Police caller must pay harassed BLM protesters $4.5K

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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — A former ice cream shop owner accused of calling police on peaceful Black Lives Matters protesters was ordered Wednesday to pay them $500 each by a judge for violating their civil rights. Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against the former owner of Bumpy’s Polar...

Boys, 8 and 9, charged in shooting death of S. Carolina man

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WESTMINSTER, S.C. (AP) — An 8-year-old and a 9-year-old boy have been charged with killing a man who was shot with a rifle while cutting down brush in a South Carolina field, authorities said. Both boys shot at Danny Andrew Smith with a rifle as he rode his tractor in the field near Westminster...

Lori Vallow Has Been Charged For The Murder Of Her Two Children

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On Tuesday, a grand jury in Idaho formally accused Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow of murder in connection with the deaths of Vallow’s two children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua “JJ” Vallow. Additionally, Daybell has been charged with the murder of his ex-wife, Tammy Daybell, who allegedly died in her...

Oldest evidence of human activity unearthed in African cave

Via: Freefaller  •  Anthropology & Archeology  •  7 Comments  •  7 Likes  •  3 years ago

A team of Canadian and Israeli researchers have unearthed the earliest evidence of human occupation in a cave, dating back about two million years until nearly modern times. A large cave nestled in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert might be the first on Earth to have housed human activity,...

Tire slasher leaves severed finger behind on woman’s driveway

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An Arizona woman says her neighbour deliberately slashed her SUV's tires and accidentally gave her the finger, after she found the severed digit in her bloodstained driveway following an argument the night before. "I literally have been laughing all day because if I don't, I think I might cry,"...

Human Composting? Colorado Could Become Second State to Legalize Turning Your Body Into Soil After Death

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Colorado may soon join Washington as the second state in the nation to legalize human composting, According to The Denver Post, a bill has already passed one Colorado legislative chamber and is only a few votes and one signature away from allowing people to turn their bodies into soil after...

Indigenous South American tribes found to have ancient Australian DNA

Via: Freefaller  •  Anthropology & Archeology  •  12 Comments  •  3 years ago

Australia is deemed the most isolated continent on Earth, but DNA from early indigenous groups spread throughout the world and specifically into the ancient bloodline of South American tribes. Previous work from 2015 first uncovered a link between ancient Australians and Amazonian groups, but a...

FBI: Nashville bomber driven by conspiracies, paranoia

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WASHINGTON — The man who blew himself up inside his recreational vehicle in a Christmas Day bombing in Nashville was grappling with paranoia and eccentric conspiracy theories, but there are no indications he was motivated by social or political ideology, the FBI said Monday in closing out the...

Earth's magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, creating a climate 'disaster'

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A reversal in Earth's magnetic field thousands of years ago plunged the planet into an environmental crisis that may have resembled "a disaster movie," scientists recently discovered.  Our planet's magnetic field is dynamic and, numerous times, it has flipped — when the magnetic North and South...

Tennessee man shot, killed after YouTube video 'prank' goes wrong

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A man was shot and killed in the parking lot of a Nashville business Friday night after a robbery "prank" for a YouTube channel went wrong, according to police. When officers got to Urban Air in the city's Hermitage neighborhood about 9:20 p.m., they learned Timothy Wilks, 20, and a friend...