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Three civilians were killed and over 70 others were wounded in a large-scale attack by the Taliban on Kunduz, Afghanistan, government officials said Saturday. .....

Jonathan Sparks is the young man that was attacked by a former Raul Grijalva aide for wearing a MAGA hat. He was attacked from his behind, had his ankle broken and was being beaten before a group of people pulled off the form Grijalva aide. Prosecutors just told Sparks they are trying to make the case go away by cutting a deal.

BAILEY, Colo.- The search for a mountain lion continues after it attacked an 8-year-old boy in Bailey Wednesday night. Colorado Parks and Wildlife says the child was playing on a trampoline in his yard when he heard a friend calling from down the street. As he ran towards his friend's home, the mountain lion pounced, grabbing the boy by the head. The boy's brother was also outside and heard a commotion. He ran to his father and told him something didn't sound right. His father rushed down the street and found the mountain lion on top of his son. The...

A man was in police custody Tuesday in connection with the death of a 9-year-old girl in Detroit who was mauled by three dogs despite efforts by neighbors and her own "heartbroken" father, who lamented that "she was gone when I reached her."

PORTLAND ANTIFA ATTACK MAN AND HIS YOUNG CHILD large antifa mob chase & attack a man & a young girl who got separated from the others. No police. #PortlandProtests https://t.co/erceCRVnad

Cameras caught a suspected killer getting a beatdown from the people he was holding hostage in Phoenix. Footage of the incident is just coming to surface now. It began as a normal day at a Circle K convenience store in Phoenix on May 9, 2018, but then 53-year-old Joel McClean Carson allegedly walked in waving a gun and ordered the clerk to lock the door. Carson then barricaded it. Authorities said Carson immediately shot and killed Efran Hernandez. The staff and customers were then ordered to a corner of the store. But as the suspect wandered the store, a hero...

It was about half past midnight when Russ Fee woke up to the sound of frantic shouts coming from a campsite next to his in Canada's Banff National Park. From within his tent, he listened, quickly discerning that the voices belonged to a man and a woman. They were screaming for help. "I threw my shoes on. My wife tossed me a lantern," Fee said in an interview Tuesday with the radio show "Calgary Eyeopener." "I popped out of the tent and just started running toward their tent sort of yelling, 'I'm here! I'm here! What's wrong?'" Fee, who is...

Well, perhaps not entirely without penalty, but the descriptions we’re seeing in response to Bernie Sanders’ recent accusations against the Washington Post certainly represent a change in tone from when the Bad Orange Man says mean things about the press. So where did this come from? It turns out that Sanders, along with other Democratic 2020 hopefuls are unhappy with some of the coverage they’ve been receiving and are, in some cases, blaming the press for their poor showing in the polls. But Sanders goes several steps further, building a conspiracy theory involving Jeff Bezos. (The Hill) The Democratic presidential...

FORT MADISON, Iowa — A father has died after saving his daughter from a dog that attacked three people in front of an Iowa home .. Robert Joseph Quick, 33, of Dallas City, Illinois was found lying in the doorway of a Fort Madison residence after saving his daughter from the animal... Officers received a call about a dog attack Friday morning. When they arrived, they discovered the dog attacking a man who was lying on his back in the front yard of the home. Police say they were forced to shoot the “very aggressive” dog to stop it. ......

A woman died from her injuries after her own two dogs mauled her outside an animal hospital in Irving Saturday morning, police say. Police shot and killed the dogs when they arrived because the pets would not allow authorities to come close to the owner, police say.

<p>Florida authorities were investigating after they said a man was mauled to death by stray dogs.</p> <p>Melvin Olds, 45, died on the Fourth of July in Lake Placid after being bitten by dogs more than 100 times, the Highlands County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Friday.</p>

Just one day before he turned 45, Colin Dowler didn't think he'd live to celebrate it... the avid outdoorsman was scouting backcountry trails outside of Powell River, B.C., on his mountain bike, about seven kilometres away from a nearby logging camp. After making his way down one of the hills onto the logging road, he caught sight of a large male grizzly bear, walking in his direction. "I wasn't really sure what to do about the situation," Dowler said from his Vancouver hospital bed. "I largely stood there, and let the grizzly keep walking up towards me." Concerned of making...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Police say 24-year-old Najee Shabazz Jackson of Buffalo crashed a car through the front of a bar on Chippewa Street on Sunday morning. Several people were injured. Buffalo Police say the crash occurred around 4:20 a.m. at Bottoms Up in the heart of the Chippewa entertainment district. Police say Jackson was charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, and assault. Other charges are pending, and he's still being treated for injuries at Erie County Medical Center. The driver and a few patrons of the bar were injured, but police say their injuries do not appear to be...

A good Samaritan possibly saved a woman’s life on an urban trail in Irvine. The Jeffrey Open Space Trail, squeezed between Jeffrey Road and Irvine neighborhoods, is used by cyclists, joggers, and walkers According to police, at around 10 p.m... “There was a man riding a bike, he collided with the woman, knocked her to the ground, and then at that point got off the bike and began to beat her,” said Kim Mohr with Irvine Police Department. According to Mohr, the woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries and is expected to recover. Mohr said that it’s not uncommon for people to...

An Oregon sheriff’s office took to Facebook to share its “weirdest DUI arrest of the weekend,” in which law enforcement officials arrested a woman after she poured alcohol into a Taco Bell drive-thru employees mouth. According to Washington County Sheriff’s Office, the incident took place around 1 a.m. on Saturday at a Taco Bell branch in Beaverton, Ore. The suspect, 23-year-old Elianna Aguilar-Aguilar from Cornelius, Ore. had a blood alcohol level of 0.12 percent. The Oregon state limit is 0.08. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s request for comment, but wrote in its Facebook...

Three teenage girls in Illinois were charged Thursday in connection with the beating of a 15-year-old special-needs girl, which was recorded in a video that went viral, police said. Chicago Police Lt. Ozzie Valdez told reporters that two of the girls were charged with aggravated battery, while the third was charged with mob action. The girls are 13, 14 and 15, and they were charged as juveniles. The charges are felonies. In the video, which was recorded on Monday and posted to social media the next day, the victim could be heard screaming and seen waving her arms as she...

A California woman who unleashed a vicious tirade on her husband and smashed a laptop over his head on an American Airlines flight has been identified by police. Tiffany McLemore, 30, launched the merciless attack after accusing her husband of 'looking at another woman' on a plane preparing to depart from Miami to Los Angeles on Sunday. In footage filmed by fellow passengers that went viral on social media, McLemore was seen screaming at the man and calling him a 'n*****' multiple times before flight attendants intervened and asked him to move to another seat, away from her.

CCTV footage showing a man punching a teenage girl to the ground for rejecting him has been released as police hunt the perpetrator. Gabrielle Walsh, 18, went to hospital for an eye injury after she reportedly told the man, who was following her: "I'm sorry, I'm not interested." Greater Manchester Police (GMP) are seeking three men filmed on CCTV in Manchester city centre at around 3.30am on July 13. The offender, along with two other men, then launched an attack on a man Mrs Walsh was accompanying. Senior Investigating Officer, Constable Ben Lomax of GMP’s City Centre Division said: “We...

A woman working at Subway says she was punched by an irate customer after he became enraged when she verified that his money was not counterfeit. Now Charlotte, North Carolina, police are searching for the man who attacked the local college student. Haven Neal, a student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, told WSOC-TV that the interaction on Sunday was standard right until the moment the man went to pay. “I made the sandwich. Everything was fine, no problems, and then we got to the end,” she told the news station. According to Neal, when the male customer...

Three pit bulls in Marlborough burst through a window screen and attacked a woman walking her dog Saturday morning.. The woman, a Marlborough resident, was walking the dog near 54 Berlin Road when the pit bulls got loose at about 9 a.m., said Sergeant Daniel Campbell, a police spokesman. The woman was bitten on the arms, hands, and knees and was taken to an area hospital