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Democratic mega-donor and billionaire Tom Steyer is spending more than $10 million on a national TV ad campaign calling for President Donald Trump's impeachment. He tells CNN's Fredericka Whitfield why he believes it is money well spent.

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A mother is facing charges in connection with the violent assault of her daughter's elementary school teacher on the North Side.

KDKA's Kym Gable reports that the suspect, 29-year-old Dai'Shonta Williams, was arraigned Thursday night on six charges: three counts of aggravated assault, and one count each of terroristic threats, stalking and reckless endangerment. She was unable to post the $50,000 bail and was taken to the Allegheny County Jail.

The incident allegedly started Wednesday when 46-year-old Janice Watkins, a teacher at Pittsburgh King PreK-8 School, confiscated a cell phone from a fourth grade girl. The district has a no cell phone policy.

While confiscating the phone, the child allegedly bit Watkins. As a result, Williams was called to the school.

During a meeting between the Williams, Watkins and the student, the child claimed Watkins had choked her. Williams became agitated at how the situation was being handled and allegedly stated, "She [Watkins] is going to get it later."

Later, investigators say Watkins was driving home along Ohio River Boulevard. While sitting in traffic on the West End exit off-ramp, she noticed a black male and female get out of their vehicle. Watkins' driver's side window was down as she was speaking to her mother on the phone.
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The woman approached Watkins' car and allegedly threw a brick through the open window. Watkins was struck in the head. She said after she was hit, the woman opened her door, dragged her out in the road and began punching and kicking her.

The man and woman then fled the scene.

When police arrived, Watkins was able to identify the female suspect as Williams. After speaking with officers, Watkins was taken to the hospital to be treated for facial injuries. She also lost a tooth in the incident.

KDKA's Marty Griffin spoke with the victim's husband, who is also a Pittsburgh teacher. He said he's worried for his wife and family's safety.

"Sad and disappointed that people would go to such lengths against another human being over something so petty," the victim's husband, who does not want to be identified, said.
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He says his wife is in a lot of pain, is having severe headaches and may have a concussion, but they feel lucky because things could have been much worse. She was back in the hospital Thursday.

Griffin: "Your wife, how is she emotionally right now?"
Watkins' Husband: "Pretty good. Under the circumstances, pretty good. Right now, she just wants the pain to go away so she can continue living life."
Griffin: "So, she has missing teeth?"
Husband: "It was actually one of her molars in the back, got cracked, and she has a bloody lip. Her face was numb, she has lumps all along her forehead and all along the side of her face. It's not disfiguring, but it shouldn't be there. It was caused by somebody else doing something crazy."
Griffin: "Can she forgive this woman?"
Husband: "We're very forgiving people. I would imagine she can forgive her."
Griffin: "Does she go back to this school and teach?"
Husband: "I don't know. We really don't know, not yet, we'll see."
Griffin: "In a way, does she feel lucky? She could have been killed."
Husband: "She definitely understands that, and that's one of the things that brings up so much emotion."

He also described the series of events at the school that led to the assault.

"There was another teacher who was trying to get the cell phone. The little girl ran away from her, and my wife was run into and grabbed the phone off of the little girl, saying that she was going to take the phone to the office as per their procedure. And the little girl immediately starting cursing at her and bit her on her arm," he said.

The Pittsburgh Public School District released a written statement on Thursday, saying it was deeply troubled by what happened.
"Violence of any kind against a PPS staff member or citizen is unacceptable, and the individuals responsible must be held accountable for such horrifying behavior."
They say they are cooperating with the Pittsburgh Police investigation, and wish Watkins well in her recovery.
"Our thoughts are with the teacher who was injured in yesterday's incident, and we wish her a full and speedy recovery."
On Thursday, officers attempted to locate Williams at her home in the 2800-block of North Charles Street. While driving up the road, an officer spotted Williams sitting on a set of stairs.

KDKA's Ralph Iannotti went to the house on Thursday afternoon. A woman who answered the door said she was Williams' friend, but didn't want to comment.

"I understand where you guys are coming from. I'm not upset, I'm not angry that you guys are here, but I just, on behalf of my friend, I can't speak for her," the woman said.

Williams told police she believed the school police did not take appropriate action regarding her daughter's claim that Watkins choked her.
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Williams said she went to Zone 1 police with her boyfriend to file a report.

When police asked Williams if anything happened on the way home from the Zone 1 police station, she allegedly sighed and stated, "I ain't gonna lie, I did it." Williams said she followed Watkins from the school to the West End Bridge exit. She denied throwing a brick at Watkins, but said she did punch her in the face.

Blaine Jones, Williams' attorney, said he met with family members on Wednesday night, but had not yet seen the police report in full by Thursday afternoon.

"I have to be patient. That's one side. There are two sides to every story," Jones said. "I'd like to talk to Ms. Williams and get her side of it. Ms. Williams didn't have the chance to write anything down. So I'd like to get her side of it and go from there."

A preliminary hearing for Williams is scheduled for Nov. 2.

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Mom Facing Charges In Violent Assault Of Daughter's Teacher

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A mother is facing charges in connection with the violent assault of her daughter's elementary school teacher on the North Side. KDKA's Kym Gable reports that the suspect, 29-year-old Dai'Shonta Williams, was arraigned Thursday night on six charges: three counts of aggravated assault, and one count each of terroristic threats, stalking and reckless endangerment.

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Myeshia Johnson, widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, speaks about her call with President Donald Trump, claiming she felt worse after speaking with the President.

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Sgt. Bergdahl faces life in prison for endangering comrades

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Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl will appear Monday before a military judge who will determine his punishment for endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan. Before delivering his sentence, the judge will have to resolve a last-minute defense argument that new comments by President Donald Trump have tainted the case.

Bergdahl faces up to life in prison after pleading guilty last week to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Prosecutors made no deal to cap his punishment, so the judge has wide leeway to decide his sentence after a hearing expected to take several days.

The judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, is expected to weigh factors including Bergdahl's willingness to admit guilt, his five years of captivity in the hands of the Taliban and its allies, and the serious wounds that several service members suffered while searching for him.

Prosecutors are expected to put on evidence or testimony about soldiers and a Navy SEAL who were seriously wounded by gunfire during these search missions, including an Army National Guard sergeant who was shot in the head, suffering a traumatic brain injury that put him in a wheelchair, unable to speak.

Bergdahl, 31, from Hailey, Idaho, was captured soon after walking off his remote post in 2009. He has said he was caged, kept in darkness and beaten, and tried to escape more than a dozen times. He said his intention had been to alert other commanders to what he saw as problems with his unit. Still, when he pleaded guilty, he told the judge that his actions were inexcusable.

President Barack Obama brought Bergdahl home in 2014 in a swap for five Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, saying the U.S. does not leave its service members on the battlefield. Republicans roundly criticized Obama, and Trump went further while campaigning for president, repeatedly calling Bergdahl a "dirty, rotten traitor" who deserved to be executed by firing squad or thrown out of a plane without a parachute.

Nance ruled in February that those campaign statements were "disturbing and disappointing," but didn't amount to unlawful command influence, noting that Trump made the comments before he became president.

Defense lawyers argued last week that Trump's views haven't changed as commander in chief, citing his reaction to Bergdahl's guilty plea. Trump told reporters he couldn't say anything more about the case, "but I think people have heard my comments in the past."

The White House issued a statement Friday that, without mentioning Bergdahl by name, said any military justice case must be "resolved on its own facts." Prosecutors cited that statement in opposing the latest defense arguments.

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President Donald Trump on Monday disputed a widow's account of a condolence call he made to her following the death of her husband in Niger earlier this month.

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The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in a central town in Syria retaken from IS by government troops over the weekend, the Syrian government and activists said Monday.

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The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the Islamic State group, have been discovered in a central town in Syria retaken from IS by government troops over the weekend, the Syrian government and activists said Monday.

A senior Syrian official described the attack as a "shocking massacre," saying the search and documentation of those killed in the town of Qaryatayn, in Homs province, is still under way.

The news of the gruesome find began to emerge first late on Sunday. The number of bodies was likely to climb.

Some were shot in the street as IS militants retreated from the town, gunned down because they were suspected of working with the governments, according to activists. At least 35 of the casualties were found shot and their bodies dumped in a shaft.

The apparent revenge killings underscore the Islamic State group's ability to inflict heavy losses in Syria even while its militants are on the retreat in north and eastern Syria, days after having been defeated in Raqqa, the group's one-time "capital" of its self-proclaimed caliphate. They also raise the specter of more revenge killings by the group while it fights to hang on to its last strongholds in Syria.

An Associated Press video, filmed as Syrian government troops recaptured Qaryatayn, showed several bodies in the streets of the town. In the video, a town resident says IS "monsters" killed more than a 100 people, including soldiers and civilians.

"These are people who don't know God, they don't know anything. They killed children and women with knives, they beat women, broke their arms," he said, speaking on condition of anonymity fearing for his own safety.

Talal Barazi, the governor of Homs province, told The Associated Press on Monday that most of the bodies were of townspeople who were government employees or were affiliated with Syria's ruling Baath party.

He said the killings went on for the three weeks that IS was in town and "terrorized" its residents, adding that at least 13 residents remain missing while six bodies have not been identified.

"It is a shocking massacre," he said.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented the killings of at least 128 people killed in Qaryatayn during the last days of IS control of the town.

On Saturday, Syrian troops and allied militias regained control of the town, which was held by IS for three weeks. The government-run Syrian Central Military Media at the time said the Syrian army and its allies restored security and stability to Qaryatayn after clearing the town of IS fighters.

The head of the Observatory, Rami Abdurrahman, sad that what happened in the town was a "massacre."

The activist-run Palmyra Coordination Committee published the names of 67 civilians confirmed killed and also said the number was likely to rise. It said at least 35 were found shot and dumped into a deep shaft.

The activist-run group said other bodies were also found in the town streets - apparently of people shot by pro-government forces and suspected of working with IS. The Observatory also said it documented at least 12 killed at the hands of pro-government troops after they regained control of the town.

IS militants first seized Qaryatayn in August 2015, and relied on the strategically located town to defend another of their bastions, the historic city of Palmyra. At the time, thousands of the town's Christian residents fled, fearing the extremist group's brutality.

With Russian backing, Syrian troops regained control of the town in April 2016. But IS, facing major setbacks around Syria and Iraq, launched a new attack on the town in late September and recaptured it.

At the time, Russia accused the United States, which is battling the Islamic State group, of looking the other way and allowing IS to attack Qaryatayn.

Most of the IS militants who were involved in attacks on the town were local residents. Pro-government media blamed the loss of Qaryatayn for the second time on what it described as militant "sleeper cells."

There was no immediate comment from the government in Damascus on the find of the civilian bodies in Qaryatayn.

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Associated Press writer Albert Aji in Damascus, Syria, contributed to this report.

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A mother is facing charges in connection with the violent assault of her daughter's elementary school teacher on the North Side.

KDKA's Kym Gable reports that the suspect, 29-year-old Dai'Shonta Williams, was arraigned Thursday night on six charges: three counts of aggravated assault, and one count each of terroristic threats, stalking and reckless endangerment. She was unable to post the $50,000 bail and was taken to the Allegheny County Jail.

The incident allegedly started Wednesday when 46-year-old Janice Watkins, a teacher at Pittsburgh King PreK-8 School, confiscated a cell phone from a fourth grade girl. The district has a no cell phone policy.

While confiscating the phone, the child allegedly bit Watkins. As a result, Williams was called to the school.

During a meeting between the Williams, Watkins and the student, the child claimed Watkins had choked her. Williams became agitated at how the situation was being handled and allegedly stated, "She [Watkins] is going to get it later."

Later, investigators say Watkins was driving home along Ohio River Boulevard. While sitting in traffic on the West End exit off-ramp, she noticed a black male and female get out of their vehicle. Watkins' driver's side window was down as she was speaking to her mother on the phone.
KDKA's Ralph Iannotti Reports -
The woman approached Watkins' car and allegedly threw a brick through the open window. Watkins was struck in the head. She said after she was hit, the woman opened her door, dragged her out in the road and began punching and kicking her.

The man and woman then fled the scene.

When police arrived, Watkins was able to identify the female suspect as Williams. After speaking with officers, Watkins was taken to the hospital to be treated for facial injuries. She also lost a tooth in the incident.

KDKA's Marty Griffin spoke with the victim's husband, who is also a Pittsburgh teacher. He said he's worried for his wife and family's safety.

"Sad and disappointed that people would go to such lengths against another human being over something so petty," the victim's husband, who does not want to be identified, said.
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He says his wife is in a lot of pain, is having severe headaches and may have a concussion, but they feel lucky because things could have been much worse. She was back in the hospital Thursday.

Griffin: "Your wife, how is she emotionally right now?"
Watkins' Husband: "Pretty good. Under the circumstances, pretty good. Right now, she just wants the pain to go away so she can continue living life."
Griffin: "So, she has missing teeth?"
Husband: "It was actually one of her molars in the back, got cracked, and she has a bloody lip. Her face was numb, she has lumps all along her forehead and all along the side of her face. It's not disfiguring, but it shouldn't be there. It was caused by somebody else doing something crazy."
Griffin: "Can she forgive this woman?"
Husband: "We're very forgiving people. I would imagine she can forgive her."
Griffin: "Does she go back to this school and teach?"
Husband: "I don't know. We really don't know, not yet, we'll see."
Griffin: "In a way, does she feel lucky? She could have been killed."
Husband: "She definitely understands that, and that's one of the things that brings up so much emotion."

He also described the series of events at the school that led to the assault.

"There was another teacher who was trying to get the cell phone. The little girl ran away from her, and my wife was run into and grabbed the phone off of the little girl, saying that she was going to take the phone to the office as per their procedure. And the little girl immediately starting cursing at her and bit her on her arm," he said.

The Pittsburgh Public School District released a written statement on Thursday, saying it was deeply troubled by what happened.
"Violence of any kind against a PPS staff member or citizen is unacceptable, and the individuals responsible must be held accountable for such horrifying behavior."
They say they are cooperating with the Pittsburgh Police investigation, and wish Watkins well in her recovery.
"Our thoughts are with the teacher who was injured in yesterday's incident, and we wish her a full and speedy recovery."
On Thursday, officers attempted to locate Williams at her home in the 2800-block of North Charles Street. While driving up the road, an officer spotted Williams sitting on a set of stairs.

KDKA's Ralph Iannotti went to the house on Thursday afternoon. A woman who answered the door said she was Williams' friend, but didn't want to comment.

"I understand where you guys are coming from. I'm not upset, I'm not angry that you guys are here, but I just, on behalf of my friend, I can't speak for her," the woman said.

Williams told police she believed the school police did not take appropriate action regarding her daughter's claim that Watkins choked her.
KDKA's Lisa Washington Reports -
Williams said she went to Zone 1 police with her boyfriend to file a report.

When police asked Williams if anything happened on the way home from the Zone 1 police station, she allegedly sighed and stated, "I ain't gonna lie, I did it." Williams said she followed Watkins from the school to the West End Bridge exit. She denied throwing a brick at Watkins, but said she did punch her in the face.

Blaine Jones, Williams' attorney, said he met with family members on Wednesday night, but had not yet seen the police report in full by Thursday afternoon.

"I have to be patient. That's one side. There are two sides to every story," Jones said. "I'd like to talk to Ms. Williams and get her side of it. Ms. Williams didn't have the chance to write anything down. So I'd like to get her side of it and go from there."

A preliminary hearing for Williams is scheduled for Nov. 2.

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Mom Facing Charges In Violent Assault Of Daughter's Teacher

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - A mother is facing charges in connection with the violent assault of her daughter's elementary school teacher on the North Side. KDKA's Kym Gable reports that the suspect, 29-year-old Dai'Shonta Williams, was arraigned Thursday night on six charges: three counts of aggravated assault, and one count each of terroristic threats, stalking and reckless endangerment.

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Parts of California will be at an enhanced risk of wildfire ignition this week amid record-breaking heat and gusty winds, meteorologists said.

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Parts of California will be at an enhanced risk of wildfire ignition this week amid record-breaking heat and gusty winds, meteorologists said.

The greatest risk will be in southern parts of the state where temperatures are forecast to hit dangerous triple digits levels on Monday and Tuesday, meteorologists said.

The heat, coupled with gusty winds, will create "the most dangerous fire weather conditions seen in the past few years," according to the National Weather Service.

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"The combination of strong, gusty Santa Ana winds, unseasonably hot and very dry conditions will bring an extended period of critical fire weather conditions across much of southern California," ABC News Meteorologist Daniel Peck said Sunday. "The concern is that things could go from good to very bad, very quickly in southern CA this time around."

An Excessive Heat Warning is in effect for much of southwestern California, including San Diego to Los Angeles through Tuesday, where temperatures will be running upwards of 20 degrees above average for this time of the year, meteorologists said.

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Decades-old daily record highs are expected to be broken in many SoCal cities on Monday and Tuesday. Long Branch, located about 30 minutes south of Los Angeles, could see temperatures as high as 104 degrees on Monday, which would break a 52-year-old daily record high.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles could hit a high of 102 degrees on Tuesday, which would top the daily temperature record of 99 degrees reached in 1909.

There will be a slight improvement with the heat on Wednesday and more notable relief by Thursday/Friday.

CAL Fire said it would increase its staffing levels with additional firefighters, fire engines, fire crews, and aircraft to respond to any new wildfires.

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Parts of California will be at an enhanced risk of wildfire ignition this week amid record-breaking heat and gusty winds, meteorologists said. The greatest risk will be in southern parts of the state where temperatures are forecast to hit dangerous triple digits levels on Monday and Tuesday,...

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The City Council in Berkeley, California banned the use of gold fish at carnivals.

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The City Council in Berkeley, Calif., passed legislation that prohibits bthe use of goldfish or betta fish as carnival prizes.

The bill was proposed by high school student Simone Stevens, The Daily Californian reported. The bill specifically targets carnivals and fairs where winning fish as a prize is a common practice.

California state law already bans vendors from giving out rabbits and birds as prizes.

City Councilmember Kriss Worthington sponsored the bill and said if other city governments adopted similar language, the issue could be elevated to the state level, The Daily Californian reported.

Four states have laws against the sale of fish at carnivals.

Stevens, who interned for Worthington, said untrained vendors keep these fish in "extremely unhealthy" conditions which contribute to the high mortality rates.

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The City Council in Berkeley, Calif., passed legislation that prohibits bthe use of goldfish or betta fish as carnival prizes. The bill was proposed by high school student Simone Stevens, The Daily Californian reported. The bill specifically targets carnivals and fairs where winning fish as a prize is a common practice.

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scientists have recently found some ancient teeth in Germany. People are now wondering if they can allow us to be able to find our older ancestors.

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Two well-preserved teeth recovered from sediments in Germany offer intriguing clues to how some of our distant primate relatives eked out a living in what is now northern Europe. But do these teeth, as many news outlets have proclaimed, "rewrite human history?" In a word, no.

The much-ballyhooed discovery comes in the form of two caramel-colored fossil teeth-one identified as a canine, the other as an upper molar-belonging to a primate that lived between nine and 10 million years ago. ( Find out more about human evolution.)

Scientists dug up the teeth in September 2016 from Eppelsheim, a prehistoric site near Frankfurt that is famous for its primate fossils. A fossilized femur found at Eppelsheim in the 1820s helped kick start the fields of paleontology and paleoanthropology. Unfortunately, many of these fossils were lost during World War II, and few fresh samples have been found since. ( See fossil teeth from the oldest modern human found outside of Africa.)

The two teeth described this week are the first new fossils of their kind to come out of Eppelsheim in 80 years, according to the researchers who examined them.

Study leader Herbert Lutz, the deputy museum director at the Mainz Natural History Museum, says that he and his colleagues have been dumbfounded by the teeth for the last year. Their paper, posted online Friday on the article-sharing platform ResearchGate, claims that the teeth bear a close resemblance to some extinct African relatives of modern humans.

In particular, they find that the oddly squat canine tooth closely resembles those of the extinct human relatives Ardipithecus ramidus and Australopithecus afarensis, the species best known from the fossil called "Lucy." ( Did a fall from a tree kill Lucy, one of our most famous ancient relatives?)

Lutz claims that the teeth are unlike anything found in Europe and Asia, but he's cautious about saying what that actually means.

"We want to hold back on speculation. What these finds definitely show us is that the holes in our knowledge and in the fossil record are much bigger than previously thought," Lutz said in an interview with ResearchGate. "It's a complete mystery where this individual came from, and why nobody's ever found a tooth like this somewhere before."

Perhaps the Eurasian primate bearing these teeth and its distant African relatives faced similar evolutionary pressures despite their geographic separation. This could have independently led them to similar tooth shapes, a widespread phenomenon in evolution called convergence.

Much Ado About Nothing?

Based on what Lutz's team has published, however, outside experts say that the teeth hardly "force us to reexamine the theory that humans originated from Africa," as ResearchGate's interview with Lutz attests.

For one, we must be careful not to confuse modern humans with hominins, the bigger lineage containing humans and our closest extinct relatives, or hominoids, the even bigger group containing hominins, chimpanzees, gorillas, and other apes.

Overwhelming fossil and genetic evidence points to an African origin for modern humans, who left Africa no earlier than 120,000 years ago and most likely between 50,000 and 80,000 years ago. The Eppelsheim teeth are roughly a hundred times older. If the Eppelsheim teeth say anything about human evolution, they help to clarify where and how the earliest hominoids lived and evolved.

But some experts in the field question if the teeth really belong to a hominoid.

The canine tooth described in the paper has an unusual, intriguing shape, says University of Toronto paleoanthropologist Bence Viola, an expert on the teeth of humans' extinct relatives. However, the molar-which he says is the more important tooth for classification purposes-contradicts any case for a human connection.

"I think this is much ado about nothing," he says by email. "The second tooth (the molar), which they say clearly comes from the same individual, is absolutely not a hominin, [and] I would say also not a hominoid."

Instead, most experts we contacted say that the molar probably belongs to a species of pliopithecoid, an extinct, primitive branch of primates that lived in Europe and Asia between roughly seven and 17 million years ago.

Pliopithecoids are very distant relatives of humans. Some paleontologists argue that this group diverged from the common ancestors of Old World monkeys and apes before those two branches even split from one another. In other words, it's likely that modern humans are more closely related to baboons than to the species represented by these teeth.

And as Lutz's team acknowledges in its paper, the molar closely resembles those of Anapithecus, a species of pliopithecoid known from a jawbone dug up in Hungary, says University of Toronto paleoanthropologist David Begun.

"The molar is important, because it validates an idea proposed by several researchers that a femur known from Eppelsheim since the 1820s actually does most likely belong to a pliopithecoid and not a hominoid," says Begun.

Sergio Almécija, an anthropologist at George Washington University who also studies pliopithecoids, agrees. As for the supposedly hominin-like canine, the experts' opinions range from interest to dismissal. Begun even doubts that it's a canine.

"The 'canine' looks to me like a piece of a ruminant tooth," Begun says by email. Ruminants are cud-chewing, plant-eating mammals such as cows and sheep. "It has a funny break that makes it look a bit like a canine, but it is definitely not a canine, nor is it [from] a primate."

Lutz cautions that he and his colleagues are only just beginning their analysis, which he says will include high-resolution x-rays and analyses of the teeth's wear patterns, which could help scientists reconstruct the primate's diet.

"Hopefully, in one or two years, we'll know a lot more about what we've got on our hands," Lutz told ResearchGate. "It's definitely a fantastic, exciting story."

Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify Eppelsheim's location within Germany.

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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has spent 5 years captive by the Taliban. He pleaded guilty for misbehavior last week. His sentence hearing is this week, and he might spend his life behind bars.

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Bergdahl deserted from his outpost in Afghanistan in June 2009. Hours later, he was captured by the Taliban. He was eventually released in a controversial prisoner swap in exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees.

During a hearing last week, Bergdahl told the judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, that he was trying to reach the base from where he was dispatched.

Bergdahl said he wanted to report "a critical problem in my chain of command," but did not specify what that problem was.

"I left my observation post on my own," Bergdahl told the judge last week. "I understand leaving was against the law."

The judge said Bergdahl faces up to life in prison.

Taliban capture and torture

During his five years in Taliban captivity, Bergdahl made "somewhere between a dozen and 15 escape attempts," he told the judge last week.

Bergdahl previously described the torture he endured, which included months chained to a bed and years either locked in a cage or chained on all fours.

After five years, the Taliban released Bergdahl in a prisoner swap for five detainees at Guantanamo Bay. At the time, President Barack Obama cited a "sacred rule" in attempting to rescue American service members -- no matter the circumstances surrounding their capture.

"We still get an American soldier back if he's held in captivity. Period. Full stop. We don't condition that," Obama said at the time.

Since then, Bergdahl has been called both a traitor and a hero.

In 2015, an Army Sanity Board evaluation said Bergdahl had schizotypal personality disorder. That information was included in the hundreds of pages of documents that Bergdahl's defense team released on a website called The Bergdahl Docket.

Former comrade: 'He's still a coward'

Retired Army Spc. Cody Full, a member of Bergdahl's platoon in Afghanistan, called Bergdahl a "coward."

He said the military has an open-door policy for service members to voice concerns about chains of command, so Bergdahl had no reason to desert.

"He was a coward nine years ago when he deserted, and I think he showed he's still a coward," Full said. "He refuses to take responsibility for his actions."

Those actions, Full said, jeopardized the safety of other service members.

"He literally put thousands and thousands of people's lives at risk just so he could go and want to complain for whatever transgressions he thought happened or didn't happen," Full said.

The prosecution has said it intends to call two soldiers and a Navy SEAL who they say were wounded during the search for Bergdahl.

But the Army general who led the investigation into Bergdahl's actions in Afghanistan testified that jail time for him would be "inappropriate."

And Terrence Russell, who debriefed Bergdahl while working for the Department of Defense's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, said the sergeant suffered "horrific" conditions while in Taliban captivity.

"An army of one, he had to fight the enemy alone for four years 11 months," Russell testified in 2015. "You cannot overestimate how difficult that is."

On Sunday, Eugene Fidell, Bergdahl's civilian defense attorney, would not share with CNN who the defense plans to call as a witness during the sentencing phase of the trial.

Trump: Bergdahl 'should be shot'

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump said Bergdahl "should be shot" for walking off his post.

"In the good old days, he would have been executed," Trump said.

After Trump became President, Bergdahl's lawyers argued the judge should dismiss the charges because of Trump's comments, claiming Trump violated Bergdahl's due-process rights and saying it would not be possible for Bergdahl to get a fair trial.

But a military judge ruled against dismissing charges. Bergdahl later chose to be tried by a military judge rather than a jury.

In an exclusive interview obtained by ABC last year, Bergdahl said he didn't think he would be able to get a fair trial after Trump's comments that he should be shot.

"We may as well go back to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs. They got what they wanted," Bergdahl said. "People who are to the point of saying, 'Yeah, just shoot him' -- you can never convince those people to change their minds."

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Bergdahl deserted from his outpost in Afghanistan in June 2009. Hours later, he was captured by the Taliban. He was eventually released in a controversial prisoner swap in exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees. During a hearing last week, Bergdahl told the judge, Army Col. Jeffery R.

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Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl spent five years held captive by the Taliban. And depending on the outcome of his sentencing hearing this week, he could spend the rest of his life behind bars.

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Bergdahl deserted from his outpost in Afghanistan in June 2009. Hours later, he was captured by the Taliban. He was eventually released in a controversial prisoner swap in exchange for five Guantanamo Bay detainees.

During a hearing last week, Bergdahl told the judge, Army Col. Jeffery R. Nance, that he was trying to reach the base from where he was dispatched.

Bergdahl said he wanted to report "a critical problem in my chain of command," but did not specify what that problem was.

"I left my observation post on my own," Bergdahl told the judge last week. "I understand leaving was against the law."

The judge said Bergdahl faces up to life in prison.

Taliban capture and torture

During his five years in Taliban captivity, Bergdahl made "somewhere between a dozen and 15 escape attempts," he told the judge last week.

Bergdahl previously described the torture he endured, which included months chained to a bed and years either locked in a cage or chained on all fours.

After five years, the Taliban released Bergdahl in a prisoner swap for five detainees at Guantanamo Bay. At the time, President Barack Obama cited a "sacred rule" in attempting to rescue American service members -- no matter the circumstances surrounding their capture.

"We still get an American soldier back if he's held in captivity. Period. Full stop. We don't condition that," Obama said at the time.

Since then, Bergdahl has been called both a traitor and a hero.

In 2015, an Army Sanity Board evaluation said Bergdahl had schizotypal personality disorder. That information was included in the hundreds of pages of documents that Bergdahl's defense team released on a website called The Bergdahl Docket.

Former comrade: 'He's still a coward'

Retired Army Spc. Cody Full, a member of Bergdahl's platoon in Afghanistan, called Bergdahl a "coward."

He said the military has an open-door policy for service members to voice concerns about chains of command, so Bergdahl had no reason to desert.

"He was a coward nine years ago when he deserted, and I think he showed he's still a coward," Full said. "He refuses to take responsibility for his actions."

Those actions, Full said, jeopardized the safety of other service members.

"He literally put thousands and thousands of people's lives at risk just so he could go and want to complain for whatever transgressions he thought happened or didn't happen," Full said.

The prosecution has said it intends to call two soldiers and a Navy SEAL who they say were wounded during the search for Bergdahl.

But the Army general who led the investigation into Bergdahl's actions in Afghanistan testified that jail time for him would be "inappropriate."

And Terrence Russell, who debriefed Bergdahl while working for the Department of Defense's Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, said the sergeant suffered "horrific" conditions while in Taliban captivity.

"An army of one, he had to fight the enemy alone for four years 11 months," Russell testified in 2015. "You cannot overestimate how difficult that is."

On Sunday, Eugene Fidell, Bergdahl's civilian defense attorney, would not share with CNN who the defense plans to call as a witness during the sentencing phase of the trial.

Trump: Bergdahl 'should be shot'

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump said Bergdahl "should be shot" for walking off his post.

"In the good old days, he would have been executed," Trump said.

After Trump became President, Bergdahl's lawyers argued the judge should dismiss the charges because of Trump's comments, claiming Trump violated Bergdahl's due-process rights and saying it would not be possible for Bergdahl to get a fair trial.

But a military judge ruled against dismissing charges. Bergdahl later chose to be tried by a military judge rather than a jury.

In an exclusive interview obtained by ABC last year, Bergdahl said he didn't think he would be able to get a fair trial after Trump's comments that he should be shot.

"We may as well go back to kangaroo courts and lynch mobs. They got what they wanted," Bergdahl said. "People who are to the point of saying, 'Yeah, just shoot him' -- you can never convince those people to change their minds."

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The Dodgers and the Houston Astros are in the World Series. They say that these tickets are going to be around $3,500. After the Yankees were up 3-2 and Astros came back.

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The average ticket price for the World Series matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros is set to be among the highest ever, according to data from a leading ticket search engine.

The Dodgers have one of the largest markets in baseball and, as of Sunday, the average ticket price to see the Dodgers play in the World Series goes for $3,332.

That price ranks second behind the average ticket price to see the Chicago Cubs play in the series last year, according to data compiled by TicketIQ.

The average ticket price for the Astros during the series is around $2,144, according to the website.

"While both teams have average prices that are historically high, the Dodgers market is almost 10 times as big as the Astros and over three times as the Cubs last year," Jesse Lawrence, the founder of TicketIQ, told Fox News.

The Dodgers and Astros are set to get underway Tuesday night in Los Angeles. Real-time data show that ticket prices for Game 1 at Dodger Stadium starts at nearly $1,000. There are more than 4,000 tickets left. A cheap ticket for Game 2 could cost about $850. Games 3 and 4 in Houston are projected to be about $850 for both games.

For those planning for a Game 7, now might be a smart time to consider purchasing tickets. The pre-series average for a final game is set at $5,524 and the pre-game low is nearly at $1,200, according to TicketIQ. Those prices would only soar should the series last that long.
Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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The average ticket price for the World Series matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros is set to be among the highest ever, according to data from a leading ticket search engine. The Dodgers have one of the largest markets in baseball and, as of Sunday, the average ticket price to see the Dodgers play in the World Series goes for $3,332.

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Family (55, 25, 31) all charged for a string of robberies.

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A Long Island mother and her adult son and daughter were arrested and charged in connection with a string of armed robberies over the weekend, including a stick-up that occurred on Saturday, police said.

Deborah Salvatore, 55, along with her son Rick Mascia, 25, and daughter Lauren Mascia, 31, were arrested on Saturday night, accused of robbing six businesses -- one of them twice -- over the past month, police said.

The family, all of the Long Island area, was apprehended late Saturday after Rick Mascia allegedly entered a Dunkin Donuts in Coram, located about an hour east of Manhattan, with a knife and demanded money, according to a police statement.

The cashier reportedly opened the register and then ran toward the back of the store, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. Mascia then emptied the register and fled toward his mother, who was waiting for him in a getaway car parked outside, but police were already closing in on them by that point.

The two were arrested on the scene as a part of an undercover police operation, police said. The ensuing investigation led to the arrest of Lauren Mascia, according to police.

"We were able to develop investigative leads that allowed us to identify several suspects," Suffolk County Police Timothy Sini said during a press briefing on Sunday. "We then launched a comprehensive surveillance plan and were able to catch them in the act."

Police say the family was allegedly involved in a total of seven late-night robberies, including two Family Dollar locations and two Carvel locations. The alleged heists all took place around Long Island dating back to September 23.

Rick and Lauren Mascia were each charged with six counts of first-degree robbery. Deborah Salvatore was charged with one count of robbery in the first degree.

"They committed robberies together and now they'll go to jail together," Sini said. "It was only a matter of time that we would catch them and we did. I'm glad that we were able to catch them before anyone got hurt."

The suspects were arraigned on Saturday in Central Islip, where they all plead guilty to first degree robbery, according to WABC. It was not clear if they had obtained attorneys.

ABC News' Benjamin Stein contributed to this report.

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Mother, son and daughter charged in string of knifepoint robberies

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A Long Island mother and her adult son and daughter were arrested and charged in connection with a string of armed robberies over the weekend, including a stick-up that occurred on Saturday, police said. Deborah Salvatore, 55, along with her son Rick Mascia, 25, and daughter Lauren Mascia, 31,...

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World War Two code-breaker and computing pioneer Alan Turing was not the genius he later grew up to be as a boy, if his school report cards are to be believed.

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Writing in 1929, the teenage Turing's mathematics teacher conceded that his pupil showed "distinct promise" in the subject, but said he lacked the ability to put an "intelligible and legible" solution down on paper necessary to be a "first-rate mathematician."

His physics tutor cautioned: "He must remember that Cambridge will want sound knowledge rather than vague ideas," and his English tutor told him off for his "grandiose" ideas.

Evidence of the mathematical mastermind's educational shortcomings is revealed in a new exhibition, Codebreakers and Groundbreakers, at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.

Mathematician, genius, eccentric

Educated at Sherborne School in Dorset, southern England, and at King's College, Cambridge, Turing went on to join the elite code-breaking group at Bletchley Park during World War Two.

His team was tasked with cracking messages sent using Enigma, the cipher tool used for communication by the Nazis and other Axis powers.

Known as "Prof" to his peers, and renowned for his eccentricity, Turing developed the Bombe, a machine capable of deciphering the secret code.

His efforts were critical to the i nterception and translation of tens of thousands of messages, helping the Allies change the course of the war, and saving thousands of lives.

James Grime, mathematician and co-curator of the exhibition, told CNN it focused on "two code-breakers, one a mathematician, Alan Turing, and one a linguist, Michael Ventris. It was this collaboration that made breaking the code possible."

Father of modern computing

"Alan Turing is the father of modern computing," said Patricia McGuire, archivist at King's College. "His paper on computable numbers remains one of the foundation documents of computer science."

The report cards have been loaned by the Alan Turing Digital Archives at King's College, Cambridge.

They are on show alongside letters sent by Turing to his mother from Bletchley Park, which detail how he and a friend helped two Jewish boys find refuge in Britain.

Also on display are two rare coding devices on loan from Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ): a 1944 U-Boat Enigma M4, used by the German Navy, and its British counterpart, the Typex Mk 22.

At the end of the war, Turing was awarded an OBE for his service to the country.

But he killed himself in 1954, at the age of 41, two years after being subjected to chemical castration as punishment for homosexual activity, which was then a crime in the UK.

In 2013, Turing was granted a royal pardon by Queen Elizabeth II. The so-called "Turing Law" passed in January 2017 granted similar pardons to thousands of gay and bisexual men convicted of now-abolished sexual offenses.

CNN's Angela Dewan and Jethro Mullen contributed to this report.

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Writing in 1929, the teenage Turing's mathematics teacher conceded that his pupil showed "distinct promise" in the subject, but said he lacked the ability to put an "intelligible and legible" solution down on paper necessary to be a "first-rate mathematician."

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An NYPD helicopter saved a man from Anthony's Nose, which is near Bear Mountain State Park.

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The NYPD's helicopter crew rescued a hiker in the throes of a heart attack near Bear Mountain State Park on Sunday.

The man was on Anthony's Nose, a 900-foot peak along the Hudson River's eastern shore, when he felt chest pains and fatigue, according to the Journal News.

Cops flew to the steep peak across the water from Bear Mountain to save the 59-year-old man around 2:30 p.m. after learning Westchester County's emergency helicopter was out of commission.

One member of the aviation crew descended to the hiker and first responders waiting below, amid the rocky terrain thick with fall foliage, as seen in aerial footage of the rescue.

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The man, who was not immediately identified, was then hoisted up to the helicopter on a stretcher.

He was taken to Westchester County Medical Center, where he is expected to survive.

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The NYPD's helicopter crew rescued a hiker in the throes of a heart attack near Bear Mountain State Park on Sunday. The man was on Anthony's Nose, a 900-foot peak along the Hudson River's eastern shore, when he felt chest pains and fatigue, according to the Journal News.

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Dad killed by rock thrown off overpass

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A 32-year-old father was killed after a rock thrown off a highway overpass smashed into his windshield. Michigan authorities are investigating and have taken a group of teens into custody.

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(CNN) - As a child, Lindy Kats was fascinated by the world of aviation. As a 24-year-old adult now working as a pilot with an incredibly popular Instagram account, the world of aviation is now fascinated by her.

"Whenever we would get close to the airport or driving by, I would just get this sensation seeing all the aircraft taking off," she recalls. "I couldn't sleep on the plane because I was so interested by everything and looking outside."

Kats says her young self would be in awe at the fact she now flies planes as a career.

"The fact that I've been able to make it a profession, to make it my job, I'm so grateful for that and so happy."

The Dutch first officer is now a successful Boeing 717 pilot who regularly soars through the skies -- and has attracted international attention thanks to her popular Instagram account @pilot_lindy.

"I've always loved flying, it was just that I always thought it was quite impossible to be a pilot because it was so difficult and it was so expensive," explains Kats.

Aged 15, at a high school careers event, she got talking to representatives from a flight school. She realized her dream might be more in reach than she'd anticipated.

"Whilst talking with them I kind of noticed that it was not that impossible after all," she says.

Hard work and perseverance got her into flight school and through the training.

Kats says her first experience in the air was "the best moment" of her aviation career so far.

"It was really amazing," she says. "If I think about it now, I didn't learn so much in the first lesson, probably I was not really the one flying the first time. But I was there, I did feel as though I was flying the plane myself."

"It was more than I ever expected it to be, it was such an amazing experience. Barely 20 hours later [...] I did my first solo, which is basically three landings and three take-offs, without the instructor next to you."

The experience cemented Kats' certainty that she'd embarked on the perfect career.

When Kats decided to become a pilot, social media was still new. Now she's is one of several successful female aviators taking over social media with aspirational shots of their high-flying careers.

Kats says she never intended her profile to take on this life of its own.

"It was just a way to stay in touch with my friends and family at home, because I was studying in Madrid and I'm from Holland," she says. "But at some point it started growing. People liked my pictures and more people started to follow me."

At time of writing, Kats has 87.6k followers and growing.

Her photographs document her globe-spanning travels, from spectacular, sun-bleached shots of her current home of Sicily to aerial views of New York's Central Park.

But it's her behind-scenes look at the life of a pilot that's the real draw for her followers.

"They're very interested in this profession," she says. "Being a pilot [...] it's really a job that many people have wanted to become from a young age -- and not all of them have been able to succeed."

Her profile's influence might be a happy accident -- but Kats is delighted if her posts inspire young fans to follow in her footsteps.

"If people tell me they are inspired, this is one of the best compliments that I could get," she reflects.

"I know how difficult it is if you don't have any mentors, if you don't have anyone to ask questions to [...] I always try to reply and if I could inspire anyone that would be great."

Aviation is still a male-dominated industry, but Kats says her male colleagues have always been very welcoming. She regards her co-workers as family.

"We all live in the same village [...] and we love to just hang out together, we go for dinner, we go for a drink after flying, or for breakfast even," she says. "That's amazing, they're really part of my social life as well."

However she occasionally encounters misogyny from passengers.

"Because of the position of my seat and the captain's seat -- usually they see me first when they get into the plane, as they look towards the cockpit," she explains. "And then, occasionally I've have someone to look a bit further into the cockpit, to check if there is a male pilot as well around."

Kats tries to handle such situations diplomatically.

"The thing is we have to stay professional -- and I like to be professional -- so even if somebody is not so happy with me flying, I will always try to be polite and to understand his point of view," she says.

"It's usually the older generation, I could even understand a little bit, if they're quite old, when they were younger the world was different -- and the attitude towards women was different as well."

Ultimately, Kats hopes she is judged on her ability to do her job well -- not her gender.

"I'll always, always do my best," she says. "I don't feel different than any of my male colleagues and I hope that my passengers will think the same, that's basically all I can do."

Kats' newest venture is a blossoming YouTube channel -- where she posts lively vlogs providing a glimpse of life behind the cabin curtain.

"I got so many questions about my life as a pilot," she says. "On Instagram it's usually pictures and short videos, it doesn't really demonstrate the typical life of a pilot -- and on YouTube I could do whatever I wanted."

Her videos chart her busy days, often from dawn to dusk.

"I won't ever show pictures or videos inside the cockpit because I cannot," she clarifies. "I have to focus on my job and cannot start taking videos."

But Kats enjoys sharing other aspects of her profession, such as how she spends her downtime or prepares for a flight or training in a simulator.

Kats is taking YouTube one step at a time -- like Instagram, she says the platform is ultimately for her enjoyment -- and whether it takes off or not, she enjoys the vlogs.

"It was not the intention to make it super, super big," she says. "If it happens, that will be great, but otherwise it will just be nice for me as well."

Kats wants to encourage others to embark on an aviation career.

"I always like to say that even if it seems very, very difficult, just go for it and do your research," she says. "Don't think it's impossible until you've actually experienced it's impossible.

"If it's really your dream, then do anything you can in order to make it happen," she says.

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Oscar-nominated Hollywood Film Director James Toback has been accused of sexually harassing almost 40 women and denies these allegations. Since the story came out on Sunday, the original number of women accusing him -- 38 -- has doubled.

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Mother, son, and daughter are charged with a string of robberies

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A Long Island mother and her adult son and daughter were arrested and charged in connection with a string of armed robberies over the weekend, including a stick-up that occurred on Saturday, police said.

Deborah Salvatore, 55, along with her son Rick Mascia, 25, and daughter Lauren Mascia, 31, were arrested on Saturday night, accused of robbing six businesses -- one of them twice -- over the past month, police said.

The family, all of the Long Island area, was apprehended late Saturday after Rick Mascia allegedly entered a Dunkin Donuts in Coram, located about an hour east of Manhattan, with a knife and demanded money, according to a police statement.

The cashier reportedly opened the register and then ran toward the back of the store, according to the Suffolk County Police Department. Mascia then emptied the register and fled toward his mother, who was waiting for him in a getaway car parked outside, but police were already closing in on them by that point.

The two were arrested on the scene as a part of an undercover police operation, police said. The ensuing investigation led to the arrest of Lauren Mascia, according to police.

"We were able to develop investigative leads that allowed us to identify several suspects," Suffolk County Police Timothy Sini said during a press briefing on Sunday. "We then launched a comprehensive surveillance plan and were able to catch them in the act."

Police say the family was allegedly involved in a total of seven late-night robberies, including two Family Dollar locations and two Carvel locations. The alleged heists all took place around Long Island dating back to September 23.

Rick and Lauren Mascia were each charged with six counts of first-degree robbery. Deborah Salvatore was charged with one count of robbery in the first degree.

"They committed robberies together and now they'll go to jail together," Sini said. "It was only a matter of time that we would catch them and we did. I'm glad that we were able to catch them before anyone got hurt."

The suspects were arraigned on Saturday in Central Islip, where they all plead guilty to first degree robbery, according to WABC. It was not clear if they had obtained attorneys.

ABC News' Benjamin Stein contributed to this report.

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A Long Island mother and her adult son and daughter were arrested and charged in connection with a string of armed robberies over the weekend, including a stick-up that occurred on Saturday, police said. Deborah Salvatore, 55, along with her son Rick Mascia, 25, and daughter Lauren Mascia, 31,...

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Ewan McGregor Splits From Wife of 22 Years - As He's Spotted Kissing Costar Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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After 22 years of marriage and four children together, actor Ewan McGregor and his wife Eve Mavrakis have called it quits. A family source confirms to PEOPLE that the couple has been separated since May - amid news that McGregor was spotted kissing his costar Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

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Air Force perparing B-52 bombers for 24-hour Alert status.

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The U.S. Air Force is preparing to place its fleet of nuclear-armed B-52 bombers on 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991 amid escalating tensions with North Korea, the military branch's chief of staff said in a report Sunday.

Defense officials denied to Fox News that bombers were ordered to go on 24-hour alert, but Gen. David Goldfein told Defense One it could happen.

"This is yet one more step in ensuring that we're prepared," Goldfein said. "I look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for the reality of the global situation we find ourselves in and how we ensure we're prepared going forward."
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Goldfein noted that in a world where "we've got folks that are talking openly about use of nuclear weapons," it's important to remain alert and think of new ways to be prepared.

"It's no longer a bipolar world where it's just us and the Soviet Union. We've got other players out there who have nuclear capability. It's never been more important to make sure that we get this mission right," Goldfein added.

Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, home of the 2d Bomb Wing and Air Force Global Strike Command, which manages the service's nuclear services, is being renovated, Defense One reported, so that B-52s would be ready to "take off at a moment's notice."

The B-52, which can fly up to about 50,000 feet and at supersonic speeds, has the ability to release a variety of weapons, including cluster bombs, gravity bombs and precision guided missiles.

The long-range bomber can also unleash both nuclear and precision-guided conventional ordnance.

The 24-hour alert status for B-52s ended in 1991, in the waning days of the Cold War.
Fox News' Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.

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The U.S. Air Force is preparing to place its fleet of nuclear-armed B-52 bombers on 24-hour alert for the first time since 1991 amid escalating tensions with North Korea, the military branch's chief of staff said in a report Sunday.