Author: Kristine Phillips
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E. coli outbreak in 11 states linked to store-bought romaine lettuce, CDC says
An E. coli outbreak that has sickened nearly three dozen people in at least 11 states is linked to chopped romaine lettuce from Arizona, health officials said. The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that romaine lettuce grown in the Yuma, Ariz., region, near the border to Southern California, may have caused the recent outbreak…
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A boy was decapitated on a waterslide. The park knew the ride could kill people, officials say
In a quest to be the record holder for the world’s tallest waterslide, investigators say, Schlitterbahn Waterpark of Kansas City rushed to build a dangerous and structurally complicated ride, ignored glaring safety red flags and replaced mathematical calculations with “crude trial-and-error methods.” The string of negligence, according to a recently unsealed indictment, resulted in the…
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A state lawmaker says he has a way to stop bullies: Fine their parents up to $750
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A lawmaker from Pennsylvania says he wants to crack down on bullying. One way to do so, he says, is to punish parents for their child’s bad behavior. State Rep. Frank Burns (D-Cambria) plans to…
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A little girl saw an emotional-support dog on a plane. It went for her face
A dog injured a child onboard a Southwest Airlines flight, the latest incident in the controversy over allowing emotional-support animals on planes. It happened Wednesday night while passengers were boarding a Southwest flight from Phoenix to Portland, Ore. A spokesman for the airline said the dog’s teeth scraped the girl’s forehead as she approached the…
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Couple charged with keeping four adopted children locked in the dark without food or toilets
A boy who asked to use the phone at a Family Dollar in Tucson led sheriff’s deputies to the home where he and his siblings were often locked in their rooms without food, water, lights or bathrooms, authorities said. On Saturday, the boy asked a clerk at the bargain store to use the phone, which…
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6-year-old tells NASA to make Pluto a planet again: ‘You need to fix this problem for me’
Cara Lucy O’Connor has a concern. Pluto used to be one of the nine planets in the solar system, and it isn’t anymore. That’s not right, said the little girl from Ireland. So Cara, with the help of her teacher, wrote a letter to NASA hoping to persuade the space agency to “make Pluto a…
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A frantic call about a loose tiger sent armed police to a Scotland farm. It was a stuffed toy.
It was, as police said, a “roaring shift.” Police received an unusual and frantic call Saturday night about a wild animal on the loose in a village farm in northeast Scotland. The caller, a farm owner in the village of Hatton, told the Scottish Sun that he was having a housewarming party with his girlfriend and friends that night.…
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A Marine veteran tried to confront a tailgating driver and was shot in the head, officials say
An off-duty Arizona fire captain was shot and killed in an alleged road-rage incident Sunday by a man who told investigators he thought his gun was not loaded, authorities said. Kyle Brayer, a former Marine and 10-year veteran of the Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department, was riding in a golf cart with friends early Sunday…
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A woman called the ‘serial stowaway’ sneaked past airport security — again — and flew to London
Marilyn Jean Hartman is infamous. For years, law enforcement agencies in several states have known her for her seemingly endless and bizarre habit of getting on planes without a ticket, a boarding pass or a passport. The 66-year-old with short, white-blond hair was caught trying to get to Hawaii at least once in 2014. She made it to Los…
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Here’s how this car got wedged in the upper wall of a two-story building
The phrase “crashing into a building” took on a new meaning Sunday when a car in Southern California hit a center divider, went airborne and plowed into the second floor of a dentist’s office. Images taken by the local fire department show the white sedan partially wedged into the building, its rear exposed as it…