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Girl scalped on carnival ride speaks out

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12-year-old Elizabeth Gilreath is speaking out nearly one year after she was scalped on a carnival ride in Omaha, Nebraska. WOWT has more.

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Bryant Lee, a former high school quarterback at Louisiana's McKinley High School, was shot and killed Saturday morning after leaving a party.

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CHANDLER HENNESEY HAS 2 MOM"S

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A student and a teacher are critically injured after a charter bus carrying 26 eighth-graders overturned on Interstate 95 north of Baltimore, Maryland, this morning, causing massive traffic delays.

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"The Big Bang Theory" star Jim Parsons tied the knot with his partner of 14 years, Todd Spiewak

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Missouri signs 4 star Center Jeremiah Tilmon from East St. Louis. Moves Mizzou to 6th best recruiting class

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McKinley High School QB Bryant Lee Fatally Shot Days Before Graduation. Bryant Lee, a former high school quarterback at Louisiana's McKinley High School, was shot and killed Saturday morning after leaving a party.

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Bryant Lee, a former high school quarterback at Louisiana's McKinley High School, was shot and killed Saturday morning after leaving a party.

"The entire faculty and staff at McKinley Senior High School wish to express our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Bryant Lee," a statement from McKinley High School read, per Marcus Brown of WAFB.

"Bryant was an 18-year-old dedicated scholar who put his academics above his job as the leader of our football team. Bryant transferred to McKinley High School from Scotlandville his sophomore year and joined the Panther football team as quarterback.

"Students and teachers alike will remember Bryant as intelligent, hard-working, focused, fun-loving and as having a great sense of humor. As a student, he was concerned about his grades; as an athlete, he played tough and gave it all he had. One of the characteristics coaches loved about him is that he was coachable. He was respected by his coaches and teammates."

According to a police report the station obtained, Lee was shot in the head by an unknown assailant in Baton Rouge around 1:30 a.m. Saturday. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died of his injuries.

McKinley High head football coach Ken Hilton said Lee was planning to attend Southern University and walk on to its football program. He was three days away from his high school graduation.

"I really think something is missing. Something is really missing," Hilton said. "It's a happy time. A day before Mother's Day, three days before he graduates."

Lee was previously shot in the leg during a drive-by shooting in November 2016.

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McKinley High School QB Bryant Lee Fatally Shot Days Before Graduation

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Breaking News Tyler Conway Featured Columnist Patrick Semansky/Associated Press Bryant Lee, a former high school quarterback at Louisiana's McKinley High School, was shot and killed Saturday morning after leaving a party. "The entire faculty and staff at McKinley Senior High School wish to express our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Bryant Lee," a statement from McKinley High School read, per Marcus Brown of WAFB.

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These "lost pyramids" are in sudan.

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What if that place was Sudan?

Besmirched in modern history by two rounds of civil war, and a battle for independence in what is now South Sudan, the east African country has never had the same tourist footfall as its neighbors Kenya, Egypt or Ethiopia.

But while the south-west of the country is still mired in conflict, the Nile Valley area is largely peaceful.

One British tour operator this year started organizing Sudan trips: Dylan Harris, from Wigan, England, founded Lupine Travel in 2007, with the aim of running safe tours to unusual destinations, including Iraq, Iran and North Korea.

CNN talks to Dubai-based Scot Michael Lawson who recently traveled to Sudan for six days with Harris.

What inspired you to travel to Sudan?

I read an article online about the lost pyramids of Meroe. It inspired me to think about exactly what was in Sudan. I realized that it was very Indiana Jones-y, with all these pyramids in the middle of the desert.

There is literally nothing there, very little tourist infrastructure. I started to image how it must have felt exploring these uncharted places, and finding them for the first time. That's what really got me excited about it.

Sudan isn't exactly Spain. How easy was it to get to?

There's a reason, I realized, why places like Sudan are so uncharted -- the world's last adventures: because it's challenging to get the visa and to travel there! I've always been an independent backpacker, but that's fine if you've got time to spend time trekking around Sudan (organizing things). But if you have a job, like I do, and can only take 5 days off work, it's not going to happen.

I approached Lupine Travel, run by a guy called Dylan Harris who started off doing budget tours in North Korea. I did one with him last year. They arranged all the visas and organized the trips (in Sudan).

I landed directly in Khartoum from Dubai with Emirates. There are two flights a day and very cheap. I paid $250 return.

It really did feel like an adventure. We did it very budget -- stayed in local guest houses, small hotels or even tents. You need a 4-wheel drive and a driver who knows the terrain and how to drive over it (for the desert drives to the pyramids).

What's the travel scene like in Sudan?

You don't see tourists anywhere. You'll see the seldom NGO aid worker on their long weekend, a few businessmen, but it's not like going to Egypt where you get bused in and bused out and people are trying to sell you things. No one tried to sell us anything.

They don't seem to have the concept of tourism. The government doesn't want tourists, really. But actually Sudan is full of hidden treasures. For example, one day we were at the Temple of Amun, a 12th century UNESCO heritage site. We went inside and a team of local and Italian researchers were doing excavation works there.

There's so much left to be found and that's what really strikes you in Sudan.

Your first stop was Khartoum. What did you do there?

Well, I went for high tea at the Gaddafi hotel (nicknamed Gaddafi's Egg, for its unusual shape). It's a five-star hotel where the Blue Nile meets the White Nile, right on the confluence. The Gadaffi hotel was built with his money back in the day (the Libyan government spent more than 80 million euros on the project in the 2000s). Today, it's called the Corinthia Hotel.

Khartoum, in general, has this feeling of a city on the up. Obviously, you've got sanctions in place from the United States, which stunts growth. But it's vibrant. Like any Arab city, its heart is the souk, a winding market where you can buy everything from a wheelbarrow to carrots.

So what about these pyramids?

It takes about an hour to drive out of Khartoum. Then you all of a sudden you take a turn off the main road and go onto sandy flat plains. You see guys in the desert walking their goats, local villagers, mud brick houses. Everyone wants to wave to you and say hello. I took pens and gave them to the kids. They really enjoyed that.

Then you drive in your jeep between temple complexes, pyramids, ancient cities.

I kept wondering: "Why build temples in the middle of the desert? You'd build them close to water?" But it's because of the change in climate and the desertification -- a temple complex built right on the water 300 years ago is 5km from the Nile today.

You can really explore, you can go right inside the pyramids. They're much smaller then the ones in Egypt. There aren't queues everywhere and it's in the middle of nowhere. That's what is quite exciting about it. The pyramid cemetery at Meroe is the largest, they're all black pyramids, dozens of them. We camped there.

Why are the pyramids black?

I don't know. One thing I would say about Sudan is that there aren't a lot of local guides, and the guides there are don't have much knowledge about the temples. So you need to take a really good guide book with you.

What else is there apart from pyramids?

We visited Jebel Barkal, which is a giant rock -- like Sigiriya in Sri Lanka. As you're driving towards it you see nothing, it's totally flat and then out of nowhere you get this giant rock. And it's a very sacred thing. There are pyramids next to it and you can climb up them and watch sunset. It really was something special.

What was it like to camp in the Sudanese desert?

We went with a local tour company into the desert, and because of the sanctions, and stuff like that, they don't have good quality camping equipment. We were staying in the sort of pop-up tents you'd play in your garden with. It gets quite cold and windy at night -- we woke up one morning and some of the tents were a bit flattened. It's very rough and ready.

Your friends told you you were "nuts" to holiday in Sudan. Were they right -- I mean, did it feel safe?

There's this myth about Sudan, that it's dangerous. Honestly, I felt safer walking around Khartoum than I do in London. People (teachers and UN workers) told me they'd been here a long time, and that they haven't been robbed. They would very happily walk around the streets at night.

People very are friendly. Sudan has accepted a huge number of Syrian refugees. Interestingly, they've integrated really well in the community, they don't stand out -- they've generally got jobs, are going to university. There are no beggars on the streets. It was an inherently different place to what I had imagined.

But what about the war in Darfur?

I should say that Sudan is a huge country, and a lot of people in Khartoum seemed disconnected from what is happening in other parts of the country. They didn't seem to have a great deal of knowledge about it, and others didn't want to talk about it.

Finally, do you think it would have been possible to travel to Sudan without a tour company?

I think I could have done it myself but I would say you're going to have to get a local tour guide anyway, and there are no real hotels or restaurants, or infrastructure outside the main cities. You're talking about driving through great emptiness. The reality is it's going to be a lot of work. And it's lonely because you don't meet other travelers.

You cannot even send any postcards in Sudan. I always send postcards no matter where I go, but they do not have postcards to buy in Sudan. I looked and looked. So that's telling you something!

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What if that place was Sudan? Besmirched in modern history by two rounds of civil war, and a battle for independence in what is now South Sudan, the east African country has never had the same tourist footfall as its neighbors Kenya, Egypt or Ethiopia.

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Aaron Hernandez's fiancee: 'I don't think this was a suicide'

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Modern HIV drugs can add 10 years to life expectancy, study says

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Film studio Disney has said hackers have threatened to release one of the studio's forthcoming movies unless it pays a ransom.

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McKinley High School QB Bryant Lee Fatally Shot Days Before Graduation

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9-year-old Ohio boy's cocaine death investigated as homicide

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Bryant Lee, a former high school quarterback at Louisiana's McKinley High School, was shot and killed Saturday morning after leaving a party.

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Too much caffeine caused the death of a 16-year-old high school student from South Carolina who collapsed during class last month

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Mexican journalist killed in Sinaloa

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Teen dies from too much caffeine.

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Mr. Kohl- In South Carolina a coroner says the teen suffered a caffeine-induced cardiac event. He collapsed at school after drinking a large Diet Mountain Dew, a Café Latte from McDonalds, and an energy drink.

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Mr. Kohl- In South Carolina a coroner says the teen suffered a caffeine-induced cardiac event. He collapsed at school after drinking a large Diet Mountain Dew, a Café Latte from McDonalds, and an energy drink.

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Caffeine concern - a 16-year-old collapsed at school and died after consuming three caffeinated beverages

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Experts say things like this shouldn't happen unless there's an underlying health concern. That being said - there is still the chance for too much of a good thing.

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Lowe's employees are now wearing exoskeletons to work.

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A handful of Lowe's employees have a new work uniform: an exoskeleton.

The home improvement retailer is testing exoskeletons on four employees at a Christiansburg, Virginia, store to make it easier to lift objects and stock shelves. Some Lowe's employees spend 90% of their time moving and lifting everything from bags of cement to huge buckets of paint.

Wearing the exoskeleton is somewhat similar to putting on a rock climbing harness and a backpack. The suit also includes attached carbon-fiber shafts that run down a person's back and thighs. The shafts flex and store energy as a person bends over to pick something up. When the employee stands, the rods straighten and the energy releases, making the task easier. The process is similar to how a bow releases energy when an arrow is launched.

Lowe's developed the exoskeleton in partnership with Virginia Tech engineering professor Alan Asbeck. For years, engineers have tinkered with exoskeletons and exoskeletons as a way to augment human abilities with extra mechanical powers.

Kyle Nel, executive director of Lowe's Innovation Labs, describes the suits as a way to better recruit potential employees and make their workdays easier.

"Who wouldn't want to work in a place where you get to wear an exosuit?" Nel asked.

Related: Lowe's turns to virtual reality for home improvement projects

Nearly four weeks into the three-month pilot, the response from employees has been positive, Nel said.

Lowe's has had the exosuit-wearing employees also wear a headset for a few hours of their shifts. The headset senses brain activity to determine whether they're enjoying the experience. Nel said it's a far superior way to get user feedback versus asking direct questions.

"If someone asks you how a movie was, people generally say, 'It was a good movie,'" Nel said. "But there are parts of the movie that were probably better and less good than others."

Once the pilot is complete, Lowe's will evaluate whether to expand the exoskeletons to other stores. Currently, Nel anticipates the exoskeletons only getting more useful and powerful.

"We'll add a jetpack in 2018," he joked.

CNNMoney (Washington) First published May 15, 2017: 9:01 AM ET

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Millionaire to millennials- stop buying avocado toast

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Is avocado toast all that's standing between millennials and their first homes?

An Australian millionaire thinks so. Not everyone is convinced.

Tim Gurner, a 35-year-old developer, called out his generation on Australia's version of "60 Minutes" on Sunday.

"When I was trying to buy my first home I wasn't buying smashed avocados for 19 bucks and four coffees at $4 each," he said.

Gurner, who's worth an estimated $460 million according to the Australian Financial Review, said wasteful spending is preventing young people from becoming homeowners.

"We are coming into a new reality ... and a lot of people won't own a house in their lifetime," he said.

If your mom forwarded you these remarks, there's just one problem: Overpriced, Instagrammable toast is hardly the only barrier to property ownership in the U.S.

For one thing, it's a tough market. Millennials are now the largest group of homebuyers, according to Ellie Mae, a software company that analyzes mortgage data. But they're coming up againstrepeat buyers with more capital and a shortage of starter homes for sale, which has driven up prices.

Related: The struggle is real for Millennial homebuyers

There were 3% fewer homes on the market in February than there were a year ago, according to a recent report from Zillow, and home values are up almost 7%.

And then there's student debt. Seven in 10 seniors who graduated from college in 2015 had student loan debt, averaging of $30,100 per borrower, according to The Institute of College Access and Success. That amount was up 4% from the year before.

The internet was quick to point out other holes in Gurner's argument.

.@aliciaparlap @larrybuch Point is that folks aren't saving and investing because they aren't earning enough, not because they are profligate.
- Annie Lowrey (@AnnieLowrey) May 15, 2017

Monthly expenses
Transportation: $120
Food: $500
Clothing $200
Avocado toast: $35,000
Someone good at the economy please help me budget this
- Murtaza Hussain (@MazMHussain) May 15, 2017

Plus, many have flagged reports that Gurner, at age 19, received a $34,000 loan from his grandfather to jump start his first real estate venture.

Oddly, the avocado toast debate is not new to Australia.

Related: Australia is fighting over how hipsters spend their money

An op-ed published in The Australian in October decried young people who "order smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread at $22 a pop" instead of saving money for mortgage deposits. That sparked a similar debate.

CNNMoney (New York) First published May 15, 2017: 6:50 PM ET

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Millionaire to millennials: Lay off the avocado toast if you want a house

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An Australian millionaire thinks so. Not everyone is convinced. Tim Gurner, a 35-year-old developer, called out his generation on Australia's version of "60 Minutes" on Sunday. "When I was trying to buy my first home I wasn't buying smashed avocados for 19 bucks and four coffees at $4 each," he said.