How a Minnesota Family of Seven Died in Their Beds
Valley News Live via YouTubeWhen relatives hadn’t heard from the seven members of the Hernandez family for a few days, they asked authorities in Minnesota do a wellness check on Saturday night.What police discovered shocked the community of Moorhead, a small city on the North Dakota border, to the core: all seven family members, ranging…
Hundreds of parakeets dropped off at Michigan animal shelter
“We were in shock also but could not turn them away as they were all crammed in seven cages and smothering each other,” the shelter said in the post. Source
Christmas weekend snowstorm blankets Western U
While snow fell across much of the Western U.S. on Christmas, parts of the South experienced unseasonably high temperatures. Source
From daring rescues to medical breakthroughs, here are 12 of
There was good news this year, from a patient cured of HIV, a 105-year-old runner setting a record and a missing dog saving a family from a fire. Source
Registered sex offender caught raping woman at NYC construction site
A registered sex offender is facing a new set of charges after police caught him raping an Asian woman at a Manhattan construction site on Wednesday. The scene: New York police had to physically pull Darryl Phelps, 61, off the woman at around 1:30 a.m. under scaffolding at a construction site on West 28th Street…
US Rep. Cawthorn, wife seek divorce after a year of
North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn and his wife, Cristina Bayardelle, are divorcing after about a year of marriage, citing the difficulty of “balancing the enormity” of transitioning to a congressman's life, according to a statement tweeted Wednesday by Cawthorn’s spokesperson. The 26-year-old ally of former President Donald Trump became the youngest member of Congress last…
Officials question San Francisco’s emergency over opioids
The Board of Supervisors in San Francisco were meeting Thursday to consider an emergency order requested by the mayor to tackle the opioid epidemic in the city's troubled Tenderloin neighborhood, with some members clearly dismayed that the declaration could be used to criminalize people who are homeless, addicted to drugs or both. The public health…
Long reads: The USA TODAY stories readers spent the most
When you started reading these stories on USA TODAY this year, you couldn't put them down. Source
NASA’s James Webb telescope launches from South America, starting a
Emre Kelly | Florida TodayThe world's flagship science instrument took flight from South America early Saturday, a high-stakes mission that, from well beyond the moon, will peer deeper into the universe's 13.8 billion-year history than ever before.Officials from three agencies and dozens of countries watched in anticipation as the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope vaulted…
California surfer killed by shark, beach-goers ordered to stay out
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