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Health alert: 142,000 gallons of raw sewage spills into Lake Erie

In a press release the Sewer District said: “Our region has experienced many strong storms in recent years, an ongoing trend that we will see more of in the future,” said Director of Watershed Programs ...

10 tons of trash left on Virginia beach after Memorial Day Weekend

Floatopia is a massive start-of-summer party at Chic’s Beach and during Memorial Weekend it drew hundreds of people for a day of drinking and lounging in the Chesapeake Bay, WCNC-TV reported. “It’s a big party. It gets ...

Man commits suicide after service dog is mauled to death by an alligator

It happened at Dog Leg Park in Palmetto, WFLA reports. “It was just such a sad situation, he couldn’t deal with it,” one of Epp’s neighbors and family friends, Kayla Weston, told the station. The dog ...

Fallen soldiers honored with a display of 7,500 boots at Fort Bragg

The boots — which had the service members’ photos and dates of death — were on display for Fort Bragg’s Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation’s annual Run, Honor and Remember 5k. “It ...

Texas students will have to learn cursive again, starting this year

Sadly, cursive writing is a lost art, with many states no longer requiring it to be taught to students. But things may be changing because American schools are slowly reintroducing cursive instruction. In Texas, under the new standards which the State Board ...

Woman arrested for shooting gun in grass to save neighbor’s dog

Last April, a woman was arrested after police said she shot at a teen who was sexually assaulting her neighbor’s dog in Centerton, Arkansas. Kerrie Lenkerd, 40, allegedly shot the 14-year-old boy whom she accused of ...

21-year-old learns her fate after bullying teen boy who killed himself

The sun had long set Dec. 21, but Kenneth sat on a log outside his house anyway. The cold didn’t bother him much, not that night. After placing a few calls to friends and family, ...

Young mom dies of brain aneurysm so doctors now urge people to learn the warning signs

Mother of four Charlotte “Lee” Broadway from North Carolina, was a very popular and loved woman. She and her husband Eric met while in school, then married and had four children together. Lee often suffered from migraines, so ...

Firefighter tries to defend elderly couple, gets brutally beaten up by group of teens

According to authorities, the group of teens deliberately cut in front of an elderly couple, making it hard for the couple to share the sidewalk on East 86th Street between Second and Third avenues. When ...

Casey Anthony, cleared of killing her child, could have more children, father reveals

Prosecutors, who sought the death penalty, alleged that Casey used chloroform on her daughter and suffocated her by putting duct tape over her mouth and nose. The case against Casey was closely watched by millions ...