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Jack White will perform live at the American Legion Post to raise money for a new sound system
Garage punk show for a cause! Legion scores a new sound system - everyone wins!
When the system fails, citizens take matters into their own hands through community-led solutions
Fed up with waiting for authorities to act, Bengaluru residents - including school children - take matters into their own…
Ohio cop charged in fatal shooting of unarmed pregnant Black woman accused of shoplifting
The shooting of Ta'Kiya Young, a 21-year-old pregnant Black mother, by an Ohio police officer in a grocery store parking…
Who Was Bobby Dunbar? The 1912 Disappearance That Became a Century-Long Identity Crisis
A boy disappears in Louisiana It began like any other summer outing. In August 1912, Percy and Lessie Dunbar took…
The case of Aruna Shanbaug that changed India’s euthanasia laws
Aruna Shanbaug, an Indian nurse, spent 41 years in a vegetative state after a brutal sexual assault in 1973 left…
Janet Jackson confirms Stevie Wonder, Tracy Chapman, and Samuel L. Jackson are her cousins
Jackson is related to all three celebrities on her mom's side.
The Forgotten Plague: Encephalitis Lethargica and the Mystery That Still Haunts Medicine
A disease like no other It began as a whisper, a strange affliction barely noticed amid the chaos of World War I. A handful of cases in Europe, then a…
In 2014, Steven D. Sandison knocked his cellmate, Theodore Dyer, unconscious and strangled him with shoelaces at Michigan’s Saginaw Correctional Facility after learning of Dyer’s child sexual abuse conviction. Sandison confessed, saying, “I don’t feel bad,” and received another life sentence.
This story begins in 2014, inside Michigan’s Saginaw Correctional Facility. Steven D. Sandison, an inmate serving a life sentence for a 1991 murder, killed his cellmate, 67-year-old Theodore Dyer. Sandison…
‘Doomsday’ Antarctic glacier melting faster than expected, with its collapse potentially causing global flooding and submerging islands, driving calls for geoengineering
The floating ice edge at Thwaites Glacier margin in 2019. Photo: CNN…
The Keddie Cabin Murders: What Was Left in That Room
On the morning of April 12, 1981, a 14-year-old girl walked into her family's rented cabin in the rural resort community of Keddie, California. Her name was Sheila Sharp, and…
The Nun, the Knife, and the Silence
The chapel at Mercy Hospital was supposed to be a place of prayer. A quiet room behind heavy doors, where the faithful could kneel before the crucifix and leave their…
A child steps into Manhattan’s morning
On 25 May 1979, six-year-old Etan Kalil Patz pushed open the cast-iron door of 113 Prince Street wearing a blue corduroy jacket, fluorescent-striped sneakers and the black cap that proclaimed…
America’s Unknown Child: The Boy in the Box Mystery
The day Philadelphia lost its innocence It was February 25, 1957, when a young man walking through a weedy lot on Susquehanna Road noticed something strange. A large cardboard box…
Ricky McCormicm and the Unsolved Code that Mocked the FBI
He Died Alone. His Pockets Didn’t. In the summer of 1999, a man’s body was found rotting in a Missouri cornfield. No one saw him go in. No one knew…
The Church Was Locked. Arlis Was Still Inside
Stanford’s Memorial Church is a masterpiece of stained glass and quiet reverence, nestled in the heart of campus. On most nights, it closes without incident. But in the early hours…
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