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St. Petersburg, FL – Newly released dash cam footage reveals a Florida sheriff lied last month when he falsely claimed that his deputies took off their gun belts and attempted to save three drowning teenage girls. Instead of attempting to rescue the dying teens, the deputies can be seen on video standing beside the pond […]

It’s cases like this that destroy trust in real charitable causes that real people actually need. “Mandy Strong” was the term coined two years ago by friends of Mandy Thornton Hargraves. An online fundraiser to support Hargraves in her fight to survive Stage 3 cancer quickly took off and #MandyStrong became well-known in the community. […]

A Texas man charged with causing the death of his six-month-old daughter by leaving her in a hot car put the baby in a refrigerator after finding her in desperate condition in the back of his vehicle, a document released on Wednesday said. Michael Thedford, a 33-year-old, unemployed high school teacher, was arrested in Collin […]

CHICAGO – A man in his 40s has died after falling on CTA Blue Line tracks early Saturday morning in The Loop. The 46-year-old man was removed from the third rail at the Clark and Lake station around 4:30 a.m. and transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition. He was later pronounced dead, according […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Gunmen stormed a hotel in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday after detonating a car filled with explosives at the hotel gate — an attack that has left at least 15 people dead and 25 others injured, police said. Police responded to the Naso Hablod hotel, and fighting was happening inside […]

According to WGNTV …. CHICAGO — Four people were wounded Saturday in a shooting on Chicago’s South Side. The shooting occurred around 11:50 a.m. on the 1400 block of W. 114th Place in the Morgan Park neighborhood. According to police four victims — two men and two women — were transported to area hospitals. Police […]

CHICAGO — Jessica Hampton, 25, was stabbed in the neck during an argument with a man she knew. “It was an ongoing domestic argument between a couple, a male and female, on one of the CTA trains,” he said. “As the train approached 47th Street, the male stabbed the female.” Escalante said the offender surrendered […]

It’s been more than three years now since Elon Musk unveiled his Hyperloop concept to the world. Could it finally be getting up to speed? This is what A HYPERLOOP will look LIKE up close. But what will it look like on a map? IMAGE SOURCE: SpaceX. So far, two separate companies have been formed to […]

In the first article of this two-part series, we looked to the EV-to-EBITDA ratio to bring clarity when valuing McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD), given its recent debt expansion and intended transformation to a company that will be nearly completely franchised in the future. As a quick refresher: EV, or “enterprise value,” is a company’s total market capitalization […]Read More

Image source: Getty Images. Some dream of spending their golden years in exotic locations, indulging in exciting trips to ancient ruins and sampling spicy, local cuisine. But when it comes to retirement savings, even the most adventurous seniors may still consider something routinely described as “plain vanilla”: a fixed immediate annuity. Perhaps the simplest of […]

Image source: Getty Images. What: Shares of specialty glass and ceramics giant Corning (NYSE:GLW) have gained 13.5% so far in 2016, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. It’s been a bumpy ride with dramatic highs and sudden drops; Corning is not a sleepy stock for risk-adverse investors. So what: Corning beat analyst estimates […]Read More

Image source: Google. Google’s parent, Alphabet, Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOGL), held its annual shareholder meeting earlier this month. The gem of the event for investors was when Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt discussed the “most interesting” tech innovations that he believes are going to take off over the next five to ten years.  Schmidt’s views are worthy of consideration, as […]Read More