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  • Armed veteran confronts home invasion suspect, who fires back: ‘I’ve got a gun too, you SOB.'”

    ENID, Okla. – An Oklahoma homeowner and Army veteran says he wasn’t frightened, just aggravated when he grabbed his gun to confront a man who slipped into his residence around 5 a.m. Friday. Kenneth Fischaber said he woke up to what sounded like a “heard of cattle” upstairs in one of his bedrooms. “I’m looking, and there’s stuff just scattered everywhere. I hear this, he says something, and he cursed,” Fischaber told KFOR. “I look and he threw something at my […]

  • 30 bikers line up at girl’s lemonade stand after mom helps riders hurt in crash

    CHILI, Ind. – Bikers, pull over for lemonade? Thirty of them did last weekend as a thank you to someone who cared, ABC News reports. “I had no idea how many there would be and they were so generous,” said Daryn Sturch after the Milwaukee Iron motorcycle group arrived Sunday at her daughter Bryanne’s stand in Chili, Indiana. “She was charging $1, and I bet every one of them gave a $5 or $10 or $20. [Bryanne] was as happy as she […]

  • Video shows SUV plowing through Illinois mall as shoppers scatter; driver in custody

    SCHAUMBURG, Ill. — Police took a driver into custody after an SUV smashed its way through a suburban Illinois mall Friday afternoon, sending panicked shoppers running for safety and leaving a gaping hole in the doors of a Sears store. Police rushed to the Woodfield Mall in Schaumberg around 2:30 p.m. after witnesses said a black SUV drove through Sears, striking several kiosks. The incident took place on the lower level of the mall. A video posted to Twitter shows a black SUV driving […]

  • Kentucky girl dies on 9th birthday in ‘freak’ accident while riding bike

    HODGENVILLE, Ky. – A girl died while riding her bike on her birthday Tuesday in what authorities called a “freak accident.” Charlene “Charlie” Sipes, 9, was cycling along a rural road not far from her southern Kentucky home when police say she fell, causing one of the handbrakes to sever an artery in her neck, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. Larue County Sheriff Russell McCoy told WDRB that Charlie’s mother found the girl roughly 200 feet from their house. She […]

  • Baby born in Maine on 9/19/19 at 9:19 a.m. measuring 19 inches long

    LEWISTON, Maine — A baby born in Maine on Sept. 19, 2019, came into the world at exactly 9:19 a.m., WMTW reports. Madison Smithgall was born at Lewiston’s Central Maine Medical Center. “The doctor asked one of the nurses, ‘Hey, what time is it?’ And they were like it’s 9:18 right now and then her head ended up popping out just before it was 9:20 so it was 9:19 in the morning right when she came out,” dad Andrew Smithgall told […]

  • ‘Iowa legend’: Man featured on Busch can after giving ‘beer money’ from viral fundraiser to hospital

    DES MOINES, Iowa – Carson King is getting what he originally wanted and something he didn’t expect — his face on a beer can — after his sign on ESPN’s College GameDay last Saturday sparked a fundraiser that has netted hundreds of thousands of dollars for a good cause. After King’s sign requesting money for Busch Light went viral he decided to donate the money to the University of Iowa Stead Children’s Hospital, which as of 10:15 a.m. Friday had […]

  • Ohio woman arrested after reportedly admitting to striking child who later died, not calling 911

    TOLEDO, Ohio – An Ohio woman has been arrested after reportedly admitting to striking a 5-year-old who later died, WTVG reported. According to WTVG, the Toledo Fire Department responded to multiple calls of an unconscious child who had fallen off a bed. They administered life-saving measures before taking the child to the hospital where he later died. Court documents said medical professionals told law enforcement the child’s injuries were not consistent with a fall. Police said interviews with Yisenya Flores […]

  • After a 140 mph chase, Indiana man tells police he didn’t think their cruisers could catch his 2002 Acura

    LAKE COUNTY, Ind. – Police arrested an Indiana man after they say he led them on a 140-mile per hour chase. A trooper was sitting stationary on the shoulder of EB I-80/94 when he clocked a 2002 Acura traveling 116 miles per hour in a zone where the speed limit is 55 miles per hour. The driver increased his speed as the trooper pulled out to catch up with the Acura. The Acura sped up to 140 miles per hour, and it […]

  • Missing Florida teen’s family receives video call showing her tied to chair, police say

    DAVIE, Fla. – The search for a teen missing in Florida intensified after she was seen tied to a chair in a video call, WSVN reports. Destiny Rose, 16, has been missing since last month. Police said she was last seen at the Alpha Group Home in Southwest Ranches, Florida on Aug.20th. Police recently received a call from Rose’s aunt who told them she got a video call from her niece’s phone. She said when she answered, she didn’t immediately see her niece. […]

  • 88-year-old widow violently robbed of thousands she saved for late husband’s gravestone

    NEW YORK CITY — Police are looking for a man accused of attacking and robbing a woman in her Manhattan apartment, stealing thousands she had saved up to buy a headstone for her late husband’s grave. Just before noon Saturday, Maximina Osorio was arriving home at her apartment, when the unidentified man grabbed her from behind after she unlocked her door, police said. Police identified Osorio as being 89 years old, but she later told WPIX she is 88. Authorities […]

  • Colorado woman picks up injured bobcat, puts it in car next to her child

    COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A woman in Colorado Springs picked up an injured bobcat and put it in her car on Thursday morning, according to KDVR. Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials say the woman placed the mortally wounded wild cat in the backseat of her car – where her child was seated. Wildlife officials removed the bobcat from the woman’s car. They say it was too injured to react to being picked up and placed in the car. Now CPW […]

  • Oklahoma doctor, employees charged with giving patients illegal opioid prescriptions

    TULSA, Okla. – A federal grand jury has indicted an Oklahoma doctor and two employees for conspiring to illegally distribute prescription opioids to patients. Officials said 66-year-old Dr. Christopher V. Moses, 49-year-old Melisa D. Million and 54-year-old Kay Speir were all charged with drug conspiracy and aiding and abetting each other to distribute Oxcodone, Fentanyl, Carisoprodol, Clonazepam, Morphine Sulfate, Hydrocodone and Tramadol. According to court documents, prosecutors allege three patients died as a result of opioids prescribed by Dr. Moses. […]

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