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A West Virginia educator received quite the morning jolt on Monday when a black bear poked its head out of the school’s dumpster as he stood just inches away. Zela Elementary principal James Marsh was in the process of removing a recently-installed lock bar when he saw the bear’s head emerge from the dumpster. Marsh immediately ran […]
Patterson was reportedly visiting the facility with his mother, who had an appointment, and wasn’t harmed in the shooting. Schierbaum said the man’s family has been cooperating with investigators. A 39-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Grady Memorial Hospital Chief Medical Officer Robert Jansen confirmed the four victims—all of whom are women, ages 25, 39, 56 and 71—sustained […]
Police arrested a chef from the Greater Toronto Area for allegedly selling sodium nitrite, a lethal poison that was also legal, after two people in the Peel region were found dead. According to the Toronto Star, officers had found one of the deceased in late March and believe the death is connected to the sale of the […]
Dr. Geoffrey Hinton first spoke about his concerns with the New York Times, saying—as a growing number of whistleblowers have also warned—it’s difficult to see “how you can prevent the bad actors from using [A.I.] for bad things.” Hinton, 75, has an extensive and almost impossible to summarize background in the larger world of academia, specifically […]
A 61-year-old New Jersey woman was seriously injured after accidentally running herself over in her car, only to then receive a summons from local police. As alleged in a press release from the Hackettstown Police Department in New Jersey, and as swiftly cited in the usual publications traditionally quick to cover such incidents, officers first […]
The Writers Guild of America is on strike for the first time in 15 years as writers are once again tasked with fighting for a living wage. Issues detailed as being at the center of this strike include establishing minimums for streaming projects, preservation efforts for writers’ rooms (i.e. a minimum of six writers, including […]
The U.S. surgeon general is warning of an epidemic of “loneliness and isolation” in the U.S., saying in an advisory report released this week that social disconnection is potentially as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. In the 82-page report, available in full here, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek H. Murthy said he didn’t […]
The raw, orgasmic power of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony was on full and powerful display during a performance in the Los Angeles area last week. Per firsthand accounts of numerous attendees, as initially reported by the Los Angeles Times, an orgasm of the “loud and full body” variety is believed to have been heard during a Los […]
“This is one of the most bizarre investigations I have encountered in my thirty-three years as a prosecutor,” District Attorney Seán M. McCormack said at the time. “Just when I think I have seen it all, a case like this comes around.” Now, per a report from the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Scott has been arraigned on […]
Anurag Chandra, a California man who crashed into a car of six teenagers and killed three after they played a doorbell ditch prank at his home in 2020, was recently convicted of murder. After a jury deliberated for nearly three hours on Friday in the Superior Court of California, Chandra was found guilty of three […]
