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DELPHI, IN—The bodies of two teenage girls were found near Deer Creek in northern Indiana on Tuesday, February 14 authorities indicated. Two autopsies were performed in Terre Haute on Wednesday, February 15. Officials from the Carroll County Sheriff's Office and Indiana State Police were able to identify the two girls as Delphi natives Abigail Williams and Liberty German, both 13. They are believed to...

FLORIDA—An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Monday, February 6 for setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter attended occasionally. Joseph Schreiber pleaded no contest during Monday's hearing before Circuit Judge Steven Levin. A no contest plea is treated the same as a guilty plea. Schreiber...

UNITED STATES—In 2010, a paper outlining the possibility of electric air crafts that would act as smaller, quieter helicopters was published by an advanced aircraft engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center named Mark Moore. The vehicles would be capable of acting as a faster alternative to commuting. Moore’s research into “VTOL” or Vertical Takeoff and Landing inspired Google co-founder Larry...

WEST HAVEN, CT—Officials from the West Haven Police Department arrested a man after he reportedly bite off part of a woman's tongue during a domestic dispute. Around 11:30 p.m., on Saturday, February 4, authorities were called to a home on Kenneth Street where they discovered an unidentified female victim suffering from severe facial injuries. She was taken to nearby local hospital for treatment. The...

DELAWARE—Officials from the Smyrna Police Department were able to stop what the governor of Delaware  called a “torturous” hostage standoff at Delaware’s largest prison on Thursday, February 2. The incident left one guard dead. It was described by another hostage that the inmates used “sharp instruments” to gain control inside a building at the James T. Vaughn Correction Center on Wednesday, February...

UNITED STATES―Filmmaker and conservationist Rob Stewart who went missing during a dive off the coast of Florida on Tuesday, January 31 was found dead on Friday, February 3. Stewart, 37, vanished while diving near Islamorada in the Florida Keys, a chain of islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. He was retrieving an anchor when his dive partner collapsed...

UNITED STATES—Two days after President Donald Trump implemented new immigrant policies, which temporarily banned people native to Iran, Syria, Libya, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, and Somalia from immigrating to the United States, Starbucks chairman and CEO Howard Schultz sent out a letter to employees informing them of his plan to hire approximately 10,000 refugees over the next five years. According to...

SAN FRANCISCO—A Las Vegas man was indicted by a federal grand jury for murder in the aid of racketeering in connection with the Chee Kung Tong organization based in San Francisco’s Chinatown on Thursday, January 26, the United States Department of Justice announced. According to the Department of Justice, Wen Bing Lei, 50, is a known member of CKT, a predominately...

HOLLYWOOD—Movie star and TV actress Mary Tyler Moore died on Wednesday, January 25 at the age of 80 in a hospital in Connecticut with her husband Dr. Robert Levine and friends by her side. TMZ first reported the news of the Moore's condition reporting that a source informed them that the actress had been on a respirator for more than...

GEORGIA—A stream of tornadoes that occurred during a system of storms that moved through Mississippi to Georgia, and into northwestern Florida has left at least 19 people dead. A reported 50 tornadoes touched ground in the South as storms and severe weather conditions struck the area on Thursday, January 19, said Frank Giannasca, a senior meteorologist at The Weather Channel.  In...