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ogolne/iStock(DENVER) — Striking Denver public school teachers could be headed back to classrooms Thursday after reaching a “historic” deal with the school district to boost their pay. The Denver Classroom Teachers Association declared its three-day strike over on Thursday and members are set to vote on whether to ratify a deal reached with the Denver …

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RHONA WISE/AFP/Getty Images(PARKLAND, Fla.) — A high school football coach who ran toward the sound of gunfire, trying to shield his students. A 15-year-old Army Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps cadet who dreamed of attending West Point, but died helping his classmates escape. And a precocious 16-year-old girl ready to head to college and “change …

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playb/iStock(NEW YORK) — Men and women looking for prospective romantic partners online should take note of these two: Laura Cahill, who described herself as an aspiring young model living in Paris, and Britney Parkwell, who pointed to her relative youth as a 27-year-old from sunny San Jose, California. There’s one big problem: Despite profiles that …

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ABC News(NEW YORK) — The West Coast is feeling the effects of an atmospheric river, dumping record rain and snow from San Diego to San Francisco and Seattle. The top rainfall on Wednesday was 9.04 inches in Venado, California, north of Santa Rosa, while San Francisco set a daily record with 2.5 inches. Redding, California, …

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Raghu_Ramaswamy/iStock(APEX, N.C.) — Greg Alyn Carlson, one of the country’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, was likely shot and killed in a standoff with authorities on Wednesday, according to the FBI. The shootout happened early Wednesday morning at a hotel in Apex, North Carolina, about 15 miles west of Raleigh, as police investigated reports about a …

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Fred Guttenberg, the father of 14-year-old Jaime Guttenberg. (ABC News)(PARKLAND, Fla.) — The dreams Fred Guttenberg had — to watch his 14-year-old daughter realize her dreams — were ripped from his hands one year ago on Valentine’s Day. That was when a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, walked into …

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Cross County Sheriff’s Office(HOUSTON) — An Arkansas woman shot in the face with a crossbow drove herself to the hospital and lived to tell the tale. “It was an odd sight to see, someone with an arrow in their face and they’re still conscious and talking to me,” Capt. Jeff Nichols of the Cross County …

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WABC-TV(NEW YORK) — We all call our pups “the best dog in the whole world,” but Sadie, a senior pit bull from Westchester County, New York, is going to give your doggo a run for their money. Sadie is being hailed a hero after smelling a gas leak in her house, leading to the police …

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omersukrugoksu/iStock(LONDON) — Five people, including at least two Americans, were killed when their small plane crashed in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley region on Wednesday, officials said. The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority on Wednesday morning received a distress signal from the light aircraft, which was headed from the Masai Mara National Reserve to the northwest town …

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Edilzon Gamez/Getty Images(CARACAS, Venezuela) — Venezuela’s growing parallel opposition government extended its reach to the all-important oil sector on Wednesday when the country’s National Assembly moved to appoint new boards of directors to the state oil company and its refiner CITGO. The appointments include high-profile opposition names like David Smolansky, a former Caracas area mayor …

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