The Rev. Barbara Brown Taylor was attending a seminar one day when someone asked her a question that she hasn’t been able to forget. “What is the story you are working on that doesn’t have an ending yet?” Taylor gave one answer that day but today she has another: The story she can’t quite figure…… MORE
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At least 5 dead after days of powerful storms in parts of the US
The powerful storms that ripped through parts of the United States last week killed at least five people in Mississippi, Florida and Alabama, officials said. Mississippi reported an additional death Saturday, bringing the total number to three in that state, the emergency management agency said. It said 16 confirmed tornadoes hit the state Thursday. In…… MORE
Woman caught on surveillance dumping plastic bag full of puppies
Seven puppies were found next to a dumpster in Coachella, California, and authorities say they are looking for the woman caught on camera leaving them. The woman is accused of leaving the newborn puppies in a plastic bag near a dumpster behind a NAPA Auto Parts store on Thursday afternoon, according to Riverside County Animal…… MORE
A welder in Kentucky made a homemade replica of the throne in ‘Game of Thrones’
Spoiler alert: a welder in Kentucky and his new wife will sit on the Iron Throne at the end of this season of “Game of Thrones.” Except this iron throne is made out of aluminum. Michael Hayes, a 32-year-old welding student in Louisville, worked with welders at the Knight Welding School to build a life-size…… MORE
A German auction house is helping return Nazi-looted art to their rightful owners
Nina McGehee always knew that her family fled Europe before World War II broke out. But she only recently learned about what they left behind. McGehee’s great-grandfather, Siegfried Laemmle, was a German art and antiquities dealer with a successful business in Munich. He was also Jewish, and like all Jewish art dealers in the Third…… MORE
A Florida deputy is under investigation after viral video appears to show him slamming teen’s head into the ground
A Broward County sheriff’s deputy is on “restricted administrative assignment” after a video surfaced that appears to show him slamming a teenage boy’s head into the ground and then punching the teen in the head. The video of the Thursday incident appears to show one Florida deputy spraying pepper spray in the face of a…… MORE
Jussie Smollett’s lawyers file a motion opposing special prosecutor review of dismissal of charges
Lawyers for actor Jussie Smollett filed a motion Thursday opposing the appointment of a special prosecutor to review the dismissal of charges against him. Retired Illinois Appellate Justice Sheila O’Brien filed a petition on April 5 requesting a special prosecutor be appointed to review Cook County State Attorney Kim Foxx’s decision to dismiss charges against…… MORE
Social media influencer plotted to take internet domain at gunpoint. It didn’t end well
The plan was like a bad movie script. The intruder entered a victim’s home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, carrying a cell phone, a stolen gun and a Taser. He was wearing pantyhose on his head, a hat and dark sunglasses, court documents show. But things did not go as planned. Now, Rossi Lorathio Adams II…… MORE
A member of an armed group detaining migrants at the border has been arrested by the FBI
The FBI has arrested a member of an armed militia that had detained hundreds of migrants at the border this week, the New Mexico attorney general’s office said Saturday. Larry Mitchell Hopkins, 69, is a member of an armed group that had reportedly detained migrants near Sunland Park, New Mexico, state Attorney General Hector Balderas…… MORE
A bill in Washington state would allow the composting of human remains
Lawmakers in Washington state passed a bill Friday that would allow human remains to be composted. If Gov. Jay Inslee signs Senate Bill 5001 into law, it will take effect May 1, 2020. Right now, if a person dies in Washington, the body can only be cremated or buried, according to the bill’s sponsor, state…… MORE
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