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A woman has revealed how she survived two days alone in a forest at the age of six.Prepare to gawp in awe: She ended up becoming separated from them when she grew 'tired and grumpy' after being told she couldn't go to see a waterfall and so took a different...

The criminal charge against a woman who was detained on an American Airlines flight and forced an emergency landing last week has been dropped by the Raleigh-Durham Airport Authority Police Department, reports show.“I am relieved,” Tiffany Miles said of the charge dismissal. “I know I didn’t do anything wrong, so...

A Texas mother is furious after her son claimed his fourth-grade teacher taped him to a chair during class time and allowed students to ridicule him.The suburban Dallas school district says it is investigating the incident, but “there are two sides to every story.” On Wednesday, Feb. 22, Charlotte Johnson’s...

A Michigan state trooper is facing charges for punching a Black man in the chest after reportedly accosting him for not walking on the sidewalk.The incident captured on body-camera video shows Trooper Paul E. Arrowood repeatedly punching Michael D. Wilson, 28, while he screamed for help on a Saginaw, Michigan,...

A California man has been declared innocent after spending four decades behind bars for a crime new DNA evidence proved he did not commit.Maurice Hastings, 69, can now file a claim for wrongful incarceration and receive relief for the years he lost while in prison.The Los Angeles District Attorney worked...

A federal appeals court ruled that a law in South Carolina making it a crime for children to be “boisterous” or “obnoxious” at school is unconstitutional,The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled on Feb. 22 that the law deprives students of their 14th Amendment due process rights....

A new federal indictment alleges a flashy Brooklyn preacher under investigation falsified bank documents in seeking to purchase his family’s million-dollar home.Despite evidence presented by the government, the pastor of Leaders of Tomorrow International Ministries vehemently denies any wrongdoing and plans to plead not guilty.On Wednesday, March 8, Manhattan federal...

The mother of a fifth grader at Santiago Elementary School in Santa Ana, California, held a protest on Monday, March 6 to demand answers from the school after she claimed her daughter was bullied and called a slave.Jasmine Harris said that the alleged incident took place on March 1 during...

A Stanford employee was arrested on Wednesday by Santa Clara Police Department after allegedly lying about being raped on campus twice last year and making false accusations against a Black male co-worker as a revenge plot scheme.Jennifer Gries is a 25-year-old white female who served as Housing Service Center Supervisor....

The Missouri man who shot and paralyzed an Amazon driver for parking in a disabled parking spot was convicted of first-degree assault and armed criminal action on March 13.Seventy-year-old Larry Thomlison was found guilty of shooting then-21-year-old Jaylen Walker in the back and paralyzing him from the waist down at...

A Nevada family is mourning the loss of their older son, fatally shot while watching “SpongeBob SquarePants” with his younger brother in their home. The aching mother wants justice, but in her grief said, “If I could have took that bullet for them, I would have.” SirArmani Clark, 9, and...

An Ohio parent took to social media to expose her third-grade daughter’s teacher, posting that the educator assaulted and embarrassed the child while in class.School officials say the teacher has been reprimanded but would not provide details about the staffer.Brittnee Nelson wrote on Facebook on the evening of Tuesday, March...

An Indiana grandmother was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to scalding her four-year-old granddaughter in the shower after she urinated on a couch.50-year-old Gretta Feil of Lebanon, Indiana, was also sentenced to four years’ probation on two felony counts of aggravated battery for what Boone County...

It's a case not far from “The Silence of the Lambs”: a killer turning body parts of one of his victims into dinner.A Grady County, Oklahoma man was recently sentenced to life without parole for three murders, including one in which investigators said he removed a victim's heart and cooked...

The Missouri man who shot and paralyzed an Amazon driver for parking in a disabled parking spot was convicted of first-degree assault and armed criminal action on March 13.Seventy-year-old Larry Thomlison was found guilty of shooting then-21-year-old Jaylen Walker in the back and paralyzing him from the waist down at...

Airplane travel is considered the safest mode of transportation. While commercial flights ensure the safety of life to a greater extent, sometimes, things might go awry. Something similar happened when tempers soared mid-air due to a conflict between the airline crew and passengers.In the summer of 2021, an American Airlines...