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A 74-year-old Maryland hunter has been charged with manslaughter after fatally shooting a mother of five he mistook for a deer in a Delaware field. Walter Moorhead, 74, of Salisbury, Maryland, was arrested Friday evening following the death of Santos…
A Danish homeowner preparing a backyard patio has uncovered what officials are calling the largest Viking Age silver hoard ever found in Denmark. The anonymous resident was digging in northern Denmark for a new tiled terrace when the discovery came…
An astronomer who says his heart stopped for seven minutes has offered a rare, shape-by-shape account of what he perceived while doctors fought to revive him. The man, who posted anonymously on Reddit, was 47 when he landed in the…
Tiana Krasniqi has defended her marriage to executed double murderer James Broadnax against claims she is “delusional.” Krasniqi, a London receptionist, wed Broadnax in April just before the 39-year-old Texas death row inmate was put to death for the 2008…
Elijah Mayes, 19, has been arrested in the death of an 11-month-old Kentucky baby whose body was discovered stuffed inside a couch. The teen babysitter was watching Grayson Walton at a home in Cleaton on Sept. 13 when the child’s…
A veteran flight attendant has detailed the 90-second “hotel room autopsy” she performs at every check-in to stay safe on the road. Aura Martinez, a New York-based crew member with nearly two decades in the air, said she treats the…
Katie Murphy has revealed that her newborn son earned the nickname “Colonel Cody” after he was born in a KFC car park. Murphy, 33, and her partner Stephen Kirby, 32, were en route to a hospital in Bromsgrove on August…
Animal rights activists and police discovered hundreds of chickens, most already dead, crammed inside two abandoned U-Haul trucks in Brooklyn on Friday. The first truck, found around 5 p.m. On Winthrop Avenue between East 45th Street and Troy Avenue, held…
A Los Angeles paranormal investigator says she left Lizzie Borden’s Massachusetts home a believer after a spirit allegedly tucked her into bed. Sara Farrell, a digital creator and paranormal investigator from Los Angeles, won an overnight stay at the Fall…
Ellie Freeman carried her twin brother’s baby and uncovered a hidden cancer threat that may have saved his life. Adam Braitberg, 47, and his husband Omer Kuchman turned to Adam’s sisters when they decided to start a family near Melbourne,…
Kit Barrus, 28, says she torched a “love hex” left inside her home by a college friend who refused to accept she would never date him. The OnlyFans creator, who draws roughly 10,000 subscribers a month and has amassed some…
A fruit fly’s digitized brain checkmated a leading AI chess model in 11 moves, its creator revealed. Maxime Labonne, a machine-learning engineer, wired the newly mapped connectome of an adult male fruit fly to a chess engine and watched it…
NYC officials told Queens residents they must pay hundreds of dollars to remove a basketball-sized hornets’ nest from a city tree themselves. The Parks Department rejected pleas from Councilman Phil Wong’s office to handle the bald-faced hornet colony hanging roughly…
Yellowstone’s Geology Team has pulled a record haul of tourist debris from the park’s famous hydrothermal zones. As of early September, crews had collected more than 20,100 pieces of trash, 5,600 rocks and sticks, and 280 hats from around geysers…
NASA scientists are puzzling over a set of unusually broad, shallow pits photographed by the Curiosity rover during its climb up Mount Sharp. The formations, captured in overlapping images by the rover’s MAHLI and Mastcam instruments, resemble footprints in their…
A Florida rescue has doubled its reward to $10,000 after surveillance footage captured a gunman on an e-bike shooting a stray cat near a West Palm Beach flea market. Zoe, the lone known survivor of the rampage, is recovering at…