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<p>A man attempting to enter the United States illegally has fallen from a new 30-foot high wall in California, breaking both his legs.</p> <p>Paramedics determined that the man broke his legs and may have injured his back. He was taken to a hospital in Palm Springs.</p>

A Tennessee convicted child rapist and killer on Wednesday picked a deluxe burger combo as his last meal before his execution -- the first in the state in nearly a decade. Billy Ray Irick, 59, chose the combo that included a super deluxe burger, onion rings and a Pepsi soft drink, the Tennessee Department of Correction said Wednesday. Irick, who is being held at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, will eat his last meal before his execution, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday. The name of the restaurant that prepared the meal was not released “out of...

A Florida tourist died Tuesday, two days after he reportedly was punched in the face by a driver he may have mistaken for an Uber driver in New York City. Sander Szabo, 35, died at the hospital two days after the driver of an SUV delivered a blow to the Florida native’s face, causing Szabo to fall back and slam his head into the pavement, police told the Palm Beach Post on Wednesday. Szabo was in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens returning to his hotel just after 1 a.m. Sunday when he was hit.“When he was hit, he...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nearly two dozen people were arrested Wednesday and charged with using small aircraft to smuggle heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine over the U.S. border at the behest of one of Mexico's most notorious drug cartels, authorities said. The arrests of 22 suspects come on the heels of a nearly three-year investigation into three drug trafficking organizations that authorities say were working on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel. The groups, which received the drugs from the cartel in northern Mexico, would then stash them in soup cans, inside hidden compartments in cars and used small aircraft — though...

Cincinnati police officers used a Taser on an 11-year-old girl accused of stealing from a supermarket.

New Delhi: A stampede on Wednesday among thousands of mourners at the funeral of a powerful southern Indian politician killed two people and injured 47, a doctor at a government hospital said. Muthuvel Karunanidhi, a dominant figure in the politics of southern India for half a century who had been chief minister of Tamil Nadu state five times, died on Tuesday aged 94. Television broadcast images of thousands gathered in the state capital, Chennai, to pay their last respects to the leader at a funeral attended by senior politicians, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The stampede happened when a sudden...

Portugal's government moved command of the emergency services battling a huge fire in the southern Algarve region to the national level on Tuesday as the fire moved south towards popular tourist towns on the coast. The blaze started in eucalyptus and pine forests in the hills but is now steadily moving towards the coast where thousands of tourists, foreign and local, take their holidays every year. Smoke was growing thicker on the coast and flames were closing in on the town of Silves, just 10 km (six miles) inland, where one resident said it was "snowing ashes". The fire erupted...

British tourist describes terror of Portugal wildfires A woman, who has just returned from Portugal where hundreds of firefighters are battling wildfires, has described the scene around her resort as "apocalyptic". Victoria Lee from Leicestershire, who is still suffering the effects of the smoke, says the intensity of the fire along with ash rain was terrifying. She was staying in Ferragudo, near to where forest fires are raging in the Algarve region. While she was out for dinner, strong winds began to gust towards the resort, carrying smoke, ash and heat. If ever I've imagined the end of the world,...

The youngest woman convicted of plotting a terror attack on British soil has been jailed for life with a minimum of 13 years. Safaa Boular, 18, became the final member of Britain’s first all-woman terror cell to be imprisoned when Judge Mark Dennis QC sentenced her at the Old Bailey on Friday. She hid her Islamic State-inspired plans in coded conversations about preparations for an innocent Mad Hatter’s tea party after being seduced online by a jihadi fighter while sitting her GCSEs. Sorry, this content isn't available on your device. It appeared she knew what she was doing and acted...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A strong earthquake struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday, killing at least three people and shaking neighboring Bali, one week after another quake on Lombok killed more than a dozen. The latest quake, which triggered a brief tsunami warning, damaged buildings as far away as Denpasar on Bali, including a department store and the airport terminal, where ceiling panels were shaken loose, authorities said.

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Rick Genest, a model who was known for his head-to-toe tattoos and for appearing in the music video for Lady Gaga’s 2011 song “Born This Way,” has died at 32. Dulcedo Management, which represented him, confirmed his death on its Facebook page on Thursday but did not say where or precisely when he died. He lived in Montreal. On her Twitter account, Lady Gaga said the cause was suicide, and that it was “beyond devastating.” “We have to work harder to change the culture, bring Mental Health to the forefront and erase the stigma that we can’t talk about it,”...

Joseph James Pappas was charged with the murder of Dr. Mark Hausknecht Joseph James Pappas, 62, the suspect in the fatal shooting of Dr. Mark Hausknecht, killed himself on Friday morning during an encounter with two police officers in southwest Houston. Police Chief Art Acevedo said during a press conference that the Houston Police Department had received a call about Pappas’ location. Acevedo detailed Pappas was wearing a bullet proof vest.

Video shows three suspects punching, kicking and pepper-spraying employees while trying to steal wigs from a store in Silver Spring, Maryland. A man and two women went into Esther's Beauty on Georgia Avenue Friday evening, Montgomery County police said.

Shocking footage shows an American tourist being whipped by street traders in Barcelona during a violent brawl. The man was reportedly set upon by the thugs in the Plaça de Catalunya after he intervened to stop them throwing insults at a woman pushing a pram. Video filmed by a startled onlooker shows the group of men punching the unnamed victim, who is reportedly aged 45.

Red tide is all over Southwest Florida. 19 different Lee County beaches are experiencing some level of it. Pristine water is what typically draws thousands to Southwest Florida every year, but right now it’s rotting fish - not happy visitors - lining our beaches. “The beach looks awful. It's sad. There [are] dead fish everywhere, the smell is awful, [and] you can smell it as soon as you get close to the water. It chokes you up,” said Amber Powers.

A young Indonesian couple accused of extramarital sex were dragged into the street by a furious mob, who poured buckets of sewage over them as 'punishment'. Shocking video footage shows the couple crouched down next to an open sewer while member of the mob fills bucket after bucket, pouring the contents over them. The incident took place in Langsa, a city in Indonesia's Aceh province, where local Islamic Sharia law forbids sex before marriage.

EMS is treating people at the scene, some people have been transported to area hospitals, according to police. NEW ORLEANS - Three people have been shot and killed and seven others are injured after shots rang out on South Claiborne Avenue Saturday night. Several people were being treated at the scene. Three of them were transported by EMS to area hospitals. Four took private transportation, according to The New Orleans Advocate's Ramon Vargas. The incident occurred in the 3400 block of South Claiborne around 8:30 p.m. Eyewitness News has a crew headed to the scene and will have a LIVE...

Dozens of migrants were filmed storming a beach in southern Spain on Friday as confused sunbathing nudists watched the remarkable scenes unfolding. The dramatic clip, taken on the beach at Tarifa, showed a group of more than 30 migrants landing in a dinghy before sprinting off into woodland surrounding the beach to evade the pursuing Spanish border guards. The news comes as the mayor of the nearby Spanish port of Algeciras warned that his town is at the center of a 'new migrant crisis' after 1,000 arrivals flooded his town in the last week alone. Slamming the EU for its...

Brandon N. McGlover, 32, of Temecula was arrested Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of setting the Cranston Fire, which has destroyed eight homes and has burned 4,700 acres near Idyllwild. McGlover has been transported to Cois Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta and booked on felony arson charges. He remains jailed on $1 million bail. According to a U.S. Forest Service-San Bernardino National Forest news release, CAL FIRE investigators, "determined a suspect description and issued a crime bulletin to other local law enforcement agencies. Based on the crime bulletin issued, the Hemet/San Jacinto Valley Gang Task Force located and detained McGlover." Lieutenant...