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Residents of a New Mexico neighborhood were evacuated the night of Monday, May 6 after a large sinkhole opened up in front of a home, swallowing multiple vehicles, officials said. The City of Las Cruces said in a news release Tuesday, May 7 said firefighters were dispatched to the 1700 block of Regal Ridge Street at around 9:30 p.m. Monday, and arrived to find a sinkhole approximately 30 feet wide and 30 feet deep. Knewz.com has learned that the sinkhole was "still settling" when they arrived. The sinkhole swallowed two vehicles that were parked in a driveway, but no injuries were reported. Th...
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Two young children died Tuesday, May 7 after being swept away by a river while playing with their mother in a California picnic area, authorities said. According to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, a mother took her children, ages 2 and 4, to the Thurman Flats Picnic area near Mill Creek to play at around 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, Knewz.com has learned. They were playing near the creek "with rapid water moving downstream." At around 3 p.m., the mother was tending to her son, 2, when her daughter, 4, was swept downstream. The mother searched for the girl cut could not find her, and w...
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An 85-year-old Colorado woman who went missing last week was found by a K-9 police dog after she got stuck along the side of a "steep ravine," officials said. The City of Greenwood Village shared body-worn camera video that showed Greenwood Village Police Department Officer Austin Speer and K-9 Mercury working to track the unnamed woman, who had been missing for around two hours on Thursday, May 2, Knewz.com has learned. Within minutes of beginning the search, Mercury located the woman "clinging to a tree down a steep ravine where she could not be seen from the roadway or canal," the city wrot...
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Three teenagers were rescued from inside an abandoned missile silo in Colorado early Sunday, May 5, and one of them was seriously injured, authorities said. The Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office received a report that an 18-year-old man fell some 30 feet into an abandoned missile silo in the town of Deer Trail at around 3:30 a.m. on Sunday, Knewz.com has learned. Deputies arrived to find five juveniles — two boys and three girls — above ground, who informed them that three other teens were stuck in the silo, and one of them was injured. Rescue teams from four area fire departments responded to ...
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A Tennessee-based janitorial company has agreed to pay nearly $650,000 in penalties and to cease illegally employing children following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor. Knewz.com has learned that as part of the court-approved consent judgment, Fayette Janitorial Service LLC will pay $649,304 in civil penalties, hire a third party to implement policies to prevent the illegal employment of children, and establish a system for reporting concerns about the illegal employment of children, federal officials said. An investigation by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division foun...
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A city councilman in Mississippi has pleaded guilty to a drug conspiracy charge for using his chain of vape stores to sell products labeled as containing CBD, a non-psychoactive component of marijuana, though they in fact contained illegal synthetic cannabinoids, authorities said. Knewz.com has learned that Robert Leon Deming III, 47, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a Schedule I controlled substance, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi. As part of the plea agreement, Deming, a former Biloxi city councilman, agreed t...
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Florida wildlife officials are investigating after a group of revelers was captured in a viral video dumping a load of trash off their boat after leaving the Boca Bash, an annual boat party. Wavy Boats, a YouTube channel dedicated to filming boats navigating the waters of South Florida's choppiest inlets, shared a video Monday, April 29, that showed a group of partiers leaving Boca Raton Inlet on Sunday, April 28 and promptly dumping two bins of trash into the water while cheering and smiling for the drone's camera. The boaters had just left the Boca Bash, an annual boating party that takes pl...
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A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of John Jacob Astor IV following the sinking of the Titanic is set to go up for auction. The auction for the wealthiest Titanic passenger's 14-carat gold Waltham pocket watch begins Saturday, April 27 with the starting bid set at 60,000 pounds ($74,979), according to auction house Henry Aldridge and Son. "Astor is well known as the richest passenger aboard the R.M.S. Titanic and was thought to be among the richest people in the world at that time, with a net worth of roughly $87 million (equivalent to several billion dollars today)," the auc...
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Scientists have been able to establish a possible link between the mysterious and elusive early human group known as the Denisovans and the Homo longi, or “Dragon man” species from China. Knewz.com has learned that the lifestyle of the Denisovan humans, along with the knowledge of what they looked like, is still a mystery for researchers. As of now, evidence of their physical characteristics includes a jaw fragment, a few bits of bone, and a couple of teeth samples. However, researchers working on the mysterious group of humans currently believe they have established a link between the Deniso...
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Could the impact of climate change go beyond warmer days - to shorter days? Knewz.com has learned about a new theory about the heating of Earth. It could be making the world turn a bit faster. Scientists say the pace is increasing so much that a “leap second” will be needed by the end of the decade. Leap seconds have occurred before, when an extra tick was put on world clocks. But this time, a second will need to be removed. A study explaining the need for a “negative leap second” was published in Nature magazine Wednesday, March 27. “Global warming is already affecting global timekeeping,” Du...
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