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Killearn Lakes, Fla. -- Mason Rhinehart and his brother were playing video games in their Killearn Lakes Plantation home Tuesday morning when their grandmother, Martha White, interrupted to say she had a surprise for them. White, 63, who had been babysitting the boys, then took 6-year-old Mason into the bathroom and locked the door behind her, a probable cause affidavit said. Mason's brother, age 8, heard him start to cry from behind the door and say, "I don't want to die, please don't kill me." The boy said he tried to get in the bathroom, but could not. He then...

Days ago, al-Qaeda’s Egyptian leader, Ayman Zawahiri, portrayed the overthrow of Muhammad Morsi and the Brotherhood as a “Crusader” campaign led by Coptic Pope Tawadros II who, according to Zawahiri and other terrorists, is trying to create a Coptic state in Egypt. Since then, not only are Egypt’s Christians and churches now being attacked in ways unprecedented in the modern era, but new reports indicate that al-Qaeda’s black flag has been raised on some of them, specifically St. George Church in Sohag. Considering that it was al-Qaeda linked terrorists who initiated one of the bloodiest church attacks in recent history,...

MIAMI — Part of the Opa-locka Executive Airport in South Florida had to be temporarily evacuated after a 55-gallon drum containing depleted uranium aircraft parts was found. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue spokesman Arnold Piedrahita Jr. reports that the unsealed drum was found Thursday near a dismantled plane at the airport. A hazmat team from Miami International Airport went to the site, but only minimal levels of radiation were detected. Officials initially cleared a 150-foot perimeter around the drum, but that circle was later reduced to 5 feet. Airport spokesman Marc Henderson said no flights were disrupted and the airport never closed.

LONDON — Gay marriage becomes legal in Britain as Queen Elizabeth II gives royal approval.

A juror in the George Zimmerman trial has revealed that at no point did the largely-white all-female jury consider the motivation behind the killing of Trayvon Martin. The woman, identified only as Juror B37, said that they believed that it was a ‘tragedy’ that came from Zimmerman going too far but said that the former neighborhood watchman’s ‘heart is in the right place’. When asked by Cooper if she would feel comfortable having Zimmerman patroling her neighborhood, she said that while Martin's death was tragic, it would serve as a learning experience. 'I would feel comfortable having George, but I...

The National Transportation Safety Board has released a statement revealing the source of Friday afternoon's embarassing KTVU hoax -a summer intern for the agency who "acted outside the scope if his authority" and "erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew" on the Asiana plane that crashed in San Francisco.The Bay Area TV station read the racist crew names on air: Captain Sum Ting Wong, We Tu Low, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow.

Australian pedophile Peter Truong, who has admitted buying an infant boy with his partner for $US5000 ($NZ6479) and allowing him to be sexually abused by a global child molester network, is hoping a US judge will give him a reduced jail sentence. Truong, 36, formerly of Cairns, is facing a 40-year sentence while he sits in the La Tuna federal prison on the Texas-New Mexico border. Truong's Australian partner Mark Newton, 42, was jailed last week in an Indianapolis court for 40 years. A tip off from New Zealand authorities led to the investigation. The horrifying details of how Truong...