Three Ohio inmates escaped from a community correctional center through a window on Wednesday morning, and one is still on the run, according to a news statement from the Warren County Sheriff’s office. Glynis Thompson, 37, and two other inmates broke through a facility window around 1:40 a.m. and escaped …
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Twitter launched its new logo on Monday, replacing the blue bird with a white X on a black background as the Elon Musk-owned company moves toward rebranding as X. The social media network’s website showed the company’s new logo, but its URL was still showing as twitter.com and the blue …
Read More »Meet the world’s most prolific Barbie doll collector
The doll collection of the world’s most prolific Barbie collector is about to get bigger. Bettina Dorfmann, who set the Guinness World Record for biggest Barbie collection in 2005, said she’s already acquired dolls from the “Barbie” movie, according to the record tracker. Dorfmann had 2,500 dolls when she set …
Read More »Restaurants charging extra for water, bread and workers’ health plan
A Los Angeles restaurant has come under fire after a prominent podcaster took issue with an unfamiliar surcharge on his guest check: an extra 4% fee automatically added to the bill to help fund the workers’ health insurance. While Alimento, the restaurant in the the Silver Lake neighborhood in Los …
Read More »Michael Handley accidentally recorded himself plotting wife Schanda Handley’s kidnapping, prosecutors say
Schanda Handley and her daughter Isabella Cumberland were at their home on a quiet street in Lafayette, Louisiana, on Aug. 6, 2017, when two men appeared at their front door. At first glance they looked like deliverymen, which was a welcome interruption, since Handley had been anxiously awaiting a clothes …
Read More »GOP Sen. Tuberville’s hold on nominations could cause armed forces to “lose talent,” nominee for top military officer says
The nominee to be the next top military officer in the U.S. on Tuesday warned there will be widespread impacts because of one senator’s hold on military nominations, including losing talent. Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, whose own nomination to become the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …
Read More »Substance found in White House confirmed to be cocaine
Washington — Subsequent testing confirmed that a powdery substance discovered by the Secret Service at the White House on Sunday was cocaine, a law enforcement official said Wednesday, as questions linger about how the drug got into the building. The discovery of the substance caused a brief shutdown of the …
Read More »Joey Chestnut remains hot dog eating champ. Here’s how many calories he consumed during the event.
Another Fourth of July means another round of competitive hot dog eating — and lots of calories consumed. After stormy weather delayed the men’s portion of Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest Tuesday, Joey Chestnut maintained his winning title by consuming 62 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes at …
Read More »Maternal deaths in the U.S. more than doubled over two decades with Black mothers dying at the highest rate
Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally. Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states — and racial or ethnic …
Read More »Overstock CEO wants to distance company from “taint” of Bed Bath & Beyond
As Overstock.com rechristens itself as Bed Bath & Beyond in a bid to strengthen sales, executives at the company want to distance the new brand from its namesake’s failures, CEO Jonathan Johnson said in an interview with CBS MoneyWatch. After purchasing Bed Bath & Beyond’s domain and other assets at a bankruptcy …
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