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At least 3 were killed and 12 others were injured in an attack on a children's organization (Save The Children from London) in eastern Afghanistan. It happened this Wednesday around 9am Afghanistan Time. A car was outside the building full of explosives. They attacked with rocket grenades and AK-47 guns.

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At least three people were killed and 12 others were injured in an attack on a children's organization in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, authorities said.

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A vehicle packed with explosives was detonated outside the office of Save the Children in Jalalabad. Three men then stormed the office with AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, officials told ABC News.

The attack began around 9 a.m. local time, according to Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial government.

The Taliban has denied involvement in the attack.

Carolyn Miles, president & CEO of Save the Children, said in a statement Wednesday, "It is with profound sadness that we can confirm three Save the Children staff members were killed earlier today in an attack on our office in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. All other staff have been safely rescued from the office. Four were injured in the attack and are receiving medical treatment. Save the Children condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms. We are shocked and appalled at the violence, carried out against our staff in Afghanistan who are dedicated humanitarians, committed to improving the lives and wellbeing of millions of children across the country. We are doing everything we can to ensure all of our staff get the support they need in the aftermath of this devastating incident."

London-based Save the Children has operated in Afghanistan since 1976, aiming to provide better access to education, health care and essential supplies.

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At least three people were killed and 12 others were injured in an attack on a children's organization in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, authorities said. A vehicle packed with explosives was detonated outside the office of Save the Children in Jalalabad. Three men then stormed the office with...

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A man holed up in a trailer in New Hampshire bit a police dog, which bit him right back and ended up the winner of the unusual confrontation.

Officers used a stun gun to subdue the man, who was charged with resisting arrest and assault on a police dog. Shaking off the man bite, K-9 Veda of the New Hampshire State Police returned to duty.

"He succeeded in biting on the dog, but it didn't have the same effect as the dog biting on him."
- Boscawen Police Lt. Jason Killary

"He succeeded in biting on the dog, but it didn't have the same effect as the dog biting on him," Boscawen Police Lt. Jason Killary told Fox News on Tuesday.

Officers went to the trailer in Boscawen on Sunday to investigate a shooting that had sent a man to the hospital.

They detained three people but couldn't convice a fourth one, in the trailer, to surrender, Killary said. It turned out all four had outstanding warrants. None were identified by the authorities.

Veda was sent in and located the suspect trying to hide under a pile of clothes.

The Facebook page of a K-9 support group, the New Hampshire Canine Trooper's Association, said Veda was punched and kicked, as were several officers who came to the dog's assistance.

"During the struggle, the man put the K-9 in a chokehold and bit her in the head," the group said.

Police were still trying Tuesday to unravel details of the shooting.

Killary said this is the first time he has ever heard of someone biting a police dog.

"If you get into a biting competition with a police dog, you're not going to win," he said, according to Reuters. "They're pretty good at it."

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When 'man bites dog': Suspect chomps K-9, but the K-9 chomps right back

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A man holed up in a trailer in New Hampshire bit a police dog, which bit him right back and ended up the winner of the unusual confrontation. Officers used a stun gun to subdue the man, who was charged with resisting arrest and assault on a police dog.

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Editor's Note: This CNN article first published on Jan. 24, 2018, the day after the shooting happened.

Another high school has turned into a scene of carnage, this time in western Kentucky.

Sixteen people were wounded, two of them fatally, after a shooter opened fire Tuesday morning at Marshall County High School, authorities said. Four others sustained various injuries.

A 15-year-old male student was arrested at the scene, Gov. Matt Bevin said. On Wednesday he was charged with two counts of murder and 12 counts of first degree assault, Marshall County Assistant Attorney Jason Darnall told reporters.

After the boy has a probable cause hearing and a detention hearing in the next two days, prosecutors will start the process of charging him as an adult, Darnall said.

A grand jury will meet on February 13, and the charges could change, Darnall said.

Authorities identified the slain victims as Bailey Holt and Preston Cope, both 15. Bailey died at the high school, and Preston died at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, according to Kentucky State Police Commissioner Richard W. Sanders.

Sanders said the suspect, armed with a handgun, walked into the school at 8:57 a.m. ET and started shooting. The first 911 call came two minutes later.

The victims ranged from 14 to 18, state police said. Fourteen were male and six female.

'Mom, there's been a shooting'

Some parents said their children told them the shooting started in the commons area before class, CNN affiliate WSMV reported.

Missy Hufford said her son, Ethan, 15, ran into the gymnasium and out of the building through a side door. Then he called and asked her to pick him up, she said.

"I know when he called me, he said, 'Mom, there's been a shooting.' And I asked him if he was OK, and he said, 'I'm running,' " WSMV reported.

Misty Green said her daughter, Morgan, was in the commons area and "heard the 'pop, pop, pop' and initially got down, and then just realized what was going on, so they took out running out of the building as fast as they could."

"And teachers were grabbing kids up and helping them get into safe places. And helping them get outside and get to a safe location," Green told WSMV.

Junior Taylor Droke told CNN affiliate WZTV that she and a friend were running late and arrived as students poured out of the school.

"You could see students dropping their bags and just start running, pushing past each other," she said. "Everyone in cars started turning around and driving away. Kids were jumping the fence around the school and running through the woods."

Droke said she contacted her mother on FaceTime. Then she and her friend gave a ride to some students and loaned them phones to call their parents.

"Everyone just left their bags and ran, so people had no cell phones," Droke said.

Shot in the arm

Daniel Austin, a 17-year-old special needs student, was hospitalized. His parents kept calling his cell phone until someone in the emergency room picked up and said Daniel had been shot.

His mother, Andrea, rushed to the hospital, bewildered as to why this happened.

"Teachers love him. Students love him. I don't think (anyone) can say one bad thing about him," Andrea Austin said. "And that's not because I'm his mom. Everybody loves him."

Austin said her son was shot in the right arm, which might need to be amputated. She lauded the heroics of a fellow student and a teacher, who quickly scooped up Daniel after the gunfire stopped, rushed him to a car and drove him to a hospital.

Trooper thought deceased victim was his daughter

Sanders, the state police commissioner, said authorities are praying for the victims. The carnage was especially hard on first responders.

One of the first state troopers to arrive at the high school thought Bailey, the student who died at the school, was his daughter, Sanders said. The trooper's daughter had been dropped off at the school that morning, and she and the victim were wearing similar clothing, Sanders said.

"He had to go over to convince himself that that was not his daughter," Sanders said.

State police said six victims, including Preston, were taken to Vanderbilt in Nashville, about 100 miles away.

Among the injuries, three students were shot in the head, Dr. Oscar Guillamondegui, medical director of Vanderbilt's trauma intensive care unit, told reporters.

Three victims remained in critical condition at Vanderbilt late Tuesday, and one was in stable condition at the hospital, state police said.

"We're just as devastated as anybody would be," Guillamondegui said. "Luckily, we're trained and prepared."

Marshall County Schools Superintendent Trent Lovett asked the community to "wrap your arms around these families and around these students, as you always have."

"Together with the community, we will begin the long healing process within our schools. God be with us all," Lovett said.

The American flag is lowered to half staff near the spot 2 students were shot and killed & another 17 were injured during a school shooting at Marshall County High in Benton, Kentucky. #MarshallStrong pic.twitter.com/9pc57d3GBU
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2 school shootings in 2 days

The violence in Marshall County, a rural area near the western tip of Kentucky, stunned the governor. Authorities have not provided a possible motive.

"It is unbelievable that this would happen in a small, close-knit community like Marshall County," Bevin said in a statement. "This is a tremendous tragedy and speaks to the heartbreak present in our communities."

It also stirred painful memories of the 1997 school shooting that killed three students in West Paducah - just 32 miles from the high school in Benton.

Tuesday's attack came one day after another school shooting, in Texas.

On Monday, a 15-year-old female student was shot in the city of Italy, officials said. She was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Dallas. The suspect, a 16-year-old male, was "apprehended within minutes," city officials said.

The motive for that shooting also remains unclear.

At least two dozen prayer vigils and prayer circles were planned for Tuesday and Wednesday, according to the high school.

Giffords: 'Devastating news'

Former US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot wound during a January 2011 assassination attempt in Tucson, Arizona, said the Kentucky shooting again demonstrates the need for stronger gun laws.

"The devastating news about the shooting in Kentucky this morning is the latest example, but just yesterday, while the nation's attention was focused on the government shutdown, school shootings were also reported in Texas and Louisiana," Giffords said in a statement.

"Our nation has experienced 13 mass shootings already this year, and it's only January. We will never accept these horrific acts of violence as routine."

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School board votes against adding Muslim holidays to the calender

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HEWLETT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - A Long Island school board has voted against adding two Muslim holidays to its calendar.

Some question whether an anti-Muslim text message circulating throughout the Hewlett-Woodmere community led to the decision.

According to CAIR-NY, a Muslim advocacy group, the message sent last week ahead of a Board of Education meeting warned residents "observance of a Muslim holiday will draw other religious Muslims to the area, which eventually would make our houses value go down, as no decent person would want to buy a house next to that. The demographics will change and our properties will be worthless."

The message encouraged the community to attend the meeting to vote against the holidays.

During another Board of Education meeting held earlier in the month to discuss the issue, CAIR-NY claims one Muslim community member was called a "terrorist" and references were made to the 9/11 terror attacks.

The school board in a statement said they condemn the hurtful and inappropriate comments.

"These comments have no place in any setting particularly at school board meetings of a district that celebrates its diversity," the statement read in part. "The Hewlett-Woodmere school board and its administration is committed to maintaining an environment that recognizes the inherent worth and dignity of every student and resident."

Shanaz Mallik, who started the petition to add the Muslim holidays, said she was horrified by the derogatory comments.

"I was overwhelmed, I was shocked," said Mallik. "Even though I have lived here for so long people really do not accept us as peaceful people."

The grandmother of two said she wants all Muslim children to be able to to enjoy the holidays - Eid al-Fitr (the end of the holy month of Ramadan) and Eid al-Adha (the Feast of the Sacrifice) - without having to worry about school work.

"These are the two major holidays that Muslims celebrate all over the world, and I think it's very important for them to be able to celebrate like it's of other faith," Mallik said.

The school explained the holidays were not added to the calendar because "the board exercised its discretion and determined that insufficient secular purpose would be achieved by closure on these days. We were advised by counsel that such a decision was legally permissible. However, we recognize, accommodate, and support every Hewlett-Woodmere student's absolute right to absent themselves from school on religious holidays."

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Long Island School Board Votes Against Adding Muslim Holidays To Calendar

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HEWLETT, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) - A Long Island school board has voted against adding two Muslim holidays to its calendar. Some question whether an anti-Muslim text message circulating throughout the Hewlett-Woodmere community led to the decision.

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N. Korea Olympic Pause Delays Talk of US ‘Bloody Nose’ Strategy

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North Korea's recent Olympic peace offensive has reduced talk that the U.S. is preparing to give Pyongyang a "bloody nose" the next time it is provoked. But the controversial U.S. strategy to respond to continued North Korean missile or nuclear tests with a limited military strike reportedly remains an option under consideration.

"I think it would be very reckless and I think it would actually alienate the allies and challengers in the region. It would marginalize the U.S. So from a U.S. foreign policy perspective, I think that is a mistaken view and has a number of risks involved," said security analyst Daniel Pinkston, who is a lecturer in international relations with Troy University in Seoul.
Olympic pause
In the last year tensions between North Korea and the United States have escalated over Pyongyang's efforts to develop a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the United States.

But North Korea's agreement in January to send a large delegation of athletes, supporters and artists to the PyeongChang Olympics in South Korea has restarted an inter-Korean dialogue and reduced the possibility that Pyongyang will conduct another weapons test, at least until after the end of the games. The U.S. also agreed to postpone joint military exercises with South Korea until after the Olympics to accommodate the North's peaceful participation.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who will lead the U.S. Olympic delegation in South Korea, is not expected to engage with the North Korean delegation. Instead, a White House official said Tuesday, Pence will try to counter Pyongyang's propaganda campaign by presenting itself as a cooperative and non-threatening state.

There has been speculation that South Korean President Moon Jae-in will push for the continued suspension of the joint drills if North Korea agrees to enter denuclearization talks. But barring some diplomatic breakthrough, it is likely that Pyongyang will resume ballistic missiles and nuclear testing later this year.
'Bloody Nose' options
According to The Wall Street Journal the administration of President Donald Trump has been debating the idea of responding to the next provocation with a limited attack on a North Korean missile or nuclear facility. Such a surgical strike, supporters say, would damage Pyongyang's weapons capabilities and intensify pressure on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to agree to denuclearization talks.

Targeting a missile test site or intercepting a missile in flight is one option often discussed by military strike proponents, but critics point out that North Korea fires its ballistic missiles from mobile launchers that are hard to target in advance. Michael O'Hanlon, a foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution, says the odds of shooting down a North Korean missile mid-flight are probably 25 percent to 50 percent at best.

"So we could miss. We could wind up embarrassing ourselves. We could wind up having our interceptor land in a place it wasn't supposed to, which is not clear we'll be successful," said O'Hanlon at a recent Brookings event in Washington.

Taking out a North Korean nuclear research facility is another option often debated, but O'Hanlon said it will not halt weapons development as Pyongyang has numerous nuclear sites. Instead it could induce a massive nuclear meltdown that could put at risk the lives of millions in the region.

"You're going to spew radioactivity over a large swath of North Korea. I don't think that's a viable option for the United States on strategies or moral grounds," he said.

There is also a high risk that North Korea would retaliate against a limited U.S. strike by attacking South Korea or Japan. A U.S. initiated conflict with North Korea could also prompt Chiina to come to the defense of its ally.

"How can they not intervene? They have said they would intervene, and they have the capability to intervene. And for the U.S. to be in that position is just asking for catastrophe," said Pinkston.

Imposing a U.S. naval blockade of North Korea to enforce international sanctions has also been advocated as a possible third option, but such a move would be considered an international act of war, and possibly provoke a military confrontation with North Korean, Chinese or Russian ships that could also quickly escalate into war.
Youmi Kim in Seoul contributed to this report.

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North Korea Olympic Pause Delays Talk of US 'Bloody Nose' Strategy

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North Korea's recent Olympic peace offensive has reduced talk that the U.S. is preparing to give Pyongyang a "bloody nose" the next time it is provoked. But the controversial U.S. strategy to respond to continued North Korean missile or nuclear tests with a limited military strike reportedly remains an option under consideration.

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A letter has been founded stating that 3 inmates from Alcatraz escaped in 1962.

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5 pregnant schoolgirls were taken into custody and interrogated to find who impregnated them.

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Schoolgirls arrested in bid to find men who impregnated them, Tanzania officials say

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Five pregnant schoolgirls in Tanzania were arrested so law enforcement could interrogate them about the men who impregnated them, officials said.

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A 9-Year-Old Accidentally Shared Her Grandpa's Marijuana Gummies With Her Fifth-Grade Class

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Trump to Schumer: No wall, no DACA deal

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"Cryin' Chuck Schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no Wall, there is no DACA. We must have safety and security, together with a strong Military, for our great people!" the President tweeted Tuesday night.

CNN reported earlier Tuesday that a staffer who works for Schumer called the White House on Monday and said the proposal, which Schumer put on the table during a Friday meeting with Trump, was no longer operative.

Over the weekend, Congress forced a government shutdown over immigration policy disputes, including funding for the wall and the future of DACA recipients.

Including funding for a border wall in immigration reform talks could push away liberal Democrats from supporting long-term funding, but attract conservative Republicans to getting behind a deal.

CNN's Phil Mattingly, Daniella Diaz and Tal Kopan contributed to this report.

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"Cryin' Chuck Schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no Wall, there is no DACA. We must have safety and security, together with a strong Military, for our great people!" the President tweeted Tuesday night.

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Mexico reports highest murder rate on record

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There were 25,339 homicides in Mexico last year, a 23% jump from 2016 and the highest number since at least 1997, the year the government began tracking the data. Overall, murders in Mexico had been declining in recent years, reaching a low of 15,520 in 2014. But officials say a surge in drug-related crime reversed that trend.

Many parts of western Mexico, including the states of Guerrero, Jalisco, Sinaloa and Baja California Sur, have been caught up in violence between competing drug cartels.

The country has also become -- outside of the world's war zones -- one of the most dangerous places for journalists.

Last year six journalists were killed in Mexico, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, a US nonprofit. That was the highest number since at least 1992. Since that year more than 40 journalists have been killed in the country.

Security and crime hot election issues

In Guerrero -- the state where Acapulco is located -- murders rose to 2,316 last year, about the same as 2016, but up from 1,514 in 2014. In Sinaloa, the former turf of notorious, imprisoned drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, homicides in 2017 soared 39% over last year to 1,332.

In Baja California Sur, an area filled with popular tourist destinations such as Cabo San Lucas, the number of murders nearly tripled last year to 560.

Security and crime look set to be among the top issues in Mexico's presidential campaign season, which officially begins in March.

The election is July 1. President Enrique Peña Nieto can't run again due to term limits. He and his political party have been heavily criticized for their inability to tame drug-related crime.

His administration has also called on the United States to help more, arguing that Americans' demand for drugs is partly fueling the crime.

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There were 25,339 homicides in Mexico last year, a 23% jump from 2016 and the highest number since at least 1997, the year the government began tracking the data. Overall, murders in Mexico had been declining in recent years, reaching a low of 15,520 in 2014.

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Naked man shocks drivers, causes crash on Philadelphia interstate

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Authorities have captured a naked man who they say walked in and out of traffic on a major highway in Philadelphia and threw various items at vehicles.

The man was first spotted around 12:15 p.m. Saturday on the southbound side Interstate 95. Authorities say he was wandering between the shoulder of the roadway and the right lane.

The highway's two right lanes were briefly shut down as police tried to apprehend the man, who eventually taken into custody. His name has not been released.

The incident caused lengthy delays in the area at least one minor accident, though no injuries were reported.
This story first appeared on Fox 29.

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Authorities have captured a naked man who they say walked in and out of traffic on a major highway in Philadelphia and threw various items at vehicles. The man was first spotted around 12:15 p.m. Saturday on the southbound side Interstate 95. Authorities say he was wandering between the shoulder of the roadway and the right lane.

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LeBron James Becomes 7th Player in NBA History to Score 30K Points

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LeBron James became the seventh player in NBA history to join the 30,000-point club when he hit a two-point jumper from the left wing in the first quarter of the Cleveland Cavaliers' showdown against the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night.

The only other players who have eclipsed 30,000 points are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain and Dirk Nowitzki.

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"I'm joining elite company," James said, according to the Associated Press' Tom Withers. "When I walk into the 30,000-point club, they're going to look at me like, 'What are you doing here?' I ain't supposed to be there."

Nowitzki, though, was quick to welcome James to the fraternity:

LeBron (33 years, 24 days) also took the torch from Bryant (34 years, 104 days) as the youngest player in league history to hit 30K.

"It's not up there in the goals I set out for myself to be in this league," James said, per Withers. "I definitely looked at the list and saw the list and seen of all the guys that have played in this league, and the number of guys that have played in this league, it's definitely a select few. It's a select company. So it's special in that right."

James' next order of business will be passing the 39-year-old Nowitzki for sixth on the all-time scoring list.

That achievement may not come this season since the midway point has passed and Nowitzki is closing in on 31,000 points, but the torrid pace James has stayed on through his 15th season suggests he will fly past the German sharpshooter with ease.

Once Nowitzki is in the rearview mirror, James will set his sights on leapfrogging Chamberlain, who's perched in the No. 5 spot with 31,419 points.

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Students escape school bus fire in Grand Bay

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(Video contains graphic language) A Mobile County Public School System caught fire Monday afternoon in Grand Bay.

It happened around 3 p.m. on Lakeland Drive at Highway 188. According to Grand Bay Fire, all students were safely evacuated from the bus.

The bus driver had just dropped off two students when she noticed smoke coming from underneath the bus and immediately evacuated the more than 20 students from Alma Bryant High School and Grand Bay Middle School. A spokesperson for the Mobile County Public School System praised the bus driver, saying she followed proper procedure to make sure the students were unharmed.

Jordan Bowman was one of the students on the bus and recalls how it all unfolded.

"I was just sitting there, then some girl said there was a lot of smoke coming from upfront. Then I got up, she said there's a fire under it... I tried to go out the front, but then some kid pushed me and I went out through the back door and opened it. Then when we got out here... It started getting bigger and bigger," said Bowman, Alma Bryant student on bus.

Joshua Hicks was driving on Highway 188 and says he saw the smoke and was surprised when he rolled up on the fully involved bus.

""It looked like it was a small fire... Like straw burning from down the road, then pulling up on it I was like man the bus is on fire. So I pulled over, watched it and made sure everyone got off quickly and safely," said Hicks, witnessed fire.

The Grand Bay Fire Department got the call around 3 p.m. and were on scene within minutes to extinguish the blaze. Two of the front tires on the bus exploded during the blaze.

"These fires don't happen. I've only responded to two in my career. But the biggest challenge is the tires. You have to watch them. We had two explode today on the front side. You have to be careful around them, plus you have all of the hazardous smoke coming out of the exterior," said Chief Grayling Christian, Grand Bay Fire Department.

The bus was towed away and will be inspected by the State Fire Marshals Office. According to Mobile County Schools Transportation Coordinator Pat Mitchell -- depending on the findings -they'll make changes to other buses if needed. Mitchell says the bus is only five years old.

This is not the first Mobile County school bus to catch fire. Another one happened in February 2016. All 15 students on the bus made it out safely. However, the cause of the fire was undetermined.

All content © 2018, WALA; Mobile, AL. (A Meredith Corporation Station). All Rights Reserved.

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Pickton, 56, is accused of killing 26 women after luring them to wild parties at his farm outside Vancouver, British Columbia. Investigators believe Pickton disposed of the bodies by putting them into a wood-chipping machine and then feeding the remains to his pigs.

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A Canadian pig farmer admitted murdering 49 women and intended to kill one more to "make it an even 50", a court heard yesterday.

Prosecutors told a jury of Robert Pickton's confession at the start of a trial in which the judge has already warned them to expect "something that might be as bad as a horror movie".

Pickton, 56, is accused of killing 26 women after luring them to wild parties at his farm outside Vancouver, British Columbia.Investigators believe Pickton disposed of the bodies by putting them into a wood-chipping machine and then feeding the remains to his pigs.

Derrill Prevett, prosecuting, said Pickton told police, including an undercover officer planted in his jail cell, that he had intended to increase his tally of victims by one to 50. However, Pickton told them: "I made my own grave by being sloppy".

Pickton went on to describe himself as a mass murderer who deserved to be on death row, the court heard.After his arrest in February 2002, health officials issued a tainted meat warning to anyone who might have obtained meat from the farm amid concern that it contained human remains.

Pickton, who - if found guilty - would become Canada's most prolific serial killer, will first be tried for six of the deaths. He has pleaded not guilty to all of them.

The victims come from a list of more than 60 women who are believed to have vanished from the impoverished Downtown Eastside district of Vancouver since about 1980. Most of them were prostitutes or drug users, and the majority disappeared in the late 1990s.

Mr Prevett said the prosecution would prove that Pickton murdered the six women and butchered their remains. As a successful pig farmer, he said, Pickton had the expertise and equipment to dispose of them. The trial covers the murders of Sereena Abotsway, Mona Wilson, Andrea Joesbury, Brenda Wolfe, Georgina Papin and Marnie Frey.

Presiding British Columbia Supreme Court Justice James Williams ruled that the 20 other charges would be heard in a later trial to avoid overburdening the jury.Details of the case have until now been kept secret and several relatives of the victims left the court in tears as information emerged.

Prosecutors say "Willie" Picton lured his victims to his family's 17-acre pig farm where he threw drunken, drug-fuelled parties for prostitutes and bikers inside a barn he dubbed "The Piggy Palace".

When police first visited the farm in 2002 to investigate, they found two skulls in a bucket inside a freezer in Pickton's mobile home, the court heard. DNA testing identified the skulls as belonging to two missing sex workers prostitutes.

"The heads of the individuals had been cut in two, vertically," Mr Prevett said. "With the skulls were left and right hands and the front parts of the left and right feet." He said both skulls had bullet wounds caused by 22-caliber bullets.

Investigators found a Smith & Wesson rifle in Pickton's laundry room, sheathed in plastic with a sex toy attached. The court heard that one of the woman's earrings was found in the slaughterhouse, while human bones were found mixed with manure. Part of the other woman's jaw, with five teeth still attached, was found in a pig trough.

Pickton, clean-shaven with a bald crown and shoulder-length hair, sat emotionless in a specially built defendant's box surrounded by bulletproof glass. During pretrial hearings, he occasionally chuckled to himself or scribbled in a notebook. The trial is expected to last a year, with the prosecution alone due to call about 240 witnesses.

The police were accused by sex industry activists of being too slow to search for dozens of women who have disappeared in the area over the years. They countered that police resources were limited and the magnitude of the case was overwhelming.

Miss Frey's mother, Lynn, was among those queuing outside the court. Her daughter was 25 when she disappeared in 1997. She said: "It's been a long haul. I need answers, then hopefully I can carry on with my journey and my life, and let Marnie be at rest."

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Pig farmer 'killed 49 women but wanted 50'

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A Canadian pig farmer admitted murdering 49 women and intended to kill one more to "make it an even 50", a court heard yesterday. Prosecutors told a jury of Robert Pickton's confession at the start of a trial in which the judge has already warned them to expect "something that might be as bad as a horror movie".

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Tsunami warning for Oregon after large buoy washes ashore indicating tsunami waves.

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Pacific Northwest News

Quite the coincidence that a DART Buoy (used for detecting tsunami waves) washed up on shore today of all days! A buoy broke from it's mooring (230 miles west of Astoria) on October 4, which is likely where this Buoy came from. However, this has not been confirmed. https://t.co/kq9k8AqYsv
-- NWS Portland (@NWSPortland) January 23, 2018

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Large tsunami warning buoy washes ashore near Yachats

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Student and mother sues school over religious promotion after the student had finally had enough

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Cole is silent, respectful, she says.
"Hallowed be thy name..."
Her classmates glare at her. One, she says, has even muttered, "Devil be rid of me!" at her.

But Cole, 17, has faith in her actions. She doesn't believe this kind of prayer is how her day should start at school -- a public one in Webster Parish, Louisiana. If that's what she wanted, she'd have gone to a private or parochial school.

That puts her at odds with residents of this self-professed "Christian-based" town in the northwest of the state near Shreveport. They don't dispute that prayer happens. They are proud of it. They defend it with vigor. They explain their love for God runs through their veins. It grounds them. It makes this community what it is. It isn't something they can leave at the door, even that of a public school.
"For ever and ever. Amen."
So what happens the first day back after Christmas break sends shockwaves through the community.

That day, Cole walks into her classroom at Lakeside Junior/High School. She prepares to sit again. She knows she may be hissed at.

But something different happens.

Students say the pledge. But this time there is no Lord's Prayer. It is the first time in as long as anyone in Webster Parish can remember.

The change came because Kaylee Cole and her mother Christy had finally had enough, and decided to take on the school system by filing a lawsuit alleging there is systematic official promotion of religion at Webster Parish schools in violation of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment of the US Constitution.

The Coles say that prayer over the loudspeaker each morning is just the beginning of an unconstitutional indoctrination of students that is promoted and supported by teachers, the principal, the superintendent and the school board.

"Virtually all school events -- such as sports games, pep rallies, assemblies, and graduation ceremonies --include school-sponsored Christian prayer, religious messages and/or proselytizing," according to the lawsuit filed with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Kaylee Cole, in her senior year, shows us photos of signs on a teacher's wall: "Want Change? Pray." Daily objectives listed include: "Love God," "Worship God," "Read the Bible."

Religion made its way into instruction, too, Cole alleges. She recalls a teacher slapping the Bible on her desk and declaring it should be taken literally. And a science teacher saying evolution is a "fairy tale," that students should believe in "Adam and Eve, not the big bang."

Cole recounts events with speakers and groups billed as being about issues such as drugs or drunk driving that quickly meandered into what felt like a sermon. And Cole says she never was asked if she wanted to go, or given the chance to leave.

Which, to Cole, makes it feel like her education isn't so secular.

"For somebody like me, and some of the friends I know ... it does feel like a church," Cole says.

Student-inspired or indoctrination?

Kaylee Cole felt relief when silence replaced the broadcast prayer after the pledge that day in early January, a sign that her lawsuit was acknowledged.

Other schools in Webster Parish chose to either have a moment of silence, or simply had students sit back down.

That had its own impact. Greg Lee's fifth-grade daughter was upset, not relieved. She and her friends took it upon themselves to pray anyway, Lee says.

Lee, a banker who also views himself as a servant of God, says he's instilled his sense of deep faith in his children. It has always been a part of their life. They have always prayed -- at church, at school, and whenever they feel the need to.

"You have to realize that our tradition, our belief in God is so ingrained in us and so rooted in us that it's a part of everything that we do," Lee says. "I would like for my kid to be able to have the right and retain the right to pray and to have prayer in school."

The motivations of children are critical here. Residents believe the Constitution has no bearing on the prayers in school because they are student-led, student-inspired and not forced.

For Cole, her mother Christy, and the ACLU that is helping them in this fight, there is no debate. This isn't about whether a child can pray at school when they want. It's about changing a culture that they believe has existed for so long, in defiance of the Constitution.

"It's an official systematic program of indoctrinating every child in this parish. They indoctrinated all of their parents," Christy Cole says. "Anybody can pray any time they want, wherever they want. They're just not allowed to have a captive audience to do it. And I really feel like Kaylee (has) been part of that captive audience."

Where God is 'deeply steeped inside' people's hearts

As you walk the streets of the main downtown area in this parish, it soon becomes clear how the issue is very simple yet very complicated, and very emotional for residents.

Their faith is so deeply personal, but it's also interwoven with everything in the town.

There's no easy answer for where God's law ends and the law of the land begins.

It isn't uncommon to see a large cross in the front yard of a house. No fewer than seven churches dominate the two main roads in the center of the small town of Minden. A sign advertises a pest control business and then displays a nod to a Bible verse: John 3:16. Sheriff's cruisers and ambulances proudly declare "In God We Trust."

When you ask residents if they can separate God from their daily lives, you get a resounding "No."

"You're asking me how is it that I can take the marrow out of my bone. It is so deeply steeped inside of who I am," Lee explains.

A group of women waiting for the coffee shop to open for their regular fellowship are happy to talk about their faith and prayer in school. But as the rain pours down and they cram into the covered doorway, they don't want to give their names, afraid of how it might impact their children in school with the lawsuit pending.

"If people are telling us, saying leave faith at the door, it just isn't that simple," one woman says. "It's what's in our hearts from the moment we wake up to the moment we go to bed. It isn't something we can turn off. And that's true for our children too."

The women agree it is a "touchy subject" right now. They acknowledge some of the messages on social media have been pretty blunt.

Some people have told the Coles they should just move out of town. They say they'll pray for Kaylee. And while there's bewilderment that one of their own would start this, there is also concern their town will not be understood as it comes under a national spotlight. A billboard near Lakeside High, on a main road between Minden and Sibley, used to display Biblical phrases. Now it declares, "ACLU is the Grinch that stole Christmas from Webster Schools."

A fight over freedom, and an admission

There is no question about the public nature of Christianity here. But tradition -- however long-standing -- doesn't make it right, or legal, Christy Cole says.

"I don't believe they've ever conformed to federal law here, and at this point it is just tradition just to completely defy it," she says.

The Webster Parish School District declined to comment on the allegations made by the Cole family and the ACLU. But they filed a response to the lawsuit denying some claims and admitting to others.

"A voluntary, student-led prayer was delivered in the morning at Lakeside," the district says, adding that the practice has been "discontinued." They admit a copy of the prayer was present next to a microphone in case students forgot the words. But they adamantly deny "their actions were unlawful or unconstitutional."

The district denies allegations about faith creeping into the classroom when it comes to teaching evolution in science class.

The district also says in court filings "that no prayers occurred at student assemblies, at pep rallies or at all of the athletic games." Videos posted on Facebook, however, show a young man in a football jersey leading a prayer as students in a packed gymnasium bow their heads. The caption to the video reads that the student "prayed for the Warrior team at the Pep Rally today."

"Y'all bow y'all's heads," the student says.

"Only you can do the impossible, for you're a mighty God and also a humble God," the student says in the video. "Win or lose or draw, we shall all turn our heads towards you."

The district also contends in court filings that presentations by groups in school time were solely for educational purposes and, if the speakers veered into Christian messages, it was outside their control.

The school does admit a teacher had the writings Kaylee Cole showed us about God and prayer on a classroom wall, but, they note, "these have been removed."

That isn't enough for Cole, nor the ACLU.

ACLU lawyer Bruce Hamilton says the goal is to get a permanent injunction against the school.

"Nothing prevents that practice from resuming at any time," lawyers for the Coles wrote in a court document responding to the school board. "More important, it is but one egregious example in a panoply of ongoing Establishment Clause violations."

A reckoning with the future in the 'buckle of the Bible Belt'

Sitting inside the popular Geaux Fresh restaurant in Minden, diners don't shy away from the controversy. They want to help explain.

Ron Anderson, the 60-year-old president of a nonprofit helping children in school, is having lunch with George E. French III, a retired hospital CEO.

They recall the times in their lives when prayer has been present -- always a blessing before a meal, before meetings, and at the hospital more times than French, now 70 years old, can count.

Anderson has lived in Webster Parish since his teens. He prays probably 20 times a day, and that's common. He wears his cross proudly outside his sweatshirt. And while his preference is to pray in private, silently, he agrees the lawsuit has sparked a good conversation about what happens when you reach the schoolhouse door.

The two men don't know what's going on inside the parish schools, but they are eager to explain their town.

"It's a cultural feature, it is just what you do," Anderson explains. "I don't think anyone is going out of their way to try and disrespect each other, or violate anybody's rights, but ... I call this the buckle of the Bible Belt, because that drives a lot of what we do."

Gail Coleman sent her four children through the Webster Parish schools and now works as a family transition and empowerment specialist for the Head Start Program. She believes prayer in the school grounded her children and all others that walked the halls, acting as a moral compass, keeping the moral fabric of society from fraying.

She says bluntly: "School minus prayer equals disaster."

A battleground ... before a wider war?

The questions spread far beyond this corner of Louisiana, and were raised by none other than President Donald Trump last summer.

"Schools should not be a place that drive out faith and religion, but that should welcome faith and religion with wide open, beautiful arms," Trump says during a Faith and Freedom Coalition conference. "It's time to put a stop to attacks on religion."

That's why this lawsuit has people in Webster Parish so concerned. They realize this could be a case that could have far-reaching implications.

Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is certainly taking an interest. He doesn't shy away from his own faith -- when he looks up from his desk, he can see paintings he commissioned of Moses as the original lawgiver on the steps of the Supreme Court and of Jesus in a chamber of Congress.

Landry worked with Congressman Mike Johnson, who represents Northern Louisiana and knows many of the people in Webster Parish, to try to clear up any confusion, posting a document about God and prayer in public school.

"We believe that students needed to understand their basic rights as it related to the First Amendment and as it related to free speech and the free practice of their faith," Landry explains. "I think there's been a lot of misinformation out there, especially over the last couple of decades, that our faith is not something that we can freely exercise even if we're engaged in a government atmosphere, whether it be a public square or a public school."

That is all Greg Lee and others in Webster Parish say they want. To fight for their longstanding beliefs. For the rights and souls of their daughters and sons -- and America.

"If you begin to tell me that my children do not have the right to pray in school, then that's an attack upon the relationship I have with my God and the relationship that they have with our God," Lee explains.

Christy Cole wants people to know that while she is still a Christian who prays, she is a parent first who is looking to the future.

"I really hope that the harm, the damage that comes from these years of indoctrination, we can start reversing that in the future generations," Christy Cole says.

The school board, too, is looking to the future, and chose specific language in its court filing calling for the case to be dismissed.

"(We) PRAY that this Answer be deemed good and sufficient."

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What happened when a student sued over prayer

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Cole is silent, respectful, she says. "Hallowed be thy name..." Her classmates glare at her. One, she says, has even muttered, "Devil be rid of me!" at her. But Cole, 17, has faith in her actions. She doesn't believe this kind of prayer is how her day should start at school -- a public one in Webster Parish, Louisiana.

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3 Alcatraz inmates survived 1962 escape, swam to land, letter suggests

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A letter has surfaced that was reportedly written by John Anglin who escaped from Alcatraz with two other men.

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Pennsylvania couple beats 4 year old to death because of spilling cereal.

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A Pennsylvania mother and her boyfriend were arrested Tuesday night, accused of beating their 4-year-old son to death because he spilled his cereal, authorities said.

Lisa Smith, 19, and her boyfriend Keiff King, 26, of Willow Grove, face charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and other crimes in connection with the death of their son, Tahjir, FOX 29 reported.

After the child admitted spilling his breakfast, Smith and King disciplined Tahjir by punching him in the back of the head, before stripping him naked from the waist down and taking turns smacking his buttocks with a sandal, Philly.com reported, citing Smith's statement to police.

After Tahjir urinated on himself and became unresponsive from the beatings, King placed him in the shower and blasted him with cold and hot water, Smith told police.

The little boy was "severely punished and beaten and then burned in a shower," Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said, according to the station.

Smith put clothes on her son and the couple took the child outside where they called 911 and fabricated a story about why the boy wasn't responsive, the station reported.

Police said the home was filthy, and crawling with roaches, according to the station.

According to the coroner, the child had previous injuries including broken ribs, the station reported.

"Unfortunately, it looks like the child didn't go through this the first time last night," Steele said. "It's gonna be our time to stand up for a child who can't speak for himself anymore."

The couple could face a murder charge depending what the final autopsy results reveal, the DA said. King and Smith were being held on a $500,000 bail each, and have a preliminary hearing scheduled for Jan. 31, according to the station.

Smith is also currently eight months pregnant, the station reported.

Benjamin Brown is a reporter for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @bdbrown473.

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A Pennsylvania mother and her boyfriend were arrested Tuesday night, accused of beating their 4-year-old son to death because he spilled his cereal, authorities said. Lisa Smith, 19, and her boyfriend Keiff King, 26, of Willow Grove, face charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault and other crimes in connection with the death of their son, Tahjir, FOX 29 reported.

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Shooting at Kentucky high school

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A day after he watched in horror as a 15-year-old boy pulled a gun in his Kentucky high school and killed two of his classmates and injured another 18, Bryson Conkwright said he was still in shock over the latest school shooting to rock America.

Bryson told ABC's " Good Morning America" Wednesday morning that he is still trying to process the shooting the left the "nicest people I've ever met" dead or injured.

He recalled sitting with a group of friends about 8 a.m. Tuesday at Marshall County High School in Benton when the teen gunman walked up and started shooting without warning.

"I was a little to the side. I was basically in the group. I see this kid walk up. I didn't pay that much attention to (him). I turn back and he draws a gun out from his side and I'm like ... I didn't know what to think at all. And I see this kid draw up his gun and he just points it," Bryson told GMA host Robin Roberts.

"By the time he pulled the trigger, it hit me that this kid ... he's shooting at us, he's shooting at us and I was just sitting there in shock and watching my friends and people that I've known forever ... just dropped. It was unbelievable."

He said chaos broke out in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

"Everybody was screaming, everybody was running out," said Bryson, who said a bullet grazed his hand. "It was crazy."

He said "never in a million years" would he fathom a shooting would occur on his school campus, which is about 120 miles northwest of Nashville, Tennessee.

"I'll tell you my honest opinion on it is everybody in that group ... they literally wouldn't hurt a fly," he said of his friends who were shot. "The ones that lost their lives, they were probably the nicest people I've ever met. They never had anything negative to say."

He described Marshall County High School as a "great school," where "everybody loves each other."

"To to see something like this happen, it's gonna hit the history books," Bryson said. "It will never be forgotten. It's unreal."

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin said the suspected shooter, a 15-year-old male student, was taken into custody. He said at least four other students were injured in the incident, but not shot. Authorities said three of the students wounded in the shooting were in critical condition.

The suspect, whose name has not been released, will be charged with two counts murder and multiple counts of attempted murder, according to Rick Sanders, Kentucky State Police commissioner.

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Student describes watching teen shooter kill 'the nicest people I've ever met'

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A day after he watched in horror as a 15-year-old boy pulled a gun in his Kentucky high school and killed two of his classmates and injured another 18, Bryson Conkwright said he was still in shock over the latest school shooting to rock America.