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A former Hooters waitress accused of cheering on another person’s fatal beating asked a judge to lower her bond, arguing she could cover a lower amount with revenue from her OnlyFans account. Ashley Esselborn, 21, asked 30th District Judge Jeff McKnight in Texas on Friday to lower her bond from $100,000 to $50,000. She told the judge that she had $8,000 in a locked account raised through her OnlyFans page, and was working with the company to gain access to the money, KFDX/KJTL reported. OnlyFans is a platform that allows individuals to charge users on a monthly basis to view...

A 36-year-old Michigan man with filed down teeth is in custody after police discovered he kidnapped a vulnerable woman, sexually assaulted her for three weeks and threatened to "rip out her throat" if she didn't do what he told her to. Michael Barajas, 36, had filed teeth and threatened to rip out a woman's throat as she was kept against her will in Genesee County Michael Barajas, 36, had filed teeth and threatened to rip out a woman's throat as she was kept against her will in Genesee County (Genesee County Sheriff) Swanson said the week of Thanksgiving a pregnant...

Bruce Whitehead, 54, seen in photos with the word "sacrifice" tattooed on his forehead A "brutal rapist" who allegedly mutilated a woman in central Florida has been arrested after authorities asked for the public's help to find the heavily tattooed suspect, the Orange County Sheriff's Office says. Bruce Whitehead, 54, was captured Thursday morning after a tip from an "observant resident," the office said in a social media post. "Thank you to our community members and media partners for making sure his face was everywhere," the post read. Whitehead, who has the word "sacrifice" tattooed on his forehead, was wanted...

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was heavily criticized by his home-state paper, The Charlotte Observer, over his texts about alleged efforts last year to overturn the 2020 presidential election.... ...The Charlotte Observer pointed out that Republicans should be "worried" about Meadows' texts instead of the "Twitter Files",,,

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California utility regulators on Thursday approved major changes to the state’s booming rooftop solar market that they say will more evenly spread the cost of energy and help reduce the state’s reliance on fossil fuels in the evening.... ...The policy approved unanimously by the California Public Utilities Commission lessens the overall payment for selling excess power. It also revamps electric rates to try to encourage people to build home storage systems alongside their panels...

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A Georgia man allegedly used an AR-15-style rifle in shootings at two Orlando resorts and multiple apartments on Wednesday night, injuring two people. Jailen Rasheed Houston, 19, was arrested in relation to the shootings and was booked into jail on a count of first-degree murder, according to FOX 35.... ...Houston was arrested after he crashed his car near the Osceola County line at about 7 a.m. on Thursday..."When asked how he felt about the shootings, he stated he felt good while shooting at people, and it provided him a sense of relief. When asked if he would conduct similar shootings...

US households are once again able to order free at-home Covid-19 tests, as the government attempts to limit the spread of the virus this winter. The White House said up to four rapid tests could be ordered from the government website CovidTests.gov. It announced that the test programme, which was paused in September, would be restarted on Thursday....

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“The wise in heart shall be called prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning. Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly” (Proverbs 16:21).

The Department of Social and Health Services, or DSHS, is warning EBT card users that they’re being targeted, and incidents of card skimming are on the rise.A disturbing trend is emerging across Washington: people are having their SNAP benefits stolen right out from under them. According to the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS), scammers attach card skimmers to point-of-sale machines and steal card numbers and other information from credit, debit, and EBT cards. The agency says the skimmers are hard to spot, and can be installed in less than a minute. Kelly Cray lives in Lynnwood and says...

A former Texas police officer was convicted of manslaughter Thursday for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019, a rare conviction of an officer for killing someone who was also armed with a gun. Jurors also considered a murder charge against Aaron Dean but instead convicted him of manslaughter. The conviction comes more than three years after the white Fort Worth officer shot the 28-year-old Black woman while responding to a call about an open front door. Dean, 38, faces up to 20 years in prison, with the sentencing phase of his trial set...

Hakki Akdeniz is the owner of Champion Pizza, with six shops across New York City and Long Island. He boasts nearly 29 million followers on Instagram as well as celebrity fans like Mike Tyson and Courteney Cox. Not long ago, however, Akdeniz, 42, was homeless and desperate on the streets of NYC. Whether the animated Akdeniz knows a person or not, crossing paths with this Turkish immigrant-turned-total NYC character entails being showered with greetings, food and the occasional reminder that God is indeed great — all before a guest can get a single word in. The pizza man’s meteoric rise...

Drug overdose deaths among US teens doubled from 2019 to 2021 - even as use of illicit substances declined - as fentanyl fueled a nationwide crisis. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today that teenage overdoses increased 109 percent over the two years. Deaths caused by fentanyl alone increased 182 percent. Officials warn that many US teens are dying after ingesting drugs like cocaine, Adderall or Xanax that are contaminated with fentanyl. They also warn that social media platforms have become a new marketplace for illicit drugs. The nation's drug overdose crisis has struck everyone, with a...

Efforts to pass legislation making it a federal crime to discriminate on the basis of hair styles or texture — introduced after a New Jersey high school student was told he could not wrestle with locs — failed in the U.S. Senate Wednesday. U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, the measure’s chief Senate sponsor, had sought unanimous approval to clear the House-passed bill and send it to President Joe Biden for his signature. But U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked it.

The BBC has introduced a catalogue of reforms to its Arabic news service — including dropping the controversial terrorist sympathiser Abdel Bari Atwan as a pundit — in the wake of widespread criticism of the corporation's output, the JC can reveal. The moves are taking place behind closed doors, even as its Director-General continues to publicly defend Mr Atwan, who has expressed sympathy for Sir Salman Rushdie's attacker and defended the 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli Olympians. "Team leaders in BBC Arabic have told editors to stop using him [Atwan] because he said some problematic things on BBC English," a...

The CDC commissioned the gun use study itself, but removed it last year The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reportedly removed statistics on defensive gun use in the U.S. following pressure from gun control advocates. The stats sourced from a CDC-commissioned study finding that instances of defensive gun use occur between 60,000 and 2.5 million times per year. References to that study were deleted from the site following private meetings with gun control advocates in 2021, emails obtained and published by The Reload show. "[T]hat 2.5 Million number needs to be killed, buried, dug up, killed again and...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer said on Thursday that President Biden should seek reelection in 2024, citing his connection with the American people and his “excellent” first two years in office. The top Congressional Democrats offered their support amid speculation that Mr. Biden could announce his decision early next year. “I hope that he does seek reelection,” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, told CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.” “He’s a person with a great vision for our country. He’s been involved for a long time, so he has great knowledge of the issues and the challenges...

There are plenty of postmortems about Raphael Warnock’s defeat of Republican candidate Herschel Walker in the runoff for the Senate seat in Georgia. Yes, in the same state, Republican Brian Kemp won a decisive victory in the race for governor. And, yes, to be kind, Walker was not a great flag-bearer to draw voters, particularly black voters, to the Republican Party. But let’s ask why voters, particularly black voters, would send Warnock to represent them for another six years in the U.S. Senate. The Georgia electorate is around 30% black, and 90% of them voted for Warnock. What are these...