Author: Alina Hartounian
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Margarita-loving bear relaxes in a California hot tub
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Mark Hough had barely taken a sip of his Friday afternoon margarita when he heard twigs snapping and leaves rustling in his lush Altadena, California, backyard. At first he brushed it off as the sounds of his neighbor pottering next door, but the noise grew…
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Colorado Walmart shooting victims: Grandparents, young dad
DENVER — The three people who died in the shooting at a suburban Denver Walmart were identified Thursday after police took suspect Scott Ostrem, 47, into custody. One was a grandfather, another was a grandmother and the third was a young father with another child on the way. A GRANDFATHER WHO LOVED ADVENTURE Carlos Moreno,…
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No monsters here: officer helps Colorado girl search for boogiemen
For a year now, 4-year-old Sidney Fahrenbruch has wanted to be a police officer. She wears a specially sized police uniform and has brought officers candy on Halloween, pies at Thanksgiving and cookies for Christmas, according to her mom Megan Fahrenbruch. This past month, she also enlisted an officer’s help to make sure her new…
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Arizona flash flood kills 9 relatives celebrating birthday
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST, Ariz. — The flash flood that killed nine people in an Arizona river canyon began its deadly descent as an impressive but avoidable surge of churning water, black with cinders from a recent wildfire and choked with tumbling tree trunks and limbs. By the time it reached a rocky swimming hole several…