KNXV(PHOENIX) — Phoenix police are investigating a report of sexual assault committed against a female patient who had been hospitalized in a vegetative state for a decade after the woman stunned hospital staffers when she gave birth to a child last month. While citing patient confidentiality laws in declining to confirm the details of the …
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Jan 05
3 dead, 4 injured in shooting at California bowling alley
iStock/Thinkstock(TORRANCE, Calif.) — Three people were killed and four other injured in a shooting at a bowling alley in Torrance, California, late Friday evening. The shooting stemmed from a fight that took place between a group of people at Gable House bowling alley, according to eyewitnesses on the scene. “Upon arrival, officers discovered multiple subjects …
Jan 05
Missing Colorado mom Kelsey Berreth’s parents file wrongful death lawsuit against fiance Patrick Frazee
Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images(WOODLAND PARK, Colo.) — The parents of missing Colorado mom Kelsey Berreth have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Patrick Frazee, Berreth’s fiance and the man charged with her murder. This is the first public acknowledgement by Kelsey Berreth’s family of what police first said Dec. 21: She is …
Jan 04
Teen makes personalized teddy bears for families of fallen police officers
Megan O’Grady(NEW YORK) — This new year, one Florida teen is pushing forward with her mission to ensure that the families and particularly children of fallen law enforcement officers have a little something to cuddle to help them remember their loved ones. Megan O’Grady, 16, of Cape Coral, Florida, runs the nonprofit organization Blue Line …
Jan 04
Faces of the shutdown: USAID contractor says ‘it’s not my fight’
ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) — Yillah Rosenfeld says she and her boyfriend have enough savings to cover the next month of rent, but they’re not sure what they’ll do after that if the partial government shutdown continues. Rosenfeld is a contractor that does graphic and web design for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She said …
Jan 04
German politicians’ personal information leaked on Twitter in mass cyberattack
Mika Schmidt – Pool/Getty Images(BERLIN) — German politicians, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, have become the victims of a mass cyberattack after hundreds of documents containing personal information were leaked to Twitter. On Friday, German journalist Michael Götschenberg reported that members of all of Germany’s political parties, except for those from the far-right group AfD, had …
Jan 04
Meteorologists dig way out of building through heavy snow in Poland
ABCNews.com(NEW YORK) — A few feet of snow in the weather forecast may be enough to keep many people inside, but a group of meteorologists dug through a snowdrift to escape a weather station in Poland and report the weather. In a video that’s captured a lot of attention, one of the meteorologists can be …
Jan 04
The good new days?
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA) is the most powerful woman in American politics. The San Francisco lawmaker made history in 2007, when she was elected the first ever female Speaker of the House. Until 2011, she ruled that roost with an iron hand, managing the House Democrat majority in much the way her predecessors from …
Jan 04
‘No timeline for US withdrawal from Syria’: State Dept. official
omersukrugoksu/iStock(WASHINGTON) — As of now, there’s “no timeline for military forces to withdraw” from Syria, a senior State Department official said Friday, adding to the repeatedly changing administration accounts concerning President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to pull all U.S. troops out of the war-ravaged country. At the same time, officials reiterated the Trump administration “does …
Jan 04
‘Snowflakes, your army needs you!’: UK targets millennials in latest army recruitment drive
Ministry of Defence(LONDON) — The British Army has launched a new recruitment campaign targeting a range of millennial stereotypes, including “snowflakes” and “selfie addicts.” The campaign uses the template of a famous World War I propaganda poster to make its point. The classic poster featured then-British Secretary of State for War, Lord Kitchener, with the …