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Teachers in Portland, Oregon, temporarily shut down a major bridge Tuesday morning as they marched in a strike started roughly three weeks ago. Members of the Portland Association of Teachers union and their supporters stopped in the middle of the Burnside Bridge for about 15 minutes, KGW reported. By 9 …

A 5-year-old girl who was caught in a rogue wave and swept into the ocean with her grandfather off the coast of Northern California has died in a hospital, while rescuers have suspended the search for the missing man, officials said Sunday. The pair were on Martins Beach in Half …

A group of people, organizations and businesses opposed to a law that restricts drag performances and bans drag reading events at public schools and libraries asked a federal judge to declare Montana’s law unconstitutional without requiring a trial. “Motivated by an irrational and unevidenced moral panic, legislators took aim at …

A man holding a woman inside a semitruck was fatally shot by an Indianapolis police officer after he entered the truck’s cabin and found the man on top of the bleeding woman, police said. Officers were called to a parking lot on Indianapolis’ south side Thursday night by a bystander …

A Texas man allegedly stabbed and slashed the throat of a woman before rolling her up in plastic and dumping her in a pasture in San Antonio, and he was wearing an ankle monitor during the alleged incident. Roger Gonzalez, 31, was arrested Saturday afternoon in San Antonio after he …

A woman sentenced to life in an Idaho prison for murdering her two youngest children and another woman has pleaded not guilty to charges in Arizona of conspiring to kill her estranged husband and her niece’s ex-husband. Lori Vallow Daybell, dressed in an orange jail uniform, stated her name and …

Vili Fualaau, whose relationship at 12 years old with sixth-grade teacher Mary Kay Letourneau made national headlines, will become a grandfather at the age of 40. It’s the latest development in the family tree that grew from Fualaau and Letourneau’s relationship, which inspired the new Netflix film “May December.” Letourneau …

A new study concluded that people with excessive optimism are more likely to struggle with decision-making and could have lower cognitive function. “Those highest on cognitive ability experience a 22% (53.2%) increase in the probability of realism (pessimism) and a 34.8% reduction in optimism compared with those lowest on cognitive …

A Minnesota man who was behind bars for nearly two decades is on his way to see his mom after being released from prison Monday morning. “Thank everybody for supporting me,” Marvin Haynes said while leaving the Minnesota Correctional Facility – Stillwater, after a judge set aside his murder conviction …

Three Mississippi families had no idea their missing loved ones were buried in a county pauper’s field, according to a recent news report. One grave was labeled “645,” for Jonathan David Hankins, a 39-year-old Rankin County man who disappeared in May 2022. The mystery wasn’t what happened to Hankins. He …