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Photo: Robert Hawthorne/Kennedy News Because of his experience with the animals, Hawthorne, 21, knew that the coastal brown bear lurking behind the men wasn’t looking to attack them, but was instead focused on possibly catching itself a salmon dinner in the creek below. “Knowing from experience there that it isn’t a threat in how it was playing out, I had time to take a photo before letting this guy know that he had a bear behind him,” he says....

Harrowing video footage shows the moments two men sprang into action to help a woman in a wheelchair who fell into the water from a cruise ship dock in St. Thomas last week. The woman, a guest on the Carnival Fascination cruise ship, was with a family member when the chair fell into the water in the Virgin Islands on Aug. 12, a spokesperson for Carnival Cruise Line tells PEOPLE. That’s when a pair of local entertainers jumped into the water to help....

Photo: Facebook “We have two young officers with young families,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “This holiday will never be the same for those two families. There are no words that can express the grief, the sense of loss. It just knocks you back on your heels. As we go about our time with our families, let us remind ourselves that there are others who cannot.” “While doing the most dangerous thing any police officer can do, and that is to chase an individual with a gun, these brave young men were consumed with identifying a potential threat to their community andput the safety of others above their own,” superintendent Eddie Johnson said in a press conference on Monday, adding that the train that hit them was likely going around 70 miles per hour at the time....

German police officers walk near the scene where a young man was killed Saturday night.Photo:Harald Tittel/picture alliance via Getty Harald Tittel/picture alliance via Getty The incident took place at the Säubrenner fair in the town of Wittlich following an “altercation,”Trier policesaid in a statement,NBC Newsreported, According to witnesses, four people were identified as being near the scene of the crime, per the police. Suspicion focused on two men, 25 and 26 years old, who were described as U....

Photo: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office Jennifer Clarey, 42, was arrested for homicide on Tuesday and is being held without bond at the Bucks County Correctional Facility in Doylestown. Tullytown police officers were first called to Clarey’s home about 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 25 to conduct a welfare check. They found her and her son, Mazikeen Curtis, lying in a blood-covered bed, according to the affidavit. “The child showed no signs of life, was cold to the touch,” the affidavit states....

200 years ago today , the world learned that French philologist Jean - Francois Champollion had decoded the Rosetta Stone – an accomplishment that would countenance the cosmos to read Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic . In 1799 , during a wipeout of a fortress by one of Napoleon ’s lieutenants in Rosetta ( New - day Rashid ) in Egypt . a giant slab cover in ancient writing was found underneath the debris ....

Bruce Foxton , the legendary musician sleep with for his part as the bassist and back singer of the iconic punk sway band The Jam , has left an indelible mark on the music manufacture . With his powerful bass lines and infective push on stage , Foxton became an influential name in the punk rock and mod revitalisation scenes of the seventies and 1980s . But there ’s much more to Bruce Foxton than just his metre with The Jam ....

An Ohio man is facing murder charges after allegedly lining up his three young sons — ages 7, 4 and 3 — and shooting them execution-style, authorities said. One of the boys tried to flee but Chad Doerman allegedly told police he “hunted him down” and shot him, authorities said. On Thursday at about 4:15 p.m., a woman called 911 screaming that her “babies had been shot,” the Clermont County Sheriff’s Office said in a release....

Ryker Webb.Photo: Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office - Montana/Facebook A 3-year-old boy has been found “alive and in good health” after going missing for two days near home in Montana, according to authorities. Ryker Webb “was in good spirits and apparently healthy” when he was found Sunday on Pine Ridge Road off South Fork Bull River Road in Sanders County, the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office confirmed in anews releasethat day....

Photo: Getty A female hiker was found dead this weekend after she fell nearly two dozen feet during a visit to Grand Canyon National Park. Osswald had intended to meet a river trip at Phantom Beach and was on day six of a private boating trip. According toAZ Central, Ossald’s death comes less than two weeks after a 68-year-old woman, Mary Kelley, died during a multi-day boating trip to the Colorado River....

Asian Studiesis a fascinating battlefield that dives late into the plentiful tapestry of cultures , histories , and terminology across Asia . But what makes this arena of study so compelling?Asian Studiesoffers insights into the divers traditions , school of thought , and social kinetics that regulate the world ’s large continent . From the ancient civilizations of China and India to the advanced economic powerhouses of Japan andSouth Korea , this discipline covers a vast array of issue ....

Peaches Stergo.Photo: U.S. Attorney’s Office A Florida woman has been sentenced to more than four years in jail for defrauding an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor of his life savings, authorities announced on Thursday. TheU.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New Yorkshared a press release in which Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Peaches Stergo, 36, of Champion Gates, Florida, had received a sentence of 51 months in prison....

A deadly fire broke out at an e-bike repair shop in New York City on Tuesday, leaving four people dead and two others fighting for their lives. According to theNew York City Fire Department, the “accidental” inferno started at around 12:15 a.m. local time at 80 Madison Street in Chinatown. The building had residential apartments above, theAmerican Red Crosslater tweeting that they provided emergency housing to 23 adults and two children from eight families....