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Two years ago today, a small plane exploded in mid-air over Russia and killed all 10 people on board, including the infamous Yevgeny Prigozhin. The 62-year-old billionaire was the head of a mercenary gang called the Wagner Group. His abrupt end, however, came just two months after his bold - some would say barmy - decision to march his team towards the Moscow in an act of utter defiance against Mad Vlad's authority. Formerly an ally of the Russian dictator, he went from being Putin's chef to public enemy number one of the Kremlin. Below we take a look at...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A couple must return a 3-year-old boy they adopted shortly after birth to his biological mother, a judge has ruled. Evan Parker Scott has lived with Dawn and Gene Scott for most of his life, but the adoption petition was dismissed because the boy's biological mother did not get consent from the father. Judge Waddell Wallace III last week ordered the Scotts to take the child to a naval base in Illinois where his biological mother lives. The mother, Amanda Hopkins, will have custody, but the court ordered that the boy's biological father be given liberal visitation...