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We’ve seen it with whales, we’ve seen it with dolphins and now it’s gators. Animals keep mistakenly eating our trash. A visitor posted a video showing an alligator at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, in Crawfordville, Florida, chewing on a plastic bag. The park said the gator likely thought it contained something edible. “This…… MORE
A 2-year-old boy was put to bed in Virginia but was nowhere to be found in the morning, police say. Noah Tomlin was last seen around 1 a.m. Monday, in bed in his mobile home in the Buckroe Beach area of Hampton, Virginia, Hampton Police Chief Terry Sult said at a news conference. His mother…… MORE
A gunman killed two people Tuesday evening at a Ford dealership south of San Jose, California, police said. When officers arrived on the scene in Morgan Hill around 6 p.m., they found a man on the ground outside with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound and a handgun by his side, police said.…… MORE
A fire consumed a Wisconsin home Tuesday morning and left six people dead. Two boys and two girls ranging in age from 10 months to 7 years old died in the fire, according to Langlade County Coroner Larry Shadick. Langlade is about 90 miles northwest of Green Bay. A 32-year-old man and a 34-year-old woman…… MORE
The parents of a 10-week-old baby whose autopsy revealed she’d suffered 96 fractures have been charged with her death. The father, Jason Robin of Houston, was charged with the murder of his infant daughter, Jazmine. The baby’s autopsy revealed she also suffered multiple broken ribs and a skull fracture, according to Harris County, Texas, court…… MORE
Rep. Terry Canales heard the reports of children suffering in squalid conditions at Customs and Border Protection facilities and knew what he had to do. The Texas state legislator sent a letter to local Border Patrol officials asking what items members of the public could donate. Canales says the response he received baffled him. “We…… MORE
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s office near Atlanta has released dramatic bodycam video from the night authorities found a newborn baby wrapped in a plastic bag in the woods. The footage, released Tuesday, was captured on June 6 in Cumming, Georgia about 40 miles from Atlanta. The sheriff’s office said in a statement it “is continuing…… MORE
River “Oakley” Nimmo had big dreams of being in the Army one day. The 5-year-old Arkansas boy, who died last week of a rare form of cancer, never got the chance. But that didn’t stop service men and women from honoring Oakley at his funeral Tuesday. Dozens of members of the Arkansas National Guard turned…… MORE
Margaret Ellen Fox was a 14-year-old reportedly on her way to what she thought was a babysitting job when she disappeared in June 1974. While authorities listened in to phone calls coming into her New Jersey home after she went missing, a man told her parents he had Margaret. According to an audio file posted…… MORE
