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Madeleine McCann was supposed to be asleep in her family's holiday apartment in the picturesque Portuguese, but was not there when her mother went to check on her.

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But when her mother, Kate McCann, went to check on Madeleine and her younger twin siblings around 10 p.m. on May 3, 2007, what she discovered turned the family's dream vacation into a nightmare -- one that's continued for a decade.

Just days shy of her fourth birthday, the British girl had vanished without a trace from the home her family was renting in the Algarve region of Portugal's southern coast.

Since then supposed sightings have come in from across the globe -- from Europe and Morocco to Brazil and New Zealand. A few suspects have even been named and investigated, but the search for Madeleine continues.

After 10 years, here's what you need to know about the case.

' ... It just feels stolen'

Speaking just days ahead of the "difficult" anniversary, Madeleine's parents -- Kate and Gerry McCann -- tried to put into words the range of emotions they have endured over their decade-long ordeal.

For Kate, who revealed that she continues to buy birthday and Christmas presents for Madeleine, there is anger and grief at what was taken from them. In just a few weeks, Madeleine would be 14 years old.

"I mean, it's time that we should have had with Madeleine," said Kate. "We should have been a family of five for all that time. And yeah ... It just feels stolen."

But the couple also stressed their determination and hope that the current inquiry will provide them with long-awaited answers. They also reaffirmed the belief they say they've always held -- that Madeleine is still out there, alive.

"No parent is going to give up on their child unless they know for certain that the child's dead," said Gerry. "We just don't have any evidence."

A case amplified by technology

Authorities often say the first hours after a person goes missing are critical to the investigation. In this case, the evidence uncovered at the time has not answered questions about Madeleine's fate -- at least not yet.

But examining what happened in the hours and minutes after Madeleine vanished does help to explain why, after 10 years, this case still has our attention.

Madeleine's 2007 disappearance coincided with explosive growth in the prevalence of mobile phone cameras. At the same time, high-speed internet access and Facebook were beginning to connect the world like never before.

"She was arguably the first missing child case of the internet era," Clarence Mitchell, a longtime spokesman for the McCann family, told CNN in a recent interview. "Within minutes of her going missing, relatives were able to send high-quality video of her -- posting them on websites, Facebook pages and sending them to news desks."

All of this helped drive immediate public interest in the case -- interest which has endured for a decade.

'We still don't have definitive evidence'

Since Kate McCann first raised the alarm that her daughter was missing, the ensuing search has involved investigators from the UK, Portugal and other agencies around the globe. Today, London's Metropolitan Police still has a dedicated team of four detectives working the case, in conjunction with their Portuguese police counterparts.

Days before the 10th anniversary of Madeleine's disappearance, Met Police Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley stressed in an April 25 interview that his team is dedicated to finding answers, even if concrete ones remain elusive.

"It's unusual to have a case like this where you're doing a missing person investigation where 10 years on, we still don't have definitive evidence about exactly what has happened." said Rowley. "And that's why we're open-minded, even though people are pessimistic about the prospects, because we don't have definitive evidence of what's happened to Madeleine."

Scope narrowed, but still no charges filed

In the days and then months after Madeleine vanished, Portuguese police focused their attention on a few "arguidos," or suspects -- Robert Murat, a British man living in Portugal, and then later, Gerry and Kate McCann. But the cases were eventually dropped, and all three later secured monetary damages and apologies from a number of UK media outlets.

In 2013, British police released sketches of potential suspects and in 2014, police said they were searching for a man who assaulted five British girls on vacation in the region. But 10 years on, no one has ever been charged.

Since the Metropolitan Police began reviewing the case in 2011, Rowley said his team has combed through over 40,000 documents -- the cumulative work of the Portuguese police, who led the early stages of the investigation, plus the research of several private investigators and leads generated by numerous appeals to the public. Out of that, thousands of leads were generated, allowing Rowley's team to narrow the scope to around 600 people deemed "interesting to the inquiry."

"That doesn't mean they're all suspects, but people who were suspicious at the time or have got a track record which makes us suspicious about them," said Rowley.

As the investigation -- officially called Operation Grange -- enters its 6th year, around $15.7 million has already been spent on the search for Madeleine. In March, the UK's Home Office approved $103,000 to fund the inquiry through September 2017, and despite the sizeable price tag, Rowley said the funds are money well spent.

"We've sifted out many of the potential suspects ... and where we are today is a much smaller team focused on a small number of remaining critical lines of inquiry that we think are significant," he said. "If we didn't think they were significant, then we wouldn't be carrying on, but we think they're significant."

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Where the search for Madeleine McCann stands

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Three-year-old Madeleine McCann vanished from her family's vacation home in Portugal 10 years ago. Today, more questions than answers remain in her disappearance.

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Stephen A. has to wait until June to see real NBA competition.

Stephen A. Smith and Max Kellerman argue over whether the playoffs are fun to watch despite Golden State and Cleveland dominating the competition in both conferences.

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UPS will start testing extended-range fuel cell delivery trucks in the state of California later this year. In collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy, the company is working to develop a hydrogen-powered delivery truck that can meet the same range requirements as conventionally powered UPS trucks.

The first prototype will hit Sacramento during the third quarter of the year, followed by additional trucks that will arrive in California. UPS will run the trucks through at least 5,000 hours of service to ensure their viability on the road. Unlike fuel cell auxiliary power units, each vehicle comes with an onboard 32-kilowatt fuel cell that generates electricity to power the vehicle. Along with the fuel cell, the model also has 45 kWh of battery storage and a capacity to hold 10 kg of hydrogen fuel.

The project calls for retrofitting conventional UPS vehicles with fuel cell electric systems. These systems are specifically being optimized for use in delivery truck duty cycles.

"The challenge we face with fuel cell technology is to ensure the design can meet the unique operational demands of our delivery vehicles on a commercial scale," said Mark Wallace, UPS senior vice president of global engineering and sustainability, in a statement. "This project is an essential step to test the zero tailpipe emissions technology and vehicle on the road for UPS and the transportation industry."

UPS has invested more than $750 million in alternative fuel vehicles, advanced technologies, and fuel stations since 2009. In 2013, the company was awarded a grant by the DOE to test its fuel cell technology. Along with the DOE, other partners on the project include the Center for Transportation and the Environment, Unique Electric Solutions, and the University of Texas' Center for Electromechanics.

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A R-Rated Hellboy Reboot Is In The Works!

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A R-Rated Hellboy Reboot Is In The Works!

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Christian McCaffrey's pass-catching ability gives him the chance to play early and often for the Panthers. Which other rookies are primed to make an impact in Year 1?

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Draymond Green puts up a triple -double, Stephen Curry puts up 30 as the Warriors sweep the Jazz

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Chris HaynesESPN Staff Writer

SALT LAKE CITY -- The Golden State Warriors swept the Utah Jazz to advance to the Western Conference Finals for the third consecutive year following a 121-95 victory Monday night.

Along with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Warriors are a perfect 8-0 this postseason. It's the second time that two teams were undefeated entering the Conference Finals under the current playoff format (since 1983-84).

It was the first time the Warriors have swept two series in the same postseason.

Stephen Curry produced a game-high 30 points to go with five rebounds and seven assists. He was 4-for-10 from beyond the arc and connected on all eight of his free throws.

Draymond Green registered his third career postseason triple-double by way of 17 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists. He was also a dominating force defensively. Opponents were 5-of-15 from the field when he guarded them. He defended the most shots for the Warriors on Monday.

Klay Thompson chipped in 21 points to bounce back from a 1-of-9 shooting night in Game 3, while Kevin Durant followed up his 38-point Game 3 by adding 18 points and six boards.

We've got you covered all the way to the Finals with the latest news, schedules, analysis and more. 2017 NBA Playoffs "

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The Jazz were clearly overmatched in this series. Rudy Gobert played banged up and starting point guard George Hill missed the last three games with a sore left toe. In these four games, they were beaten by an average of 15 points.

Utah coughed the ball up twice in the game's first two minutes, handing over the momentum to a potent offense that jumped out to a 12-3 lead. Jazz head coach Quin Snyder called timeout. The arena went mute, and it would get worse.

The Jazz were routinely limited to one shot, suffering a 6-for-25 first-quarter outing that equated to a subpar 17 points. Green primarily initiated the offense by pushing it up court before the shot-blocking specialist Gobert could roam the paint.

It looked as if this contest would be over by halftime. Green said before the game that the Jazz wouldn't just roll over and quit, and he was right.

The home team flipped the script in the second quarter, holding the Warriors to 17 points. What was once a 24-point Warriors' advantage was trimmed to eight at intermission on the strength of a 35-19 run, fueled by former Jazz lottery pick Dante Exum. That run got the crowd back into the game.

After a Shelvin Mack triple cut the margin to seven with four minutes left in the third quarter, a timeout was called and Stephen Curry uncharacteristically kicked one of the chairs on the bench out of a frustration.

Utah refused to quit.

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But they weren't equipped to sustain the fight. Golden State closed the third on a 7-0 run, capped off by a buzzer-beating Andre Iguodala 3-pointer. The momentum was theirs and it would not be relinquished. The uphill battle continued when Utah lost Rodney Hood early in the fourth quarter with a right knee sprain after colliding with Durant.

The Warriors' lead climb to 20, 25 and finally 26.

With the game nearly in the books, fans began chanting "Gordon Hayward, Gordon Hayward." He's a free agent come July 1.

The Warriors will now wait for the winner of the winner of the series between the San Antonio Spurs and Houston Rockets. Those two teams are guaranteed to play at least two more games with the series tied at 2-2.

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Steph Curry scored 30 points on 15 shots, while Draymond Green registered a triple-double as the Warriors completed a sweep of the Jazz.

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Steph Curry scored 30 points on 15 shots, while Draymond Green registered a triple-double as Golden State swept Utah, after doing the same to Portland.

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Hong Kong (CNN)Stepping onto The World feels like boarding a 21st-century Titanic.

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Sitting majestically in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbor, this gleaming 644 feet-long white vessel is the largest, and probably most exclusive, "residential yacht" on earth.

Home to the world's only full-sized at-sea tennis court, a 7,000-square foot spa and fitness center, and 12,000-bottle wine collection, this ship has visited 1,213 ports and sailed 641,000 nautical miles.

This year alone it has undertaken expeditions to two of the most remote regions on earth -- the Ross Sea, in Antarctica, and Melanesia, near New Guinea.

But don't get too excited.

None of the suites on this 12-deck beauty are available to rent.

Dubbed a "condo cruise liner," every one of the 165 luxury apartments on board -- worth between $3 million for a studio and $15 million for a three-bedroom pad -- are owned by residents who must have a net worth of $10 million. At least.

To get on board, you'll need an invite.

A rough sailing

When The World was launched 15 years ago, it nearly floundered.

"Initially, the ship was partially owned by a hotel company," Lillian Veri, a Canadian who has owned a residence on The World for nearly 10 years, tells CNN.

The sixth floor of the ship, she explains, had initially been reserved for hotel rooms, the rental income from which was intended to subsidize the residential side of the business.

"Well, it just didn't work out that way," Veri says.

In 2003, the business model changed. There would be no tourists on board. Just residents of a very high net worth.

It became -- and remains -- the only entirely residential cruise liner in the world.

All residents are shareholders who vote on everything from the ship's route each year, to the type of fuel used and the Christmas decorations.

"The people who buy here are successful in one way or another. Lawyers, doctors, architects, entrepreneurs," says Veri. "They have opinions on how things should be run."

The change in business plan worked.

By 2006, all of the residences had sold out.

No place for Oprah

During CNN's tour of the boat's facilities, various residents float by.

Looking like passengers of a regular cruise ship, they all cheerfully greet by name our guide Lisa Spiller, who joined as residential director of The World six months ago.

Everyone who passes, I realize, is at least a multi-millionaire. Just how rich, I ask Spiller -- who herself is dripping in what appear to be diamonds -- are residents of The World?

She smiles. "Let's just say the type of people who buy here have private jets. They collect art. This is not their only residence."

The wrong kind of success, however, could see a wealthy candidate vetoed by the vetting committee.

"I don't think that Oprah Winfrey would be allowed to buy here," explains Veri, as we chat in her three-bedroom apartment. It boasts a wonderful wrap-around terrace that today has an unobstructed view of the Hong Kong Island skyline.

"There's a code of confidentiality and privacy ... We don't want paparazzi here. This (boat) is a refuge, a sanctuary.

"You will never find out who else lives here."

Today, 142 unidentified families reside on the ship, who all have undergone a strict vetting process before being allowed to buy. Roughly half of those on board are North American, about 45 are European and another 20 are South African. The average age is 64 years old.

General manager Sandra Mooney says that, on average, most residents spend about six months a year on board the ship, which flies the Bahamas flag and adheres to that country's rules when in international waters. Occupancy peaks at Christmas, when many guests invite their families and friends on board.

Still, a ship that was built for 600 people, says Mooney -- hotel rooms have a higher occupancy per square foot than residences -- only ever has 330 maximum on board.

Travel without leaving home

That The World is impressive there can be no doubt.

On a clear night far out at sea, residents can choose to sleep under the stars on a collection of "Bali beds." Each apartment receives complimentary turn-down twice a day. Bvlgari toiletries appear in the bathrooms as if by magic.

But wouldn't individuals with such fabulous wealth, and who seem to value privacy so highly, prefer to buy and travel on their own yacht?

The appeal, explains Veri, lies in the adventurous itineraries The World's staff put together.

"I don't have the creativity these people have. It's a lot of work to put all that stuff together."

By the end of 2017, for example, the ship will have visited Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Hawaii, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canada, Alaska, Mexico and Central America, rounding off in Miami.

Three times per year The World undertakes "expeditions" -- voyages into unusual destinations, which are joined by leading environmentalists and academics, who through a series of lectures, forum breakfasts and field trips stimulate educational discussions about the given destination.

"We did, a long time ago, (a trip to) Madagascar," says Veri. "We had a National Geographic photographer, an anthropologist, a marine biologist. It's like being at a university for a week. That you can't get anywhere else."

Plus, there's the sense of community, says Mooney, recalling numerous parties the residents have thrown on board for one another.

"We feel this is our family, too," says Mooney with a sparkling smile, of the relationship between the staff and crew. "We have our family at home and we have our family on board. It's lovely."

The World is not enough

The World, it seems, is not enough. Other cruise ship operators are now eying a slice of the luxury floating city market.

Launching in 2021, The Utopia is a five-star residential cruise liner set to rival The World.

It will have cost an estimated $980 million to build, according to its owners, and its 190 residences will be listed for between $4 million to $36 million. The ship's route will be tailored to tie in with key events on the global calendar, such as Cannes Film Festival, Monaco Grand Prix, the Olympics, fashion weeks, the Melbourne Cup, and Rio de Janeiro's Carnival.

"Utopia will be a place for annual meetings of first ladies, philanthropists, Nobel laureates, festivals of thinkers, and missions where world leaders are bringing together conservatives and liberals to solve pressing issues and brokering peace treaties among feuding ethnic groups and cultures," The Utopia's PR team tell CNN over email.

Unlike The World, however, there will also be 165 hotel rooms on board.

Launching in 2019, The Marquette is a residential-only river cruise ship, with apartments on board selling for the more modest price range of between $310,000 and $1.9 million. The project was founded by David Nelson, who has lived on a houseboat on the Mississippi river in the United States for 29 years.

For Mooney, however, no ship will rival The World.

"People think of (The World) as a cruise ship," she says. "It's not."

The World, she explains, is a unique floating city of like-minded individuals with a passion for travel and learning, which over the course of 15 years has become home to a bonded family. That sort of chemistry is hard to replicate.

"You have to come on board. Within a short period of time you really feel the heart of soul of spirit of the ship."

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Is Africa's $30 smartphone a game changer?

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Johannesburg-based Onyx Connect is gearing up to launch a four-inch entry-level smartphone for about $30 that includes front and rear cameras, 1GB RAM, 8GB ROM, 1.3GHz quad core processor and runs the latest Android 7 Nougat.

While most low-cost smartphones come preloaded with apps that can use up half the storage space, Onyx will give the user a "clean" phone.

"We have a clean Android OS -- which is Google certified... that allows the user to decide what they want to load on their phone," Onyx sales director Andre Van der Merwe tells CNN.

This allows Onyx to cater for a number of African languages by providing a suggested listing of country-specific apps.

Onyx says it has also tackled the universal issue of battery life by embedding an app in the phone that allows users to charge the phone a lot faster and give them extra battery life.

"The reason you're getting a 30 percent faster charging time is because we're turning off all the applications running in the back while charging," Van der Merwe explains. "We're not putting in an extra charge."

Combating Chinese competition

The Onyx smartphone is somewhat comparable to Chinese electronic giant Huawei's basic smartphones currently dominating the South African market, explains Van der Merwe.

Huawei was Africa's number-three smartphone vendor in 2016, behind Samsung and Transsion, according to research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).

Other budget smartphones already available in South Africa include offerings from Huawei and Alcatel, priced at around $40.

But Van der Merwe says its biggest competition comes from sub-$50 "white label" smartphones, which are made in China, only to be imported and marketed in South Africa under an African brand name.

First African smartphone?

Whether the Onyx phone will actually be the first smartphone manufactured in Africa depends on how you define manufacturing -- and whether the definition includes assembling the phone from imported parts.

"We've had local assemblies for quite some time," explains Arthur Goldstruck, head of South African business tech research firm World Wide Worx, giving the example of South African firm Mint Mobile.

"Each time we hear these kind of claims (of a phone made in Africa) we expect someone to actually start manufacturing the parts in South Africa or in Africa," he adds, "but inevitably, it goes back to the economics which we have, in that it makes far more sense to either import the phones directly or to import the parts and assemble them locally."

Onyx will import its components from overseas, building its smartphones from the circuit board up in South Africa -- which it says distinguishes it from other phones assembled in the country.

"We're going from a bare board to populating that board, to doing our own plastic molding," says Van der Merwe.

He says the plan is to build up resource and development teams in South Africa and start bringing more of the business home.

"Besides the fact that we're very proud that it's manufactured in South Africa, it has a knock on effect wherever it's going out and being supported," he says.

The affordability of 3G

Perhaps the phone's most attractive feature will be its affordability, as it allows African consumers to move from 2G to 3G, says Van der Merwe.

"A lot of people have a feature phone but really want a smartphone," he says.

Of the 215 million mobile handsets shipped to Africa last year, 56% were feature phones, according to the IDC.

The smartphone market lagged behind with 95.4 million units shipped in 2016.

"Your high end guys like Samsung are playing in the very high leagues. We're not at that level and we don't aim to be. That's not the market we want to play in," says Van der Merwe.

"We're trying to bridge the gap between 2G and 3G and the affordability between that."

Chris Giles contributed to this report.

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A South African start-up will next month begin mass producing a $30 smartphone, which it describes as the first of its kind to be manufactured in Africa.

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For over a year, serial killing suspect went undiscovered

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PHOENIX (AP) - For more than a year, Phoenix police were stumped by a string of killings in which a shooter stalked victims after dark and gunned them down as they stood outside their homes or sat in their cars. Nine people were killed in all in a case dubbed the Serial Street Shooter.

Police fielded thousands of tips, went door-to-door in a largely Hispanic neighborhood of Phoenix where the shootings happened and analyzed ballistics from a different, unrelated serial shooting case. On Monday, they announced they had arrested a former city bus driver in the killings while providing scant detail about what motivated him or details about how they made a break in the case, other than to credit tips.

Aaron Juan Saucedo, 23, faces 26 felony counts of homicide, aggravated assault and drive-by-shooting for 12 shootings that took place between August 2015 and July 2016, Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams said.

The investigation into the serial killings had focused on what authorities said were seven fatal shootings. But police on Monday said they had tied Saucedo to nine killings in all - eight random victims and one man that he knew.

Saucedo was a bus driver for the city of Phoenix through a temp agency for several months in July through August 2015, Phoenix police said. Records show Saucedo was pulled over for allegedly running a red light on Oct. 27, 2015, just a month after the first killing.

On Monday, Williams and Mayor Greg Stanton appeared alongside other top officials, including Maricopa County's top prosecutor, to announce the break in a case that had appeared largely stalled in recent months as leads and tips dried up.

"This case plagued our community for more than a year ... and left behind a trail of victims that included mothers, sons, brothers, sisters and families still mourning the loss of their loved ones," William said.

Police say they don't know what motivated Saucedo and that he didn't have any connection to any of the eight people who were killed. They said they'd be giving out the $75,000 reward offered for tips, but they wouldn't reveal details about whether the money was going to one person or multiple people.

The case finally broke when Saucedo was arrested last month in connection with the August 2015 fatal shooting of a man, 61-year-old Raul Romero, who had a relationship with Saucedo's mother. Authorities investigated Saucedo more closely and connected him to the serial killings.

The Associated Press was unable to reach Saucedo's public defender on Monday.

Police say that after Romero's killing, Saucedo struck again about four months later in killing 22-year-old Jesse Olivas, who was gunned down on New Year's Day 2016 while standing in front of a home.

The suspect then went on a killing spree from March of last year through July, police said.

In the end, nine people were killed in 12 separate shootings. All of the killings were random except for the first one, Williams said. "We hope that our community will rest a little easier and that our officers will get a little more sleep knowing that the wheels of justice are finally in motion," she said.

Gisela Castro, the mother of shooting victim Manuel Castro-Garcia, said news of the arrest felt like she was reliving the day she was told her son had been killed. Castro-Garcia, 19, was fatally shot on June 10, 2016.

"For one part I'm happy because there's going to be justice in my son's death and others' deaths and that person is not gonna do more damage. But my son is not coming back," Castro said. "I waited every day for justice, but things don't change. The pain is the same."

Castro said her son was a noble person who studied and worked hard and was loved by everyone he knew. She said he was never a trouble-maker and preferred playing basketball with friends over partying.

"The only thing I can say is thank God there's going to be justice and we leave it in God's hands. May God bless (Saucedo), and I'm not anybody to wish bad upon him," she said.

Marina Smith, the partner of 21-year-old Diego Verdugo-Sanchez, who was gunned down on April 1, 2016, said she welcomed news of the arrest but was still struggling with his loss.

Smith was seven months pregnant with the couple's child when Verdugo-Sanchez was fatally shot in front of a home.

Smith said she had grown frustrated over the past year as detectives kept her in the dark about the investigation. "The fact of them finding somebody, at least it was some type of news," she said.

Police say Saucedo shot at two teenage boys on March 17, 2016, striking one of them in the arm. The suspect struck again the next day but didn't kill anyone.

The next shooting didn't happen until April 1, 2016, when Verdugo-Sanchez was fatally shot.

Police also have linked Saucedo to the April 19, 2016, death of 60-year-old Krystal White; the June 3, 2016, death of Horacio de Jesus Pena; and to the killings of two women, Angela Linner and Stefanie Ellis, and 12-year-old girl Maleah Ellis on June 12, 2016. He killed Manny Castro Garcia on June 10, 2016, police said.

In the most recent attack on July 11, 2016, a 21-year-old man and his 4-year-old nephew escaped injury after the gunman shot at a vehicle they were sitting in.

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Kendrick Perkins says Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant are talking again

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Russell Westbrook's run at history seems to have mended the rift with former teammate Kevin Durant.

Durant, who defected to the Golden State Warriors in the offseason, was at odds with the Oklahoma City Thunder superstar all season, but the former running mates patched things up in April, according to Kendrick Perkins -- who played with both in Oklahoma City.

Perkins was on TNT's "Area 21" after the Warriors finished a four-game sweep of the Utah Jazz on Monday night when he talked about thetensions between the two thawing recently.

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I was trying to figure out a way tomake them talk again, because I felt like the outside world was putting a beef there that really wasnt too serious, you know what I mean? Perkins said. And sothe night that Russ actually broke the (triple-double) record, I had (text messaged) KD the next day, (and) he was talking about something, and he sent me a text and was like, Hey man, me and Russ had a nice conversation yesterday.The media dont even know nothing about it, but I just let it be known that theyre back on talking terms.

Kendrick Perkins casually letting hoops world know that Kevin Durant & Russell Westbrook are back on speaking terms pic.twitter.com/H5dFmLTleA

- Michael Lee (@MrMichaelLee) May 9, 2017

Perkins goes on to suggest that Durant might even go back to OKC after winning a title with the Warriors,but that seems like more of a stretch.

The Warriors await the winner of the Houston Rockets-San Antonio Spurs series in the Western Conference Finals.
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Their former teammate says the duo patched things up last month

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A former Kansas bail bondsman was sentenced to life in prison Monday for killing his 7-year-old son, who authorities say endured abuse and starvation before his remains were fed to pigs on the family's rental property.

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A former Kansas bail bondsman was sentenced to life in prison Monday for killing his 7-year-old son, who authorities say endured abuse and starvation before his remains were fed to pigs on the family's rental property.

Under the sentence, Michael Jones, 46, won't be eligible for parole for at least 25 years. He pleaded guilty in March to first-degree murder in the 2015 death of Adrian Jones.

Michael Jones turned his chair away from Adrian's grandmother, mother and older sister, never making eye contact as they addressed the judge. They excoriated him during the sentencing hearing for a slaying authorities described as horrific, even haunting.

"You do not deserve a second chance," Keiona Doctor, the late boy's 21-year-old sister, told Michael Jones, who declined the judge's offer to make a statement. "You do not deserve sunlight as a free man."

The judge ordered Jones to spend the rest of his life on parole if he is ever released from prison. His attorney did not object in court Monday to the life sentence prosecutors sought.

The boy's stepmother, 31-year-old Heather Jones, pleaded guilty to the same charge in November and is serving a life sentence. She insisted that she felt helpless to protect Adrian and herself from her abusive husband, but investigators said she also abused the boy, drawing an additional five years and eight months in prison for that.

Adrian died in September or October 2015, but his death wasn't reported to authorities. His remains were found that November on the family's Kansas City, Kansas, rental property after officers learned the boy was missing while they were responding to a report that Michael Jones had attacked his wife at their home.

When the charges were filed, Wyandotte County's district attorney at the time, Jerry Gorman, said it was one the worst cases investigators had seen.

During Monday's hearing, a police investigator - Detective Stuart Littlefield - confirmed publicly for the first time that "what was left of (Adrian's body) was fed to his pigs." Often choking back tears, Littlefield asked for a 20-second moment of silence, reflecting the length of time Adrian at one point was shocked by a stun gun during his "tortured young life."

Adrian's biological mother, Dainna Pearce, lost custody of him and two of his siblings years ago. Her mother, Judy Conway, said last week that she finally brought herself to look at videos and digital photos from the Jones' home that showed the abuse Adrian suffered in his life's waning months, much of it chronicled by more than 30 security cameras set up throughout the home.

Conway said the Joneses kept Adrian naked in a shower stall and modified it so that he couldn't get out. She said they sometimes strapped her grandson to an inversion table and that they made him stand in a swimming pool overnight, up to his neck in stagnant water. Conway said the videos and photos show that Heather Jones sometimes beat Adrian with the end of a broom handle and kept alarms on the family's food so that he couldn't take any when he was hungry.

"There's no getting over it. There's no fix, there's no solution to our heartache. There is no glue for our broken hearts, no remedy for our pain," Conway told Michael Jones in court Monday.

"I pray you have a long, tortured life in prison," added Pearce, Adrian's mother. "I don't know if I can forgive you, but I know you should suffer for what you did."

The Kansas Department for Children and Families' chief, Phyllis Gilmore, said in a statement Friday that the agency "thoroughly investigated" each reported incident of alleged abuse or neglect involving Adrian, though she did not divulge the number of cases or their context.

Gilmore added that although the family's frequently alternating residency between Kansas and Missouri "greatly disrupted continuity of services and evaluation," Kansas child-welfare officials often shared information about Adrian "when known" with their Missouri counterparts.

Gilmore said her agency last had contact with the family in early 2012.

The department's records involving Adrian remain under court-ordered seal, though Gilmore said they will be released if a pending open-records request is granted.

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Kansas bail bondsman gets life for killing son fed to pigs

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A former Kansas bail bondsman was sentenced to life in prison Monday for killing his 7-year-old son, who authorities say endured abuse and starvation before his remains were fed to pigs on the family's rental property. Under the sentence, Michael Jones, 46, won't be eligible for parole for at least 25 years.

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May 6-12: National Nurses Week honors those who give back

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May 6-12: National Nurses Week honors those who give back

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Nurses are one of the most integral parts of a medical team, fulfilling a crucial role in providing patients and their families the highest level of care, as well as a key means of emotional support, significantly contributing to improved patient and family outcomes.

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2016 study shows that mexico is the second deadliest country, behind syria

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As Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan dominated the news agenda, Mexico's drug wars claimed 23,000 lives during 2016 -- second only to Syria, where 50,000 people died as a result of the civil war.

"This is all the more surprising, considering that the conflict deaths [in Mexico] are nearly all attributable to small arms," said John Chipman, chief executive and director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), which issued its annual survey of armed conflict on Tuesday.

"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan claimed 17,000 and 16,000 lives respectively in 2016, although in lethality they were surpassed by conflicts in Mexico and Central America, which have received much less attention from the media and the international community," said Anastasia Voronkova, the editor of the survey.

In comparison, there were 17,000 conflict deaths in Mexico in 2015 and 15,000 in 2014 according to the IISS.

Rising death toll

Voronkova said the number of homicides rose in 22 of Mexico's 32 states during 2016 and the rivalries between cartels increased in violence.

"It is noteworthy that the largest rises in fatalities were registered in states that were key battlegrounds for control between competing, increasingly fragmented cartels," she said.

"The violence grew worse as the cartels expanded the territorial reach of their campaigns, seeking to 'cleanse' areas of rivals in their efforts to secure a monopoly on drug-trafficking routes and other criminal assets."

Mexican drug cartels take in between $19 billion and $29 billion annually from US drug sales, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Rivalries between the cartels wreak havoc on the lives of civilians who have nothing to do with narcotics. Bystanders, people who refused to join cartels, migrants, journalists and government officials have all been killed.

Not on news agenda

Jacob Parakilas, assistant head of the US and the Americas Programme at London-based think tank Chatham House, said part of the reason for the relative lack of attention paid to Mexico in the international media is "it's not a war in the political sense of the word. The participants largely don't have a political objective. They're not trying to create a breakaway state. It doesn't come with the same visuals. There are no air strikes.

"Also this has been going on since the beginning of the modern drug trade in the Americas. It's not news in that sense. And Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist. They are intentionally targeted in Mexico, which puts a dampener on the ability to report on this."

There have, however, been significant arrests in relation to the Mexican drug trade in recent times.

Damaso Lopez Nunez, a high-ranking leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested on May 2 in Mexico City and could face charges in the US, authorities said.

His arrest follows January's extradition of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who is accused of running the Sinaloa cartel -- one of the world's largest drug-trafficking organizations.

He awaits trial in New York on 17 counts accusing him of running a criminal enterprise responsible for importing and distributing massive amounts of narcotics and conspiring to murder rivals.

World conflict deaths fall

The number of conflict fatalities globally edged down last year, from 167,000 to 157,000, according to the IISS.

This was the second successive annual drop -- 180,000 people were killed in 2014.

The number of deaths in Syria fell from 55,000 in 2015. But there were 1,000 more deaths in Afghanistan last year than 2015 and 4,000 more in Iraq.

Voronkova from the IISS said: "Civilians caught amid conflict arguably suffered more than in the preceding years. Between January and August, 900,000 people were internally displaced in Syria alone."

The internal displacement figures were 234,000 for Iraq and 260,000 for Afghanistan.

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Mexico's drug wars claimed 23,000 lives during 2016 -- second only to Syria, where 50,000 people died in the civil war, according to an annual survey.

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Homo naledi skull has been found in South Africa

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A new haul of ancient human remains has been described from an important cave site in South Africa.

The finds, including a well-preserved skull, bolster the idea that the Homo naledi people deliberately deposited their dead in the cave.

Evidence of such complex behaviour is surprising for a human species with a brain that's a third the size of ours.

Despite showing some primitive traits it lived relatively recently, perhaps as little as 235,000 years ago.

That would mean the naledi people could have overlapped with the earliest of our kind - Homo sapiens.

In a slew of papers published in the journal eLife, Prof Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, Prof John Hawks from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, US, and their collaborators have outlined details of the new specimens and, importantly, ages for the remains.

The H. naledi story starts in 2013, when the remains of almost 15 individuals of various ages were discovered inside the Dinaledi chamber - part of South Africa's Rising Star Cave system.

At the same time, the researchers were exploring a second chamber about 100m away, known as Lesedi ("light" in the Setswana language which is spoken in the region).

The finds from Dinaledi were published in 2015, but remains from the Lesedi chamber had not previously been presented, until now.

The latest specimens include the remains of at least three individuals - two adults and a child.

One of the adults has a "wonderfully complete skull", according to Prof Hawks. This tough-looking specimen is probably male, and has been named "Neo", which means "a gift" in the Sesotho language of southern Africa.

Examination of its limb bones shows that it was equally comfortable climbing and walking.

The fact that Homo naledi was alive at the same time and in the same region of Africa as early forms of Homo sapiens gives us an insight into the huge diversity of different human forms in existence during the Late Pleistocene.

"Here in southern Africa, in this time range, you have the Florisbad skull, which may be an ancestor or close relative of modern humans; you've got the Kabwe skull, which is some kind of archaic human and possibly quite divergent; you've got evidence from modern people's genomes that archaic lineages have been contributing to modern populations and may have existed until quite recently," said Prof Hawks.

"You have this very primitive form of Homo [ naledi] that has survived alongside these other species for a million years or more. It is amazing the diversity that we are now seeing that we had missed before."

As to how H. naledi held on to its distinctive characteristics while living cheek-by-jowl with other human species, Prof Hawks said: "It's hard to say it was geographic isolation because there's no boundary - no barrier. It's the same landscape from here to Tanzania; we're in one continuous savannah, woodland-type habitat.

He added that the human-sized teeth probably reflected a diet like that of modern humans. In addition, H. naledi had limb proportions just like ours and there is no apparent reason why it could not have used stone tools.

"It doesn't look like they're in a different ecological niche. That's weird; it's a problem. This is not a situation where we can point to them and say: 'They co-existed because they're using resources differently'," Prof Hawks told BBC News.

The researchers say that finding the remains of multiple individuals in a separate chamber bolsters the idea that Homo naledi was caching its dead. If correct, this surprising - and controversial claim - hints at an intelligent mind and, perhaps, the stirrings of culture.

By dating the site, researchers have sought to clear up some of the puzzles surrounding the remains.

In 2015, Prof Berger told BBC News that the remains could be up to three million years old based on their primitive characteristics. Yet the bones are only lightly mineralised, which raised the possibility that they might not be very ancient (although this is not always an accurate guide).

In order to arrive at an age, the team dated the bones themselves, sediments on the cave floor and flowstones - carbonate minerals formed when water runs down the wall or along the floor of a cave.

Several techniques were used: optically stimulated luminescence to date the cave sediments, uranium-thorium dating and palaeomagnetic analyses for the flowstones and combined U-series and electron spin resonance (US-ESR) for dating three naledi teeth.

By combining results together, they were able to constrain the age of the Homo naledi remains to between 236,000 and 335,000 years ago.

"We've got a geological bracket based on flowstones overlying the fossils and we've had direct dates on the teeth themselves," said John Hawks.

The team sent samples to two separate labs to perform their analyses "blind". This meant that neither lab knew what the other was doing, or what their analytical approaches were. Despite this, they returned the same results.

"This is now the best dated site in southern Africa - we threw everything at it," said John Hawks.

Many mysteries remain about this intriguing member of the human family tree. Not least of them is H. naledi's evolutionary history up until the point the remains show up in the Rising Star cave system.

Researchers currently envisage two possibilities. The first is that H. naledi represents one of these earliest branches of Homo - perhaps something like Homo habilis. It retains a rather primitive anatomy while evolving in parallel with the branch of the human family tree that eventually results in modern humans.

The other possibility is that it diverged more than a million years ago from a more advanced form of Homo - perhaps Homo erectus - and then reverted to a more primitive form in some aspects of its skull and teeth.

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Yet more remains are presented of the extraordinary naledi people who appeared to cache their dead.

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Makenzie Zinzer Cops on prom duty for fallen officer's daughter

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Mr. Kohl - Neiman Marcus sells ripped, worn sneakers for $1,400

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(WWSB) -- You thought "muddy jeans" were bad? Just wait until you see these shoes.

Neiman Marcus is jumping on the faux-busted fashion trend by selling a pair of destroyed sneakers on its website for more than $1,400.

The "Future Destroyed High-Top Sneaker" by Maison Margiela will run you $1,425 a pair. The high-top shoes have holes and frayed material, and some might say they look more like a dog's chew toy than an avant-garde fashion statement.

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(WWSB) -- You thought "muddy jeans" were bad? Just wait until you see these shoes.