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BLUEFIELD, W.Va. (AP) - Frustrated with the prostitutes who he says walk in front of his home day and night, a West Virginia man has put up signs urging them to take their business elsewhere. Jeffery Blankenship tells the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that prostitutes walk along his street at all hours, seeking clients. Three weeks ago, he began putting up anti-trespassing signs outside his Bluefield home, including one that reads, "Attention prostitutes ... Do not walk by this house 1000x a day waving your hand."

The Atlantic White Shark Conservancy shared an incredible video of a white shark attacking a grey seal in shallow water off Truro. The video, shot on November 26, 2016 by Kenvor Cothey, is embedded below. It's a bit difficult to watch as the seal clearly suffered a mortal wound. The Conservancy points out the shark struggling a bit to get back into deeper water. The Conservancy post states, "This is what we believe may be happening when white sharks strand on Cape Cod." The video description states that the video was shot "at the beach on High Head Road, at...

Joel Michael Guy Jr. drove up from his Baton Rouge, La., apartment last week to join his parents and three adult sisters for a last Thanksgiving dinner at the West Knox County home his parents had sold. Afterward the sisters returned to their homes in Maryville and Kingsport. Everything seemed fine during the family gathering at 11434 Goldenview Lane, authorities said. But sometime between Friday night and mid-day Saturday, the 28-year-old son attacked his parents with a knife, possibly tortured them and dismembered their bodies, leaving remains in various rooms of the 2,256-square-foot home, according to Knox County Sheriff's Office...

On Wednesday a Syrian teenager reported she had been kicked off Berlin public transport for wearing a headscarf. It now appears that was a misunderstanding. The 14-year-old had told authorities that the bus driver had refused to leave the tram stop, instead announcing over the loudspeaker that he would not drive anyone wearing a headscarf. […] But the Berlin Transport Company (BVG) say that after reviewing video footage, they believe that the driver asked her to leave the tram because she was eating a Döner kebab, something which is against their regulations, the Berliner Morgenpost reports. …

The driver of a vehicle traveling northbound on South Central Avenue claimed another vehicle cut her off, causing her to swerve into the apartment building, Williams said. The vehicle crashed through a wall and ended up inside the apartment, pinning the boy and his father under the vehicle, Williams said. The father’s two teenage daughters and his wife were also in the home and were injured in the crash, Williams said. ll five were taken to a local hospital, but the boy died from his injuries, Williams said. Inside the apartment, a letter the boy had written to Santa was...

The state of Utah has denied it has anti-gay school laws as it defends itself from a lawsuit challenging restrictions on talk about homosexuality in the classroom. The case quotes selectively from state law and school rules, which don’t contain the phrase “anti-gay laws,” state attorneys said several times in court documents filed Tuesday. They say the state school board is immune from a lawsuit and ask for the case to be dismissed. The National Center for Lesbian Rights argues the ban on so-called advocacy of homosexuality stigmatizes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. …

For decades, Sweden and Norway have been arguing over musk oxen citizenship. Last month, a lonely musk ox named Brutus wandered far from his herd in Sweden and stole the country’s heart. Brutus was hoping to find a mate, but his roaming took him so far afield that there were no females within miles. Local and national news organizations covered his plight. Myskoxe.se, a Swedish website dedicated to musk oxen, is keeping detailed track of his journey, posting brief updates and paparazzi-style photos. “Brutus is out hiking,” they wrote on September 12. “What he has in mind—it is not known.”...

An Egyptian lion trainer was killed by one of the lions during a circus show in Alexandria, northern Egypt. A security source told Al Arabiya.net that Shaheen Islam was a 35-year-old who worked as a trainer for lions in the Lion village in Alexandria and died due to injuries as a result of an attack by the lion during the show. He added that the trainer was giving a presentation for students when the lion attacked him, injuring him seriously, leading to his led to his death days after he entered the Andalusian Salam hospital's intensive care in the Smouha...

FULL TITLE: Married man, 22, 'raped two young brothers one of whom he dressed in diapers, called "baby boy" and used a PACIFIER to muffle his screams' A 22-year-old Michigan man is facing charges of criminal sexual conduct and producing child pornography after he allegedly admitted to repeatedly raping two young brothers and using a pacifier and diapers in some of the assaults. Tyler Ryan Lowis, of Sparta, was ordered on Monday to stand trial on three counts each of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, manufacturing child sexually abusive material and using a computer to commit a crime. Court documents released...

The monkeys have proved that they can be rowdy Tables covered in red tablecloth and piled high with fruits, sticky rice and nuts is a feast fit for humans but the honoured guests in this case are monkeys. This Thai town hosts the annual Lopburi Monkey Festival at the end of November in a gesture to thank the town's famous inhabitants for 'blessing' the town with plentiful tourists. Lopburi, also known as Monkey Province, threw the party for the primates on Sunday (27 November) to thank them for all that they do for the Thai economy, IB Times reports. The...

The fatal accident was reported about 3:15 a.m. Wednesday near the intersection of Royal Palm Avenue and Sail Drive in Indian Harbour Beach. Brevard County Fire Rescue crews and investigators were called to the beachside town after the body of David Kervin, 51, was found in the roadway near the motorized bike. “He apparently suffered a head injury and was already deceased when we arrived,” said Don Walker, spokesman for Brevard County Fire Rescue. “It appeared he hit the turtle. He may have also been hit by another vehicle while lying injured." Brevard deputies later said there was no evidence...

he Pittsburgh Tribune-Review newspaper printed its last edition and has laid off 106 workers as it transitions into an online-only publication. Wednesday's edition ends a 24-year run that began when the late billionaire publisher Richard Mellon Scaife established the paper to compete with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which remains the only printed daily newspaper in the city. Trib Total Media will continue publishing two daily print editions for the suburbs, the Greensburg-based Westmoreland edition of the Tribune-Review and the Tarentum-based Valley News Dispatch edition, as well as 11 of the other 14 weeklies owned by Trib Total Media. The company announced...

THE inventor of the Big Mac has died at the age of 98. Michael “Jim” Delligatti came up with the iconic McDonald’s burger nearly 50 years ago. McDonald’s initially did not approve of deviating from its strict formula of simple hamburgers, cheeseburgers and milkshakes. But the creation of a two-patty burger with lettuce, cheese, gherkins, onions and “special sauce” proved an instant hit, and was rolled out to his other 47 outlets across the US. McDonald’s spokeswoman Kerry Ford confirmed that Delligatti died at his home in Fox Chapel, Pittsburgh, surrounded by his family on Monday night. He opened his...

Talking on his radio show, Hughley recounted racist quotes from past presidents — including quotes from Democratic heroes such as Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson. Hughley then went on to argue that Trump’s win shouldn’t be so shocking given that our country has long looked the other way when it comes to electing white people who look down upon black Americans. “I think America is used to people like Trump,” Hughley said. “See, we thought Barack Obama changed America. Barack Obama was the intermission… For eight years we got, ‘Oh wow, things are moving along!’ You can go get drinks,...

WACONIA, Minn. (WCCO) — What some might consider a home covered in an extreme amount of Christmas decorations is more like a lit-up landmark for neighbor Kari Cedersund. “Every time I try and describe to someone where I live, they would go, ‘Oh, you live across from the Christmas House,'” Kari said. It is a name that has lost its luster this season. “Seeing these lights dark for the first time since we’ve moved here is really hard,” said Bob Zajac, owner of the now dim Christmas House. “My kids are disappointed and our community is disappointed and I struggle...

A 19-year-old woman from Springfield is accused of stabbing her boyfriend after she let him cut her arm and suck her blood. After he did that, the woman told police, she and the man, whom she described as drunk, got in an incoherent argument that preceded her stabbing him several times. She also told a detective that she thinks she has the capacity to become a serial killer. Victoria Vanatter was charged on Thanksgiving with second-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action after being arrested the previous day at a home in Springfield. Vanatter is in the Greene County jail...

French school children have seriously under performed in an international maths and science testing, according to a new report. […] The study, carried out by education research group TIMSS, revealed that French 10-year-olds were bottom of the class in Europe when it comes to maths, and second last to Cyprus in science. In math, the French students finished the test with an average score of 488, below the EU average of 527 (the international average was weighted at 500). Some 13 percent of these French children didn’t reach the score of 400, a fact the Education Minister said showed that...

Full title: 'I didn't know she cut it off': Penis attack victim John Bobbitt reveals the horror of being assaulted by his wife in notorious crime ____________________________________________________________________________ A former US Marine whose penis was chopped off by his then wife has admitted he was not immediately aware that he had been severely injured. John Wayne Bobbitt, 49, was attacked by his then-wife Lorena, 46, at their home in Virginia in 1993. In an interview with Scandal Made Me Famous: Lorena Bobbitt on Reelz, Bobbitt admitted: 'I didn't know she cut it off. She did it so fast and ran so...

Earlier this morning, Texas governor Greg Abbott vowed to sign legislation banning sanctuary cities in Texas and to issue orders to cut off funding to dissenters.

A partially naked woman was having sex in a car outside a McDonalds while a kid of six watched from the back seat, it is claimed by police. Officers were called by staff at the fast food restaurant in the town of Orange in Connecticut after workers allegedly spotted a couple in a parked car "engaged in sexual activity". The allegedly randy pair later told police they were just "cuddling". Local news station WTVR reports the McDonald’s employees called police after walking out of the restaurant to find the two embraced inside the vehicle. Police said on Monday that the...