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A gender reveal party held Saturday in Mexico never stopped — even for a plane crash. A couple had decided to hire a plane as part of their gender reveal festivities that took place Saturday in San Pedro, Sinaloa, Mexico, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. The couple waited by a large display sign that read, “Oh Baby.” A video posted to X, formerly called Twitter, showed the plane zooming low, dropping pink smoke over the assembled guests to show that the baby would be a girl. A Piper PA-25-235 Pawnee aircraft (XB-ABM) collapsed its left wing and crashed while...

PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. – Among the green landscape of CB Smith Park in Pembroke Pines was something that stuck out just a bit on Thursday. Actually, quite a lot. Park goers were shocked to see two pigeons whose feathers had been dyed pink. “They are now just a bright target for predator animals,” said Susan Oddo with Palm Beach Parrot and Bird Rescue. The bizarre sight is no laughing matter according to Oddo. Her rescue has taken in another bird with dyed feathers that was also captured in the area of Pembroke Pines. “These are animals that are raised in...

Authorities are still investigating but they believe the people involved used a legal explosive called Tannerite and had permission to be on the propertyNeighborhoods in several New Hampshire towns were rocked by an explosion that turned out to be a gender reveal. Neighborhoods in several different southern New Hampshire towns were rocked by a mysterious explosion Tuesday night. Kingston police say the blast was caused by a family using explosives to reveal the gender of their baby. Chief Donald Briggs said the blast happened at Torromeo Industries on Dorre Road around 7 p.m. Kingston residents say it was like nothing...

"The Daily Show" host Trevor Noah criticized "gender reveal parties" earlier this week, arguing they should only happen when the child is "old enough to know their actual gender." "Celebrating a baby's genitalia is starting to feel very outdated," Noah said on Tuesday's show. "Like, given everything we're learning about gender, gender reveal parties should only happen when the child is old enough to know their actual gender." Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, responded Friday by mocking Noah's comments on Twitter, writing, "Hollywood is funniest when they don’t intend to be."

The El Dorado Fire had burned up the south side Yucaipa Ridge above the communities of Oak Glen and the North Bench area of Yucaipa, fire officials said Sunday. After cresting Yucaipa Ridge, the blaze was threatening the communities of Mountain Home Village and Forest Falls. No injuries have been reported. An outbuilding was destroyed on Saturday, but no other damage was reported as of Sunday afternoon even though about 30 homes were threatened by the fire. Evacuation orders have been issued for the communities of Oak Glen, Forest Falls and Mountain Home Village. A portion of North Bench Yucaipa...

Love and Brandon Gwaltney's gender reveal party started out like any other. The couple from Akron, Ohio, wore matching outfits of pink and blue. There was a cake decorated with pink and blue sprinkles and a big question mark on top. And then, of course, there was the big box that typically contains the pink or blue balloons that serve to reveal the gender of their baby. But as they counted down to one, what popped out were balloons of yellow, white, purple and black -- the colors of the nonbinary flag -- followed by their 17-year-old child, coming out...

The Marion County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at around 4 p.m. on Saturday reporting that a woman, 56, had been seriously injured in an explosion in rural Knoxville, Iowa, according to a press release from the sheriff's office. The woman, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead on the scene. An investigation concluded that a genderreveal announcement created an explosion, from which a flying piece of debris struck the woman. 2018, another gender reveal party went horribly wrong ...The incident was later determined to be the cause of the Sawmill Fire, which burned nearly 47,000 acres...

An Iowa woman was killed by debris from an explosion at a gender reveal party on Saturday, police said. The Marion County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call at around 4 p.m. on Saturday reporting that a woman, 56, had been seriously injured in an explosion in rural Knoxville, Iowa, according to a press release from the sheriff's office. The woman, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead on the scene. An investigation concluded that a gender reveal announcement created an explosion, from which a flying piece of debris struck the woman.