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Ex-Farmington High School basketball coach charged with sexual assault of 2 male students
Former basketball coach at Farmington High School charged for sexually assaulting 2 boys Jerremy Thompkins, 43, was charged on Thursday after being accused of sexually assaulting two male students in his Detroit home. <!–> DETROIT, Mich. (FOX 2) – A former Farmington High School coach was charged on Thursday for sexually assaulting male students in…
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Bullard fire destroys car, damages home
BULLARD, Texas (KLTV) – Bullard firefighters were able to save a home after a car went up in flames under an awning Thursday. Just after 12 p.m. Thursday, fire officials were called to a report of a car on fire under the awning of a home. When they arrived, the engine of the car was…
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Winona Cotter’s Emma Hageman, here from Mexico, upsets No. 2 seed Annika Harberts Ott in state tennis
Winona Cotter sophomore Emma Hageman came back from a set down and grabbed a 4-0 lead in the third set of her Class 1A quarterfinal match. A couple of breaks later, the match was knotted at four games apiece. Hageman said she started to get nervous. “All these thoughts going through your head about the…
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Zach Bryan, SZA & More 2023 Billboard Music Awards Finalists Competing With Themselves: Full List
It’s not easy to become a finalist for the Billboard Music Awards. There are only three to five finalists in each category, and there are dozens, and in some cases hundreds, of artists, singles and albums vying for those slots. So when an artist has two of the top five contenders in a category, they’re…
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A look at efforts to combat mental health issues within police officers
PORTLAND, Ore. — The untimely passing of Battle Ground Police Sgt. Richard Kelly because of a drug overdose has prompted Battle Ground Police Chief Mike Fort to put out a statement reading, “Substance abuse is a serious problem that often goes unsuspected and undetected.” Adding, “As a community, we need to support local efforts to…
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Tube Girl: Paris Fashion Week’s hottest commodity?
Tube Girl has made her way from the Underground to the front rows and runways of Paris Fashion Week. While Paris Fashion Week historically boasts an air of exclusivity, many brands have turned the high-class event into a dog and pony show for influencers. Paris Fashion Week is a dégueuler de la mode, welcoming the…
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Gannett denies that its marketing partner used artificial intelligence for its shopping website
NEW YORK (AP) — The media company Gannett denied Thursday that it published material created by artificial intelligence on a shopping website that it owns, although it acknowledged some of the content produced by a marketing partner “did not meet our editorial standards.” Some employees at Reviewed, a website that offers product guides, said they…
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Thousands of banned dogs living at home with owners
By Danny Savage and Ruth Green BBC News There are almost 3,500 banned dogs living legally at home with their owners in England, Scotland and Wales under an exemption scheme, data released from the government to the BBC has revealed. With a ban on XL bullies expected by the end of the year, one police…
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Norfolk artist says Halloween is the perfect time to celebrate creativity
NORFOLK, Va. — This is the perfect time of the year to be creative. And you don’t need to buy anything to make something special. At least that’s what one Norfolk artist says. Self-described American folk and scrap artist, Sam Hundley, takes found objects, like flattened cans in the road or broken furniture, and makes…
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Our lifestyle and our over-strained planet
In a book, The Book of Hope, which he co-authored with Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams makes this statement: Creating the human race may be the single biggest mistake evolution ever made. He says this tongue-in-cheek since he recognizes that the emergence of the human race was clearly intended by the evolutionary process and that rather…
