Author: Lindsey Bever
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‘I saved them because I’m a superhero!’: 4-year-old donates bone marrow to his baby brothers
It was barely sunrise and Michael DeMasi Jr. was romping through the corridors at a children’s hospital in Philadelphia, balancing on a red line that was etched into the floor design and telling his mother to tie a balloon to him so he could “fly.” The 4-year-old boy fancied himself a real-life superhero, wearing a…
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She Instagrammed her exotic drug-smuggling vacation. Now ‘Cocaine Babe’ is going to prison
A Canadian woman who tried to smuggle millions of dollars worth of cocaine into Australia has been convicted and sentenced to eight years behind bars. Melina Roberge, 24, was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to smuggling 95 kilos (209 pounds) of the drug into the Sydney Harbour in 2016, following an exotic weeks-long cruise that…
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‘Tell my mom that I love her’: A teen’s frantic 911 calls as he is crushed to death in a minivan
When Kyle Plush called 911, he knew his situation was dire. The 16-year-old sophomore did not tell the authorities what had happened to him when he apparently used an automated assistant on his smartphone to make the call Tuesday outside Seven Hills School in Cincinnati. He said only that he was trapped in his minivan…
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In case you missed the ‘condom-snorting challenge’ — and didn’t know it’s a bad idea
Imagine unrolling a condom and stuffing it up one side of your nose, then plugging the other nostril and inhaling until the long piece of latex slides into your throat. Then you reach back there with your fingers and pull it from your mouth. Why would someone do that? Apparently for the same reason young people have dared…
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‘He was being a little bully’: Video shows father punishing his 10-year-old with run in the rain
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Virginia father has sparked a conversation about parenting after a video he posted on Facebook went viral. It shows his 10-year-old son running to school — in the rain — as punishment for “being a little bully.” Bryan…
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Nursing assistants accused of sex with patients from Iowa psychiatric and substance abuse center
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Two nursing assistants have been accused of engaging in sexual relations with two patients from a psychiatric and substance abuse treatment center in Iowa. The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the…
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A passenger says she complained about period pains and was forced off her flight
A 24-year-old woman in the United Kingdom said she and her boyfriend were removed from an Emirates flight bound for Dubai after an attendant overheard her complaining about menstrual cramps. Beth Evans and her boyfriend, 26-year-old Joshua Moran, said a flight attendant overheard Evans’ conversation and expressed concerns about her health – even though she…
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A man killed a couple with a knife, shot their baby and buried them all in the woods, police say
No one had heard from them in days. Harley Michael Million, Samara Fontaine Kitts and the couple’s 17-month-old daughter, Willa, were reported missing from their home in southeastern Missouri, not far from the foothills of the Ozarks. When deputies with the Wayne County Sheriff’s Department arrived at the family’s home in the tiny town of…
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‘Wash your stinking hands!’: ER nurse rants about ‘cesspool of funky flu’
A Florida nurse working to combat “a cesspool of funky flu” in the emergency room has gained widespread attention from a viral video on social media urging people to take precautions to avoid influenza. After a 12-hour night shift last week in an emergency room in northwest Florida, Katherine Lockler, a registered nurse, offered some expert medical advice. “Here are…
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A town of 3,200 was flooded with nearly 21 million pain pills as addiction crisis worsened, lawmakers say
Over the past decade, nearly 21 million prescription painkillers have been shipped to a tiny town in West Virginia, a state where more people have overdosed on opioids and died than in any other in the nation. The House Energy and Commerce Committee, which has been investigating the opioid epidemic, revealed that 20.8 million hydrocodone…