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BEAUMONT, Texas (KFDM) - Detectives say they have been told by a credible witness that a 22-year-old Beaumont, Texas man shot and killed 19-year-old Kera Teel last week. Teel was seven months pregnant and her baby, Kyndal Jae Teel, died shortly after emergency delivery. Jared Javon Bias, 22, faces a capital murder charge in the killings, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by KFDM 6 News. Investigators had been trying to link a series of incidents from the early morning hours of June 6, when Teel was gunned down at the Sienna Trail Apartments. Community donations over the past...

Surveillance video captured the moment when a homeowner fought off five would-be robbers with a machete. Five South Florida men were arrested in connection to an armed robbery in Sarasota on Thursday. Police responded to a call at 4:45 a.m. about a man with a shotgun showing up at a home. By the time police arrived, the homeowner had disarmed the suspect and was holding him until deputies arrived. The homeowner told police two other robbers escaped. The two suspects and two others were eventually found at a nearby gas station. Suspect Alen Beltran-Vasquez is charged with two counts of...

A person looking to sell a 1913 World War I device at a South Whitehall Township church yard sale attracted police instead of buyers. Township police were called Friday morning for the suspicious package at the Asbury Church, 1533 Springhouse Road, police Sgt. Ron Scholler said. A person not known to the church or police had brought a 1913 World War I device to sell. In an abundance of caution, the Allentown Bomb Squad was called to handle the item, Scholler said. By 3 p.m., the bomb squad had taken the device away and the scene was cleared. The church's...

We hear a lot about Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, and that’s because we have extremely fancy hardware floating around and, in some cases, cruising on the surface of those planets. The planets that lie further away from the Sun don’t get nearly as much attention, but they may soon, as NASA is currently spitballing some missions that will give us a better look at Uranus than we’ve ever gotten. The theoretical missions, which would see NASA spacecraft heading to both Uranus and Neptune, would be of huge scientific benefit. The idea is to determine what the planets are made of,...

A sailor from the cruiser Shiloh whom Navy officials said fell overboard last week, triggering a massive search-and-rescue effort, has been discovered on board. Presumed dead after going missing June 8, Gas Turbine Systems Technician (Mechanical) 3rd Class Peter Mims reportedly hid himself in one of the engine rooms, according to two sources familiar with the situation. It is unclear how Mims survived a week in the engineering space or where he was hiding. He will be flown off Shiloh for evaluation soon. Mims' disappearance prompted a massive, 50-hour search-and-rescue effort off the coast of Japan that included Japanese Coast...

How do military leaders persuade their soldiers to fight an insane war? Here’s one way. The setting is a bitter outpost of the American war in Afghanistan. The years-long nightmare has no prospect of ending so long as American troops stay in a country that has a nearly unblemished record of grinding foreign armies to ashes. A bullish general is trying to generate a dose of enthusiasm in the hearts and minds of his unenthusiastic men. “You boys,” the general says, “are the only things that count. If it doesn’t happen here, it doesn’t happen. End of story.” “What doesn’t...

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Last week, I had an accident, and the EMT's (licensed and trained by NY State) told me they are now required to ask, "male or female?" They explained that a patient might self-identify as the opposite sex, regardless of their anatomy. I was in too much pain to question the stupidity of it. unbelievable.

No Tiger. No Phil. No Jason Day, Dustin Johnson or Rory McIlroy for that matter. Hell, Charley Hoffman is a co-leader. Fore!!

Full Title...................Camille Cosby calls prosecutors 'heinously and exploitevly ambitious' and accuses judge of 'overtly and arrogantly collaborating with the DA' in extraordinary written statement immediately after her husband's mistrial................ Camille Cosby lashed out at prosecutors, the judge, and the District attorney in a written statement about her husband's sexual assault trial The 73-year-old called prosecutors 'heinously and exploitevly ambitious' She also claimed the judge is 'overtly arrogant and collaborating with the district attorney' Bill Cosby's trial for aggravated indecent assault failed to reach a verdict It lasted six days and was described as the 'biggest sexual assault trial in history'...

Twin funnel tornado crossing a lonely road in Nebraska followed by an amazing lighting show.

One of the mainstay courses at the recently newsworthy Evergreen State College is an all-year course entitled “The Human Condition.” This 36-credit course has its inspiration from a book of the same name written by Hannah Arendt (1906-75). Arendt was an assimilated German Jewess student in the Weimar Republic before the rise of National Socialism ....

Camila Castello, 34, and Akahi Ricardo, 36, are what is known as “Breatharians” - they eat just three times a week, and only ever a piece of fruit or some vegetable broth at a time. “Humans can easily be without food, as long as they are the connected to the energy that exists in all things and through breathing,” The couple met in 2005 and first discovered Breatharianism in 2008. They eventually transitioned from vegetarians, to raw vegans, to fruitarians and finally to Breatharians.

Five burglars are arrested in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office and apartment complex in Washington, D.C. James McCord, Frank Sturgis, Bernard Barker, Virgilio Gonzalez, and Eugenio Martinez were apprehended in the early morning after a security guard at the Watergate noticed that several doors leading from the stairwell to various hallways had been taped to prevent them from locking. The intruders were wearing surgical gloves and carrying walkie-talkies, cameras, and almost $2,300 in sequential $100 bills. A subsequent search of their rooms at the Watergate turned up an additional $4,200, burglary tools, and electronic bugging equipment.

Election Day 2016: How Are Votes Counted? The candidates have been chosen, you've filled in the circles and dropped the envelope in the mailbox or ballot box, and you are now one of the millions of Americans who have cast a vote for president. But from those millions of single votes, how do election officials determine who will be the next president of the United States of America? It turns out, there may be nearly as many ways to count votes as there are voting precincts — and there are 8,000 precincts, said Edward Foley, an election expert at the...

One hundred years ago this week, the Coast Guard cutter McCulloch, a world-traveled vessel stationed in San Francisco, collided with a passenger ship in the fog and sank to the ocean floor off the coast of Southern California. For almost a century, the ship was lost. On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that the McCulloch had been found, four miles off Pt. Conception, west of Santa Barbara. Searching in the Deep “It’s been decades in the works,” says Robert Schwemmer, the West Coast Regional Maritime Heritage Coordinator for NOAA. “To put...

Bill Cosby's sexual assault case has ended in a mistrial. After six days of deliberation, the seven men and five women selected to serve on the jury were unable to render a unanimous verdict on any of the three counts of felony aggravated indecent assault with which Cosby had been charged. The comedian pleaded not guilty. Kevin R. Steel, the district attorney from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, who brought the charges, has announced he will retry the case.

NPR Radio just announced Judge declares Hung Jury

magine two decades of never being able to fully relieve yourself in the bathroom. That was the experience a 22-year-old Chinese man lived with before doctors in Shanghai removed 30 inches of his extremely swollen colon. Weighing nearly 29 pounds, his colon was filled with feces that had accumulated there over his lifetime. He told doctors that he’d suffered constipation for his entire life, and that laxatives only offered minor relief. Doctor Yin Lu of Tenth People’s Hospital of Shanghai, where the surgery was performed, told Chinese news site The Paper that the man’s abdomen looked as if he was...

Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him. A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. Psalm 68:4-5 KJV The Chicago shooter in Alexandria was who many have been warning America about for the last decade. Someone so brainwashed by the cult of liberalism he loses his own identity and decides killing Repubs is justified to save society from people so socially immoral that their living is a threat to mankind. For people who are mentally...