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We hoped that perhaps the overwhelming avocado obsession, the food trend that creeps in at every corner and refuses to budge from our brunch menus, might die in 2016. But clearly that’s not the case. While avocado bars and cafes have been popping up around New York for a while, they haven’t really made it over to the UK – other than one entirely avocado brunch popup. But the power of the avocado is creeping closer. Amsterdam is getting a snazzy all-avocado café called The Avocado Show. Created by foodie friends Julien Zaal, Ron Simpson, and Jaimie van Heije, The...

It was supposed to be the best day of their lives - but a Florida couple's wedding day ends up with cops crashing the party. Jennifer Jones says everyone was enjoying her wedding in Punta Gorda until the maid of honor had a little too much to drink. Jones says right after the ceremony, her friend Amanda Willis got drunk and started asking people for their car keys. "She was a mess. I mean, she drank almost a whole entire bottle of fireball,” said one of the guest, Robert Templeton. "She was drunk within 20 minutes to a half an...

A US property firm linked to Irish TV celebrity and political activist Eddie Hobbs has been accused of leaving poor African American tenants in its West Detroit properties with no heat in the freezing Midwestern winter. Thirty-five percent of Detroit residents live in poverty while 57 percent of the city’s children do, among the highest rates in the country. The company, Artesian Equities, is a subsidiary of Brendan Investment Pan European Property (BIPAP) of which Hobbs was a co-founder and served as a non-executive director before resigning in 2015 to co-found the right-of-center political Renua Party. He retained a 4.5%...

Almost one year to the day that the Rams moved to Los Angeles, the Chargers now likely intend to do the same. The Chargers plan to announce as early as Thursday that they are moving to Los Angeles, league sources said, ending a 55-year stint with San Diego and returning to their birthplace. The Chargers played their inaugural season in Los Angeles in 1960 before moving to San Diego in 1961.

A police officer stopped a vehicle for a driving violation just after midnight Tuesday in the city of Ramsey. During the stop, the officer found out the vehicle had been stolen and discovered a woman in labor and seven juveniles with packing tape over their mouths. There were three adults in the vehicle. The woman who was in labor was transported to a hospital, according to the Ramsey Police Department. Seven juveniles who were also in the vehicle were initially found unresponsive with the tape over their mouths. Police say there was no immediate threat to their safety and released...

A judge dropped charges Wednesday against a Miam-Dade Fire captain who was arrested for pointing a gun at a police officer. Nicholas Marian, 55, was granted Stand Your Ground immunity in a bizarre encounter with a Miami Shores police officer. Fellow firefighters who had been rallying behind Marian were at the courthouse celebrating the ruling. The fire captain was arrested in March of 2016 for drawing his shot gun at an officer who knocked on his front door. Police responded to Marian's home after getting a complaint about an erratic driver in the neighborhood. Marian's pick-up truck matched the description...

DUNDALK, Maryland (AP/Meredith) - A man who got upset when his wife took a bite of his grilled cheese sandwich opened fire inside his home and sparked an hours-long standoff with police, according to authorities. Baltimore County police worked to diffuse the bizarre situation Sunday night. During the standoff, a woman and three teenagers ran outside the home and told officers a man started shooting through the basement floor after he found out someone ate a piece of his sandwich, WBAL-TV

Former Russian policeman Mikhail Popkov raped then killed his victims with axes, knives or screwdrivers between 1992 and 2007A notorious serial killer and sex maniac nicknamed 'The Werewolf' has been charged with 25 new murders of women, bringing his total to 47. Former Russian policeman Mikhail Popkov raped then killed his victims with axes, knives or screwdrivers between 1992 and 2007. The Siberian beast is already serving a life sentence for 22 murders of female victims and has confessed to an additional 25 for which investigators say they now have hard evidence. Police are still seeking to find definite proof...

If you spend any time in Anahuac, you’re bound to see tons of birds. “We have birders come in from all over the world,” Sheriff Brian Hawthorne, of Chambers County, said. You might even spot an eagle’s nest, which is a good sign. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, eagles have bounced back from a DDT scare. In the 1970s, eagles were endangered, and it wasn’t until 2007 that they were taken off that list. “They’re making a great comeback in our area. To see something like this, something injured that severely, it was extremely sad,” Sharon Schmalz,...

The victim, Rebecca Rawson, 65, was fatally injured after approaching the armed householder's home on Tuesday night, say sheriff's officials. As her relative knocked on the door, Eugene Matthews, 83, emerged firing a handgun, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. ... Officials say that Ms Rawson and her daughter waited in their car as her brother-in-law knocked on Mr Matthew's door to ask if he had seen their dog. Police say Mr Matthews opened his door and started shooting at the family.

The Milton Police Department, along with help from Barboursville Police, WV State Police, and the WV DNR has arrested a man after a wild police chase. According to a release, Milton Police asked to speak to Justin Brafford at a Marathon gas station. Instead of speaking with officers, Brafford sped off westbound on U.S. Route 60 in his pickup truck.

In his final official call with the outgoing US Ambassador to Ireland Kevin O’Malley, President Obama said he’d be visiting Ireland again soon. “The lasts sentence that the president said to me on Wednesday of this week when we were saying goodbye was ‘please tell ‘em I’m coming’,” Ambassador O’Malley told Marian Finucane in an interview on RTE Radio. “So I think that’s the President’s way of saying informally that you’ll probably see him again.” As for a time frame, O’Malley predicted “my guess is in the coming year or so.” …

FULL TITLE: Dangerously malnourished 12-year-old boy is rescued from a filthy bathroom, covered in feces where 'his mother had forced him to live for a YEAR' The mother of a 12-year-old boy found dangerously malnourished and locked in a filthy bathroom has been charged with child abuse. Utah woman Brandy Kay Jaynes, 36, was arrested on a second-degree felony charge of aggravated, intentional child abuse early Monday morning. The boy had allegedly been kept in a filthy bathroom at his home in the small southeastern Utah city of Toquerville near the state line with Arizona. Court documents state the boy...

JACKSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio - The parents of the 5-year-old girl who went missing and later was found dead in her family's restaurant have been charged in her death. According to the Stark County Sheriff's Department, Mingming Chen, the mother of Ashley Zhao, struck the girl several times in the head with her right fist. After she was struck on the floor by Chen, the girl's father, Liang J. Zhao, allegedly found the girl with green fluid coming from her mouth and took her into the bathroom to wash the fluid off of her face. Zhao laid her on the floor...

A Houston-area man says sheriff's deputies conducted faulty field tests on cat litter they found in his vehicle, which they believed was methamphetamine. Ross Lebeau was charged with possession of a controlled substance following the Dec. 5 traffic stop, but court documents show the case was dismissed last week because the material was not an illicit substance.

A Maryville man was arrested Friday after he reportedly attacked his girlfriend with a taco for having a profile on an online dating site. Steven Erwin Stokes, 47, Ridgeview Road, Maryville, was arrested by Blount County Sheriff’s Office deputies on charges of domestic assault, aggravated domestic assault, failure to appear to address a misdemeanor charge and contempt of court. He was being held in lieu of bonds totaling $7,000 pending hearings at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. Thursday in Blount County General Sessions Court. Deputies responded to the situation around 9 p.m. on Friday, after Stokes’ girlfriend, a 46-year-old...

On Wednesday, Norway will become the first country in the world to start shutting down its national FM radio network in favor of digital radio. Norwegians have had years to prepare, but the move is still catching many off guard. FM radio and Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) has existed side-by-side since 1995, but officials with Norway’s Ministry of Culture have decided that the time has finally come to retire the older transmission medium. The FM apocalypse starts tomorrow morning in Nordland, the country’s north. Beginning at 11:11 am local time, the FM network will be taken down in a gradual...

Burger King released a statement on Tuesday announcing plans to change its name to ‘Burguer King’ in Spain after suffering “years of mispronunciation”. The fast-food chain explained that it had decided "to turn the situation around and be the ones to make the change" “In this way, at long last, the name of the brand will be written as it is pronounced.” “The brand has decided to “castellanize” its name to get closer to the consumers in the Spanish market…From now on Burger will be written with an added ‘u’; Burguer,” the statement send out on Tuesday morning explained. Of...

An armed robber was killed on camera as he tried to hold up a gun store by its 64-year-old owner. Surveillance footage at Dixie Gun and Pawn in Mableton, Georgia, showed the moment the would-be criminal and an accomplice stormed into the store dressed in ski masks. They aimed their guns towards an employee who held his hands up in a plea for mercy before store owner Jimmy Groover opened fire. The 64-year-old grandfather reached for his own gun and shot one of the robbers dead while the other ran for his life. Scroll down for video

A woman has saved tens of thousands of dollars after she vowed to buy nothing for a whole year. It may sound extreme, but caught up in a consumerist society, Michelle McGagh thought it would change her relationship with money forever. The personal financial journalist became a minimalist, and stopped cluttering her house with possessions and making unnecessary purchases. Now she is about $27,000 better off for it.