Author: Samantha Schmidt
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Huge snake slithers out of Texas man’s toilet, deputy wrangles it with her bare hands
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Frankly, it could have been a lot worse. Wade Vielock could have been sitting on the toilet when the enormous snake slithered its way out of the porcelain throne. Lucky for the Bee County, Tex., man, Vielock…
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Mormon Church breaks all ties with Boy Scouts, ending 100-year relationship
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said Tuesday it will sever all ties with the Boy Scouts of America, ending a century-old tradition deeply ingrained in the religious life of Mormon boys. The Mormon Church, as it is more commonly known, said in its announcement that it has “increasingly felt the need to…
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‘Yodeling Walmart Boy’ thrusts 1949 Hank Williams classic to Spotify’s top charts
On June 11, 1949, Hank Williams’s rendition of “Lovesick Blues,” on his debut night at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, prompted six encores from a crowd of 3,000 people. It stopped the show “colder than it had ever been stopped in its 31 years,” one witness said, according to the Library of Congress. Though…
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Massive chunk of snow slides off vacation condo, burying mother and son
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A neighbor noticed the ski gloves lying in the snow. It was about 9 p.m. Sunday at a condominium complex in the Kirkwood Mountain Resort, an isolated but popular skiing destination in northern California, about…
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This single cartoon about school shootings is breaking people’s hearts
As news of the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., unfolded last week, Pia Guerra, a 46-year-old Vancouver-based artist, felt helpless. She couldn’t bring herself to go to sleep, so she began to draw. About 6 a.m., she came up with an idea. One of the first victims identified…
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How a malnourished teen escaped a house full of chains and freed her 12 siblings
There were no toys and no bicycles on the front lawn — only weeds that sometimes reached six feet tall. Neighbors rarely saw the 13 siblings who lived inside the home in a quiet neighborhood in Southern California, because they never went outside to play. Instead, authorities said, they were held captive in a dirty…
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13 siblings, some shackled and malnourished, rescued from California house, police say
An emaciated 17-year-old girl escaped a home in Perris, Calif., early Sunday morning where she had been held captive alongside her 12 brothers and sisters in filthy conditions, according to police. Authorities arrived at the home to find several children shackled to beds with chains and padlocks, “in dark and foul-smelling” conditions, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department…
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A YouTube star insulted a notorious drug lord. The 17-year-old was found with at least 15 bullet wounds
Juan Luis Lagunas Rosales was born in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, a mecca for cartels and the land of notorious drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Lagunas grew up never knowing his father. His mother left him with his grandmother as a child. Lagunas left his hometown at the age of 15 without finishing…
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He imprisoned a Toronto homeless man for 2 decades and claimed his son as his own, prosecutors say
In a bizarre trial playing out in Toronto, a man is accused of enslaving and brutally beating a homeless couple for years, stealing their disability checks and even abducting their newborn son. Gary Willett Sr. has pleaded not guilty to charges of assault, forcible confinement, failure to provide the necessaries of life, theft of more…
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Kellogg’s apologizes for lone brown corn pop on cereal box
Novelist Saladin Ahmed was looking at the back of a Corn Pops cereal box when he noticed a small but jarring detail. The colorful illustration on the box depicted a chaotic scene of little yellow corn pop characters frolicking through a shopping mall. But in the middle of the drawing, Ahmed spotted a lone non-yellow…