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3 year old baby reunites with the officer who has been looking at him for two days.

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A 3-year-old North Carolina boy found alive two days he went missing has reunited with the authorities who spent over 48 hours searching for him.

Casey Hathaway, who was in good condition when he was found January 24 in wooded Craven County, visited the Sheriff's Office on Thursday with his family.

Officials posted the adorable photos of Casey to the sheriff's Facebook page.

"Casey is doing well," it read.

Craven County Sheriffs Office

Craven County Sheriffs Office

Casey was playing with two other children on Jan. 22 when he disappeared from his grandmother's home. His grandmother and others searched for about 45 minutes and then called 911.

After two days of desperate searches for the little boy, crews responded to a report of a child crying in the woods and found Casey "about 40 to 50 yards in the woods, tangled up," Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes told ABC New Bern affiliate WCTI hours after he was found.

Casey was soaking wet but had his coat on, Hughes said, and "he wanted water -- and his mom."

"He did say that he had a friend in the woods that was a bear," the sheriff added.

"What he survived out there -- temperatures in the 20s, low 20s, the rain, the downpour that almost put our search on a standstill," Hughes said. "This kid, he's strong. He was meant to survive. He's a survivor."

The little boy was rushed to the hospital.

"Just the look on his face when his little sister came in the room, it was tear-jerking," Hughes said.

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Rescued 3-year-old boy reunites with officials who spent days searching for him

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A 3-year-old North Carolina boy found alive two days he went missing has reunited with the authorities who spent over 48 hours searching for him. Casey Hathaway, who was in good condition when he was found January 24 in wooded Craven County, visited the Sheriff's Office on Thursday with his family.

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Three teenagers have died and five more were listed in critical condition after a bridge linking classrooms at a school collapsed.

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Three teenagers have died and five more were listed in critical condition after a bridge linking classrooms at a school collapsed.

The incident occurred in Vanderbijlpark, a city about 40 miles south of Johannesburg.

All relevant emergency services are at the #SchoolBridgeCollapse accident scene at Hoërskool Driehoek, Vanderbijlpark, where roughly 20 learners are being treated for minor to critical injuries. Four fatalities have been reported. This is a developing story. CG pic.twitter.com/vybgG8hDp8
- OFM News (@OFMNews9497) 1 February 2019

Panyaza Lesufi, the head of the Gauteng Province Education Department, told ABC News that 26 other schoolchildren were injured when the walkway collapsed.

"We've shut down the school until further notice to investigate how this could have happened," Lesufi said.

Tragedy: Moments ago a walkway collapsed at Höerskool Driehoek, Sedibeng Region. Sadly ?? three (3) learners died on the scene and scores are still trapped in the rubble. I am on my way to the scene. #HöerskoolDriehook
- Panyaza Lesufi (@Lesufi) 1 February 2019

Lesufi also extended his condolences to the families of the deceased pupils, who ranged in age from 14 to 17.

Three of the critically injured students were airlifted to the hospital, a spokesperson for Netcare 911, an emergency response company, told ABC News.

The cause of the collapse remains under investigation, authorities said.

This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.

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3 dead, 5 critically injured in walkway collapse at school

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Three teenagers have died and five more were listed in critical condition after a bridge linking classrooms at a school collapsed. The incident occurred in Vanderbijlpark, a city about 40 miles south of Johannesburg. All relevant emergency services are at the #SchoolBridgeCollapse accident scene at Hoërskool Driehoek, Vanderbijlpark, where roughly 20 learners are being treated for minor to critical injuries.

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Girls can now officially join the Boy Scouts as of today. This decision was made so that females can become Eagle Scouts, which a lot of girls have wanted to accomplish.

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girls can now join boy scouts -- but not everyone is prepared to like it - cnn

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Starting today, girls can join the Boy Scouts -- but not everyone is prepared to like it

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It's official: Girls can now join the Boy Scouts.

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Apple fixed the bug that let other people eavesdrop on other peoples facetime calls

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Apple's Group FaceTime is fixed and a software update will be released next week that no longer allows iPhone users to eavesdrop on others, the tech giant said in a statement Friday.

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"We have fixed the Group FaceTime security bug on Apple's servers and we will issue a software update to re-enable the feature for users next week. We thank the Thompson family for reporting the bug. We sincerely apologize to our customers who were affected and all who were concerned about this security issue," according to the statement.

This the first time Apple has acknowledged the 14-year-old Arizona student, Grant Thompson, who said he first discovered the bug a week before Apple took the feature offline. His mother, Michele Thompson, tweeted about her son's discovery for days before the company and media outlets picked up on it.

"I stumbled upon this glitch that like the whole world knows about now," Thompson told ABC News in an interview Tuesday night.

The security bug allowed users to eavesdrop on the people they were FaceTiming before a call was answered.

"We want to assure our customers that as soon as our engineering team became aware of the details necessary to reproduce the bug, they quickly disabled Group FaceTime and began work on the fix. We are committed to improving the process by which we receive and escalate these reports, in order to get them to the right people as fast as possible," the Apple said.

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Apple fixes its Group FaceTime security bug

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Apple's Group FaceTime is fixed and a software update will be released next week that no longer allows iPhone users to eavesdrop on others, the tech giant said in a statement Friday. Add Apple as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Apple news, video, and analysis from ABC News.

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Thousands of pounds of meat from sick cows who were slaughtered illegally in Poland were exported to 10 other European Union countries, the country's top veterinary official said on Thursday.

Pawel Niemczuk said about 2,500 kilograms (5,500 pounds) of the meat was exported to Finland, Hungary, Estonia, Romania, Sweden, France, Spain, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia..

Meat from sick cows also went to 20 sales locations in Poland but has since been recalled, he said.

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About 2,500 kilograms (5,500 pounds) of meat from sick cows who were slaughtered illegally in Poland has been exported to 10 other European Union countries, the country's top state veterinary official said on Thursday.

Pawel Niemczuk said the meat was also distributed to 20 selling points in Poland but has since been recalled.

The announcement follows the recent airing of an undercover report by the private broadcaster TVN that documented sick cows being slaughtered in violation of the law in the northeastern Polish town of Ostrow Mazowiecka.

No veterinarians were present for the slaughter although the meat was marked as having followed that required legal procedure.

Niemczuk said the meat ended up in Finland, Hungary, Estonia, Romania, Sweden, France, Spain, Lithuania, Portugal and Slovakia.

Louise Nyholm of Sweden's National Food Agency said small quantities of the meat had been sold to four companies in Sweden, and called it "a serious violation of food law and totally unacceptable."

The agency said authorities in EU countries to which the meat was exported were alerted.

Officials in Finland said some 250 kilograms of Polish meat suspected to be from sick cows ended up in the country. Food safety officials were investigating whether any of that meat has been sold in local stores.

Meanwhile, Estonia got about 350 kilograms of the meat but none ended up in stores, officials there said.

The Polish veterinary inspectorate stripped the slaughterhouse of permission to operate earlier this week.

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About 2,500 kilograms (5,500 pounds) of meat from sick cows who were slaughtered illegally in Poland has been exported to 10 other European Union countries, the country's top state veterinary official said on Thursday. Pawel Niemczuk said the meat was also distributed to 20 selling points...

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Knicks president says Kristaps Porzingis' lack of buy-in contributed to trade. He was traded to the maericks which what most nba fans are saying for nothing.

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Country music star Justin Moore posts photos of injured leg after horse steps on him

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Country singer Justin Moore shares pictures of some gnarly injuries he suffered from after a horse stepped on him.

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man calls police because he was too high and said he was surrounded by Doritos

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Image: Mashable Composite, Robert Recker/Corbis, Matt Rourke/AP

Most stoned people avoid the police at all costs, because they know, man. However, one intoxicated man in Youngstown, Ohio, decided to do just the opposite because he was way too high.

According to theYoungstown Vindicator, the police responded to a call from a 22-year-old man at approximately 5:20 p.m. on Friday who claimed that he was too high after smoking cannabis.

Police could hear the man groaning as they arrived and found him lying "on the floor in the fetal position," according to the report, which also said he "was surrounded by a plethora of Doritos, Pepperidge Farm Goldfish and Chips Ahoy cookies." The man also said that he couldn't feel his hands.

After turning over his keys, police discovered a pipe with pot residue, rolling papers, two roaches and a glass jar of weed in his car. The man declined medical treatment.

While a toxic overdose of cannabis is exceedingly unlikely, consuming too much can have negative effects, such as anxiety attacks, paranoia and difficulty thinking.

Police have not yet determined if they will charge the man with possession of a controlled substance, however, next month Ohio voters will be given the opportunity to legalize marijuana recreationally. Currently, marijuana is recreationally legal in Alaska, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and D.C., and medical marijuana is legal in some form in 23 states.

Along with the legalization of marijuana will hopefully come better education, and opportunities to inform the public of safe practices for the consumption of cannabis.
Additional Reporting by the Associated Press BONUS: A sweet lesson on marijuana edibles

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Most stoned people avoid the police at all costs, because they know, man. However, one intoxicated man in Youngstown, Ohio, decided to do just the opposite because he was way too high. According to theYoungstown Vindicator , the police responded to a call from a 22-year-old man at approximately 5:20 p.m.

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pompeo announces withdrawal from nuclear arms treaty - cnnpolitics

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Friday that the US is withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a key pact with Russia that has been a centerpiece of European security since the Cold War.

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Three teenagers have died and five more were listed in critical condition after a bridge linking classrooms at a school collapsed

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Three teenagers have died and five more were listed in critical condition after a bridge linking classrooms at a school collapsed.

The incident occurred in Vanderbijlpark, a city about 40 miles south of Johannesburg.

All relevant emergency services are at the #SchoolBridgeCollapse accident scene at Hoërskool Driehoek, Vanderbijlpark, where roughly 20 learners are being treated for minor to critical injuries. Four fatalities have been reported. This is a developing story. CG pic.twitter.com/vybgG8hDp8
- OFM News (@OFMNews9497) 1 February 2019

Panyaza Lesufi, the head of the Gauteng Province Education Department, told ABC News that 26 other schoolchildren were injured when the walkway collapsed.

"We've shut down the school until further notice to investigate how this could have happened," Lesufi said.

Tragedy: Moments ago a walkway collapsed at Höerskool Driehoek, Sedibeng Region. Sadly ?? three (3) learners died on the scene and scores are still trapped in the rubble. I am on my way to the scene. #HöerskoolDriehook
- Panyaza Lesufi (@Lesufi) 1 February 2019

Lesufi also extended his condolences to the families of the deceased pupils, who ranged in age from 14 to 17.

Three of the critically injured students were airlifted to the hospital, a spokesperson for Netcare 911, an emergency response company, told ABC News.

The cause of the collapse remains under investigation, authorities said.

This is a breaking story. Please check back for updates.

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Winners All Around in Knicks-Mavs Trade for Kristaps Porzingis, and 1 Big Loser

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NBA Bleacher Report NBA Staff Featured Columnist

ESPN.com's Adrian Wojnarowski has broken the internet for the second time this week, reporting Thursday that the New York Knicks have traded Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks.

Per The Athletic and Stadium's Shams Charania, the Knicks will receive Dennis Smith Jr., DeAndre Jordan and Wesley Matthews while sending out Trey Burke, Courtney Lee and Tim Hardaway Jr as well.

Charania also reported that Dallas will send New York two future first-round drafts picks as part of the deal.

Although this trade season was supposed to be quiet considering a presumed imbalance of buyers to sellers, it's proved quite the opposite-up to this point-as next week's deadline inches closer.

With Thursday's news sending a jolt of pre-deadline excitement around the NBA world, Bleacher Report has called upon five NBA writers to break down who the big winners and losers are from this deal.

Escaping the Knicks is a huge victory no matter how you look at it: Either Kristaps Porzingis requested a trade and was granted his wish, or he just received a get-out-of-dodge card without demanding or expecting it. Maybe the real answer falls somewhere in between the two.

Porzingis has tried to apply pressure before. He skipped his exit interview with then-president Phil Jackson in 2017, which preempted trade talks ahead of the draft and, ultimately, the Zen Master's dismissal. Porzingis is not above making this power play.

But let's think about how he arrived here. He only felt compelled to skip his exit interview because the Knicks were so devoid of direction. And then he had to endure trade rumors.

After tearing his ACL and making his first career All-Star game last year, he wasn't given an extension. Waiting made sense for the Knicks, because it saved them more than $10 million in cap space for this summer. But they never had the goodwill built up with Porzingis for him to trust them at their word.

And then, as this season continued spiraling out of control, Porzingis' name cropped up in the Anthony Davis rumor mill. That's part of this business, but again, New York and its best prospect since Patrick Ewing were never functionally close enough to navigate the typical ups and downs of a player and team relationship.

Even the way their marriage ended reeks of malpractice. Reports that Porzingis preferred a trade leaked Thursday, and a deal with Dallas was reached soon after. We know now that the Knicks and Mavericks began their dialogue no later than Wednesday night.

That timeline doesn't add up. It seems like the Knicks were shopping Porzingis for a while and used said Thursday meeting with Porzingis and his brother, who is also his agent, as a contrived smokescreen. Whatever, though. That's speculation.

Moral of the story: Porzingis should count himself lucky. It doesn't matter whether he wants to play in Dallas long-term. Nor does it matter if the Knicks go on to sign two stars and draft another. Porzingis is trading the hellscape that is Madison Square Garden for a franchise headlined by another generational talent in Luka Doncic. He wins.

- Dan Favale

Luka Doncic had quickly taken over the Dallas Mavericks offense, creating questions about Dennis Smith Jr.'s role and future in Dallas. He was second fiddle on a losing team. At least now he has a lead-guard job back in New York, assuming he wins it over Emmanuel Mudiay, a free agent this summer.

Smith now looks like the Knicks' long-term starting point guard-or a piece of something special if the team is able to bring in stars with its newfound cap room. It's a win-win. A best-case scenario has the Knicks signing two max free agents, with Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant presumably the targets. Smith's usage would decrease, but he'd still have a key role for a winning team in New York.

He's also been starting to show signs of maturation with less on-ball responsibility, which is encouraging regarding his potential to adapt and fit with the stars New York will chase. The game has slowed down for Smith, who's shooting a respectable 44.0 percent, coming off a 15-assist triple-double Wednesday night, coincidentally at Madison Square Garden.

Even if the Knicks can't sign big names this summer, they'll still be in promising position to build with cap-room galore, their 2019 first-round draft pick, Kevin Knox, Allonzo Trier, Mitchell Robinson and more first-round picks coming from Dallas in the trade, per The Athletic and Stadium's Shams Charania.

- Jonathan Wasserman

If only because the Dallas Mavericks almost have to play them (and because they escaped the perpetual machine of turmoil that the New York Knicks have become in recent years), Courtney Lee and Tim Hardaway Jr. should be considered significant winners.

The former should spend more time on the floor than he did during his final half-season with the Knicks (13.3 minutes per game in 12 appearances), so he's the bigger victor of the two. But while the latter will have to sacrifice some touches, unable to maintain as large a usage rate alongside Luka Doncic, he'll at least get to play for a competitive team that still needs secondary scorers.

Trey Burke doesn't quite qualify as a "significant" winner, but that could change if his playing time stabilizes after fluctuating throughout the 2018-19 campaign. Learning another system isn't ideal, but at least he's another backcourt player going to a location that needs warm bodies.

Ultimately, landing in a rotation that features Doncic, Jalen Brunson and Devin Harris as the primary incumbent guards means guaranteed playing time, so long as the shots are falling with some semblance of consistency. That the Mavericks will be financially strapped if Kristaps Porzingis signs a new deal (uncertain) while Harrison Barnes (basically a lock) and Dwight Powell (probably) pick up player options for 2019-20 only increases the length of that guarantee.

Hardaway and Lee are both glorified role players, one a shot-creating gunner and the other a three-and-D veteran. Burke profiles as a backup point guard, even if he had a few standout games in the Big Apple to escape the category of unequivocal draft bust. When transitioning from a bottom-feeder to a squad with playoff aspirations in the near future, a probable two-year stay in the rotation has to be considered a win for the first two, while the latter was gearing up for a free-agency adventure anyway.

- Adam Fromal

The New York Knicks have been long-rumored to be chasing two maximum-salaried free agents this summer. The challenge they faced was barely enough cap room for even a single max star. Until they agreed to the blockbuster Kristaps Porzingis trade with the Dallas Mavericks, that is.

Depending on exactly where the Knicks' first-round pick falls in the NBA draft lottery in May, the team would have neared $32 million in spending power if it wanted to pair Kyrie Irving with Porzingis.

Why would Irving desert the Boston Celtics to play on an unproven Knicks roster with Porzingis working his way back from a significant knee injury? Now, New York can get to at least $73 million in cap space, enough to try to lure Kevin Durant from the Golden State Warriors at a maximum salary starting at $38.2 million with another $35 million to spare. That's enough to land Durant and Irving alongside Dennis Smith Jr., Kevin Knox and a shot at Duke's Zion Williamson in the draft.

If Durant and/or Irving won't come, New York can chase other unrestricted free agents like Kawhi Leonard, Klay Thompson and/or Jimmy Butler.

Ultimately, New York's gambit will be judged by its free-agent bounty and how well Porzingis bounces back in Dallas post-injury.

- Eric Pincus

A lot is being made of DeAndre Jordan's friendship with Kevin Durant, whom the Knicks are known to be gearing up to pursue in free agency this summer. But the Knicks are also highly motivated to keep themselves in contention for the NBA's worst record this season for a chance to land Zion Williamson in the draft lottery.

Wesley Matthews and Jordan, while not stars, are solid veterans. Keeping them might mean winning just enough games to put themselves at a disadvantage in the tank race. It makes more sense to buy them out, and they would immediately become two of the most impactful free agents to hit the market midseason.

The Houston Rockets are still without starting center Clint Capela. While veteran big man Kenneth Faried, who accepted a buyout from Brooklyn earlier in January, has been a nice fill-in, Jordan becoming available for the minimum would be a game-changer for them. The same goes for the Golden State Warriors, who signed Jordan to an offer sheet in 2011 and have been connected to potential buyout candidate Robin Lopez as DeMarcus Cousins insurance.

Matthews, too, could be a useful role player for a contender if the Knicks cut ties with him by March 1. A 38 percent three-point shooter and solid defender with a good reputation as a locker-room presence, he would be in high demand among playoff hopefuls.

Jordan and Matthews don't fit into the Knicks' long-term plans, and if they reach the buyout stage, both could go from a likely non-playoff team in Dallas to having a chance to make postseason runs ahead of an opportunity to secure big-money deals in the summer.

- Sean Highkin

The Mavericks have one surefire star for the post-Dirk era. In his rookie season, Luka Doncic has been as good as advertised. The next step for Mark Cuban and Donnie Nelson has been to find him a star running mate as they build around him for the future. Thursday's trade is a big bet that Kristaps Porzingis is that guy.

The Mavs' history with big-name free agents is shaky at best, and buying low on Porzingis is as good an option as anyone else who may be available to them in free agency. If he makes a full recovery from the torn left ACL he suffered last February (there's still no word on when he'll be back on the court), he and Doncic could form a lethal tandem.

Before the injury last season, Porzingis was shooting a career-high 39.5 percent from three-point range, and that was without a playmaker a fraction as gifted as Doncic to set him up with looks. Doncic already commands enough attention from opposing defenses to free up plenty of open shots for Porzingis, who is also a gifted enough defender to cover up Doncic's weaknesses on that end. We may not see Porzingis on the floor in a Mavericks uniform until next season, but if he's healthy, they may have found Doncic an ideal second star.

-Highkin

With Dennis Smith Jr. coming in, Frank Ntilikina loses even more on-ball touches to develop. And at this point, 50 games into his second season, it's become time for the Knicks to find out who their 2017 lottery pick is and what he could become.

On one hand, Ntilikina should be able to play off of Smith as a 6'6" combo guard. But given the Frenchman's struggles as a shot-creator, this new roster isn't suited for him, assuming the team moves or buys out DeAndre Jordan and Wesley Matthews. Ntilikina needs talent to play off, and he could have less of it around him now than he had yesterday.

And if the Knicks are able to load up this offseason by adding multiple free agents-plus their likely top-four draft pick-it could knock him out of the rotation. Ntilikina should be next in line requesting a trade and fresh start elsewhere.

-Wasserman

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Winners All Around in Knicks-Mavs Trade for Kristaps Porzingis, and 1 Big Loser

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NBA Bleacher Report NBA Staff Featured Columnist ESPN.com's Adrian Wojnarowski has broken the internet for the second time this week, reporting Thursday that the New York Knicks have traded Kristaps Porzingis to the Dallas Mavericks.

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Hang on, folks. I've just received word. Molly Schuyler has landed. She is on her way. I repeat, she is en route.

I'm coming to you live from the grounds of the Great Pumpkin Farm on a sparkling October Sunday in Clarence, New York, about 20 minutes outside of Buffalo. I'm bearing witness to the culmination of the farm's fall festival, but the culminating will be hard to come by without the undisputed reigning pumpkin pie-eating champion of the world.

A series of folding tables, draped in material that's more sheeting than cloth, stand end to end along a stage at the back wall of a building made of concrete and siding and not much else. Volunteers criss-cross the floor with walkie-talkies and stacks of paper plates.

Schuyler had a mix-up with her flights, they explain. She had to take the red-eye from her home in Sacramento. She's late, but they'll wait.

Finally she walks in, sunglasses on, phone in one hand and Starbucks in the other. The contest can now begin.

Competitive eaters are local celebrities in whatever location happens to host them. A small group gathers around the slender 5'7" Schuyler, whose bleach-blonde hair is tied back to reveal a shaved head beneath. Each ear contains 10 piercings, give or take. Her nose has only one or two.

"I have a cracked tooth," Schuyler tells the group.

She opens her mouth. "See? Iz hack zhere."

Fast-forward one hour and Schuyler stands onstage, smack in the middle of a righteous mess. The tooth didn't seem to present much of an obstacle. Having traded a cardigan for a bright orange T-shirt, she is flanked on either side by a ponderous assortment of dudes. Together they peer out through a trashscape of water bottles, pie in various states of decay, crumpled napkins and many, many paper plates.

The plates are the unquestioned lords of the trash. Each held one slice of pie. Whoever has the most plates in front of them after 10 minutes wins $1,000. An emcee counts through the stacks, starting with the Joes and moving to the pros. When he reaches Schuyler, the number to beat is 34.

The crowd counts along. They blow past 20. People whoop as they approach and pass 30, a mark only three other competitors reached. A full cheer erupts as 34 comes and goes. The tally finally stops at 44. That's five-and-a-half pies in 10 minutes. And still champion.

For those in the know, it was a foregone conclusion.

"Usually what you would think of in the competitive eating world is some big huge guy wolfing down food," Schuyler says. "[With me] you have a more petite girl in the contest who can eat 10 times more."

Afterward, Schuyler has more energy than her 38 years and recent achievement might suggest. She frequently flashes her trademark grin, a massive, toothy affair full of mischief, excitement and a hint of a snarl.

Forget that July 4 hot dog-eating contest on TV, and forget that Joey Chestnut guy who always wins it. Schuyler is no simple feel-good story. She is largely unknown to the wider world. But this mother of four and former Applebee's waitress is the dark queen of competitive eating.
She Doesn't Chew
Growing up in Minnesota, Schuyler (pronounced SKY-ler) routinely outdueled her brothers at the buffet. But it ended there, owing to its rather limited range of practical applications.

In college, she double-majored in sales/marketing and business management, but soon after, as she puts it, she "got married and had too many kids." Her husband, who is in the Air Force, became the breadwinner as Schuyler stayed home to raise the family.

Still, they needed extra cash. Applebee's had flexible scheduling. She took the job but, uh, didn't like it much.

"People are cheap," she says, "and they don't tip."

She entered her first eating contest on a lark. The food: bacon. She won the contest. She won free bacon. She was tickled to death. And that was before she learned you could win money, too.

"A couple minutes every once in a while, and I could make more money than a couple shifts at this other job? What's the point of working hard? I might as well work smart," she says.

A few years later, she holds world records for pizza, hamburgers, hot chicken, fried mushrooms, bratwurst, and pumpkin pie, among other things. Videos of her feats have gone viral, including one where she takes down a 72-ounce steak in three furious minutes, then absently munches fries as she waits for her time.

Her top achievement is likely the record she set last year by downing an astounding 501 chicken wings in 30 minutes during last year's annual Wing Bowl in Philadelphia. Sadly, Wing Bowl organizers recently pulled the plug after 26 years, removing one of competitive eating's richest prizes ($5,000 and a car) and the event many eaters considered even more prestigious than the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Schuyler is one of only a few full-time competitive eaters. Schuyler says she earns "enough to survive," with some contests even covering her travel. She is someone people will literally pay to see.

"She's just incredibly fast," says Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark, also a professional eater. "There's no words to describe it. I look over and it's like Houdini. It's amazing how fast it disappears."

How does she do it? She follows a normal diet outside the 15 or 20 competitions she does each year but maintains stomach capacity by training with water. In one session, she can put down upwards of three gallons.
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But she has another, not-so-secret weapon that's even harder to emulate: She doesn't chew.

"I've been doing that since I was a little kid. I never chewed," she says. "My mom and dad used to yell at me about that. ... I go straight in and swallow it whole."

It makes her so much faster than the men that she almost styles on them during contests, pausing to wipe her mouth or crack a joke or comment on the food ("Hot!").

Plenty of people see her as the top challenger to King Hot Dog himself. She and Chestnut are friendly and talk regularly; Schuyler says people ask her "all the time" about a head-to-head battle.

To be clear, no one disputes that Chestnut is amazing. In last year's July 4 contest, he put away 74 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Still, there would be no clear-cut favorite between them. Everyone else is arguably vying for third place. Schuyler won't make any proclamations herself; others will.

"I think overall she's more accomplished [than Chestnut]," says Dan "Killer" Kennedy, a competitive eater and friend of Schuyler's. "She can do a higher volume; way more experienced. I'd love to see it head-to-head. I'd take Molly in every food but hot dogs. Hot dogs are his specialty. But with practice, I bet she could battle him pretty good."

So why don't they get it done? There's a big obstacle. Major League Eating, a promotion that helps oversee the contest, is a colossus in the sport. To take part in the hot dog contest, eaters must sign a contract with the company, a contract some suggest can be restrictive. Major League Eating competitors cannot participate in events outside that circuit. So when you flip on the hot dog contest, you're not seeing the best competitive eaters in the world, full stop. You're seeing the best competitive eaters who have signed with Major League Eating.

"It's a great contract," Schuyler says. "[But] I couldn't go do certain contests because I'll get in trouble. I have small people that I need to take care of. I need to make money."

Major League Eating did not respond to a request either for comment or an interview with Chestnut.
Woman vs. Man vs. Dog
The paper plates are just paper plates again. Volunteers rake them into garbage bags along with the rest of the aftermath. Trophy hoisted and interviews complete, Schuyler and a few buddies, all of whom just competed in the contest, huddle up. There's Kennedy, goateed with a backward camo cap, who owns a body shop in Pennsylvania. And there's Clark, Da Garbage Disposal, a thickly built and thickly bearded gardener from Cincinnati. And there's a newcomer to the circuit, Joel Hansen, an affable Canadian fitness model.

You read that correctly.

"Competitive eating gets a bad rap," he says, spreading out his arms. "Look at me. I stay lean."

I'm not sure what's coming next, but I have a feeling it's something. Sure enough, Schuyler turns toward me.

"I'm gonna go back to the hotel and take a nap," she says. "Then you wanna meet us for a food challenge?"

Pardon?

A food challenge is a close cousin of the eating contest; think "finish it and it's free." Before we break for the afternoon, I have to ask. It's a touch indelicate, but I wouldn't be doing my job as a hardcore news journalist if I didn't ask. Pumpkin pie plus a food challenge...well, it's a lot. Do competitive eaters ever do any, you know, refunding?

Schuyler raises her eyebrows, then shrugs.

"I can't speak for other people, but just because you ate four pounds of food doesn't mean it's going to go out," she says. "Hey, I can't speak for other people. I don't do it."

There you have it.

A few hours later, I'm first to arrive at Mooney's, an unsuspecting pub in Depew, New York, that's soon to be shaken from its Sunday night reverie. I tip off the bartender on what's coming. She's younger, says she's fairly new in the job. She's not entirely sure how to process what I've told her.

"Hold on," she says. "I need to check the rules. ... I've never seen anyone do it before! ... I don't know if we have any T-shirts. ... Do they know that if they don't finish, it's $26?"

Not long after, in they sweep: Clark, Hansen, Kennedy and Schuyler, Depew's newest local celebrities. They proceed through the bar and into the rear dining room. They push tables together and set up video cameras for their respective channels on YouTube, which is the lifeblood of the sport. People turn their chairs. A server, who seems to be the veteran of the bunch, steps forward.

"Can we do the challenge?" one of the eaters asks.

"You can't all do it together."

"Oh, that's cool. We all want our own."

They probably don't even have their wallets on them.

The Mooney's Moses Challenge involves a sub roughly the size of your average carry-on bag. The thing weighs six pounds. If you finish in 45 minutes, it's free and you get a T-shirt, subject to availability.

According to the menu, the record is nine-and-a-half minutes, held by a 240-pound English mastiff.

The sandwiches arrive, and they're terrifying. Steak knives hold them together instead of toothpicks. Adding insult to injury, there are fries, too. The eaters get their waters and Diet Cokes and offer opening remarks to their cameras.

Someone says "go," and they tear in. Kennedy's cheeks are puffed like a squirrel's. Da Garbage Disposal has his head down, face inches from the plate. Hansen's laying back a bit but still working. Schuyler is like Saturn devouring his son, eating by the fistful.

A bathroom break would have meant missing it. Schuyler takes care of the last handful and calls for time. She finishes in 4:15, cutting the record in half and then some. So to recap, that's a six-pound sub with fries and 44 slices of pumpkin pie in the span of 12 hours and fewer than 15 total minutes of action.

A few seconds later, Da Garbage Disposal finishes at 4:32, and Kennedy not long after. Then, finally, they relax, wrapping their vids and checking their phones. Schuyler grabs them all some napkins. They tease the unfailingly cheery Hansen for eating his sub in a way that reminds them of a normal person.

At one point, Da Garbage Disposal raises his head, a bit of coleslaw still in his beard.

"We beat the hell out of that dog."

The group gets a little more expansive, pun intended. They want to talk about competitive eating. They understand why some people don't like it but can't hide a desire for wider acceptance.

Yes, they concede, competitive eating gets pretty gross. It is gluttonous. It can be wasteful. Is it something a doctor would endorse? No, it is not. But as undeniable as those things may be, equally undeniable, they say, is the fact that high-level competitive eaters are doing something amazing. And it can be done relatively responsibly.

"Competitive eating is like football or basketball, and you might think it's not, but it really is," Schuyler says. "You're pushing your body to the point where it hurts, and you're trying to build something greater than what you had before. And there's endurance, and it's hard. It's work. It's not easy."

In a country that pays considerable lip service to individualism, Schuyler is about as individual as it gets, even, or maybe especially, if certain segments can't help but grimace in disgust at the very thought of it all.

The bartender pops in for an update; someone fills her in. She looks at Schuyler, who gives her a grin. The bartender is silent for a moment.

"Dude," she says. "I'm proud of you."
Scott Harris is a feature writer for CNN.com and Bleacher Report.

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All Hail Molly Schuyler, the Dark Queen of Competitive Eating

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Three students were killed and another 23 injured on Friday after a walkway at a school outside Johannesburg collapsed, a South African official said

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Three students were killed and another 23 injured on Friday after a walkway at a school outside Johannesburg collapsed, a South African official said.

Among the dead are two boys and a girl, Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education for Gauteng province, tweeted shortly after the collapse at Hoerskool Driehoek high school in Vanderbijlpark.
SIX ANIMALS, INCLUDING GIRAFFE AND LIONS, ELECTROCUTED AT SOUTH AFRICA'S KRUGER NATIONAL PARK
"It is painful to see those tiny bodies in that state," he told local media.

Lesufi initially reported "scores" were trapped, but an Associated Press witness later said no one remained in the rubble.
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One school employee told News24 that she could hear students screaming for help underneath a pile of bricks and concrete.

"Their screams are still lingering in my mind. They cried, pleading for help. Oh! My children were fighting for their lives. There was nothing I could do. But I am glad and appreciate those men who responded quickly and saved the lives of some of the children. I am hurting inside and don't know what to say anymore," she said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the collapse, though local media posted photos of a large slab and scattered bricks with the scene blocked off by emergency tape.
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"It is a sad day and we didn't plan nor anticipate to have this kind of a disaster," Lesufi said. "We thank everyone who swiftly responded and assisted to rescue our learners. Unfortunately, the learners were walking under [the concrete slab] when it fell over them immediately after assembly. During the mayhem, everyone assisted the trapped learners," he said.

The school has been closed pending further investigation.

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Three students were killed and another 23 injured on Friday after a walkway at a school outside Johannesburg collapsed, a South African official said. Among the dead are two boys and a girl, Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education for Gauteng province, tweeted shortly after the collapse at Hoerskool Driehoek high school in Vanderbijlpark.

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Police investigating "suspicious" death of person looking into young Florida mother's 2010 death

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Florida police are investigating what they are calling a " suspicious" death of a private citizen who was conducting their own personal investigation into the 2010 death of young Florida mother Michelle O'Connell.

The victim was found shot dead at a condo in the World Golf Village in St. Augustine, Florida, Thursday morning, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. Police have not released the victim's name, but said the victim identified as both male and female.

Police also said this person had requested to view some public records related to the O'Connell case, but what they were actually able to see was unknown.

O'Connell's mother Patty O'Connell told ABC News Thursday that she was devastated by the news of the victim's death.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said it took over the investigation into the "suspicious" death Thursday afternoon from St. Johns County Sheriff's Office due to its department's involvement in the O'Connell case.

"20/20" first profiled O'Connell's case last year. On Sept. 2, 2010, O'Connell, 24, was found lying on the bedroom floor of her boyfriend, St. Johns County Sheriff's deputy Jeremy Banks', St. Augustine home with a gunshot wound to her head. The gunshot had come from his service weapon and Banks had called 911, according to police. O'Connell was pronounced dead later that night.

Her death was officially ruled a suicide but her family has long believed it was a homicide.

OConnell Family

Banks has always denied hurting O'Connell the night of her death and he has never been charged with a crime. He remains a sheriff's deputy with the St. Johns County office.

Putnam County Sheriff's Office said they have not questioned Banks about the private citizen's death.

To this day, the O'Connell family has refused to believe that O'Connell, who at the time had a 4-year-old daughter and had just landed her dream job at a day care center, would take her own life.

OConnell Family

Over the years, the family has fought to have her case re-examined, including petitioning then-Florida Gov. Rick Scott last year to assign a new prosecutor to her case, and even had O'Connell's body exhumed for a forensic pathologist to conduct a second autopsy.

"You can't grieve until you get justice," Patty O'Connell told ABC News in an interview last year. "You have to have your justice. And it never goes away."

The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office told "20/20" in a statement last year that "this case has been extensively reviewed by numerous investigations" which "have continually ruled the death a suicide."

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Florida police are investigating what they are calling a " suspicious" death of a private citizen who was conducting their own personal investigation into the 2010 death of young Florida mother Michelle O'Connell. The victim was found shot dead at a condo in the World Golf Village in St.

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A missing 14-year-old girl was found alive in Wisconsin on Thursday, nearly 700 miles away from her home in Tennessee, police said. She had been reported missing earlier this month, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Thursday night. Police arrested her adoptive father, Randall Pruitt, on rape charges earlier on Thursday.

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A missing 14-year-old girl was found alive in Wisconsin on Thursday, nearly 700 miles away from her home in Tennessee, police said.

She had been reported missing earlier this month, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Thursday night. Police arrested her adoptive father, Randall Pruitt, on rape charges earlier on Thursday.

"He was arrested and charged with rape. We don't believe at this time that he had any connections to her being a runaway or missing," Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones said at a press conference Thursday. "I have to be vague in all my statement because this is still an ongoing investigation."

He said there is a possibility of "multiple other charges coming forward" with multiple people involved.

The young girl vanished from her home in Madisonville, Tennessee, about 70 miles east of Chattanooga, on Jan. 13, police said. Her mother said she last saw her before she went to bed between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

Monroe County Sheriffs Office

Jones said he couldn't release who she was with at the time when she was found, but he noted that she does have family in Wisconsin. He said he doesn't believe she was related to the people that she was found with.

"She is safe. She is in custody so that's a very good ending to this as far as we're concerned," Jones said. "She's had shelter, she's been eating and , according to the information that we got back, she's doing fine."

ABC News is not identifying the teen because she is an alleged victim of sexual assault, according to police.

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Missing 14-year-old girl found alive, nearly 700 miles away from home

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A missing 14-year-old girl was found alive in Wisconsin on Thursday, nearly 700 miles away from her home in Tennessee, police said. She had been reported missing earlier this month, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Thursday night. Police arrested her adoptive father, Randall Pruitt, on rape charges earlier on Thursday.

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This Lady Molly Schuyler ate 501 wings in 30 minutes

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Hang on, folks. I've just received word. Molly Schuyler has landed. She is on her way. I repeat, she is en route.

I'm coming to you live from the grounds of the Great Pumpkin Farm on a sparkling October Sunday in Clarence, New York, about 20 minutes outside of Buffalo. I'm bearing witness to the culmination of the farm's fall festival, but the culminating will be hard to come by without the undisputed reigning pumpkin pie-eating champion of the world.

A series of folding tables, draped in material that's more sheeting than cloth, stand end to end along a stage at the back wall of a building made of concrete and siding and not much else. Volunteers criss-cross the floor with walkie-talkies and stacks of paper plates.

Schuyler had a mix-up with her flights, they explain. She had to take the red-eye from her home in Sacramento. She's late, but they'll wait.

Finally she walks in, sunglasses on, phone in one hand and Starbucks in the other. The contest can now begin.

Competitive eaters are local celebrities in whatever location happens to host them. A small group gathers around the slender 5'7" Schuyler, whose bleach-blonde hair is tied back to reveal a shaved head beneath. Each ear contains 10 piercings, give or take. Her nose has only one or two.

"I have a cracked tooth," Schuyler tells the group.

She opens her mouth. "See? Iz hack zhere."

Fast-forward one hour and Schuyler stands onstage, smack in the middle of a righteous mess. The tooth didn't seem to present much of an obstacle. Having traded a cardigan for a bright orange T-shirt, she is flanked on either side by a ponderous assortment of dudes. Together they peer out through a trashscape of water bottles, pie in various states of decay, crumpled napkins and many, many paper plates.

The plates are the unquestioned lords of the trash. Each held one slice of pie. Whoever has the most plates in front of them after 10 minutes wins $1,000. An emcee counts through the stacks, starting with the Joes and moving to the pros. When he reaches Schuyler, the number to beat is 34.

The crowd counts along. They blow past 20. People whoop as they approach and pass 30, a mark only three other competitors reached. A full cheer erupts as 34 comes and goes. The tally finally stops at 44. That's five-and-a-half pies in 10 minutes. And still champion.

For those in the know, it was a foregone conclusion.

"Usually what you would think of in the competitive eating world is some big huge guy wolfing down food," Schuyler says. "[With me] you have a more petite girl in the contest who can eat 10 times more."

Afterward, Schuyler has more energy than her 38 years and recent achievement might suggest. She frequently flashes her trademark grin, a massive, toothy affair full of mischief, excitement and a hint of a snarl.

Forget that July 4 hot dog-eating contest on TV, and forget that Joey Chestnut guy who always wins it. Schuyler is no simple feel-good story. She is largely unknown to the wider world. But this mother of four and former Applebee's waitress is the dark queen of competitive eating.
She Doesn't Chew
Growing up in Minnesota, Schuyler (pronounced SKY-ler) routinely outdueled her brothers at the buffet. But it ended there, owing to its rather limited range of practical applications.

In college, she double-majored in sales/marketing and business management, but soon after, as she puts it, she "got married and had too many kids." Her husband, who is in the Air Force, became the breadwinner as Schuyler stayed home to raise the family.

Still, they needed extra cash. Applebee's had flexible scheduling. She took the job but, uh, didn't like it much.

"People are cheap," she says, "and they don't tip."

She entered her first eating contest on a lark. The food: bacon. She won the contest. She won free bacon. She was tickled to death. And that was before she learned you could win money, too.

"A couple minutes every once in a while, and I could make more money than a couple shifts at this other job? What's the point of working hard? I might as well work smart," she says.

A few years later, she holds world records for pizza, hamburgers, hot chicken, fried mushrooms, bratwurst, and pumpkin pie, among other things. Videos of her feats have gone viral, including one where she takes down a 72-ounce steak in three furious minutes, then absently munches fries as she waits for her time.

Her top achievement is likely the record she set last year by downing an astounding 501 chicken wings in 30 minutes during last year's annual Wing Bowl in Philadelphia. Sadly, Wing Bowl organizers recently pulled the plug after 26 years, removing one of competitive eating's richest prizes ($5,000 and a car) and the event many eaters considered even more prestigious than the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest.

Schuyler is one of only a few full-time competitive eaters. Schuyler says she earns "enough to survive," with some contests even covering her travel. She is someone people will literally pay to see.

"She's just incredibly fast," says Brandon "Da Garbage Disposal" Clark, also a professional eater. "There's no words to describe it. I look over and it's like Houdini. It's amazing how fast it disappears."

How does she do it? She follows a normal diet outside the 15 or 20 competitions she does each year but maintains stomach capacity by training with water. In one session, she can put down upwards of three gallons.
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But she has another, not-so-secret weapon that's even harder to emulate: She doesn't chew.

"I've been doing that since I was a little kid. I never chewed," she says. "My mom and dad used to yell at me about that. ... I go straight in and swallow it whole."

It makes her so much faster than the men that she almost styles on them during contests, pausing to wipe her mouth or crack a joke or comment on the food ("Hot!").

Plenty of people see her as the top challenger to King Hot Dog himself. She and Chestnut are friendly and talk regularly; Schuyler says people ask her "all the time" about a head-to-head battle.

To be clear, no one disputes that Chestnut is amazing. In last year's July 4 contest, he put away 74 hot dogs in 10 minutes. Still, there would be no clear-cut favorite between them. Everyone else is arguably vying for third place. Schuyler won't make any proclamations herself; others will.

"I think overall she's more accomplished [than Chestnut]," says Dan "Killer" Kennedy, a competitive eater and friend of Schuyler's. "She can do a higher volume; way more experienced. I'd love to see it head-to-head. I'd take Molly in every food but hot dogs. Hot dogs are his specialty. But with practice, I bet she could battle him pretty good."

So why don't they get it done? There's a big obstacle. Major League Eating, a promotion that helps oversee the contest, is a colossus in the sport. To take part in the hot dog contest, eaters must sign a contract with the company, a contract some suggest can be restrictive. Major League Eating competitors cannot participate in events outside that circuit. So when you flip on the hot dog contest, you're not seeing the best competitive eaters in the world, full stop. You're seeing the best competitive eaters who have signed with Major League Eating.

"It's a great contract," Schuyler says. "[But] I couldn't go do certain contests because I'll get in trouble. I have small people that I need to take care of. I need to make money."

Major League Eating did not respond to a request either for comment or an interview with Chestnut.
Woman vs. Man vs. Dog
The paper plates are just paper plates again. Volunteers rake them into garbage bags along with the rest of the aftermath. Trophy hoisted and interviews complete, Schuyler and a few buddies, all of whom just competed in the contest, huddle up. There's Kennedy, goateed with a backward camo cap, who owns a body shop in Pennsylvania. And there's Clark, Da Garbage Disposal, a thickly built and thickly bearded gardener from Cincinnati. And there's a newcomer to the circuit, Joel Hansen, an affable Canadian fitness model.

You read that correctly.

"Competitive eating gets a bad rap," he says, spreading out his arms. "Look at me. I stay lean."

I'm not sure what's coming next, but I have a feeling it's something. Sure enough, Schuyler turns toward me.

"I'm gonna go back to the hotel and take a nap," she says. "Then you wanna meet us for a food challenge?"

Pardon?

A food challenge is a close cousin of the eating contest; think "finish it and it's free." Before we break for the afternoon, I have to ask. It's a touch indelicate, but I wouldn't be doing my job as a hardcore news journalist if I didn't ask. Pumpkin pie plus a food challenge...well, it's a lot. Do competitive eaters ever do any, you know, refunding?

Schuyler raises her eyebrows, then shrugs.

"I can't speak for other people, but just because you ate four pounds of food doesn't mean it's going to go out," she says. "Hey, I can't speak for other people. I don't do it."

There you have it.

A few hours later, I'm first to arrive at Mooney's, an unsuspecting pub in Depew, New York, that's soon to be shaken from its Sunday night reverie. I tip off the bartender on what's coming. She's younger, says she's fairly new in the job. She's not entirely sure how to process what I've told her.

"Hold on," she says. "I need to check the rules. ... I've never seen anyone do it before! ... I don't know if we have any T-shirts. ... Do they know that if they don't finish, it's $26?"

Not long after, in they sweep: Clark, Hansen, Kennedy and Schuyler, Depew's newest local celebrities. They proceed through the bar and into the rear dining room. They push tables together and set up video cameras for their respective channels on YouTube, which is the lifeblood of the sport. People turn their chairs. A server, who seems to be the veteran of the bunch, steps forward.

"Can we do the challenge?" one of the eaters asks.

"You can't all do it together."

"Oh, that's cool. We all want our own."

They probably don't even have their wallets on them.

The Mooney's Moses Challenge involves a sub roughly the size of your average carry-on bag. The thing weighs six pounds. If you finish in 45 minutes, it's free and you get a T-shirt, subject to availability.

According to the menu, the record is nine-and-a-half minutes, held by a 240-pound English mastiff.

The sandwiches arrive, and they're terrifying. Steak knives hold them together instead of toothpicks. Adding insult to injury, there are fries, too. The eaters get their waters and Diet Cokes and offer opening remarks to their cameras.

Someone says "go," and they tear in. Kennedy's cheeks are puffed like a squirrel's. Da Garbage Disposal has his head down, face inches from the plate. Hansen's laying back a bit but still working. Schuyler is like Saturn devouring his son, eating by the fistful.

A bathroom break would have meant missing it. Schuyler takes care of the last handful and calls for time. She finishes in 4:15, cutting the record in half and then some. So to recap, that's a six-pound sub with fries and 44 slices of pumpkin pie in the span of 12 hours and fewer than 15 total minutes of action.

A few seconds later, Da Garbage Disposal finishes at 4:32, and Kennedy not long after. Then, finally, they relax, wrapping their vids and checking their phones. Schuyler grabs them all some napkins. They tease the unfailingly cheery Hansen for eating his sub in a way that reminds them of a normal person.

At one point, Da Garbage Disposal raises his head, a bit of coleslaw still in his beard.

"We beat the hell out of that dog."

The group gets a little more expansive, pun intended. They want to talk about competitive eating. They understand why some people don't like it but can't hide a desire for wider acceptance.

Yes, they concede, competitive eating gets pretty gross. It is gluttonous. It can be wasteful. Is it something a doctor would endorse? No, it is not. But as undeniable as those things may be, equally undeniable, they say, is the fact that high-level competitive eaters are doing something amazing. And it can be done relatively responsibly.

"Competitive eating is like football or basketball, and you might think it's not, but it really is," Schuyler says. "You're pushing your body to the point where it hurts, and you're trying to build something greater than what you had before. And there's endurance, and it's hard. It's work. It's not easy."

In a country that pays considerable lip service to individualism, Schuyler is about as individual as it gets, even, or maybe especially, if certain segments can't help but grimace in disgust at the very thought of it all.

The bartender pops in for an update; someone fills her in. She looks at Schuyler, who gives her a grin. The bartender is silent for a moment.

"Dude," she says. "I'm proud of you."
Scott Harris is a feature writer for CNN.com and Bleacher Report.

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Father charged with rape after missing Tennessee girl is found in Wisconsin alive she was missing for 2 weeks

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A 14-year-old girl, who disappeared from Tennessee more than two weeks ago, has been found alive in a residence in Wisconsin, authorities said Thursday.

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A missing 14-year-old girl was found alive in Wisconsin on Thursday, nearly 700 miles away from her home in Tennessee, police said.

She had been reported missing earlier this month, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Thursday night. Police arrested her adoptive father, Randall Pruitt, on rape charges earlier on Thursday.

"He was arrested and charged with rape. We don't believe at this time that he had any connections to her being a runaway or missing," Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones said at a press conference Thursday. "I have to be vague in all my statement because this is still an ongoing investigation."

He said there is a possibility of "multiple other charges coming forward" with multiple people involved.

The young girl vanished from her home in Madisonville, Tennessee, about 70 miles east of Chattanooga, on Jan. 13, police said. Her mother said she last saw her before she went to bed between 11 p.m. and 11:30 p.m.

Monroe County Sheriffs Office

Jones said he couldn't release who she was with at the time when she was found, but he noted that she does have family in Wisconsin. He said he doesn't believe she was related to the people that she was found with.

"She is safe. She is in custody so that's a very good ending to this as far as we're concerned," Jones said. "She's had shelter, she's been eating and , according to the information that we got back, she's doing fine."

ABC News is not identifying the teen because she is an alleged victim of sexual assault, according to police.

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A missing 14-year-old girl was found alive in Wisconsin on Thursday, nearly 700 miles away from her home in Tennessee, police said. She had been reported missing earlier this month, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Thursday night. Police arrested her adoptive father, Randall Pruitt, on rape charges earlier on Thursday.

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A 3-year old North Carolina boy was found alive two day after he went missing.The authorities spent 48 hours looking for this boy.Casey was playing with 2 kids and he went missing from his grandmother's house.There was a crew that heard a boy crying in the woods.The boy was found 40-50 yards in the woods tangled up.

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A 3-year-old North Carolina boy found alive two days he went missing has reunited with the authorities who spent over 48 hours searching for him.

Casey Hathaway, who was in good condition when he was found January 24 in wooded Craven County, visited the Sheriff's Office on Thursday with his family.

Officials posted the adorable photos of Casey to the sheriff's Facebook page.

"Casey is doing well," it read.

Craven County Sheriffs Office

Craven County Sheriffs Office

Casey was playing with two other children on Jan. 22 when he disappeared from his grandmother's home. His grandmother and others searched for about 45 minutes and then called 911.

After two days of desperate searches for the little boy, crews responded to a report of a child crying in the woods and found Casey "about 40 to 50 yards in the woods, tangled up," Craven County Sheriff Chip Hughes told ABC New Bern affiliate WCTI hours after he was found.

Casey was soaking wet but had his coat on, Hughes said, and "he wanted water -- and his mom."

"He did say that he had a friend in the woods that was a bear," the sheriff added.

"What he survived out there -- temperatures in the 20s, low 20s, the rain, the downpour that almost put our search on a standstill," Hughes said. "This kid, he's strong. He was meant to survive. He's a survivor."

The little boy was rushed to the hospital.

"Just the look on his face when his little sister came in the room, it was tear-jerking," Hughes said.

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Rescued 3-year-old boy reunites with officials who spent days searching for him

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A 3-year-old North Carolina boy found alive two days he went missing has reunited with the authorities who spent over 48 hours searching for him. Casey Hathaway, who was in good condition when he was found January 24 in wooded Craven County, visited the Sheriff's Office on Thursday with his family.

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Three students were killed and 23 students were injured in a walkway collapse in a school just outside Johannesburg.

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Three students were killed and another 23 injured on Friday after a walkway at a school outside Johannesburg collapsed, a South African official said.

Among the dead are two boys and a girl, Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education for Gauteng province, tweeted shortly after the collapse at Hoerskool Driehoek high school in Vanderbijlpark.
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"It is painful to see those tiny bodies in that state," he told local media.

Lesufi initially reported "scores" were trapped, but an Associated Press witness later said no one remained in the rubble.
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One school employee told News24 that she could hear students screaming for help underneath a pile of bricks and concrete.

"Their screams are still lingering in my mind. They cried, pleading for help. Oh! My children were fighting for their lives. There was nothing I could do. But I am glad and appreciate those men who responded quickly and saved the lives of some of the children. I am hurting inside and don't know what to say anymore," she said.

It was not immediately clear what caused the collapse, though local media posted photos of a large slab and scattered bricks with the scene blocked off by emergency tape.
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"It is a sad day and we didn't plan nor anticipate to have this kind of a disaster," Lesufi said. "We thank everyone who swiftly responded and assisted to rescue our learners. Unfortunately, the learners were walking under [the concrete slab] when it fell over them immediately after assembly. During the mayhem, everyone assisted the trapped learners," he said.

The school has been closed pending further investigation.

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3 students killed, 23 injured in South African school walkway collapse

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Three students were killed and another 23 injured on Friday after a walkway at a school outside Johannesburg collapsed, a South African official said. Among the dead are two boys and a girl, Panyaza Lesufi, the head of education for Gauteng province, tweeted shortly after the collapse at Hoerskool Driehoek high school in Vanderbijlpark.