Courtesy Attorney Jennifer Hansen(ST. LOUIS, Mo.) — A Missouri day care center is under investigation by police after surveillance video showed a worker flinging a 3-year-old girl by the arm into a cabinet, splitting open her forehead, and then claimed in an incident report that the child accidentally fell, police and an attorney for the …
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Feb 27
FTC settles first-ever lawsuit involving fake online retailer reviews
FotoDuets/iStock(WASHINGTON) — U.S. regulators announced a settlement with a company it took action against for deceptively marketing a plant extract that it claimed caused weight loss, and whose marketing strategy involved fake positive Amazon reviews. The Federal Trade Commission said it was the agency’s first-ever lawsuit against a company for commissioning fake paid reviews on …
Feb 27
Contentious Michael Cohen hearing turns into spectator sport for bars around Washington, DC
Win McNamee/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — All over the District of Columbia, people gathered in their neighborhood taprooms Wednesday as spectators to the day’s big event. It wasn’t the Superbowl or the World Series. It was Michael Cohen’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee. Several bars had thought ahead, taking to social media to promote watch parties, …
Feb 27
FBI looking for the rightful owners of thousands of artifacts, remains, found in scientist’s home
FBI(INDIANAPOLIS) — A man in Indiana had something of a makeshift museum in his home, but now the FBI is working to determine the rightful owners of the artifacts. The FBI’s Art Crime Team seized more than 7,000 artifacts and human remains that were found in the home of deceased scientist Don Miller. “Don would …
Feb 27
Girl Scout ‘hero’ Detric McGowan now an alleged cookie monster indicted on federal drug-trafficking charges
Kayla Dillard via Storyful(GREENVILLE, S.C.) — He was hailed a hero when he bought out a South Carolina Girl Scout cookie stand so two young troop members didn’t have to stay out in the cold selling thin mints and do-si-dos. But, now federal drug agents are portraying Detric Lee McGowan as a cookie monster. Just …
Feb 27
FedEx testing robots to make short-distance deliveries
FedEx(NEW YORK) — The number of companies exploring the possibility of using robots to deliver products to homes grew on Wednesday with the announcement that FedEx hopes to change the way you get a hot pizza, groceries or even auto parts. The delivery giant calls its new initiative the “FedEx SameDay Bot,” and the idea …
Feb 27
Man whose estranged wife, daughter allegedly killed son in murder spree wants them in jail for life
Bucks County District Attorney’s Office(MORRISVILLE, Pa.) — A North Carolina man is speaking out after his son was killed, allegedly by his own daughter and estranged wife. Shana Decree, 45, and her daughter, Dominique Decree, 19, allegedly killed five of their relatives whose bodies were found in the Decrees’ Morrisville, Pennsylvania, apartment Monday, the Bucks …
Feb 27
After meetings with Kim Jong Un, is President Trump hoping for Nobel Peace Prize?
Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images(LONDON) — Beyond denuclearization and a transformation of relations on the Korean peninsula, President Donald Trump after his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un may be hoping for the Nobel Peace Prize. In the Rose Garden at the White House weeks before his trip to Hanoi, Trump suggested that Japanese Prime Minister …
Feb 27
How ex-Theranos employees reacted to Elizabeth Holmes’ criminal charges: ‘There’s a lot of stuff I haven’t dealt with’
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — This is episode 6 of “The Dropout,” a six-episode ABC Radio podcast about the fall of Elizabeth Holmes’ startup Theranos. If you haven’t listened to episode 1, episode 2, episode 3, episode 4 and episode 5, we advise that you do so first. By September 2018, Elizabeth Holmes’s company Theranos …
Feb 27
Young North Korean defectors in South Korea have found success and fulfillment
ABC News(SEOUL) — 12-year-old Choi Hyunmi could feel the cold hitting her chest despite her warm layers. She had been marching through curvy roads, deep woods and a frozen river for about an hour with her mother and older brother in the middle of a violent snowstorm with winds blowing in freezing temperatures. It was …