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Red Lodge, MT

The Independent

 Authorities euthanized a black bear in Montana after it mauled a three-year-old girl near Yellowstone National Park on Sunday.The incident happened about 10pm at a private campground south of Red Lodge, Montana. The child was taken to a hospital in Billings, about 62 miles away.Authorities with the Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks (FWP) set up a trap at the campsite on Sunday night and worked with the campground owner to evacuate the site by Monday morning. More traps and snares were set when the campground was fully evacuated.Officials captured the bear on the afternoon of 12 August and it...

Black bear mauls 3-year-old girl in tent just north of Yellowstone National Park

A murder investigation has been launched.

Man, 53, stabbed outside his home named by police

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

 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

Peru, NY

A South American crime boss wanted in the killings of at least 23 people in Peru was captured this week in New York

What to know about the US arrest of a Peruvian gang leader suspected of killing 23 people

California State

 A rare deep-sea oarfish was discovered floating at La Jolla Cove, off the coast of California, by a group of kayakers on Saturday, 10 August.The creature, which can grow up to 36ft long, is only the 20th fish of its kind to have washed up in the state since 1901, according to Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist and fish expert Ben Frable.In some cultures, the sighting of an oarfish is considered an omen of natural disasters.This creature was discovered two days before a 4.4-magnitude earthquake struck California.

Rare ‘Doomsday fish’ considered ‘bad omen’ found by kayakers

Canton, OH

Canton, MI

 A man in Canton Township, Michigan, allegedly shot and killed his neighbor because the man's daughter touched his mulch. Nathan Morris, 35, was killed just before noon on Saturday. "On Saturday, while taking a stroll with his family in his neighborhood, his daughter touched the mulch of one of the neighbors," according to the Michigan GOP in a statement by RNC National committeewoman Hima Kolanagireddy. "The neighbor took a gun out and started threatening the family. Nathan sent his family home and said that he would try and diffuse the situation, but instead was shot and killed."According to the...

Father shot dead by neighbor in argument over daughter touching ‘mulch’ on property

Businesses claim checks on food and plants have caused higher costs

Post-Brexit border controls slammed as ‘chaotic’ as system charges customers for checks that never took place

 A police officer cries as he recalls how he thought he would die from his injuries following a savage attack on duty.PC Ashley Aspinall suffered a horrific brain injury when he was attacked by Ian Scott, 50, as he tried to apprehend him outside a bar in Blackpool on 7 April, last year.PC Aspinall, of Lancashire Police, lay injured on the ground as Scott continued his assault.The police officer feared he would never see his daughter again as he lay critically injured.Scott appeared at Preston Crown Court on 30 April, and was given a 24-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to wounding of an emergency worker.

Police officer cries recalling savage attack outside seaside bar

Piotr Kucharski, 49, pleaded guilty to membership of a proscribed organisation at the Old Bailey on Friday.

Man admits to Wagner Group membership after ‘pretending’ to be involved

Florida State

Everglades City, FL

 Boaters off the coast of Florida this week spotted a bundle of 56 pounds worth of cocaine with a street value $625,000, according to local police.“We appreciate the help of Good Samaritans in our community who saw something unusual and contacted law enforcement,” Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk said in a statement on Facebook. The drugs, discovered off Panther Key, near Everglades City, Florida, were contained in a package the size of a microwave, filled with individually wrapped kilos of the drug.The bundle was found covered with barnacles, suggesting to police it had been in the water for a...

Boaters in Florida find 56 pounds of barnacle-covered cocaine

 Four family members were killed and another was left in critical condition after a street racer smashed into their car as they returned home from a Texas theme park.Jessie Rosales, his wife Lorena, and children Anthony, 17, Stephanie,13, and Angel, 6, were traveling back from the Six Flags resort and dinner at a Panda Express on Saturday when the crash happened.A red Dodge Charger collided with the family’s Chevy Traverse, causing the SUV to roll twice and burst into flames. Video of the incident shared on social media showed the fiery wreckage of the car by a gas station...

Four family members killed returning from Six Flags after street racer slams into their SUV

A 14-car convoy was reportedly part of the security detail protecting the couple alongside the vice president

Inside the ring of steel protecting Harry and Meghan as they tour Colombia

 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...

Mystery of Stonehenge deepens after ‘jaw-dropping’ discovery

Harris expands on Biden policies as Trump pushes expansion of oil and gas production to lower prices

Harris vs Trump: How the presidential candidates compare on economic policy

Ocala, FL

A white Florida woman told investigators she fired a shot through her door at a Black neighbor because she panicked as the other woman pounded heavily on her door and threatened her amid an ongoing dispute over the neighbor's children, according to a video statement played in court Wednesday.The mother of the woman who was fatally shot disputed that, telling reporters at a news conference that Susan Lorincz was not in fear for her own life but was intent on harming Ajike “A.J.” Owens on June 2, 2023, in Ocala, Florida. Lorincz is on trial for manslaughter in the shooting."She...

White Florida woman says she fatally shot Black neighbor amid fear for her own life

Jacksonville, FL

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Jacksonville Today

A historic marker could be erected to honor the victims of the racist mass shooting at the Dollar General store in Jacksonville’s New Town neighborhood nearly a year ago. If approved by the Jacksonville City Council, a marker would be installed at Kings Road and Canal Street on Aug. 25, a day before the first anniversary of the shooting, when a white gunman took the lives of three Black people.

Memorial considered to honor Dollar General victims

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

John Honey had also been part of a mob that forced three Romanian men from their BMW

Rioter who looted Lush for bathbombs wearing England flag jailed for four years

Police have charged a man over the dumping of dozens of dead animals outside a village community shop.Shocked staff discovered the bodies of 50 hares, a barn owl and a kestrel scattered outside Broughton Community Shop in Hampshire on 15 March.A picture of the dead animals posted on social media went viral and was met with messages of concern from people across the country.The shop also appealed for CCTV footage.Hampshire Police launched an investigation on the incident in the village, which has a population of just over 1,000 residents.On Wednesday, the force said it had charged a man in connection...

Man, 37, charged over shock discovery of dozens of dead animals outside village shop

A century-old rail lift bridge that crosses the U.S.-Canada border has collapsed

Rail bridge collapses on US-Canada border

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