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US Military Identifies All 6 Marines Declared Dead in Midair Crash
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OKINAWA, JAPAN – December 14, 2018 The five U.S. Marines declared deceased after being involved in a December 6 F/A-18 and KC-130 mishap off the coast of Kochi, Japan have been identified, according to a III Marine Expeditionary Force's Facebook post. The deceased are: Lt. Col. Kevin R. Herrmann, 38, of New Bern, North Carolina; Maj. James M. Brophy, 36, of Staatsburg, New York; Staff Sgt. Maximo A. Flores, 27, of Surprise, Arizona; Cpl. Daniel E. Baker, 21, of Tremont, Illinois; and Cpl. William C. Ross, 21, of Hendersonville, Tennessee. The deceased were assigned to M...
Indian Man Gets 9 Years in Jail for Sexual Assault on US Flight
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DETROIT – December 14, 2018 A 34-year-old Indian man has been sentenced to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting a sleeping woman on a US flight early this year. Prabhu Ramamoorthy, who worked for an IT company for over two years, was accused of abusing a 22-year-old woman seated by the window next to him while his wife was on his other side on a Spirit Airlines flight from Las Vegas to Detroit on January 3. He will be deported back to India after he serves his sentence, a federal court in Detroit said on Thursday as it sentenced him to nine years of imprisonment...
Heart in the Sky
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DALLAS – December 14, 2018 A flight to Dallas had to return to Seattle last weekend when it became known that someone forgot a heart on board, Southwest Airlines said on Thursday. Flight 3606 arrived in Seattle from Sacramento, California. Someone forgot to unload the heart before the flight left for Dallas, and the captain announced that they had to return as they flew over Idaho, reported the Seattle Times. The heart had traveled from California to Washington state, across Idaho and back to Washington, according to the Times. The Southwest flight spent about three ho...
Guatemalan Girl, 7, Dies of Dehydration, Shock in US Custody
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LAS CRUCES, NM – December 14, 2018 A seven-year-old Guatemalan girl died in Border Patrol custody last week after she was detained for illegally crossing into the US with her father, federal officials said on Thursday. The young unidentified girl was taken into custody with her father around 10pm on December 6 near Lordsburg, New Mexico, the US Customs and Border Protection agency said in a statement. The Washington Post reports the girl died of dehydration and shock more than eight hours after she was arrested. She was from Guatemala and was traveling with a group of 1...
Christmas and New Year’s Are Best Time to Die
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GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA – December 13, 2018 Christmas and New Year’s are not only the best holidays, but also, perhaps, the most dangerous time of the year. People get injured decorating the Christmas tree and wind up in the hospital due to food and alcohol poisoning. Every year, the Christmas holidays takes dozens of lives. Such are the sad statistics not only in the US, but in the whole world. People often catch colds and get frostbite. Also scientists say that cold and cloudy weather could increase the risk of having a heart attack. For example, Swedish scientists...
USA Really’s Chief Editor Recognized as One of Most Influential Journalists
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USA – December 13, 2018 USA Really’s Chief Editor Alexander Malkevich has been included in the list of the TOP-15 most influential journalists in November, Medialogia reports. Alexander Malkevich came in 8th in the ranking, earning 5547.3 points. Medialogia ranking is based upon the citation index (CI), which tallies the number of information resource links in other media outlets and assesses how influential the link-publisher’s resource is. It is calculated using a mathematical-linguistic text analysis of more than 47,000 open sources. Medialogia LLC provides an onli...
U.S. Border Patrol Arrests 32 at Demonstration Supporting Asylum Seekers
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Kneeling in front of riot police, 32 religious leaders and activists, some wearing T-shirts reading, “Love Knows No Borders”, were arrested during a protest to support the Central American migrant caravan that was organized by a Quaker group on the border with Mexico on Monday. Many leaders of churches, mosques, synagogues and indigenous communities – over 400 demonstrators in total – sought a halt to the detention and deportation of migrants and for the U.S. to welcome the caravan that arrived in Tijuana, Mexico in November to seek asylum. “As a Quaker who believes in o...
Minnesota Write-In Votes Disappeared Along With Their Candidates
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MINNESOTA - December 12, 2018 Most states require write-in candidates for higher offices to register before or after an election to have their votes counted, including Minnesota. St. Louis County Clerk Phil Chapman said no write-in candidates filed to have their votes counted for county attorney, county sheriff, and county commission board seats or for the 8th District Congressional race. Any write-in candidate for federal, state, judicial or county office in Minnesota must submit a simple form to the Minnesota Secretary of State at least a week before the general elect...
Nuns steal $500,000 from school to gamble in Vegas
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LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA – December 11, 2018 Two Catholic school nuns in California admitted to embezzling about $500,000 and using the funds for travel and gambling in Las Vegas. The school does not want to press charges, but the Archdiocese of Los Angeles said it will be a "complaining party." Sisters Mary Margaret Kreuper and Lana Chang took money from tuition, fees and donations at St. James Catholic School in Torrance, south of Los Angeles. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles said the missing funds were discovered during a routine audit and it is believed the nuns stole...