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Kari Ann Peniche is warning families about lithium-ion battery dangers after her Oregon home exploded in flames. The 42-year-old former Playboy model and “Sex Rehab with Dr. Drew” alum lost her five-bedroom Troutdale home last Thursday when an e-bike battery…
Ole Miss student Jakiyra Metcalf is demanding answers after her Ring camera captured white neighbors making monkey noises outside her apartment door. Metcalf, who shares the off-campus unit with two other Black students, posted the footage to TikTok on Saturday…
Two would-be burglars in Fort Lauderdale found themselves outmatched by a sheet of glass when their attempt to smash through a home window with a handgun ended in complete failure. The incident unfolded just after 6 p.m. On Oct. 19…
Thousands descended on a San Francisco park Saturday for a lookalike tournament honoring convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes and comedian Nathan Fielder. The event, held at Lafayette Park, drew more than 1,000 RSVPs on Partiful for a competition centered on the…
Steve Frazer has broken his silence on the unexplained lights he has repeatedly spotted from his cockpit near Brussels. The 48-year-old commercial captain, from Cheshire, England, first noticed strange flashing orbs during a flight in 2022 and claims to have…
Oakland International Airport’s surplus baggage tugs have become unlikely internet celebrities. The Bay Area hub is offloading more than a dozen electric tractors through government auction sites, with opening bids hovering near $750 each. What began as routine fleet retirement…
James Gates is suing OpenAI after claiming ChatGPT helped his wife Cheryl plot to poison him last summer. James, a North Carolina resident, filed the lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court against the tech company and its chief executive…
Martin Strel says dolphins answered his calls and fought off bull sharks during his historic Amazon swim. The Slovenian endurance swimmer, now in his seventies, said that the encounter happened twice while he covered roughly 3,274 miles of the river…
Scholars are poring over the 16th-century mystic’s verses once again as attention shifts to what his cryptic quatrains might portend for 2027. Nostradamus, the French astrologer who died in 1566, left behind more than 900 poetic quatrains that interpreters have…
Viewers are drawing unsettling parallels between two decades-old disappearances after Netflix released documentaries on both cases in quick succession. The streaming service debuted “Amy Bradley Is Missing” last year, revisiting the 1998 vanishing of Bradley, then 23, from a Royal…
Marina Chapman has spoken again about the capuchin monkey she believes saved her life during her years in the Colombian rainforest. Chapman, who says she was kidnapped around age four or five and abandoned in the jungle, said that an…
Emma Stone has been crowned the world’s most beautiful woman by a computerized facial-mapping study that applied ancient Greek mathematics to modern celebrity faces. The 38-year-old Oscar winner, who celebrated her birthday Thursday, topped the annual ranking compiled by Dr…
Kayla Barrett, 36, has been released from jail under orders to stay away from every school sporting event in Kentucky after she allegedly strangled a high school football player mid-game. Barrett was arrested Tuesday by Kentucky State Police and booked…
Katy Perry has finally broken her silence on a decade-old conspiracy theory that claims she is actually JonBenét Ramsey. The “Firework” singer, 41, responded after an AI-generated video showing the murdered child beauty pageant contestant morphing into the pop star…
T&T Supermarket’s first San Francisco location drew crowds so large that some shoppers began lining up at 4 a.m. Thursday, hours before the doors opened on Geary Boulevard. The Canadian Asian grocery chain, founded in Vancouver in 1993 by Taiwanese…
Tennessee is fighting Christa Pike’s bid to leave the prison infirmary more than five weeks after her botched execution. The state filed a blistering response Wednesday urging a federal judge to reject the 50-year-old death row inmate’s emergency motion for…