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An Idaho emergency room doctor who connected adventure-seeking to acts of altruism died on Friday in an avalanche that he apparently triggered while skiing. The Sawtooth Avalanche Center reported that a skier was killed on Friday while backcountry skiing on Donaldson Peak in Idaho’s Lost River Range. The Custer County coroner identified the skier as emergency department physician Dr. Terrence “Terry” O’Connor, according to Idaho Mountain Express. O’Connor was on a down climb with another experie…

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld was met with a wave of boos Sunday when students at Duke University in North Carolina walked out just before his commencement speech, the latest in a wave of antiwar protests at college graduations across the country this weekend. Not only was Seinfeld, 70, delivering the speech at the school’s football stadium, but he was also receiving an honorary degree from the school, where his son is enrolled and from which his daughter graduated. As he was being introduced, boos co…

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A Georgia grand jury indicted the man accused of killing 22-year-old student Laken Riley on 10 charges, including malice murder and kidnapping, according to an indictment filed Tuesday. The indictment in Clarke County Superior Court formally charges Jose Antonio Ibarra in Riley’s murder, which authorities described as a crime of opportunity. Ibarra is charged with three counts of felony murder, a count of malice murder, kidnapping with bodily injury, aggravated assault with intent to rape, and…

The University of Mississippi has opened at least one student conduct investigation after videos of pro-Palestinian protesters surrounded by counterprotesters circulated online, including one that many have singled out as racist. Chancellor Glenn F. Boyce sent a letter to students and staff on Friday noting that Ole Miss leaders were aware of behaviors that were “offensive, hurtful, and unacceptable, including actions that conveyed hostility and racist overtones” at Thursday’s protest. “While st…

New York City’s Department of Corrections is temporarily suspending the use of body-worn cameras after an employee suffered burns and smoke inhalation last week when hers suddenly caught fire. The Rikers Island corrections officer, a captain who was not identified, was rushed to Mount Sinai on Friday when her body camera caught fire. The Corrections Department said it was in contact with the camera’s manufacturer to investigate the cause of the fire. Corrections Commissioner Lynelle Maginley-Lid…

A California school district fired its superintendent through a school board vote Tuesday after an investigation into her conduct. In November, students on the Del Norte High School softball team alleged that Poway Unified School District Superintendent Marian Kim Phelps threatened their graduation privileges over a perceived slight of her daughter, who was on the team. They addressed the school board at a meeting, alleging that Phelps believed the group had not clapped loudly enough for her d…

Heavyweight MMA fighter and boxer Francis Ngannou said Monday in a heartbreaking social media post that his 15-month-old son, Kobe, has died. Ngannou, who did not disclose his son’s cause of death, shared that he “shouted his name over and over but he’s not responding.” “Life is so unfair to hit us where it hurts the most,” Ngannou wrote. “How do you deal with such a thing? How can you live with it?” Just before the announcement, Ngannou also posted on X questioning the purpose of life. “Why…

A Utah couple were purr-plexed when one day their shy cat, Galena, suddenly disappeared. And then she was found in an Amazon warehouse all the way in California. Galena mysteriously went missing on April 10, but her owners couldn’t figure out how the indoor cat could disappear without a trace, Carrie Clark told NBC affiliate KSL. A week later, the couple got a notification that Galena’s microchip had been scanned and they were soon on a call with a veterinarian in Los Angeles. Galena survived fo…

Taylor Swift’s “mind is blown” after her latest album hit record streaming numbers on top of selling nearly 2 million physical records in what Billboard described Sunday as a “historic” debut. “The Tortured Poets Department” hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 200 chart after it was released last week. According to the music publication, Swift’s latest album sold more than 2.6 million units in its first week, when calculating equivalent units through streaming. Traditional album sales accounted for mor…

A Nevada couple were arrested Tuesday after authorities found their 11-year-old son with autism held in a metal cage, wearing only a diaper with feces smeared on its floor. Henderson police officers went to the boy’s home to conduct a wellness check at 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, when the Clark County School District asked for assistance with a “truancy issue” involving a student who had not been coming to school. Police said officers discovered the was “being contained within a large metal enclosure.”…

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Police are investigating the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old woman near a dormitory on the campus of Delaware State University early Sunday. Dover Police said campus police received a call about shots fired on campus at 1:40 a.m. near Warren-Franklin Hall and found her with a gunshot wound to her upper body. The young woman, whose identity was not released, was from Wilmington, about 50 miles north of the school, and was not a student at the university. “Officers rendered aid to the victim an…

A jawbone discovered two decades ago in Arizona by a boy with a rock collection was positively identified decades later as that of a Marine who died in a 1951 training accident. Last year, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office turned the piece of bone over to the Ramapo College Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center in New Jersey. It had come into the sheriff’s possession in 2002 after a boy’s parents found it in his rock collection. Traditional DNA testing yielded no results, and the case remai…

College football player Amitral “AJ” Simon died just one week before might have realized his pro ball dreams, his former university announced Wednesday. Simon, 25, transferred to the University of Albany in New York, where he played as a defensive lineman with the Great Danes in 2022 and 2023. The school said in a statement on social media that he will be “profoundly missed.” “AJ was a tremendous young man and even better teammate throughout this time at UAlbany,” the school said.“He was a role…

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Kansas City Chiefs receiver Rashee Rice, a newly minted Super Bowl champion, turned himself in to police Thursday after an arrest warrant was issued in connection with his role in a high-speed crash in Dallas last month. Rice, 23, turned himself over to Glenn Heights police, the police department confirmed, and was taken to the DeSoto Regional Jail. Both cities are south of Dallas. Texas state Sen. Royce West, an attorney for Rice, said Rice turned himself in to police and was released on bond…

O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star who was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her friend in a televised trial that gripped the nation, has died of cancer, according to his family. He was 76. “He was surrounded by his children and grandchildren,” the family said in a statement posted on X. “During this time of transition, his family asks that you please respect their wishes for privacy and grace.” Reports circulated in February that Simpson had been diagnosed with prostate cancer and was in…

Dallas police are reportedly looking to speak with Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice after two luxury cars were involved in a high-speed crash and the occupants of the vehicles walked away from the scene. Rice is cooperating with authorities “and will take all necessary steps to address this situation responsibly,” his attorney, Royce West, said in a statement. West is a Democratic state senator whose district includes part of the Dallas area. “On behalf of Rashee Rice, his thoughts a…