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CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports from the scene of a plane crash in Russia where all 71 people on board were killed.

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A Pennsylvania pastor insists he was merely counseling a naked man cops found bound with nylon rope in a parked car on a residential street.

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A Pennsylvania pastor insists he was merely counseling a naked man cops found bound with nylon rope in a parked car on a residential street, saying "I have nothing to hide."

George Nelson Gregory, 61, was sitting in the back seat of a car parked outside a house in Homestead when cops - responding to a call for a suspicious vehicle - spotted a naked man bound with nylon rope in the front seat around 11:30 p.m. on Friday, KDKA reported.

A witness told police the naked man got out of the car in full view from his daughter's window.

Gregory told the officers that he and other unidentified man were "just playing" in a consensual setting, adding that they "meet up from time to time to play with each other," according to a criminal complaint obtained by the station.

And despite being inside a car on a well-lit public street - one witness said he saw the naked man from his daughter's window - Gregory believed they were in a private setting, cops said.
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Police are hunting for the man who viciously punched a California grandmother, Mi Reum Song, 86, Saturday afternoon, causing her to suffer serious head injuries.

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Police are hunting for the man who viciously punched a California grandmother Saturday afternoon, causing her to suffer serious injuries.

Mi Reum Song, 86, was walking in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood when a man walked up to her and punched her once in the forehead, FOX11 Los Angeles reported. The attack occurred near the Olympic Division police station.

"She was struck in the forehead and fell backwards and her head struck the pavement. So [on] the back of her head there was a laceration and you can see some of the injuries to the front of her face," LAPD Detective Heebae Cho said in a news conference.

The 86-year-old was taken to the hospital and treated for her head injuries. She was later released.

"She's still in a lot of pain right now. She's still healing," Cho said.

Yujin Ko, Song's granddaughter, said she was in "utter shock" when she saw her battered and bruised grandmother.

"[There were] a lot of tears...Her face was really bruised and she looked like a different person," Ko said.

The suspect took nothing from Song before fleeing the scene, leaving investigators searching for a motive in the attack. Surveillance video from a nearby business captured Song wearing a visor and walking down the street while a man with a backpack runs by.

LAPD Capt. David Kowalski said the man spotted in the surveillance footage is a "person of interest" in the case.

"We have obtained video of a male fleeing the scene and at this point he is a person of interest only, but someone we want to speak to," Kowalski said. "We take these crimes seriously and it hurts us both personally and professionally."

Ko added he hopes "justice is served" and the attacker is taken into custody to prevent another incident.

Other senior citizens have been targeted by robbers in the neighborhood, according to FOX11. Song's attack, however, does not appear to be connected to the other incidents at this time.

Katherine Lam is a breaking and trending news digital producer for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter at @bykatherinelam

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Police are hunting for the man who viciously punched a California grandmother Saturday afternoon, causing her to suffer serious injuries. Mi Reum Song, 86, was walking in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood when a man walked up to her and punched her once in the forehead, FOX11 Los Angeles reported.

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We're 6 weeks into the year and there have already been 11 officers shot to death.

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Since the year began, 47 law enforcement officers across the US have been shot and killed in the line of duty, including a police officer in California making a traffic stop on the morning after Christmas.

The parameters CNN followed in this count are:

The officer was fatally shot this year

The officer was on duty at the time of the shooting

"The tragic deaths ... (are) a stark reminder of the dangers our law enforcement professionals face each and every day while protecting and serving our communities," said Craig Floyd with the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. "Too often, their service and sacrifice are taken for granted."

December 26
Newman (California) Police Officer Ronil Singh

Singh, 33, was gunned down while making a traffic stop just before 1 a.m. in a mostly residential part of Newman, a city of 11,000 located about 70 miles east of San Jose. A native of Fiji, Singh had been with the Newman Police Department since 2011.

December 13
DeKalb County (Georgia) Police Officer Edgar Isidro Flores

Flores, 24, was shot while conducting a traffic stop in suburban Atlanta. The suspect fled his vehicle, produced a handgun and shot Flores before being shot and killed by responding officers. Flores had been hired by the police department in May 2017.

November 29
Deputy US Marshal Chase White

White, 41, was shot and killed in Tucson, Arizona, while serving a Tucson Police felony warrant. The suspect opened fire before barricading himself in his home and eventually surrendering to police. White had joined the service in 2015.

November 19
Chicago Police Officer Samuel Jimenez

Jimenez, 28, was shot and killed after responding to a domestic disturbance outside Mercy Hospital in Chicago. As police arrived on the scene the suspect fatally shot his ex-fiancee and then ran into the hospital, exchanging shots with officers and striking Jimenez. The officer had served with the Chicago Police Department for 18 months.

November 8
Ventura County (California) Sheriff's Deputy Ron Helus

Sheriff's deputy Helus, who was set to retire, was among about a dozen people killed when a gunman opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks. Helus was shot multiple times as he entered the bar with a California Highway Patrol officer.

October 22
Florence County (South Carolina) Sheriff's Deputy Farrah B. Turner

Deputy Turner succumbed to injuries she received on October 3. She was among seven officers shot while serving a warrant at a residence. Sgt. Terrence Carraway (listed below) died earlier.

October 20
Gwinnett County (Georgia) Police Officer Antwan Toney

Officer Antwan Toney, who had just turned 30, was responding with another officer to a call of possible marijuana use. Toney was shot at from inside the suspect vehicle as soon as he approached the car in a parking lot at a middle school. He was hit one time. The other officer, returned fire and dragged Toney away, and he died at a hospital.

October 17
North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper Kevin K. Conner

Trooper Conner pulled over a driver of a pickup truck for speeding a few miles from the South Carolina state line. T he driver fired several shots, hitting the trooper, who died after being transported to a hospital.

October 3
Florence (South Carolina) Police Sgt. Terrence Carraway

Sgt. Carraway was heading home for the day when he received a call for urgent backup. Law enforcement officers were taking fire from a man inside a house. He was shot and killed during a two-hour standoff when deputies tried to execute a search warrant. Six other law enforcement officers and a 20-year-old who was in the home also were shot.

September 29
Brookhaven (Mississippi) Police Corporal Zach Moak and Patrolman James White

Moak, 31, and White, 35, were responding to a call about shots fired when they were killed in a shootout in Brookhaven, Mississippi.

September 17
Sacramento County (California) Deputy Sheriff Mark Stasyuk

Stasyuk was gunned down by a man as he and another deputy responded to a disturbance call at an auto parts store.

September 16
Sedgwick County (Kansas) Deputy Sheriff Robert Kunze

Kunze was shot and killed while investigating a suspicious person call. A struggle ensued when he tried to attemp the suspect and Kunze was shot.

September 14
Fort Worth (Texas) Police Officer Garrett Hull

Officer Hull was fatally shot while he was pursuing three robbery suspects. At the funeral, the police chief promoted Hull posthumously to corporal.

July 28
Fort Myers (Florida) Police Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller

Officer Adam Jobbers-Miller succumbed to a gunshot wound he received a week earlier. He was shot by a man who allegedly stole a cellphone and then ran from police.

July 25
Milwaukee Police Officer Michael Michalski

The 17-year veteran was killed while he and other officers were trying to arrest a suspect, who was wanted on drug and gun charges, police said. When officers entered the home, the suspect fired multiple times at officers, the police chief said.

July 25
Arizona State Trooper Tyler Edenhofer

A person who was fighting with police along Interstate 10 near Phoenix took an officer's gun and shot two Arizona state troopers. Trooper Tyler Edenhofer - an officer who was in training - was killed.

July 18
Hawaii County (Hawaii) Police Officer Bronson K. Kaliloa

Officer Kaliloa was fatally shot during a traffic stop of a wanted man, who opened fire. He was the first fatality from the state of Hawaii this year.

July 15

Weymouth (Massachusetts) Police Officer Michael Chesna

Chesna approached a suspect vandalizing a home, after the suspect crashed a vehicle and ran. When approached, he struck Chesna in the head with a rock, then stole Officer Chesna's gun and fired, officials said. A stray bullet also struck and killed a woman in a nearby home.

July 2

New York State Police Trooper Nicholas Clark

Clark was fatally shot by a suspect considered to be suicida l after responding to a call in Erwin, New York.

June 15

Wyandotte County (Kansas) Deputy Sheriffs Patrick Rohrer and Theresa King

Rohrer and King were shot and killed during a transfer of an inmate to the courthouse for a hearing.

May 30
Dickinson County (Tennessee) Sergeant Daniel Baker

Baker was shot and killed during an altercation surrounding a stolen vehicle. Suspect Steven Wiggins was arrested after a two-day manhunt.

May 7
Highlands County (Florida) Deputy Sheriff William J. Gentry, Jr.

Gentry was dispatched to a home regarding an animal abuse case when he was confronted by the suspect, who lived next door. The suspect then opened fire.

May 4
Terra Haute (Indiana) Police Officer Rob Pitts

Pitts, a veteran of Terre Haute police department, was shot and killed as he responded to a call at an apartment complex on May 4.

April 27
Nogales (Arizona) Police Officer Jesus Cordova

Cordova was killed after trying to pull over a carjacking suspect. The suspect got out of the car and opened fire. It was the first time since 1888 a Nogales Police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty.

April 25

Somerset County (Maine) police Cpl. Eugene Cole

Cole was shot and killed by a man who then drove off in his squad car. Cole, 62, was a father and an "outstanding" officer, Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster said.

Dallas Police Officer Rogelio Santander

Santander died a day after after he and a colleague were shot at a Home Depot. The suspected gunman was captured after a car chase. Santander, 27, was a three-year police veteran.

April 19
Gilchrist County (Florida) Sheriff's Sgt. Noel Ramirez and Deputy Taylor Lindsey

Ramirez and Lindsey were killed when a man walked up to the window of the restaurant where they were eating and shot them without warning. The shooter was later found dead outside the business.

April 12
Yarmouth (Massachusetts) Police Officer Sean Gannon

Gannon was serving a warrant when he was shot and killed. He was a wonderful young man and "I'm going to miss him terribly," Yarmouth Police Chief Frank Fredrickson said.

March 13
Pikeville (Kentucky) Police Officer Scotty Hamilton

Hamilton was shot and killed while on duty. Hamilton had been a member of the Pikeville Police Department since 2006.

March 9
Pomona (California) Police Officer Greggory Casillas

Rookie officer Greggory Casillas was shot to death while trying to arrest a man in Pomona. He was killed after a reported police chase ended with a suspect barricaded inside an apartment home. Another officer was also shot.

March 6
Clinton (Missouri) Police Officer Christopher Ryan Morton

Morton was shot and killed as he responded with other officers to a domestic disturbance call in Clinton. Two other officers also were shot. A 911 call was mistakenly traced to the wrong location, where officers were met with gunfire, a Missouri Highway Patrol official said.

March 2
Boone County (Indiana) Deputy Sheriff Jacob Pickett

Pickett was shot and killed as he and other deputies were assisting Lebanon police officers in a pursuit.

February 20
Mobile (Alabama) Police Officer Justin Billa

Billa was killed as he and others responded to a call of a woman found dead in a residential area. Billa was fatally shot as he tried to speak with the ex-husband of the victim. The man then killed himself.

February 13
Chicago (Illinois) Police Commander Paul Bauer

Bauer, 53, was killed February 13 while responding to a call in downtown Chicago. He went after a suspect who had an altercation with other officers and escaped. Bauer, a 31-year veteran, encountered that individual and was shot several times.

February 10
Westerville (Ohio) Police Officers Eric Joering and Anthony Morelli

The two were fatally shot February 10 as they responded to a 911 hangup call involving potential domestic abuse. Joering, 39, and Morelli, 54, were shot as they entered an apartment in Westerville, north of Columbus.

February 9
Locust Grove (Georgia) Police Officer Chase Maddox

Maddox, 26, was killed when he tried to assist two Henry County Sheriff's deputies in arresting a man wanted on a warrant for failure to appear in court. The shooting occurred in Locust Grove, a small town about 35 miles south of Atlanta. The suspect was killed.

February 7
Richardson (Texas) Police Officer David Sherrard

Sherrard, 37, was shot and killed when he responded with other officers to a shots fired call at an apartment complex in Richardson. When officers entered an apartment, a man began firing on the officers.

February 5
El Paso County (Colorado) Sheriff's Deputy Micah Flick

Flick was marking his 11th anniversary as a sheriff's deputy with El Paso County when he and some colleagues were looking into a report of a vehicle theft on February 5. Flick, 34, was shot and killed - and three other law enforcement officers were shot and injured - during a struggle with a suspect in Colorado Springs. The suspect died, police said.

January 24
Adams County (Colorado) Sheriff's Deputy Heath Gumm

Gumm and other deputies were chasing a man while investigating a report of an assault in Thornton, a city near Denver. When the deputies followed the man behind a home, the man pulled out a handgun and fired, hitting Gumm in the chest.

January 24
Detroit (Michigan) Police Officer Glenn Doss Jr.

Doss, 25, was shot in the head as he got out of his patrol car to respond to a domestic violence call. He died four days later.

January 18
Deputy US Marshal Christopher Hill in Pennsylvania

Hill, 45, was shot and killed in Harrisburg during an attempt to serve an arrest warrant. As officers tried to apprehend a woman who was wanted for making terroristic threats, a man inside opened fire. Hill and two other officers were struck. One of the officers shot and killed the shooter.

January 17
York County (South Carolina) Sheriff's Detective Michael Doty

Doty, 37, died of gunshot wounds he received a day earlier during the search for a man who shot a York County Sheriff's canine handler. The handler was ambushed by the man, who was accused of attacking his wife. A SWAT team that included Doty responded to the incident, and the suspect shot the detective.

January 7
Pierce County (Washington) Sheriff's Deputy Daniel A. McCartney

McCartney, 34, was shot and killed as he chased two burglary suspects after responding to a home invasion call in Frederickson. One of the suspects was found dead at the scene, and the other was apprehended later.

Correction: A previous version of this story misstated the number of police officers fatally shot in the line of duty since the start of 2018.

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United States Vice President Mike Pence was in attendance Friday night for the 2018 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, and while President Donald Trump did not make the trip, a Trump impersonator crashed the party along with a Kim Jong Un lookalike.

The impersonators walked through the crowd at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium during the Opening Ceremony as Team USA entered, but were eventually asked to leave by security, according to the but according to the South China Morning Post.

"We wanted to surprise everyone and bring world peace and then we're being escorted out by security guards, which I think is really unfair," the Kim impersonator said. "Doesn't everyone want peace?"

The pair told The Telegraph prior to the Opening Ceremony that they were simply trying to send a message.

People in Seoul were surprised to see what appeared to be U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un taking selfies. Of course it was two impersonators who took the opportunity to cause a sensation before the opening of the Pyeongchang Olympic Games pic.twitter.com/YPSVvMK28B

- The Telegraph (@Telegraph) February 9, 2018

"What we'd like to achieve by coming to South Korea at the Winter Olympics is that to show the world this is what peace could look like when two leaders get along."

The Trump impersonator was identified as American Dennis Alan, while the Kim Jong Un impersonator is from Australia.

According to the AP, Pence was seated in close proximity to Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, but the two did not interact during the Opening Ceremony.

Johnny Weir, Tara Lipinski's sad and hilarious answer about what they wore to prom Chloe Kim loves all kinds of junk food, not just ice cream Fun fact: Olympic gold medalist Red Gerard's sister is a famous food blogger

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NASA is keeping watch on Elon Musk's roadster

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Astronomers aim to keep tabs on everything up in the night sky. A NASAdatabase includes our solar system's eight planets and their moons, more than 755,000 asteroids, 3,500 comets -- and, as of this week, one cherry red sports car that belonged to a Silicon Valley billionaire.

Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX, put on a stunning show Tuesday with the inaugural launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, which became the most powerful operational rocket in the world.

It was a demo mission, so the goal was just to show that the rocket could fire up its engines and fly into space.

Test flights typically have a dummy payload, such as a big hunk of metal, so that nothing important or expensive is damaged if the rocket blows up.

But Musk decided to offer up his personal Tesla roadster. The Falcon Heavy launch was nearly perfect, and the roadster is headed for orbit around the sun. Its path will take it as far away as Mars, and, later, as close to the sun as the Earth.

Related: What happened to the Tesla that Elon Musk shot into space?

Behind the wheel is Starman, a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit. SpaceX also hid a few "Easter eggs" in the car.

"You might also catch a glimpse of a smaller passenger, which is a tiny little Hot Wheels roadster, carrying a tiny little Starman," Lauren Lyons, a SpaceX engineer, said during the mission's webcast.

Also on board the Tesla is a durable storage device, called an Arch, loaded with the text of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" sci-fi trilogy. The names of over 6,000 SpaceX employees are also etched onto some hardware below the car.

In the words of Musk, the Tesla was meant to be a silly stunt for SpaceX -- but for NASA, the car is an object in our solar system that must be cataloged and tracked.

"We need to have it in our artificial object catalog so that we don't confuse it with an asteroid discovery in the future," NASA spokesperson Dwayne Brown said in an email.

The roadster is now officially labeled a Near-Earth Object, which is a designation NASA gives to objects that can travel relatively close to our home planet. (Don't worry, the odds of the car colliding with Earth anytime soon are very, very small.)

Related: Here's what's next for SpaceX

The Tesla now has it's own entry in Horizons, a database run by the Solar System Dynamics group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Horizons keeps tabs on all the "bodies" of the solar system, including planets, moons, comets and asteroids. And there's about 150 man-made objects. They include exploration probes, such as Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, and some stray rocket parts left over from the Apollo moon missions, according to Brown.

The Tesla is listed as object -143205, "SpaceX Roadster (spacecraft) (Tesla)."

Astronomers use the Horizons database to find out where they should point their telescopes to observe an object.

Over the past few days, a few astronomers did just that to get shots of the Tesla before it drifts too far away to be seen from Earth.

NASA's Solar System Dynamics group uses the Horizons database to research how objects in our solar system move and interact. They also use it to help plan future missions to study asteroids or comets and investigate scientific theories.

To view a simulation of the Tesla's orbit (based on the data in Horizons), go to OrbitSimulator.com and search for "roadster."

CNNMoney (New York) First published February 10, 2018: 4:30 PM ET

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Russian plane crashes outside of Moscow, 71 people dead.

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Adam Rippon on feeling like he would 'throw up' in Olympic debut and having 'nothing to say' to Mike Pence

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Adam Rippon responded to social media´s outrage that he was “robbed” and had the feeling like he would 'throw up' in Olympic debut and having 'nothing to say' to Mike Pence.

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U.S. Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon responded to social media outrage that he was "robbed" of higher scores in his Olympic debut by joking he'd like those Twitter users to join the judging panel in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

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"I think we need to get those people who think that I was ripped off on a judging panel immediately, maybe before the individual competition," Rippon, 28, said today on " Good Morning America."

Rippon landed two triple axels today in his routine that helped the U.S. earn a bronze medal in the figure skating team competition.

Rippon finished with a lower score than Russian skater Mikhail Kolyada and Canadian skater Patrick Chan, both of whom fell during their routines.

Twitter erupted in outrage over the seeming discrepancy, but Rippon appeared to take it in stride as he reflected on the nerves he felt going into his Olympic debut.

"I don't think I've ever been that nervous at 10 a.m. in my entire life," he said. "It felt great. I thought I was going to throw up but I kept it together."

Among the first to publicly congratulate Rippon on his first Olympic medal was fellow U.S. Winter Olympian Gus Kenworthy.

Rippon said today he and Kenworthy "have a bond now that we'll have for the rest of our lives" after competing together as openly gay athletes at the Winter Olympics.

The teammates' statements on being openly gay Olympic athletes have caused some friction with Vice President Mike Pence, who led the U.S. delegation to Pyeongchang and attended Friday's Opening Ceremony.

As media reports circulated Friday that there was tension between Pence and Rippon, the vice president took to Twitter, and wrote, "@Adaripp I want you to know we are FOR YOU. Don't let fake news distract you. I am proud of you and ALL OF OUR GREAT athletes and my only hope for you and all of #TeamUSA is to bring home the gold. Go get 'em!"

.@Adaripp I want you to know we are FOR YOU. Don't let fake news distract you. I am proud of you and ALL OF OUR GREAT athletes and my only hope for you and all of #TeamUSA is to bring home the gold. Go get 'em!
- Vice President Mike Pence (@VP) February 8, 2018

Rippon said today he has no interest in meeting after the Olympics with Pence, the former Indiana governor who has been perceived as showing a lack of support of LGBT rights and once supporting so-called gay conversion therapy, which has been slammed by the medical field.

In a 2000 statement on his congressional campaign website, Pence said, "Resources should be directed toward those institutions which provide assistance to those seeking to change their sexual behavior." During the 2016 election campaign, however, Pence's spokesman said he does not support the concept.

"I personally don't have anything to say to Mike Pence," Rippon said. "I'm very lucky because legislation that he's pushed hasn't affected my life at all.

"I spoke out because there are people out there whose lives have been affected by change that he's tried to make. I spoke out for them because right now I have a voice and I think it's really important for me to use it. That's a conversation for them."

Rippon is instead focusing on his next competition, individual figure skating, where he again has a chance to win gold.

"I'm ready. I'm here. I'm at the Olympics. I came to play and I'm so excited to be here," he said. "After this team competition and skating so well, I feel ready to show the world what else I have up my sleeve."

Rippon, who narrowly missed qualifying for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, is based in Los Angeles. When he returns to the Golden State from Pyeongchang, he said he already knows how he will be celebrating.

"I'm going to go to Target and I'm going to get a bottle of Sauvignon blanc, Oyster Bay, with the twist top, immediately," he said.

ABC News David Caplan contributed to this report.

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U.S. Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon responded to social media outrage that he was "robbed" of higher scores in his Olympic debut by joking he'd like those Twitter users to join the judging panel in Pyeongchang, South Korea. "I think we need to get those people who think that I was ripped off on...

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The moment a gigantic boar stands on his hind legs to chow down on garbage has been caught on camera - but it's where the animal is doing it that's causing concern.

Shocked parents taking their kids to school in Hong Kong spotted the huge animal standing on the tips of his trotters to get his head in the bin, while two piglets stand next to him.

The terrifying video, posted to Facebook by Tu Dong, has since gone viral.

It's already been shared more than 4600 times and has racked up 300,000 views.

More than 2500 social media users also commented on the video, many of which expressed concern about how close the wild pigs were to the school.

Misaki Ceci wrote: "The wild pig is in front of the left school. I'm careful with Hyung-Hyung's primary school, and I've got a wild boar."

The footage shows the boar trying to pull a black garbage bag out of the skip bin while his piglets stand guard.

In Australia, feral pigs are widely spread across NSW, Queensland, the Northern Territory and the ACT. They were declared pest animals in 2013, meaning they can be legally killed by farm owners.

There are millions of feral pigs in Queensland, with the last estimate claiming up to six million of them were living in the northern state.

In July 2013, a 10-year-old boy was gored in the neck by a wild boar at a far north Queensland beach. He had been riding his bike on a beach near Cairns when the pig charged at him and stabbed him in the neck with his tusk.

Feral pigs are also known to cause significant economic losses to agriculture by damaging crops, water holes and fencing.

There are strict laws in place to deter people from transporting and releasing live feral pigs, with fines starting at $2200 for possessing a wild animal.

Fines climb to $22,000 for transporting live feral pigs.
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The moment a gigantic boar stands on his hind legs to chow down on garbage has been caught on camera - but it's where the animal is doing it that's causing concern. Shocked parents taking their kids to school in Hong Kong spotted the huge animal standing on the tips of his trotters to get his head in the bin, while two piglets stand next to him.

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt has used taxpayer funds to purchase first-class airfare and spend nights at luxury hotels more often than his predecessors, according to records first analyzed by The Washington Post.

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According to the Post, Pruitt's travel choices distinguish him from his predecessors in that he brings a larger group of aides with him on trips, he usually flies first or business class on international and domestic trips, and he often flies Delta Airlines even though the government has contracts with certain airlines on specific routes.

Records obtained by the Environmental Integrity Project and The Washington Post via the Freedom of Information Act show that the EPA often cited unspecified security concerns for flying first class.

As the Post notes, federal regulations say agencies can authorize first-class travel under "exceptional security circumstances." Regulations permit first-class travel when using coach would endanger a traveler's life or government property, when the traveler is part of a security detail accompanying someone traveling in first-class, or the traveler is a courier.

One trip to Rome for Pruitt and his entourage of aides, which included a ride from a White House event in Cincinnati to New York in a military jet, cost at least $90,000, excluding the cost of his security detail's 24/7 support.

CNN has reached out to the EPA for comment.

This isn't the first time Pruitt's spending at the EPA has been the subject of scrutiny.

The EPA's inspector general expanded its probe into Pruitt's travel last October. And last month, the inspector general said it would be looking into agency spending for Pruitt's security detail.

And last year, the EPA spent close to $25,000 to construct a secure phone booth for Pruitt, according to the Post.

CNN's Sara Ganim contributed to this report.

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Woman who kidnapped baby and raised girl as her own for 18 years pleads guilty

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A woman pleaded guilty today to kidnapping a newborn baby from a Florida hospital in 1998 and raising her for 19 years in South Carolina.

Gloria Williams, 52, entered guilty pleas to charges of felony kidnapping and interference of custody in the 4th Judicial Circuit Court in Jacksonville, Florida, as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

Williams of Walterboro, South Carolina, told Judge Marianne Aho that she acted alone in the July 10, 1998, abduction of the infant born as Kamiyah Mobley at University Medical Center in Jacksonville.

"Mrs. Williams, are you entering a plea of guilty also because you are in fact guilty?" Aho asked the defendant.

Williams replied, "Yes, ma'am."

Her plea came on the same day her trial was to begin in the case. Under the agreement with prosecutors, Williams faces a sentence of anywhere zero to 22 years in prison when Aho sentences her in May.

If she had gone to trial and was found guilty, Williams would have faced a maximum sentence of life in prison.

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Woman pleads guilty to 1998 baby kidnapping that garnered national attention

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A woman pleaded guilty today to kidnapping a newborn baby from a Florida hospital in 1998 and raising her for 19 years in South Carolina. Gloria Williams, 52, entered guilty pleas to charges of felony kidnapping and interference of custody in the 4th Judicial Circuit Court in Jacksonville, Florida, as part of a plea deal with prosecutors.

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San Francisco 49ERs player Reuben Foster got arrested for suspected domestic violence.

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San Francisco 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster was reportedly arrested "on charges related to domestic violence."

Sarah Ravani and Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle reported the news Sunday, noting Foster is being held without bail. Robert Salonga of the Mercury News added Foster was also charged on suspicion of possessing an assault rifle.

According to Ravani and Branch, Foster was also arrested on Jan. 12 while in Tuscaloosa, Alabama-where he attended the University of Alabama-for second-degree marijuana possession. The second-degree marijuana possession in Alabama is a Class A misdemeanor.

Branch shared the 49ers' response to the situation: "The San Francisco 49ers organization is aware of the report regarding Reuben Foster. We take matters of this nature seriously and are gathering all pertinent information."

San Francisco general manager John Lynch previously addressed whether the team had a zero-tolerance policy on domestic violence after cornerback Tramaine Brock was cut a day after he was arrested in April.

"As those situations arise and, hopefully, there won't be a lot them, we're going to treat each one of them as a unique and different situation," Lynch said, per Ravani and Branch.

Ravani and Branch pointed out Foster had off-field issues before the 49ers even selected him in the first round of the 2017 draft since he failed a drug test at the NFL Scouting Combine and was then dismissed from the event because of an altercation with a hospital employee.

During the Senior Bowl last month, Lynch talked about his interview with Foster leading up to the draft, via Jennifer Lee Chan of Niners Nation:

"We probably spent more time with him than anybody in the draft because we felt like it was necessary. We grew comfortable and we felt really good about him. It hasn't been without bumps, as we all know, but we still believe in him a great deal. He's got to stay-he knows it-he's got to stay clean. We all know how special of a player he can be when he's right. So he's got to figure out how to stay healthy and stay out of trouble, but we believe he will do that."

Foster played 10 games for the 49ers as a rookie, accumulating 72 total tackles. He missed six games because of back and ankle injuries.

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Report: Reuben Foster Arrested on Suspected Domestic Violence, Weapon Charges

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Jeff Haynes/Associated Press San Francisco 49ers linebacker Reuben Foster was reportedly arrested "on charges related to domestic violence." Sarah Ravani and Eric Branch of the San Francisco Chronicle reported the news Sunday, noting Foster is being held without bail. Robert Salonga of the Mercury News added Foster was also charged on suspicion of possessing an assault rifle.

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The moment a gigantic boar stands on his hind legs to chow down on garbage has been caught on camera - but it's where the animal is doing it that's causing concern.

Shocked parents taking their kids to school in Hong Kong spotted the huge animal standing on the tips of his trotters to get his head in the bin, while two piglets stand next to him.

The terrifying video, posted to Facebook by Tu Dong, has since gone viral.

It's already been shared more than 4600 times and has racked up 300,000 views.

More than 2500 social media users also commented on the video, many of which expressed concern about how close the wild pigs were to the school.

Misaki Ceci wrote: "The wild pig is in front of the left school. I'm careful with Hyung-Hyung's primary school, and I've got a wild boar."

The footage shows the boar trying to pull a black garbage bag out of the skip bin while his piglets stand guard.

In Australia, feral pigs are widely spread across NSW, Queensland, the Northern Territory and the ACT. They were declared pest animals in 2013, meaning they can be legally killed by farm owners.

There are millions of feral pigs in Queensland, with the last estimate claiming up to six million of them were living in the northern state.

In July 2013, a 10-year-old boy was gored in the neck by a wild boar at a far north Queensland beach. He had been riding his bike on a beach near Cairns when the pig charged at him and stabbed him in the neck with his tusk.

Feral pigs are also known to cause significant economic losses to agriculture by damaging crops, water holes and fencing.

There are strict laws in place to deter people from transporting and releasing live feral pigs, with fines starting at $2200 for possessing a wild animal.

Fines climb to $22,000 for transporting live feral pigs.
This story originally appeared in news.com.au.

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Giant pig caught on camera ravaging garbage bin near school goes viral

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The moment a gigantic boar stands on his hind legs to chow down on garbage has been caught on camera - but it's where the animal is doing it that's causing concern. Shocked parents taking their kids to school in Hong Kong spotted the huge animal standing on the tips of his trotters to get his head in the bin, while two piglets stand next to him.

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Plane's final moments captured on camera.

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CNN's Frederik Pleitgen reports from the scene of a plane crash in Russia where all 71 people on board were killed.

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Massachusetts man fatally stabs girlfriend, attacks parents during gathering at restaurant, officials say

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A 24-year-old man fatally stabbed his girlfriend before driving to a family party at a Massachusetts restaurant to attack his parents, officials said.

Needham Police said they were called to a restaurant around 7 p.m. Saturday in Millis for a domestic violence incident and found Benjamin Walsh, who had stabbed his parents with a large kitchen knife before being restrained by partygoers.

Walsh's mother was hospitalized in serious condition, while his father was treated and released.

Police say they also found the body of Walsh's girlfriend, 20-year-old Olivia Bergstrom, in the apartment they shared.

"I know that when Ben realizes what he did last night he will be devastated," Mike Walsh, Ben's father, told Boston 25 News.

Walsh's father said his son struggled with substance abuse and mental health issues, and is convinced Ben was "out of his mind" during the rampage.
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Mike Walsh told Boston 25 he never imagined his son would harm his mother or girlfriend.

"She's, you know, a person he relies a lot on for support, I know she's not a person he would ever want to hurt," Walsh said.

Benjamin Walsh is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.

Travis Fedschun is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travfed

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Massachusetts man fatally stabs girlfriend, attacks parents during gathering at restaurant, officials say

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A 24-year-old man fatally stabbed his girlfriend before driving to a family party at a Massachusetts restaurant to attack his parents, officials said. Needham Police said they were called to a restaurant around 7 p.m. Saturday in Millis for a domestic violence incident and found Benjamin Walsh, who had stabbed his parents with a large kitchen knife before being restrained by partygoers.

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A witness of the Grand Canyon helicopter crash saw a survivor walk out of the flames.

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Three people were killed and four critically injured when a helicopter touring through the Grand Canyon National Park crashed and exploded in a fireball, officials told ABC News.

As investigators tried to figure out what caused the crash of the Papillon aerial-touring company helicopter -- which was carrying a pilot and six tourists from the United Kingdom -- a witness described to ABC News watching in disbelief as one of the survivors walked out of the flames.

Witness Lionel Douglass, who was attending a wedding on a bluff about 1,000 yards away from where the helicopter crashed and exploded, said the scene reminded him of the biblical story of when Jesus rescued Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego from a fiery furnace they were cast into by King Nebuchadnezzar.

"I had taken my phone and I was zooming in to see if I could see anybody and a lady walked out of the flames and I just lost it," Douglass told ABC News.

The helicopter "sustained substantial damage" when the crash occurred "under unknown circumstances" in the Quartermaster Canyon area of the immense wilderness wonderland on Saturday afternoon, FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer told ABC News.

Kenitzer said the helicopter crashed about three miles east of the Grand Canyon West Airport in Peach Springs, Arizona.

Video taken by witnesses shortly after the crash and posted on Twitter showed the helicopter engulfed in flames and black smoke, surrounded by sage and cactus at the bottom of a steep, rocky canyon.

Hualapai Nation Police Chief Francis Bradley said the crash occurred at 5:20 p.m. local time, with six passengers from the United Kingdom and the pilot on board. He said the helicopter tour originated in Boulder City, Nevada.

Bradley said a storm was rolling into the area around the time of the crash. He said weather conditions were "not normal," but no flight restrictions had been imposed.

He said the crash occurred in an area with extremely rugged terrain and that initial rescue efforts by emergency helicopter were hampered by gusts of up to 50 miles per hour. Bradley said rescuers had to hike into the area and that they didn't get everyone out of the wreckage until about 2 a.m. Sunday.

Douglass told ABC News that he saw the helicopter plummet from the sky after doing two complete circles as if the pilot was searching for a spot to set the aircraft down.

"It happened so fast. When I saw them turning, I wasn't sure what he was doing and by the time I yelled to everybody to turn around and look, it was all out of control," Douglass said. "It fell down between the mountains, the tail broke in half, it hit the bottom and it was the biggest explosion you ever heard and then flames like you never seen before."

He said the initial explosion was followed by five or six others.

He said the woman who staggered out of the flames appeared to be disoriented. Once out of harm's way she collapsed to the ground and began screaming the name Jason.

It is unclear if the pilot is among the injured or deceased.

The four who survived the crash were taken by rescue helicopter to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada and remained in critical condition Sunday evening, hospital spokeswoman Danita Cohen told ABC News.

According to Papillon's website, it flies roughly 600,000 passengers a year over the Grand Canyon and on other tours.

"It is with extreme sadness we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the families involved in this accident. Our top priority is the care and needs of our passengers and our staff," Brenda Halvorson, chief executive officer of the helicopter touring company's parent company, Papillon Group, said in a statement Sunday afternoon.

Halvorson said the company is cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board and local authorities investigating the crash.

ABC News' Rex Sakamoto and Lucien Bruggeman contributed to this report.

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Witness describes seeing survivor walk out of flames of Grand Canyon chopper crash

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Three people were killed and four critically injured when a helicopter touring through the Grand Canyon National Park crashed and exploded in a fireball, officials told ABC News. As investigators tried to figure out what caused the crash of the Papillon aerial-touring company helicopter -- which...

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Ex-MLB Pitcher Esteban Loaiza Arrested; Had 20 Kilos of Heroin or Cocaine

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Mirai Nagasu made history by nailing a triple axel

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She landed a triple axel.

Why this is so massively impressive:

The axel jump was first invented in 1882 - by a guy named Axel Paulsen. But he only did a single axel. It took more than 90 years for the first man to land a triple axel.

And it wasn't until 1991 that the first American woman landed a triple axel. That was Tonya Harding at the 1991 US championships.

At the Olympic level, Nagasu is only the third woman -- and the first American woman -- to successfully complete the triple axel; the other two are Japanese skaters Midori Ito and Mao Asada.

Why the triple axel is so rare to pull off:

You're racing across the ice at full speed and suddenly you skid off the edge of one blade. Your skate goes perpendicular, which forces you to stop moving forward. All that momentum hurls you up into the air instead of across the ice.

While hanging midair, you spin your body around 3 1/2 rotations in less than a second - estimated by some university studies to be more than 300 revolutions per minute.

Finally, you land on the foot that you didn't use for the takeoff. And you come down with immense force -- more than four times your body weight. So a 125-pound skater like Nagasu would feel the impact of more than 500 pounds of force on a 1/4-inch thin blade.

What makes it so difficult:

1. You have to take off forward, with your blade skidding sideways, and land skating backward.

2. If you slip, you could seriously wipe out. Common injuries are stress fractures, broken bones and hip and knee damage -- some of which could easily ruin careers.

3. Proper air position is critical to completing all 3 1/2 revolutions.

OK, so what's the next big figure skating move?

The quadruple axel - the only quad jump that's never been done in competition. That's 4 1/2 rotations.

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The insanely difficult feat of the triple axel, broken down

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She landed a triple axel. Why this is so massively impressive: The axel jump was first invented in 1882 - by a guy named Axel Paulsen. But he only did a single axel. It took more than 90 years for the first man to land a triple axel.

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Mystery of 'screaming Egyptian mummy' which has baffled archaeologists for years finally resolved

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The "Screaming Mummy" mystery from ancient Egypt has baffled experts for years but the secret behind the horrifying remains has finally been resolved.

When archaeologists first uncovered the mummified body they were surprised to find the face of the long-dead Egyptian distorted in anguish, appearing to be silently screaming.

Over the years various theories had been aired in an attempt to reveal who the man was and why he seemed to have died in agony.

One popular theory said he was Prince Pentewere, son of Pharaoh Ramses III and one of his wives, Tiye.

The prince unsuccessfully plotted to kill his father and take his throne and, according to ancient records, was made to take his own life after the plan failed and he was put on trial.

But the latest theory casts doubt on that explanation.

Dr. Bob Brier, an archaeologist at Long Island University in New York, who has examined the body, said: "Two forces were acting on this mummy: one to get rid of him and the other to try and preserve him."

Dr. Zahi Hawass from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities believes it is likely that the mummy was a prince who brought shame on his family.

It was buried alongside other royals but was covered in a sheepskin.

Dr. Hawass, a former minister of antiquities, said: "In the mind of the ancient Egyptian, to cover with a sheepskin means he was not clean, he did something bad in his life.

"We'd never seen a mummy like this, suffering. It's not normal, and it tells us something happened, but we did not know exactly what."

Dr. Brier added: "For some reason, there was an attempt to make sure that he didn't have an afterlife, and in another attempt, somebody cared about him and tried to override that."

The "Screaming Mummy" is on display this week at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for the first time.

Elham Salah, from the Ministry of Antiquities, said in a statement that this was the first time that the mummy had been put on display since it had been moved to the museum.

Until this week the remains had been kept in its coffin in a storage area of the museum.
This story originally appeared in The Sun.

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Mystery of 'screaming Egyptian mummy' which has baffled archaeologists for years finally resolved

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The "Screaming Mummy" mystery from ancient Egypt has baffled experts for years but the secret behind the horrifying remains has finally been resolved. When archaeologists first uncovered the mummified body they were surprised to find the face of the long-dead Egyptian distorted in anguish, appearing to be silently screaming.

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Three people were killed and four critically injured when a helicopter touring through the grand canyon national park crashed and exploded in a fireball, officials told ABC News. As investigators tried to figure out what caused the crash of the Papilla aerial-touring company helicopter -- which was carrying a pilot and six tourists from the United Kingdom -- a witness described to ABC News watching in disbelief as one of the survivors walked out of the flames.

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Three people were killed and four critically injured when a helicopter touring through the Grand Canyon National Park crashed and exploded in a fireball, officials told ABC News.

As investigators tried to figure out what caused the crash of the Papillon aerial-touring company helicopter -- which was carrying a pilot and six tourists from the United Kingdom -- a witness described to ABC News watching in disbelief as one of the survivors walked out of the flames.

Witness Lionel Douglass, who was attending a wedding on a bluff about 1,000 yards away from where the helicopter crashed and exploded, said the scene reminded him of the biblical story of when Jesus rescued Shadrack, Meshack and Abednego from a fiery furnace they were cast into by King Nebuchadnezzar.

"I had taken my phone and I was zooming in to see if I could see anybody and a lady walked out of the flames and I just lost it," Douglass told ABC News.

The helicopter "sustained substantial damage" when the crash occurred "under unknown circumstances" in the Quartermaster Canyon area of the immense wilderness wonderland on Saturday afternoon, FAA spokesman Allen Kenitzer told ABC News.

Kenitzer said the helicopter crashed about three miles east of the Grand Canyon West Airport in Peach Springs, Arizona.

Video taken by witnesses shortly after the crash and posted on Twitter showed the helicopter engulfed in flames and black smoke, surrounded by sage and cactus at the bottom of a steep, rocky canyon.

Hualapai Nation Police Chief Francis Bradley said the crash occurred at 5:20 p.m. local time, with six passengers from the United Kingdom and the pilot on board. He said the helicopter tour originated in Boulder City, Nevada.

Bradley said a storm was rolling into the area around the time of the crash. He said weather conditions were "not normal," but no flight restrictions had been imposed.

He said the crash occurred in an area with extremely rugged terrain and that initial rescue efforts by emergency helicopter were hampered by gusts of up to 50 miles per hour. Bradley said rescuers had to hike into the area and that they didn't get everyone out of the wreckage until about 2 a.m. Sunday.

Douglass told ABC News that he saw the helicopter plummet from the sky after doing two complete circles as if the pilot was searching for a spot to set the aircraft down.

"It happened so fast. When I saw them turning, I wasn't sure what he was doing and by the time I yelled to everybody to turn around and look, it was all out of control," Douglass said. "It fell down between the mountains, the tail broke in half, it hit the bottom and it was the biggest explosion you ever heard and then flames like you never seen before."

He said the initial explosion was followed by five or six others.

He said the woman who staggered out of the flames appeared to be disoriented. Once out of harm's way she collapsed to the ground and began screaming the name Jason.

It is unclear if the pilot is among the injured or deceased.

The four who survived the crash were taken by rescue helicopter to the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada and remained in critical condition Sunday evening, hospital spokeswoman Danita Cohen told ABC News.

According to Papillon's website, it flies roughly 600,000 passengers a year over the Grand Canyon and on other tours.

"It is with extreme sadness we extend our heartfelt sympathy to the families involved in this accident. Our top priority is the care and needs of our passengers and our staff," Brenda Halvorson, chief executive officer of the helicopter touring company's parent company, Papillon Group, said in a statement Sunday afternoon.

Halvorson said the company is cooperating with the National Transportation Safety Board and local authorities investigating the crash.

ABC News' Rex Sakamoto and Lucien Bruggeman contributed to this report.

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Witness describes seeing survivor walk out of flames of Grand Canyon chopper crash

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A West Virginia city has agreed to pay a former police officer $175,000 to settle a wrongful-termination lawsuit after he was fired following his decision not to shoot a distraught suspect who was holding a gun.

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The lawsuit accused the Weirton Police Department of wrongfully terminating officer Stephen Mader after he chose not to shoot a 23-year-old man while responding to a domestic disturbance in 2016.

"At the end of the day, I'm happy to put this chapter of my life to bed," Mader said in a news release by the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia.

"The events leading to my termination were unjustified and I'm pleased a joint resolution has been met. My hope is that no other person on either end of a police call has to go through this again."

The incident occurred May 6, 2016, when Mader responded to a domestic-disturbance call and found Ronald "R.J." Williams Jr. with an unloaded handgun.

Mader told CNN last year that Williams was "visibly choked up" and told Mader to shoot him. As a Marine veteran who served in Afghanistan, Mader told CNN that he concluded Williams wasn't a threat and so he tried to de-escalate the situation.

As Mader was trying to get Williams to drop his gun, two other Weirton police officers arrived. Mader told CNN that Williams raised his gun and was immediately shot and killed by one of the other officers. A state investigation found the officer's actions were justified.

On June 7, 2016, the Weirton Police Department fired Mader. The lawsuit, filed in May 2017, claims the department fired him because of "failure to meet probationary standards of an officer" and "apparent difficulties in critical incident reasoning."

In September 2016, Weirton City Manager Travis Blosser told CNN that Mader was fired not just for the Williams shooting but for "a totality of circumstances," which included a March 2016 incident where Mader allegedly entered a man's vehicle without a warrant to put a ticket on the dashboard and an April 2016 incident where Mader and other officers failed to report an elderly woman's death as suspicious. The woman's death was later ruled a homicide.

Mader told CNN that in the March 2016 incident, he was writing a second parking ticket for a vehicle when the owner came out cursing at him so he responded with using the f-word. In the April 2016 incident, Mader said emergency responders told officers that the woman died of natural causes.

When reached for comment Monday, Blosser said the city had "no comment regarding the settlement."

Timothy O'Brien, lead counsel in the lawsuit, said he's pleased Mader's case has been resolved.

"No police officer should ever lose their job - or have their name dragged through the mud - for choosing to talk to, rather than shoot, a fellow citizen," he said. "His decision to attempt to de-escalate the situation should have been praised, not punished. Simply put, no police officer should ever feel forced to take a life unnecessarily to save his career."

Joseph Cohen, ACLU-WV executive director, said Mader's termination was "yet another incident exposing the toxic culture that infects far too many police departments in America."

"We need to give law enforcement officers tools to effectively serve their communities. That means we need to invest in de-escalation training, implicit bias training and crisis intervention training. Hopefully the resolution of this lawsuit will send a message to the City of Weirton and police departments across the country that our communities deserve thoughtful, compassionate, transparent law enforcement."

CNN's Chris Boyette, Amanda Watts and Khushbu Shah contributed to this story.

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An officer was fired after he chose not to shoot a distraught suspect. Now he's getting a $175,000 settlement

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The lawsuit accused the Weirton Police Department of wrongfully terminating officer Stephen Mader after he chose not to shoot a 23-year-old man while responding to a domestic disturbance in 2016. "At the end of the day, I'm happy to put this chapter of my life to bed," Mader said in a news release by the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia.

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After a shooting in Texas by a discharged U.S. service member, the U.S. military banned thousands of names of former military personnel from buying guns.

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After a mass shooting in Texas by a dishonorably discharged U.S. service member last November, the U.S. military has moved quickly to add a backlog of thousands of names of former military personnel barred from buying guns to a nationwide database.

This push saw the addition of more than 4,000 names to the FBI database following the shooting inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs last November, according to a CNN analysis of the numbers. During the shooting Devin P Kelley, a former member of the U.S. Air Force, killed 26 people, including women and children.

At the time, officials said Kelley, who died after being pursued from the scene by an armed bystander, used a Ruger AR rifle and had other weapons inside his vehicle. He would have been banned from purchasing the weapons if his name had been added to the FBI's National Criminal Information Center database-a requirement for dishonorably discharged personnel.

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"The Air Force has launched a review of how the service handled the criminal records of former Airman Devin P. Kelley following his 2012 domestic violence conviction," said the Air Force in a statement after the mass shooting. "Federal law prohibited him from buying or possessing firearms after this conviction."

Kelley was convicted of assaulting his wife and breaking the skull of his infant stepson in a military court in 2012. When he was dishonorably discharged, his role in the military was listed as "prisoner." Dishonorably discharged service members are equivalent to convicted felons, who are also barred from owning guns.

Yet Kelley passed a background check to buy the AR 15 rifle in 2016 and another firearm in 2017, Reuters reported. After the shooting, the U.S. Air Force said it had not added Kelley's conviction to the FBI's federal database of dishonorably discharged service members who are barred from owning firearms.
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The number of dishonourably discharged service members on the FBI list rose sharply last November when is jumped from hovering above 11,000 to 14,825. It rose to 15,583 in December, CNN's tracking of the numbers shows, and again to 15,597 in the latest data.

The Air Force and other branches of the military have been working to clear a backlog of names of dishonorably discharged service members destined for the database.

"We initiated a complete review of Air Force law enforcement investigations with profiles that might have required criminal data reporting to the FBI, going as far back as data accessibility allows, but initially, going back to 2002," Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson told Congress in early December.

Wilson said there are some 60,000 cases to review and that it will take four to five months to go through them all. "We have coordinated with the FBI and, as reporting deficiencies are identified and verified, they are being corrected," she said.

The Marine Corps are working on changes to "increase the speed and efficacy of reporting" as well, spokesman Captain Christopher R. Harrison told CNN. "We are in the process of conducting a thorough review of past cases to ensure that any prior failures to report are rectified and the appropriate information is provided to the FBI."

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The U.S. military has added thousands of names to a gun ban list after the Texas church massacre

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Police officers tasked with ridding Baltimore's crime-ridden streets of illegal guns used their authority to rob suspects of drugs and money, according to federal prosecutors.

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Jury deliberations resume Monday in the sensational corruption trial of former detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, members of the Baltimore Police Department's now-defunct Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF).

Hersl and Taylor are fighting charges including racketeering, extortion, filing fraudulent overtime claims and using a firearm in a violent crime. They have plead not guilty.

Six other Baltimore police officers have pled guilty to similar charges.

Hersl and Taylor are accused of carrying out brazen crimes along with those officers at a time of strained community relations, following the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray while in police custody. Under the cover of their badges, the officers allegedly sold seized guns and drugs on the streets, ripped off narcotics dealers and locked up innocent people.

Amid soaring crime and distrust in law enforcement, the unit played "both cops and robbers," according to lead federal prosecutor Leo Wise.

"They were supposed to be sentinels guarding this city from people who break the law," Wise told the jury in closing arguments last week, CNN affiliate WBAL-TV reported.

"Instead, they became hunters."

Four of the officers who pled guilty testified against their former colleagues, along with drug dealers who struck deals for more lenient sentences.

Jenifer Wicks, Taylor's attorney, has accused the government of building a conspiracy case with witnesses plucked from "the depths of the criminal underworld," according to WBAL-TV.

Hersl's attorney, William Purpura, said his client was a latecomer to the gun task force, making him less culpable than his colleagues, the station reported.

Testimony and evidence presented during the trial brought to light shocking allegations of criminality that continued even as US Justice Department civil rights lawyers investigated Baltimore's Police Department.

The case has shone a light on deeply rooted problems known to Baltimore residents for years, said Vanita Gupta, who headed the DOJ's civil rights division when the city agreed to a consent decree on sweeping police reforms.

"When there is misconduct, there must be accountability," said Gupta, now president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

"That is why this trial in Baltimore is so critical -- not just for what it reveals in and of itself, but also for showing the public that misconduct does not go unchecked."

Here are examples of the startling corruption allegations from the trial:

'Looked like somebody that needed to be robbed'

In September 2016, Hersl, Taylor and three other officers allegedly robbed Sergio Summerville, a small-time drug dealer who kept his stash at a storage unit downtown.

Hersl "came at me like a gang," Summerville testified, according to WBAL-TV. "He wanted to meet me every week, like some kind of extortion, to know who I was dealing with and to give him money."

Summerville said the detectives stole drugs and $2,400 he had stuffed in a sock.

An employee at the storage facility testified that Hersl and his supervisor, who has pleaded guilty, demanded to see a surveillance video of the encounter, the station reported.

The employee said that, when he demanded a search warrant, one officer told him he "looked like somebody that needed to be robbed."

Officers allegedly split $100,000 taken from a safe

Convicted task force members testified that they stole the house keys of a man named Oreese Stevenson in March 2016, The Baltimore Sun reported. They said they entered Stevenson's Baltimore home without a warrant and broke open a safe.

They counted $200,000 in cash, stole half the money and then put the rest of the cash back in the safe, the officers said.

One of them shot a video showing the officers pretending to open the safe for the first time after they had already pocketed half the money, they testified, according to the newspaper. Cocaine, an expensive watch and designer clothes were also taken from the home.

Taylor is accused of participating in that theft, according to the criminal complaint.

A grappling hook, a sledgehammer, a machete and masks

A former detective testified that Gun Trace Task Force Sgt. Wayne Jenkins once showed squad members a grappling hook with a rope, sledgehammer, machete, masks and other items he kept in his patrol car while on duty. The items were shown to the jury. Jenkins previously pled guilty to multiple charges.

Evodio Hendrix, who pled guilty to charges, testified that the sergeant "had all that stuff in the car in case he ran into a monster, someone with a lot of money and drugs," WBAL-TV reported.

"To arrest them?" a prosecutor asked.

"He was talking about robbing them," Hendrix replied.

In one home, detectives stole $25,000

A man named Ronald Hamilton testified that his car was stopped in 2016 by task force members, the station reported.

Hamilton said one of the officers knew he had won money gambling at a casino.

Prosecutors tried to show that squad members targeted casinos for people to rob.

Hamilton testified that Hersl and three other officers later searched his home and walked out with at least $25,000 in cash. Taylor was not involved in that incident, according to the criminal complaint.

BB guns, 'door pops' and 'slash days'

Another convicted former detective, Maurice Ward, testified that some officers in the task force kept BB guns in their vehicles in case they needed to plant them on suspects, according to WBAL-TV.

Ward said that when the squad was out on patrol, Jenkins would drive quickly toward a group of people, and the other officers would pop the doors open and chase those who took off running, according to the station. The suspects, sometimes as many as 50 per night, were robbed of drugs and money.

Unit members were given paid time off that wasn't on the books in return for getting guns off the street, Ward said, according to WBAL-TV. Jenkins would also give overtime pay as a reward for gun seizures, former detectives testified. The former sergeant admitted to the practice earlier this year.

Hersl and Taylor are charged with participating in the overtime fraud scheme.

Trash bags full of looted pills

Bail bondsman Donald Stepp testified that Jenkins delivered to his Baltimore County home two trash bags full of pharmaceutical drugs stolen from looters during the April 2015 riots that followed the death of Freddie Gray, according to WBAL-TV.

Stolen drugs were regularly delivered to Stepp's home, he said, where they were stashed before being resold on the street.

Stepp testified that the sergeant told him he simply waited and ripped off looters leaving shuttered pharmacies with stolen drugs.

"I've got an entire pharmacy," the sergeant told Stepp.

Stepp testified that Hersl shared in the proceeds from the drug sales, WBAL-TV reported, and alleged that Taylor participated in the theft of 30 pounds of marijuana.

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Jury deliberations resume Monday in the sensational corruption trial of former detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, members of the Baltimore Police Department's now-defunct Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF). Hersl and Taylor are fighting charges including racketeering, extortion, filing fraudulent overtime claims and using a firearm in a violent crime.