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Pregnant teen shot in head during Ponchatoula road rage attack, authorities say
A Tickfaw man is accused of shooting a teenager who was seven months pregnant during a road rage attack, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office said. The 17-year-old victim remains hospitalized in critical condition with a gunshot wound to her...

Bringing down dropout rates, book in Braille for music: 3 teachers from Mumbai get National Award
Bringing down dropout rates, authoring a book in Braille for visually challenged students to learn music, encouraging group learning — these were among the various initiatives by three teachers from Maharashtra who have been selected for the...

“This Was No Suicide”: Nancy Grace Sounds Alarm in New Book
Ellen Greenberg was bright, accomplished, and adored—a lively, warmhearted teacher who poured her energy into the young children she taught. She cherished her family and friends, and was deeply in love with her fiancé, Sam Goldberg. The two were...

Leesville woman admits to shooting, killing DeRidder man, authorities say
LEESVILLE, La. (KPLC) - A Leesville woman is accused of shooting and killing a man who was visiting her home. Destini Leon(Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office)Destini Leon, 31, faces a count of second-degree murder. The Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Office...

Leesville woman admits to shooting, killing DeRidder man, authorities say
LEESVILLE, La. (KPLC) - A Leesville woman is accused of shooting and killing a man who was visiting her home. Destini Leon(Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office)Destini Leon, 31, faces a count of second-degree murder. The Vernon Parish Sheriff’s Office...

Cook’s WWE Raw Review 8.25.25
Hey kids! Steve Cook here with you for this week’s early afternoon edition of WWE Raw on Netflix! We’re rolling towards Clash in Paris this weekend, and Roman Reigns is here to address his coming match with Bronson Reed. We’ll also have Rhea...

‘Shinobi: Art of Vengeance’ Review: A Master Ninja’s Odyssey Is Gloriously Reborn
It’s hard to not feel a little miffed that it took the success of 2020’s Streets of Rage 4 to show Sega that, yes, there’s still plenty to be done with some of their greatest old-school game series. As proven by Shinobi: Art of Vengeance, that’s...

‘The Roses’ Review: Irreconcilable Differences
Given how much the dynamics of heterosexual relationships have changed in the 40-plus years since Warren Adler wrote The War of the Roses, there’s perhaps no better time than the present for a new take on the material. At least on paper, Jay...

Winchell meets record books in NCMC volleyball opener
ROCKFORD, Ill. — The North Central Michigan College women’s volleyball team opened the 2025 season over the weekend in Rockford, Ill., coming away with a 2-2 start to the season. The Timberwolves are coming off a 20-win campaign from the year...

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance Review – Sega’s Ninja Returns with Style and Substance
Whenever a classic series like Shinobi makes a return, we are torn between excitement and anxiety. Will it honour its roots, or lean too heavily on nostalgia? Will it reinvent itself to the point of being unrecognisable? Or worse, will it simply...

The Roses Review: A Devilishly Hilarious Dark Comedy About Love & Marriage
When a nasty thunderstorm ends up destroying the museum that Theo worked so hard to build, largely due to a miscalculation and a bit of pride on his part, and an embarrassing moment in the aftermath goes viral, the patriarch finds himself out of...

Vanda seeking FDA commissioner review of Hetlioz generics decision
Vanda said, “Further, in the case of one generic version, Corrigan-Curay accepted that significant inexplicable data inconsistencies measuring a drug's exposure levels in the blood could be justified by the supposedly different "psychological...

Disaster at Sea: The Piper Alpha Story review – this oil rig horror is up there with Chornobyl
On the evening of 6 July 1988, the Piper Alpha oil production platform in the North Sea suffered a catastrophic gas explosion, followed by a conflagration that destroyed the structure; 167 people were killed, and almost all the physical evidence...

The Roses review: Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch face off in white-hot divorce comedy
It needs to be said: Danny DeVito is underrated as a comedy director. The movie star turned It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia savior is certainly best known for a long list of film and television appearances (including Taxi) that are outrageously,...

'The Roses' Review: Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman's Black Comedy Needs More Thorns
The Roses, the new black comedy directed by Jay Roach, begins with a moment that undercuts its entire premise. We meet married couple Theo Rose (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Ivy Rose (Olivia Colman) in counseling, where they have been given an...

Class 9 student booked for brandishing knife at classmate, threatening him in Bhavnagar: Police
A Class 9 student was booked after he allegedly threatened a classmate with a knife, prompting the police to deploy a security cordon around the school in Bhavnagar district, according to police. This is the third such incident in recent times...

Authors of book on Delphi murders believe jurors got the case right
INDIANAPOLIS — Murder Sheet podcasters Kevin Greenlee, an attorney, and Aine Cain, a journalist, attended every court proceeding and read every legal filing in the case against Richard Allen, the man arrested in 2022 for the murders a half-decade...

Book Review: ‘The Body Farm’ by Abby Geni
The Body Farm by Abby Geni is a collection of stories rooted deeply in the physical. Although the collection derives its title from the final short story of the book, it is an aptly chosen one; each story focuses on the disastrous effects of life...
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