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A snowstorm causes severe damage in North-east US, creating traffic havoc, knocking out power of tens of thousands, and claiming at least eight lives.

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A strong winter storm moving over the eastern half of the country has claimed at least eight lives and knocked out power for tens of thousands of people.

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Fox on Tech: Using lasers to find aliens

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Calling all aliens! The search for extraterrestrial life is alive and well, and this week, two scientists from MIT breathed new life into the effort with an out-of-this-world idea for contacting non-earthlings.

The plan is simple: create a laser that has the ability to let distant planets, some tens of thousands of light years away, know that we exist. The two researchers have published a new paper in The Astrophysical Journal, theorizing that we could build the laser, then combine it with a massive telescope, to make a detectable beacon for interstellar travelers.
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The good news is that the technology needed is less science fiction and more science fact. The laser would need to be between 1 to 2 megawatts, a huge amount of energy and a potential hurdle to completion. But this technology isn't new to the military. The Air Force developed a megawatt-level laser for a now-defunct missile defense project, but the design team could easily be re-assembled and re-tasked to the beacon project. "This would be a challenging project but not an impossible one," according to James Clark, an MIT grad student and the paper's lead author. "The kinds of lasers and telescopes that are being built today can produce a detectable signal, so that an astronomer could take one look at our star and immediately see something unusual about its spectrum."

As for the telescope - it would need to be between 30 and 45 meters in diameter - and there are several already in operation or in the planning phase that fit the bill. In fact, three different telescopes in that size range are under construction right now, and scheduled to come online in the early to mid-2020s - including the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) being built on the Hawaiian peak Mauna Kea.
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It could potentially be aimed a couple of close neighbors: the newly-discovered Trappist 1 Star system, which is about 40 million light years away, is a good bet to contain some sort of life. Or if we wanted to look closer, Proxima Centauri, our nearest neighbor, is just 4 light years away. At those distances, the quick flash would be seen just a few years after it was sent, potentially opening up lines of communication should there be an intelligent civilization to receive it. In theory, the beacon would beam infrared radiation, which is long-wavelength light that's invisible to the human eye. The resulting signal could be powerful and distinct enough that it would not be drowned out by the sun's heat signature.

Of course, some scientists do question if we should be in the business of alerting intelligent aliens to our presence - and invite a possible invasion if the interstellar travelers we contact turn out to be more "Independence Day" than "ET"!

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Calling all aliens! The search for extraterrestrial life is alive and well, and this week, two scientists from MIT breathed new life into the effort with an out-of-this-world idea for contacting non-earthlings. The plan is simple: create a laser that has the ability to let distant planets, some tens of thousands of light years away, know that we exist.

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Mizzou football fans were hopeful that quarterback Drew Lock could have his best season yet and be in contention for the Heisman Trophy award. That, in all likelihood, will not happen for Lock and the Tigers.

All offseason long, Mizzou football fans heard " Drew Lock Heisman this" and "Drew Lock Heisman that" to the point where they started to buy in. Their quarterback was a potential Heisman Trophy candidate this season and they weren't going to expect anything less.

Well, those dreams are long gone now, as Lock has likely fallen out of the Heisman Trophy race. The prestigious award is given to the best player in college football (normally a quarterback or running back) and two of the last three have been quarterbacks.

Lock started the season strong against teams like UT-Martin and Wyoming, but once the competition got tougher, his numbers declined greatly. Throughout the first three weeks, Lock had thrown for 1,062 yards, 11 touchdowns, and one interception. In his last three games, however, Lock threw for 567 yards, one touchdown, and five interceptions. Not exactly Heisman numbers sadly.

The knock on Drew Lock during his collegiate career has been that he can't play consistently well. It's one thing to beat up on schools like UT-Martin and Wyoming, but if Lock truly was one of the best players in college football, he'd be putting up similar numbers against conference schools, which he's failed to do throughout the course of his career.

Lock had a really rough go of it against Alabama last week, completing just 13 passes for 142 yards with one touchdown and two picks. While his Heisman dreams are a pipe dream by this point, Lock can still build his draft stock, which probably fell during his last three games.

As for who could win the Heisman this year, Dwayne Haskins of Ohio State seems to be the leader of the pack right now. The Buckeyes quarterback has been sensational, throwing for 2,331 yards, 28 touchdowns, and just four picks. Now THOSE are Heisman Trophy numbers.

The Missouri Tigers haven't had a Heisman Trophy winner in their existence and the last time they had a candidate was Chase Daniel, back in 2008. Drew Lock appeared to give them a good shot at breaking that ten-year drought, but unfortunately it doesn't look like Lock will be attending that ceremony.

MU still has a season to play though and Lock needs to continue to work hard toward becoming a first round pick.

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All offseason long, Mizzou football fans heard " Drew Lock Heisman this" and "Drew Lock Heisman that" to the point where they started to buy in. Their quarterback was a potential Heisman Trophy candidate this season and they weren't going to expect anything less.

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Camp Fire death toll rises to 63 while missing list grows to 631 names

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DNA samples sought in search for remains after Camp Fire kills 56

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Hundreds of rescue personnel dressed in white overalls sifted through smoldering rubble and mangled cars, searching for the remains of the victims of California's deadliest wildfire.

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The Kansas City Zoo announced Tuesday that Cai and Ian, the two Asian small-clawed otters have added to their family with two boys and one girl.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Kansas City Zoo announced Tuesday that Cai and Ian, the two Asian small-clawed otters have added to their family with two boys and one girl.

The triplets join their older brother Otis, who was born last year, and twins Conner and Clover, who were born this past March.

The zoo said the three new otters need names and are asking people to submit suggestions of famous trios on their Facebook page.

You can watch the adorable new baby otters below in the live cam from the otter family nest box.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Zoo announced Tuesday that Cai and Ian, the two Asian small-clawed otters have added to their family with two boys and one girl. The triplets join their older brother Otis, who was born last year, and twins Conner and Clover, who were born this past March.

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North Korea official states that the nation demands an apology over the force labor of the korean people back during wartime.

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A senior North Korean official on a visit to South Korea called Friday for Japan to apologize for the wartime forced labor of thousands of Koreans.

Ri Jong Hyok made the comments at a forum in Goyang, north of Seoul, which represented a rare effort by the rival Koreas to discuss Japan's actions before and during World War II. Anti-Japanese sentiment runs deep in both Koreas, which were colonized by Japan for 35 years before their division at the end of the war in 1945.

"Japan for the past 70 years has not even acknowledged its variety of war crimes such as forced labor and sexual slavery, let alone apologizing for them or compensating the victims," said Ri, vice chairman of North Korea's Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee.

"(Japan) has been denying, concealing and downplaying its crimes and has even started praising them, taking steps toward creating a social atmosphere that would favor a reinvasion (of the Korean Peninsula)," he said.

The forum, which drew participants from seven other countries beside the Koreas, was focused on discussing Japan's forced mobilization of laborers in the region during World War II and how to boost exchanges now among Asia-Pacific countries. Ex-Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who has been apologetic about Japan's past wrongdoing, was also invited.

Officials from South Korea's national government said they have no plans to meet Ri and four other visiting North Korean officials during their stay in the South.

The Koreas have rarely taken joint steps to tackle history and other issues stemming from their colonization because of their decades-long split. But Seoul has been trying to facilitate exchanges with its rival in recent months following the North's shift to diplomacy after a series of nuclear and missile tests.

The Koreas have been holding various talks amid larger nuclear negotiations between the United States and North Korea. South Korea's Transportation Ministry said North Korea on Friday proposed connecting international air routes along the western and eastern coasts of the peninsula during working-level talks on aviation cooperation.

In 2010, South Korea banned the country's aircraft from using North Korean airspace as it imposed unilateral sanctions on the North following an attack on a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors.

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A senior North Korean official on a visit to South Korea called Friday for Japan to apologize for the wartime forced labor of thousands of Koreans. Ri Jong Hyok made the comments at a forum in Goyang, north of Seoul, which represented a rare effort by the rival Koreas to discuss Japan's actions before and during World War II.

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A strong winter storm moving over the eastern half of the country has claimed at least eight lives and knocked out power for tens of thousands of people

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Snowstorm slams eastern US, killing 8 and knocking out power

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A strong winter storm moving over the eastern half of the country has claimed at least eight lives and knocked out power for tens of thousands of people.

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An American Citizen will be deported by North Korea after entering through China. This man was also deported last year after being seen wandering the DMZ. He told the North Koreans that he was controlled by the CIA. Image does not lead to source.

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Snow wreaks havoc on East Coast, causing commuter chaos and leaving at least 7 dead

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A fall snowstorm wreaked havoc on the East Coast Thursday, stranding New York City commuters, canceling flights, knocking out power and forcing children to stay at school overnight.

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The rough weather has contributed to at least seven deaths in the U.S., The Associated Press said.

In Connecticut, a man was shoveling snow off of his car on Interstate-95 when another car spun out of control and hit him, the state police said.

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Over 300 car crashes were reported in Maryland on Thursday, said state police.

One of New York City's biggest commuter hubs, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, closed on Thursday when it ran out of room, stranding snow-soaked commuters trying to get home to New Jersey.

The terminal has since re-opened.

Some students had to sleep at their schools in West Orange, New Jersey, after buses turned back on the snowy roads Thursday afternoon.

Massive snow totals

New York City got a whopping six inches of snow, the biggest one-day snow total for the city in November since the late 1800s.

Philadelphia saw 3.6 inches, its biggest storm since 1967.

Other snow totals:

Mount Hope, New York: 18.3 inches
Newton, Pennsylvania: 12.3 inches
Montague, New Jersey: 10.2 inches
New Fairfield, Connecticut: 10 inches
Burrillville, Rhode Island: 9 inches

The forecast

The nor'easter is moving through the Northeast on Friday morning and bringing more snow from New York to Maine.

The storm will exit the Northeast by Friday afternoon but a new smaller clipper system is developing in the Northern Plains.

This new storm system will move through the Great Lakes overnight into Saturday morning and bring snow from Minneapolis to Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and into Grand Rapids, Michigan.

More snowfall on Friday morning is expected from New York to Maine, with some areas in New England getting an additional 3 to 6 inches of fresh snow.

With the new storm system in the Midwest, about 2 to 4 inches of snow is expected -- with half a foot possible locally in the Dakotas.

Behind the clipper system in the Midwest, another dose of arctic air will move into the Midwest this weekend and into the Northeast early next week.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Woman refuses to hold escalator handrail, case to be heard in Supreme Court of Canada

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The Supreme Court of Canada On Thursday agreed to hear the case of a woman who was arrested and ticketed back in 2009 for refusing to hold an escalator handrail at a subway station.

Bela Kosoian was "taken by force" by a police officer who told her to respect a pictogram with instruction, "hold the handrail," at the station in Laval, a Montreal suburb, The Canadian Press reported. She said she did not consider the image to be an obligation, the report said.

The officers detained her for about 30 minutes and issued her two tickets: one for $100 and another for $320, The Press reported. Kosoian was acquitted of the two infractions in 2012.

The Montreal Transit Corp. said at the time that it had never issued a ticket over someone's refusal to hold a handrail, The Montreal Gazette reported.

Kosoian filed a $45,000 lawsuit against the Montreal Transit Corp., the City of Laval and the officer involved, according to the report.

Quebec court rejected her suit in 2015, as did the Quebec Court of Appeal in 2017. Now, the country's Supreme Court will decide the case.

The Montreal Transit Corp. and the City of Laval were not immediately available to comment on the case, The Press reported.

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The Supreme Court of Canada On Thursday agreed to hear the case of a woman who was arrested and ticketed back in 2009 for refusing to hold an escalator handrail at a subway station.

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Witness for the case of El Chapo claims an assassination attempt on him was performed by El Chapo's men.

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The assassin's bullet whizzed past Jesus Zambada García's ear and knocked him to the ground. He wasn't dead, just wounded. The gunshot sliced a deep, red groove into his head.
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Ambushed by his attackers at a Mexico City store, Mr. Zambada stumbled to his feet and came up shooting. With a panicked spray of gunfire, he hit one of them. The other ran away.

"I'm alive," he told a jury on Thursday, "because the bullet did not penetrate my skull."

This tale of an attempted hit came on Mr. Zambada's second day as a witness against his former boss in the Sinaloa drug cartel, Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Mexican crime lord known as El Chapo.

After testifying Tuesday about the cartel's financing and smuggling methods, Mr. Zambada spoke on Thursday about the two most notorious aspects of the trafficking organization: its taste for violence and talent for corruption.

For nearly five hours, he told the jury frontline stories from Mexico's brutal drug wars - among them, his own close brush with death in 1994, when he was hunted down by gunmen from the Arellano-Felíx gang, one of his cartel's most bitter rivals.

His account was delivered in a gritty style that might be described as narco-Gothic. He gave the jury an insider's view of well-known crimes in Mexico, including the murder of a Roman Catholic cardinal, a blood bath in a Puerto Vallarta nightclub and the assassination of a competing trafficker, who was shot in the neck.

"They always end up with deaths," Mr. Zambada said about the battles he had been through. "There are a lot of deaths."

It was the first time during Mr. Guzmán's drug-conspiracy trial, which is being held under extremely tight security at the Federal District Court in Brooklyn, that the testimony turned grisly. But the violent nature of the tales was undercut by the teller's blasé manner. Even as he spoke about his favorite type of pistol (a .38 caliber) and the killing of one of his brothers, Mr. Zambada seemed relaxed, stroking his chin and casually spinning in his chair.

His narrative began in the early 1990s when Mr. Guzmán and his Sinaloan partners - including Mr. Zambada and his brother, Ismael Zambada García - went to war with another pair of brothers, Benjamín and Ramón Arellano Felíx, who ran a cartel in Tijuana. The hostilities broke out after Ismael Zambada parted ways with the Arellano Felíx brothers and instead joined one of Mr. Guzmán's allies.

After the split, Mr. Zambada told the jury, the Arellano Felíx brothers closed the Tijuana border to the Sinaloan traffickers, an order that the stubborn Mr. Guzmán ignored. The Arellano Felíxes were outraged. And in 1992, Mr. Zambada said, Mr. Guzmán tried to take revenge.

Prosecutors say that in the early morning of Nov. 8, 1992, a band of Mr. Guzmán's armed assassins burst into Christine, a discothèque in Puerto Vallarta, drawing weapons from their coats and shooting out the lights.

Mr. Zambada said that Mr. Guzmán had planned that night to murder Ramón Arellano-Felíx. While the intended target survived the attack, some of his gunmen and several bystanders did not.

The following year, Mr. Arellano Felíx sought vengeance. In one of the most storied murders in Mexican history, Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo was killed in 1993 at an airport in Guadalajara. And in court on Thursday, Mr. Zambada claimed Mr. Arellano Felíx was to blame. He testified that the trafficker had personally killed the cardinal accidentally while trying to murder Mr. Guzmán.

It took another decade for the bloody circle to finally be closed. In Feb. 2002, Mr. Arellano Felíx was stopped by the authorities in the Pacific Coast resort of Mazatlán. A firefight ensued, and the Tijuana drug lord fled toward a hotel. But before he got there, someone put a bullet in his neck.

Mexican officials later blamed the death on the police, but Mr. Zambada, in another courtroom shock, testified on Thursday that the officers who killed Mr. Arellano-Felíx were working with the Sinaloa cartel.

Mr. Guzmán was thrilled by the death of his antagonist, he said.

"If anything had really given him pleasure," Mr. Zambada told the jury, "it was to have killed Ramón Arellano."

Before he offered up this litany of gore, Mr. Zambada confessed to yet another crime. Every month, he said, for more than a decade, he had personally paid $300,000 in bribes to Mexican officials.

Acting as a cartel bagman, Mr. Zambada said he bribed military officers, the municipal and federal police, authorities at airports and seaports, officials in the attorney general's office, even representatives from Interpol.

These illicit handouts were particularly useful, he said, when Mr. Guzmán escaped from prison - for the first time - in 2001, hidden in a laundry cart. Working with his brother, Mr. Zambada said he helped the kingpin flee from his pursuers by arranging for a helicopter to ferry him to safety.

Once Mr. Guzmán was finally in the clear, Mr. Zambada said, he and his brother drove the boss to the heart of Mexico City, the territory that Mr. Zambada ran for the cartel. He had arranged in advance for the police to escort them. But Mr. Guzmán suddenly got nervous when a squad car and a motorcycle unexpectedly pulled up.

Mr. Zambada put his friend at ease.

"I said, 'Don't worry,'" he recounted to the jury. "'These are our people. They're here to protect us.'"

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A man yells "Heil Hitler, Heil Trump" during the intermission of Fiddler on the Roof. People ran out of the building, and some were expecting gunshots.The musical is about a Jewish family and many Jewish families were there.

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A man says he's sorry for causing a commotion in a Baltimore theater last week by yelling "Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!" during a performance of "Fiddler on the Roof."

"I opened my mouth and it was so wrong. I know that now," the man told CNN affiliate WBAL. "I don't know what I was thinking. I'm so ashamed."

The man, identified in a police incident report as Anthony M. Derlunas, 58, told WBAL and the Sun that he's actually anti-Trump and anti-hate.

He told the Sun that the musical reminded him of Trump's immigration policies. His comparison "came out wrong" and was "beyond a mistake," he told the newspaper.

The outburst comes at a time of a dramatic spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and follows last month's Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in which a gunman killed 11 worshippers.

"Fiddler on the Roof" is an award-winning musical based on the "Tevye" stories by Sholem Aleichem, about a Jewish family facing persecution in Tsarist Russia.

The incident happened Wednesday night about 10 minutes into the first intermission at Baltimore's Hippodrome Theatre, audience members told CNN.

The final scene before intermission reminded the man of his hatred for Trump, according to a police report of the incident, and he then stood up to yell "Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!"

Rich Scherr, a contributor for The Baltimore Sun, witnessed the man, who was seated in the upper balcony, shouting the pro-Nazi salute.

"Several people in the audience began running toward the exits," Scherr told CNN. "I personally thought I was about to hear gunshots."

Scherr, who later posted a video from the incident on Facebook and Twitter, said the man went on to shout other things before security took him out. The show resumed 10 minutes later.

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It is not possible to discern what the man was saying from the video, which shows audience members' apparently concerned reactions.

Samit Verma, a journalist at Voice of America, was seated in the balcony on the right side of the theater with his wife when he heard the man shouting.

"I initially could not make out what the man was saying, but as more people exited the main theater I could clearly see him making a Hitler salute and yelling 'Heil Hitler!' " Verma told CNN. "Everyone around me appeared quite shaken by the experience, and some people were in tears."

Another audience member, Heather O'Hare, said everyone was shuffling and getting up to go to the restroom during the intermission when she heard the disturbance.

"People in the front orchestra seats started to turn and look up at the balcony, and someone started shouting back: 'Go Home, Nazi!' " she said.

"We were kind (of) confused and numb about what actually was happening, but several audience members were palpably upset and decided to leave during the intermission break. The entire right half of the row in front of me was gone after Act One."

'Many Jewish families ... were visibly shaken'

Kasey Chisholm was in the lobby with her father during intermission when the outburst occurred. She saw security swarm in and escort the man out.

"We found out what he had been yelling when we returned to our seats," she said. "Many Jewish families were around our seats and were visibly shaken."

Connor Drew was also in the lobby at the time. When he returned to his seat, he said he saw a woman next to him "shaking while on the phone with her son."

In a statement released to CNN affiliate WJZ, the Hippodrome Theatre said, "Behavior like we saw during intermission at Wednesday evening's performance is not, and will not be, tolerated.

"The Hippodrome's on-site security team, along with our usher staff were able to remedy the situation and remove the offending audience member quickly, coordinating efforts with local police, who met the man as he was escorted out of the building."

Police found Derlunas standing outside the theater "in a calm manner" with a female companion, according to the police incident report. Officers spoke with the two and they were allowed to leave the area.

CNN's David Williams contributed to this report.

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Man apologizes for yelling 'Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!' during a performance of 'Fiddler on the Roof'

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A man says he's sorry for causing a commotion in a Baltimore theater last week by yelling "Heil Hitler! Heil Trump!" during a performance of "Fiddler on the Roof." "I opened my mouth and it was so wrong. I know that now," the man told CNN affiliate WBAL.

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MIllion-dollar con at Las Vegas casino gets 2 gamblers put on the Nevada "Black Book".

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Two names have been added to Nevada's "black book," meaning the two craps players are banned from entering casinos in the state after swindling the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip of more than $1 million.

Anthony Grant Granito and James Russell Cooper, who became the 33rd and 34th persons to be placed on the state's list of people barred from entering casinos, were among a group of four men who scammed the casino between August 2012 and July 2014 of an estimated $1.2 million, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.

Casino officials became aware of the con in 2014 after noticing several bets that won despite 452 billion-to-1 odds, according to the Review-Journal.

Granito and Cooper, along with Jeffrey Martin and Mark Branco were convicted in 2016 and sentenced to prison on theft and cheating charges, the paper reported.

Branco, who worked at the Bellagio as a craps dealer, would have to be working at the same table with Cooper for the scheme to work, the paper reported, citing Cooper's grand jury testimony.

The two other men would then mumble a hop bet under their breath. A hop bet is wager one places hoping that specific numbers would show up on the dice when it is rolled. One of the dealers would pay out the bet appearing to hear what the gambler had called out.

They also placed legitimate bets and lost thousands to make their scheme look less suspicious, according to the Review-Journal.

According to the paper, the tables at the Bellagio did not have a designated spot for hop bets

Branco is the only one still incarcerated, while the other three are on probation, according to the paper.

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Two names have been added to Nevada's "black book," meaning the two craps players are banned from entering casinos in the state after swindling the Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip of more than $1 million.

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Missing Disney film which predates Mickey Mouse resurfaces in Japan

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A 1928 Disney animation, which predates the creation of Mickey Mouse, has been unearthed in Japan, according to Japanese media.

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Yesterday morning in Lee's Summit, Missouri, an innocent grape was assaulted due to the uncontrollable anger of a 15 year old girl. It is reported that she "didn't acknowledge her inhumane actions as she walked away like nothing happened" and she isn't currently being charged with anything.

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The cost of Thanksgiving dinner is at it's lowest since 2010

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The average American family will spend 22 percent less on Thanksgiving dinner this year than they did last year, according to the results of the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual survey released Thursday.

A Thanksgiving meal large enough to feed 10 people costs $48.90 this year, down 22 percent from last year's average price tag of $49.12. This year's feasts will cost less than $5 per person.

Thanksgiving dinner costs are at their lowest level since 2010 and have now fallen for three straight years, according to AFBF chief economist John Newton. The affordable costs are attributed in part to the cheaper price of turkeys, which sank 3 percent to $21.71 per 16-pound bird this year.

"Thanks to an ample supply, turkey remains affordable to consumers, which helps keep the overall cost of the dinner reasonably priced as well," Newton said in a statement.

Thanksgiving staples that saw price reductions ahead of this year's holiday include sweet potatoes, which cost an average of $3.39 for a 3-pound bag, milk, which costs $2.92 per gallon, and a dozen dinner rolls, which cost $2.25. The cost of some items increased, such as pumpkin pie mix, pie shells and fresh cranberries.

The AFBF's survey measured Thanksgiving shopping prices of 166 volunteer shoppers at grocery stores in 37 states, the group said. The shoppers did not use coupons or special in-store deals.

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The average American family will spend 22 percent less on Thanksgiving dinner this year than they did last year, according to the results of the American Farm Bureau Federation's annual survey released Thursday. A Thanksgiving meal large enough to feed 10 people costs $48.90 this year, down 22 percent from last year's average price tag of $49.12.

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A woman has bled to death after being attacked by monkeys days after the animals snatched and killed a baby in the same city, according to reports.

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A woman has bled to death after being attacked by monkeys days after the animals snatched and killed a baby in the same city, according to reports.

Bhoomi Devi, 58, was bitten to death after wandering into a field near her home in another killer ape attack the same week a 12-day-old tot that was fatally ambushed.

Devi had gone into the field to urinate when she was set upon by monkeys who allegedly attacked her so ferociously that she collapsed and was only spared after becoming motionless.
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She was discovered by relatives who rushed her to a nearby medical clinic but she succumbed to her injuries shortly afterward.

The attack comes just days after a 12-day-old baby was bitten to death by another monkey, on the outskirts of Agra, India.
MONKEY SNATCHES 12-DAY-OLD BABY FROM MOTHER'S ARMS, FATALLY BITES HIM
Indian activists are now calling for the protected species to be moved to a sanctuary and funds to be raised to pay for sterilization and victim compensation.
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Woman bleeds to death after being attacked by monkeys days after baby was killed in same city

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A woman has bled to death after being attacked by monkeys days after the animals snatched and killed a baby in the same city, according to reports. Bhoomi Devi, 58, was bitten to death after wandering into a field near her home in another killer ape attack the same week a 12-day-old tot that was fatally ambushed.

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A 12 year-old boy prompted to write a goodbye letter to his parent during a school lockdown.

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Fearing for his life during an elementary school lockdown, a 12-year-old boy wrote a poignant goodbye letter to his parents, believing he may never see them again.

"Dear mom, right now I am scared to death," Ajani Dartiguenave wrote in the handwritten letter. "I need a warm soft hug and I will miss you ... and I hope that you will be okay with me gone."

"Dad, I am sorry for [embarrassing] all of you because of my behavior. I hope that all of [you] live long. I don't know if I will see [you]," Dartiguenave - by all accounts a conscientious student studying at Governor's Village STEM Academy in Charlotte -- wrote in a letter likely written in haste and containing some spelling errors.

The letter deeply upset his mother.

"I was so shocked," Claudia Charles told ABC News in an interview, in which she said she had yet to learn from school officials what prompted the lockdown.

Claudia Charles

Dear mom, right now I am scared to death. I need a warm soft hug and I will miss you.

"No parent should have to read a letter that their kid wrote -- thinking they were going to die," Charles said at another point during the interview.

She also said it has complicated her efforts to console her son.

"I don't even know what to tell him to make him feel better about what happened because we don't even know [what happened]."

Ajani and his friends prayed for their lives during the lockdown, his mother said.

No parent should have to read a letter that their kid wrote -- thinking they were going to die.

"He was so upset and his friends were crying, and they thought they were going to die -- and they were praying."

Charles said her son began to fear for his life after hearing on the news about school shootings, and was especially rattled when a student at a nearby high school was fatally shot about two weeks ago.

Claudia Charles

A spokesperson for Governor's Village STEM Academy did not immediately respond to a request for comment from ABC News.

However, a spokeswoman for the school district's Board of Education said she could not verify the identities of any of the school's students, but acknowledged that the school was locked down for about 35 minutes last Friday, following a report of a possible threat.

She said no gun or weapon was reported on school grounds the day of the lockdown, but that the school had to respond to even a hint of a threat to best protect the students.

"The school received a rumor of a threat," said Renee McCoy, Executive Director of Communications for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. "The threat was checked out by law enforcement and deemed not credible."

"The safety and security of all students and staff at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is top priority. All efforts are being made to ensure a safe learning environment for all students and staff," McCoy said.

McCoy encouraged any student who had concerns to speak with a school psychologist

"Social and emotional support is also available at any school for any CMS student who feels he/she would like to speak to a school psychologist about their experiences".

Charles said she bought Ajani a phone so he could call or text her if something ever happens.

"Now I realize that you know it's getting closer and closer like my kids are more affected by it," Charles said.

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School lockdown prompts fearful boy, 12, to write goodbye letter to his parents

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Fearing for his life during an elementary school lockdown, a 12-year-old boy wrote a poignant goodbye letter to his parents, believing he may never see them again. "Dear mom, right now I am scared to death," Ajani Dartiguenave wrote in the handwritten letter. "I need a warm soft hug and I will miss you ...

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Over 40 people were killed and at least 20 more severely injured when a fire spread throughout a bus after an accident.

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Fire swept through a passenger bus in Zimbabwe, killing more than 40 people and injuring at least 20, some of whom suffered severe burns, authorities said Friday.

A photograph posted on Twitter by the Zimbabwe Red Cross shows the remains of the bus that was completely incinerated late Thursday. The Red Cross said its teams responded to a "horrific accident" involving a bus heading to neighboring South Africa at around midnight.

"Combustible material was allowed onto the bus, thus causing a conflagration which entrapped, scalded and consumed innocent passengers," President Emmerson Mnangagwa said in a condolence message.

Mnangagwa said the government should "take appropriate measures which comprehensively deal with this growing menace on our roads."

The accident happened in Gwanda district, about 550 kilometers (340 miles) south of Harare, Zimbabwe's capital.

Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba confirmed a death toll of more than 40.

Last week, a collision between two buses in Zimbabwe killed 50 people and injured about 80.

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Fire swept through a passenger bus in Zimbabwe, killing more than 40 people and injuring at least 20, some of whom suffered severe burns, authorities said Friday. A photograph posted on Twitter by the Zimbabwe Red Cross shows the remains of the bus that was completely incinerated late...

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On Thursday a snowstorm wiped out power, cancelled flights, and stranding New York commuters. At least 7 are dead.

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A fall snowstorm wreaked havoc on the East Coast Thursday, stranding New York City commuters, canceling flights, knocking out power and forcing children to stay at school overnight.

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The rough weather has contributed to at least seven deaths in the U.S., The Associated Press said.

In Connecticut, a man was shoveling snow off of his car on Interstate-95 when another car spun out of control and hit him, the state police said.

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Over 300 car crashes were reported in Maryland on Thursday, said state police.

One of New York City's biggest commuter hubs, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, closed on Thursday when it ran out of room, stranding snow-soaked commuters trying to get home to New Jersey.

The terminal has since re-opened.

Some students had to sleep at their schools in West Orange, New Jersey, after buses turned back on the snowy roads Thursday afternoon.

Massive snow totals

New York City got a whopping six inches of snow, the biggest one-day snow total for the city in November since the late 1800s.

Philadelphia saw 3.6 inches, its biggest storm since 1967.

Other snow totals:

Mount Hope, New York: 18.3 inches
Newton, Pennsylvania: 12.3 inches
Montague, New Jersey: 10.2 inches
New Fairfield, Connecticut: 10 inches
Burrillville, Rhode Island: 9 inches

The forecast

The nor'easter is moving through the Northeast on Friday morning and bringing more snow from New York to Maine.

The storm will exit the Northeast by Friday afternoon but a new smaller clipper system is developing in the Northern Plains.

This new storm system will move through the Great Lakes overnight into Saturday morning and bring snow from Minneapolis to Green Bay and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and into Grand Rapids, Michigan.

More snowfall on Friday morning is expected from New York to Maine, with some areas in New England getting an additional 3 to 6 inches of fresh snow.

With the new storm system in the Midwest, about 2 to 4 inches of snow is expected -- with half a foot possible locally in the Dakotas.

Behind the clipper system in the Midwest, another dose of arctic air will move into the Midwest this weekend and into the Northeast early next week.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Everything about the GoGundme was a plan to get more people to donate.

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A New Jersey woman who prosecutors say was part of an elaborate conspiracy to dupe GoFundMe donors of more than $400,000 text messaged a friend about the GoFundMe page and said to, "shush about the made up stuff," a prosecutor said Thursday.

Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Caffina said that that within hours of the Nov. 10 campaign launch, Kate McClure texted a friend saying that the majority of the story was fabricated, according to NBC 10 Philadelphia.

"Ok, so wait. The gas part is completely made up. The guy isn't," McClure allegedly texted the friend after the campaign went live. "So shush about the made up stuff," she said, according to Caffina.

McClure, her boyfriend Mark D'Amico and homeless veteran Johnny Bobbitt are facing criminal charges of conspiracy and theft by deception, in what Caffina said "hoodwinked an awful lot of people," the station reported.

Authorities believed that the three met at least a month before the campaign launched, NBC 10 reported.

The couple surrendered to law enforcement Wednesday night and were released.

Bobbitt was arrested Wednesday night by U.S. marshals in Philadelphia and remained in custody Thursday on probation detainers and a $50,000 bond.

On Thursday, James Gerrow, another attorney for McClure released a statement on behalf claiming that she was unaware of the alleged false story and that D'Amico and Bobbitt used her, according to the station.

"I'm confident that in the end the evidence will reveal that Kate had only the best intentions," Gerrow said. "She was used by Mr. D'Amico and Mr. Bobbitt and she thought throughout that this money was going to a homeless veteran. She was unaware that they had concocted this scheme. It wasn't until September when meeting with prosecutors that she came to realize that she had been used by both of them."

The story originated in November 2017 when Johnny Bobbitt, a homeless military veteran, was reported to have given his last $20 to Kate McClure, a stranded motorist on the side of the road in Philadelphia.

In an effort to thank Bobbitt for the kind gesture, McClure and her boyfriend, Mark D'Amico, created a GoFundMe account for him, which ultimately raised $400,000 from more than 14,000 people.

Now, all of the money raised through the crowdfunding website will be refunded to the donors, Coffina said.
Fox News' Elizabeth Zwirz and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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'Stranded motorist' in GoFundme case allegedly texted friend, 'shush about the made up stuff': report

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A New Jersey woman part of an elaborate conspiracy involving her boyfriend and a homeless Philadelphia man allegedly texted her friend saying "so shush about the made up stuff," after the launch of a GoFundMe campaign that deceived donors of more than $400,000, a prosecutor said Thursday.

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A pizza slicer at Detroit's Comerica Park has been sentenced to 18 months of probation.

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Pizza-spitter at Detroit's Comerica Park sentenced to probation

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Twenty-one-year-old Jaylon Kerley also was ordered Thursday to take an anger management class.

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Snowstorm in Eastern United States kills 8 and shuts off the power.

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Snowstorm slams eastern US, killing 8 and knocking out power

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A strong winter storm moving over the eastern half of the country has claimed at least eight lives and knocked out power for tens of thousands of people.