years, forfeiting monster truck and $1.9m, for selling drugs

Minneapolis, MN

 Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, has been moved to a new federal prison following his stabbing by an inmate last year.Chauvin, 48, was transferred from Tuscon Federal Correctional Institution in Arizona to the Oklahoma Federal Transfer Center last week.The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed the move to The Independent but said it could not give any further details “for privacy, safety, and security reasons.”In November 2023, Chauvin was stabbed 22 times by inmate John Turscak, while Chauvin was serving a 21-year sentence for violating Floyd’s civil rights. Chauvin’s sentence is running concurrently with a 22.5-year...

Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin who murdered George Floyd is moved to new prison after near-fatal stabbing

Houston, TX

A 37-year-old man was fatally shot after he approached “suspicious” people on his street in Houston, leaving behind his two children and wife, who is eight months pregnant, authorities say. The incident occurred on August 10 at 12.30am when the husband, later identified as Osvaldo Casas, confronted “suspicious person(s) on his street”, Houston police said.The night before, the family had reported that one of their cars had been vandalized, according to KHOU11, and noticed a black vehicle in the neighborhood. The following night, a neighbor called police to report that a black vehicle was driving slowly through the area, according...

Husband dies in pregnant wife’s arms after being attacked while confronting car vandals

New York City, NY

A Mexican drug lord who was arrested in the U.S. last month could be headed to trial in New York City

US prosecutors aim to try Mexican drug lord ‘El Mayo’ Zambada in New York, then elsewhere

Fort Worth, TX

 A Texas mother will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars for poisoning her young daughter with Benadryl and other drugs to fake a seizure disorder.Jesika Jones, 32, was sentenced on Friday to 60 years in prison after reaching a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to one count of injury to a child with serious bodily or mental injury and abandoning or endangering a child with reckless criminal negligence.Jones was first arrested in June 2022, when she took her then four-year-old daughter to the Cook Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth and said she had been having...

Mom who poisoned her 4-year-old with Benadryl to fake seizure disorder will likely spend the rest of her life behind bars

‘Ms. Rachel and Elmo? On one screen ? My baby is going to go crazzzzyyyyyy’

Parents are obsessed with Ms. Rachel’s back-to-school collaboration with Elmo

Molten candy is 350 degrees Fahrenheit, more than 100 degrees hotter than boiling water

Viral recipe for Jolly Rancher ‘candy grapes’ are sending kids to the ER with burns

System will generate copyrighted characters in violent scenes, and misleading pictures of celebrities and politicians

Elon Musk’s new image generation tool hit by wave of outrage over pictures it produces

Summer produce is something I look forward to all year long. As soon as the warm weather strikes, I’m busting out the recipes that use fresh zucchini, tomatoes, strawberries, and cucumbers. However, as much as I love my grandma’s zucchini pie or a BLT, I will choose corn on the cob over other summer produce any day of the week.

My Dad’s a Corn Farmer, Here’s His Secret to the Best Corn You’ve Ever Tasted

Iraq's Yazidi community leaders have announced plans for an internationally funded project to build an entire new village to house displaced survivors of one of the bloodiest massacres committed by Islamic State militants against their religious minority

Iraq's Yazidis hope a new village will prompt survivors of a 2014 Islamic State massacre to return

Kenneth Iwamasa admitted to ‘repeatedly injecting Perry with ketamine without medical training’.

Matthew Perry’s assistant pleads guilty to charges connected to his death

‘It’s made the fridge very uninviting for me,’ husband argues

Husband tells wife he hates her ‘fridgescaping’ hobby

Those close to the former president privately told reporters he has acted out of anger recently

Trumpworld scrambling to clean up ‘mess’ after ex-president’s angry texts to megadonor

Confirmed infections among children aged 5 to 9 rose from 15 percent in 2022 to 40 percent in June 2024

‘Slapped cheek’ rash-causing virus on the rise among kids, CDC warns

South Carolina State

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Colleton County, SC

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Some beachgoers were in for a surprise this week when a bizarre looking prehistoric fish washed ashore in Colleton County along Edisto Beach at Edisto Beach State Park. It turned out to be an atlantic sturgeon.

Rare Atlantic sturgeon washes ashore on South Carolina beach

Clark County, WA

 A 7-year-old girl who went missing from a campsite in Washington state was found and rescued after a local fisherman heard her crying.Shelby Wolff had been staying with her grandparents at the Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway, in Clark County, but vanished on Sunday evening.Deputies and area residents conducted a search for the youngster but she was not located, according to Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Shelby remained missing overnight, despite the efforts of search and rescue teams. Efforts continued in the morning and sheriff’s marine patrol and major crimes unit were called for help. Access to Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway...

Fisherman saves missing 7-year-old girl after he hears crying

Florida State

WashingtonExaminer

A food firm that produces lab-grown meat has sued Florida over its ban on the meat, claiming the action is unconstitutional. The firm, Upside Foods, and the public interest law firm Institute of Justice claim the state’s ban on lab-grown meat, signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) earlier this year, is designed to […]

Food firm claims Florida lab-grown meat ban unconstitutional

 Remarkable new scientific research at Stonehenge has revealed an extraordinary new mystery. Mineralogical tests on the massive six-tonne stone at the heart of the monument show that this central rock, known as the altar stone, was brought to Stonehenge from the far north of Scotland.The altar stone is arguably the most ritually important stone in Stonehenge, because it is the rock that marks the intersection of the prehistoric temple’s two most important celestial alignments – the winter solstice sunrise to summer solstice sunset alignment, and the summer solstice sunrise to winter solstice sunset alignment. It’s already known that some...

Stumpy, the gnarled, old cherry tree, is gone. But its clones — little Stumplings — live on.

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