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Two Found Dead During Maryland Welfare Check With Running Vehicle Found In Garage (DEVELOPING) Two Found Dead During Maryland Welfare Check With Running Vehicle Found In Garage (DEVELOPING)
Two Found Dead During Maryland Welfare Check With Running Vehicle Found In Garage (Developing) What began as a welfare check ended in tragedy. Two adults were found dead inside a Maryland home Saturday afternoon after relatives requested a welfare check, where firefighters discovered dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide and a vehicle running inside the garage. The deaths were reported at a home in the 12700 block of Fernberry Lane in Boyds, where Montgomery County Police officers and Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service personnel responded shortly before 3:20 p.m. When crews entered the home, they found the two occupants unresponsive. Both were pronounced dead at the sce…

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Virginia Rescue Teams Search Collapsed Buildings After Deadly Venezuela Earthquakes (PHOTOS) Virginia Rescue Teams Search Collapsed Buildings After Deadly Venezuela Earthquakes (PHOTOS)
Virginia Rescue Teams Search Collapsed Buildings After Deadly Venezuela Earthquakes (Photos) As families desperately wait for signs of life beneath mountains of concrete in Venezuela, one of America's most elite rescue teams is already crawling through the rubble. Virginia Task Force 1, based in Fairfax County, is now conducting around-the-clock search-and-rescue operations in Venezuela after a pair of devastating earthquakes leveled buildings and left more than 1,400 people dead, according to international reports. The Fairfax County-sponsored Urban Search and Rescue team deployed as part of the US Department of State's international disaster response, bringing 79 specially tra…

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Hitler Baby Photo Found In NJ Middle School Yearbooks, Principal Says Hitler Baby Photo Found In NJ Middle School Yearbooks, Principal Says
Hitler Baby Photo Found In NJ Middle School Yearbooks, Principal Says A New Jersey middle school collected its yearbooks after an image in the baby pictures section was identified as a baby photo of Adolf Hitler, school officials said. Students at East Brook Middle School in Paramus had already received their yearbooks before administrators discovered the image, Principal Ryan Aupperlee said in a letter to families sent Thursday, June 25. "Earlier today, after students had already received their yearbooks, we learned that the baby pictures section of the yearbook contained an image that was later identified as an infant photograph of Adolf Hitler," the princi…

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Bootids Meteor Shower Will Be Visible For Days After Peak Viewing Bootids Meteor Shower Will Be Visible For Days After Peak Viewing
Bootids Meteor Shower Will Be Visible For Days After Peak Viewing The night sky is lining up one of its harder-to-predict shows. The June Bootids meteor shower is active through Thursday, July 2, and is expected to peak overnight Friday, June 26, into Saturday, June 27. The shower is usually quiet, producing only a few meteors per hour. But it has earned a reputation for surprises. Space.com reported that the June Bootids produced an outburst of up to 100 meteors per hour in 1998. Another burst in 2004 produced about 20 to 50 meteors per hour. A predicted outburst in 2010 did not happen, adding to the shower’s unpredictable reputation. ABC News report…

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NY Soldier Run Over By 27-Ton Army Vehicle During Training Exercise: Report NY Soldier Run Over By 27-Ton Army Vehicle During Training Exercise: Report
NY Soldier Run Over By 27-Ton Army Vehicle During Training Exercise: Report New details have emerged about the death of a New York soldier who was killed during a training exercise in California earlier this month. Spc. Adrian Bonsey, 29, a combat engineer assigned to the 9th Engineer Battalion, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, was struck and run over by a 27-ton M2 Bradley Fighting Vehicle during a large-scale training exercise at the National Training Center on Tuesday, June 10, ABC News reports, citing an Army spokesperson. Bonsey was on foot in the Mojave Desert at about 4:30 a.m. during hours of limited visibility when the incident occurr…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Nobody Wanted Luna — Until She Was On TV Nobody Wanted Luna — Until She Was On TV
Nobody Wanted Luna — Until She Was On TV A senior dog who arrived at a New Jersey animal shelter sick, neglected and in need of urgent medical care has found her forever home after her story aired on News 12 New Jersey. And it all happened in a matter of hours. Eight-year-old Luna was surrendered by a Hackensack family to the shelter on March 6 because her family was moving and could not take her, Shelter Manager Meg Tedeschi said. When Luna arrived, her condition was severe. "Her feet were really swollen with puss-filled sores and she was missing a lot of hair with bald patches," Tedeschi said. "She was also severely overwei…

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Maryland Teen Gets Life In Prison For Grisly Murder Of Tropic Bay Gardens Owner Maryland Teen Gets Life In Prison For Grisly Murder Of Tropic Bay Gardens Owner
Maryland Teen Gets Life In Prison For Grisly Murder Of Tropic Bay Gardens Owner One of Maryland's most disturbing murder cases has reached its conclusion. A teenager who admitted killing a beloved garden center owner before stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the victim was sentenced on Friday, June 26, to life in prison with the possibility of parole. In Anne Arundel County, 19-year-old Davidsonville resident Jonah Michael Poole was sentenced by Circuit Court Judge Cathleen Vitale after pleading guilty in March to first-degree murder in the May 2025 killing of 67-year-old Edward Stephen Koza, owner of Tropic Bay Water Gardens. Anne Arundel County Police …

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Rabid Raccoon Found In Maryland Sparks Alert For Possible Human, Pet Exposure Rabid Raccoon Found In Maryland Sparks Alert For Possible Human, Pet Exposure
Rabid Raccoon Found In Maryland Sparks Alert For Possible Human, Pet Exposure Don't pet that raccoon. Maryland health officials are warning anyone who may have come into contact with a rabid raccoon near Street to come forward after the animal tested positive for the virus. The Harford County Health Department announced on Friday, June 26, that a raccoon found near the 3600 block of Emory Church Road in Street tested positive for rabies, according to confirmation from the Maryland Department of Health. Officials said the raccoon may have exposed people or pets in the surrounding area before it was collected and tested. Simply seeing a raccoon is not cause for conce…

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Pilot Circles Before Safe Emergency Landing At Maryland Airpark After Landing Gear Scare Pilot Circles Before Safe Emergency Landing At Maryland Airpark After Landing Gear Scare
Pilot Circles Before Safe Emergency Landing At Maryland Airpark After Landing Gear Scare For several tense minutes, a small plane circled over a Maryland airport while emergency crews gathered below, waiting to see how the landing would end. The pilot safely brought the aircraft down at Montgomery County Airpark in Gaithersburg shortly before noon on Friday, June 26, after reporting a landing gear problem, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service officials. Shortly after 11 a.m., firefighters were notified that the plane was experiencing landing gear issues and would likely need to make an emergency landing.  The plane landed safely in Montgomery Coun…

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New Nancy Guthrie Note Claims Video Evidence, Suspect Names New Nancy Guthrie Note Claims Video Evidence, Suspect Names
New Nancy Guthrie Note Claims Video Evidence, Suspect Names A troubling family mystery has taken another unsettling turn. Click here for a new, updated story: New Development Emerges In Nancy Guthrie Ransom Note Investigation A mystery sender claims to have video and suspect information tied to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC "Today" co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, the media outlet TMZ reported Friday, June 26. Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson, Arizona, home on Sunday, Feb. 1. She has not been found. TMZ reported that it received a new email from a person who claims to know the identities of Nancy Guthrie…

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Explosive Devices, Sawed-Off Shotgun Found During Virginia Eviction: DOJ Explosive Devices, Sawed-Off Shotgun Found During Virginia Eviction: DOJ
Explosive Devices, Sawed-Off Shotgun Found During Virginia Eviction: DOJ A routine eviction in Virginia took an explosive turn in Fairfax County when deputies uncovered IEDs and a sawed-off shotgun inside a home, likely putting him at risk of federal prison. Amer Taisir Zghailat Qaralleh, 42, a dual US-Jordanian citizen, has been convicted on multiple weapons charges after he was busted with four explosive devices and the shotgun in a Springfield home, according to authorities. Court records state that on March 18, 2025, deputies from the Fairfax County Sheriff's Office served a writ of eviction against Qaralleh at the Springfield home. During the sea…

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Ex-Intel Official From Virginia Gets Prison For Sexually Abusing Women At Conference: Feds Ex-Intel Official From Virginia Gets Prison For Sexually Abusing Women At Conference: Feds
Ex-Intel Official From Virginia Gets Prison For Sexually Abusing Women At Conference: Feds He was a retired Army colonel and senior intelligence official. Now, he is headed to federal prison. A Virginia man from Stafford County was sentenced Thursday, June 25, in Newport News to 25 years behind bars for sexually abusing two women during an intelligence conference at a government facility in Williamsburg, federal prosecutors announced. Michael A. Dillard, 63, was convicted of sexual abuse, aggravated sexual abuse, abusive sexual contact, and making false statements, according to the US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. At the time of the assaults, Dillard wa…

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