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A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane, was forced to land at a small New York airport Thursday after the "bomb cyclone" storm system forced the closure of runways at John F. Kennedy International.

Singapore Airlines Flight 26, flying from Frankfurt, Germany to New York City, landed at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor - 80 miles north of its intended destination, according to CNBC.

Manoel Gerlach, one of the 325 passengers on the flight, told CNBC that passengers were able to depart the plane at 5 p.m. using the outdoor stairs. He said he was traveling with his wife and toddler son.

Stewart International Airport bills itself as an "efficient diversion airport," according to CNBC. The jumbo jet - and its 262-foot wingspan - is too big for the airport's gates so passengers were forced to walk in the frigid temperatures to reach the terminal.

A Singapore Airlines spokesman said told CNBC they were planning on providing ground transportation for its passengers. The spokesman said the plane will eventually fly to JFK and then back to Germany.

The "bomb cyclone" storm system that trampled the Northeast forced the cancelation of more than 5,000 flights on Thursday and the cancelation of more than 1,000 flights on Friday, according to FlightAware.com.

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane, was forced to land at a small New York airport Thursday after the "bomb cyclone" storm system forced the closure of runways at John F. Kennedy International.

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600 fireworks go off in trunk of a car.

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A firework accident in a Houston parking lot caused damage to a man's car.

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2017 was the year with the most store closings including toys R us filing for bankruptcy. Brands are now making ads about more people going into the store.

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The ease of ordering products online is undeniable. To get more shoppers into stores, retailers are promising experiences you can't get elsewhere.

As 2017 saw a record number of store closings -- and major retailers such as Payless ShoeSource, Toys 'R' Us and The Limited filed for bankruptcy -- some brands are offering fun reasons to step foot inside stores. And once you're there, you're more likely to shop.
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"In today's environment, retailers are looking for ways to turn stores from liabilities into assets," said Brendan Witcher, principal analyst at research firm Forrester. "They're doing that by trying to turn them from places to shop to places to engage."

From smart mirrors and virtual reality to stores with no cashiers, these concepts tease the future of shopping.

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The ease of ordering products online is undeniable. To get more shoppers into stores, retailers are promising experiences you can't get elsewhere. As 2017 saw a record number of store closings -- and major retailers such as Payless ShoeSource, Toys 'R' Us and The Limited filed for bankruptcy -- some brands are offering fun reasons to step foot inside stores.

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Mueller learned of Trump trying to stop Sessions recusal.

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The Times, citing two people with knowledge of the episode, said Trump had ordered White House counsel Don McGahn last March to stop Sessions from recusing himself from oversight of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

At the time, Sessions faced mounting calls for recusal given his support for the Trump campaign and the revelation of an omission during his confirmation hearing about contacts with Sergey Kislyak, who was the Russian ambassador to the US at the time.

While widely reported on, the government did not confirm the existence of the investigation until then-FBI Director James Comey told the House Intelligence Committee later in March 2017 that there was an ongoing investigation into potential coordination between Trump's associates and Russia to influence the 2016 election.

Sessions announced he would recuse himself from all matters relating to the investigation in early March. Politicians, including Republicans, praised the decision at the time, but Trump has publicly rebuked his attorney general and said he wished Sessions had not recused.

The Times reported Thursday that after McGahn was unsuccessful at getting Sessions not to recuse, Trump became angry and said he needed an attorney general to protect him.

Sessions' recusal left Justice Department oversight of the probe to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed former FBI director Mueller to be special counsel after Trump fired Comey in May 2017.

Sessions said in summer 2017 he was "confident" he had made the right decision about recusal -- and as some Republicans called Thursday for his ouster, some top Democrats, in a major shift, have suggested Sessions should stay to avoid interference with the special counsel probe.

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The Times, citing two people with knowledge of the episode, said Trump had ordered White House counsel Don McGahn last March to stop Sessions from recusing himself from oversight of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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A Connecticut man is facing animal cruelty charges after killed and ripped the heads off of 20 chickens during a “jealous rage” after seeing his wife hanging out with other people.

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A Connecticut man is facing animal cruelty charges after he allegedly ripped the heads off of 20 chickens during a "jealous rage" on Christmas Day after viewing pictures of other people hanging out with his wife, police say.

Authorities in Milford said Gregory Ulrich, 28, also smashed the windows of cars with an ax while leaning out of a car driven by John Budnovitch, 21.

"Ulrich was highly intoxicated and was in a jealous rage," Officer Michael DeVito told the Hartford Courant. "He banged [the chickens] on the ground to kill them and snapped the heads off."

Both men were arrested Wednesday. Ulrich faces numerous charges, including 20 counts of cruelty to animals. Budnovitch was charged with conspiracy to commit cruelty to animals, among other charges. The pair posted bail and were set to appear in Milford Superior Court on Jan. 30.

DeVito said Ulrich had Budnovitch drive to the homes of people that sparked his anger and swung an ax at their car windows. The two allegedly engaged in the behavior after Ulrich left a bar early Christmas morning.

The pair then traveled to a home with chickens and Ulrich killed them and left some of their heads lying around on the owners' property. Others were placed in a bag as Ulrich claimed he would boil and eat them, DeVito told the Hartford Courant.

At another home with chickens, Ulrich tore off the doors of a coop to get to them, police added.

DeVito said Ulrich's wife was not harmed during the alleged episode. Both men have past criminal records and Ulrich recently served six months in jail stemming from firearms convictions.

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Connecticut man ripped 20 chickens' heads off during 'jealous rage', police say

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A Connecticut man is facing animal cruelty charges after he allegedly ripped the heads off of 20 chickens during a "jealous rage" on Christmas Day after viewing pictures of other people hanging out with his wife, police say.

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Teacher mom is charged with sex romps with 6 teen boys is now focused on 3 lawsuits.

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A former New Jersey high school teacher accused of sexual misconduct with six teenage boys is now the focus of three lawsuits filed against her and the school district she was once employed at.

Nicole Dufault, 38, who was arrested in July 2014, is named in the civil suits along with South Orange Maplewood School District, Tap Into reported. Dufault, a former language arts teacher at Columbia High School in Maplewood, N.J., for about nine years, was accused of sexually assaulting up to six male students. Dufault, of Bloomfield, was awaiting trial on the criminal charges.

The lawsuits, all filed in the last 15 months, seek "damages for Dufault's alleged actions and claims she coerced the students into performing oral sex, pressured them due to her authority as a teacher and caused emotional distress and psychological injury," Tap Into reported.

The suit also accused the school of keeping areas of the school open and unsupervised during a summer 2013 program when the sexual acts between the students and Dufault occurred. The suit accused the school of not being a safe environment for students.
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A Sept. 30, 2016 lawsuit, which was filed by the parents of two students, sought $1 million in "compensatory and punitive damages" and court and legal fees. The students in connection with the lawsuit were reportedly victims of Dufault. The suit claims the students were both "intellectually disabled" with "social communication difficulties" and "were vulnerable to sexual harassment."

The parents claimed in the suit Dufault had sex and oral sex with the two students and the school district ignored the complaints made against the educator.

Another lawsuit, filed by a third student in Sept. 2016, accuses Dufault of sexual abuse that began when he was a freshman in 2014. The suit claimed Dufault invited students to "hang out" in her classroom during free periods.

The suit stated Dufault "spoke with them about lewd and sexual actions, brushed up again their bodies and touched intimate and personal parts of their bodies in front of other students in the social group." The suit also alleged the sexual relations between the educator and students were filmed. The suit blamed the school district for its failure to supervise the teacher's classroom.

The last lawsuit was filed by a fourth student in October 2017. No damages were sought but it accused Dufault of sexually abusing the male student. The victim claimed Dufault abused him in the summer of 2013 during "Bridge Program" and said the acts occurred in the teacher's car and different locations around the school.

Tim Smith, Dufault's attorney, told Tap Into the educator suffered from "frontal lobe syndrome" and was a victim herself.

"You had a particularly overly aggressive group of students who came into contact with a teacher who suffered from brain damage," Smith said.
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The attorney agreed the school was not properly supervised, however.

"You had a program that took place in an isolated part of the school where there was nobody there to control the situation, then you couple that with the fact that the school never screened her post-brain surgery," Smith said. "She also had a home front situation that was troubled with her husband having been arrested and she was taking care of the kids herself. You had a whirlwind of events that led to this victimization of her."

Dufault, a mother of two, filed for divorce from Drew Dufault in July 2013, around the time the alleged inappropriate incidents occurred, NJ.com reported. Her ex-husband was arrested in 2015 for burglary and drug offenses.

Suzanne Turner, a spokeswoman for the school district, called the allegations "deeply disturbing."

"The allegations are deeply disturbing. The nature of the charges are the most difficult that schools, parents and children would ever have to discuss together," Turner wrote in a statement.

"By law, administrators and Board of Education members are not permitted to publicly discuss personnel or individual student matters, ongoing litigation, or other issues requiring confidentiality. However, we can affirm we believe deeply in our mission to provide our students with a safe and healthy learning environment. We are hopeful that the process will bring closure to this painful chapter in our community's history," the statement concluded.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Teacher mom, 38, charged in sex romps with six teen boys is now focus of three new lawsuits

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A former New Jersey high school teacher accused of sexual misconduct with six teenage boys is now the focus of three lawsuits filed against her and the school district she was once employed at. Nicole Dufault, 38, who was arrested in July 2014, is named in the civil suits along with South Orange Maplewood School District, Tap Into reported.

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Uber driver accused of assaulting a passenger.

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An Uber driver is accused of sexually assaulting a passenger in northern Virginia.

The Loudon County Sheriff's Office says in a news release that 44-year-old Kal Y. Hartemariam, of Sterling, was arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged assault on Dec. 27. He is charged with aggravated sexual battery and forcible sodomy.

The victim told police she used the ride-hailing service around 1:30 a.m. that day to travel from Herndon to a residence in the Sterling area of northern Virginia. She said the driver stopped the vehicle as they were traveling, got into the backseat and assaulted her. She reported the incident that same day.

Hartemariam is being held without bond. It's unclear if he has a lawyer.

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An Uber driver is accused of sexually assaulting a passenger in northern Virginia. The Loudon County Sheriff's Office says in a news release that 44-year-old Kal Y. Hartemariam, of Sterling, was arrested Thursday in connection with an alleged assault on Dec. 27. He is charged with...

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Teen burned in New Years Eve bonfire in medical coma.

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Experts have predicted that coco beans will be impossible to grow by 2050.

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How dark do you like your chocolate? Probably not as dark as this news: There might not be any left to eat in as soon as 2050. A chocolate shortage is a looming reality, according to some experts.

Cocoa beans, the plant responsible for one of the world's favorite sweet treats, can grow only in mild, humid rainforest conditions. Due to global warming, the climates of these cocoa-growing regions are expected to get hotter and drier over time, threatening the lives of the plants.

Experts have predicted that the plant will be impossible to grow by 2050.

In a panic, farmers will be forced to attempt to move their plots to higher ground. There are limited areas at higher elevations however; the competition will be fierce until, eventually, those areas become uninhabitable, too.

Already, the demand for chocolate is soaring higher than the ability of farmers to supply it. The average American eats close to 10 pounds of chocolate per year. The average Swiss person eats almost 20 pounds. That's a whole lot of cocoa, considering just one bar of chocolate can deplete 40 cocoa beans from the stingy supply.

A world without chocolate would be a somber world, indeed. People are going to have to find a new favorite coping mechanism for their breakups and stress.
This article originally appeared in The Daily Meal.

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How dark do you like your chocolate? Probably not as dark as this news: There might not be any left to eat in as soon as 2050. A chocolate shortage is a looming reality, according to some experts. Cocoa beans, the plant responsible for one of the world's favorite sweet treats, can grow only in mild, humid rainforest conditions.

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A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, was forced to land at a small New York airport Thursday after the "bomb cyclone" storm system forced the closure of runways at John F. Kennedy International.

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A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger plane, was forced to land at a small New York airport Thursday after the "bomb cyclone" storm system forced the closure of runways at John F. Kennedy International.

Singapore Airlines Flight 26, flying from Frankfurt, Germany to New York City, landed at Stewart International Airport in New Windsor - 80 miles north of its intended destination, according to CNBC.

Manoel Gerlach, one of the 325 passengers on the flight, told CNBC that passengers were able to depart the plane at 5 p.m. using the outdoor stairs. He said he was traveling with his wife and toddler son.

Stewart International Airport bills itself as an "efficient diversion airport," according to CNBC. The jumbo jet - and its 262-foot wingspan - is too big for the airport's gates so passengers were forced to walk in the frigid temperatures to reach the terminal.

A Singapore Airlines spokesman said told CNBC they were planning on providing ground transportation for its passengers. The spokesman said the plane will eventually fly to JFK and then back to Germany.

The "bomb cyclone" storm system that trampled the Northeast forced the cancelation of more than 5,000 flights on Thursday and the cancelation of more than 1,000 flights on Friday, according to FlightAware.com.

Ryan Gaydos is an editor for Fox News. Follow him on Twitter @RyanGaydos.

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The "Chilly Willy" arrived at an Ohio air force base for research purposes

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DAYTON, Ohio - A Marine Corp aircraft dubbed "Chilly Willy" for its experimental winter flights in icy Canada will now take up residence at an Ohio Air Force base for research purposes.

Aerospace researchers will use the MV-22 Osprey for ergonomic and musculoskeletal studies on crew members at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, U.S. Navy Capt. Rees Lee. The Navy is interested in seeing how the aircraft may cause injuries to passengers as a result of its tilt-rotor, The Dayton Daily News reported.

Citing the need for human testing inside the experimental aircraft, "there's no substitute to understanding how a human being integrates into an aircraft without the actual aircraft," Lee said. He noted a recurring medical complaint of MV-22 crew members is neck and back pain.

The Ohio State University Spine Research Institute will work with the Navy on ergonomic research aboard the ground-based MV-22, Lee said.

The plane landed Tuesday at the airstrip next to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. The aircraft arrived from Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland - the end of nearly 15 years of experimental flight testing and including three winters in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.

The MV-22 is the first aircraft the Navy research unit has brought to Wright-Patterson, Lee said. The unit relocated from the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida several years ago.
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DAYTON, Ohio - A Marine Corp aircraft dubbed "Chilly Willy" for its experimental winter flights in icy Canada will now take up residence at an Ohio Air Force base for research purposes. Aerospace researchers will use the MV-22 Osprey for ergonomic and musculoskeletal studies on crew members at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, U.S.

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13-year-old dies, 35 others sickened in NJ carbon monoxide poisoning

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One teenager has died and dozens of people were sickened after a massive carbon monoxide leak at an apartment building in New Jersey late Thursday. Seven of those treated for poisoning were first responders.

Police responded to the three-story apartment building in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Thursday night and immediately began evacuating residents, according to New York ABC station WABC.

"I heard the doorbell ring and it was the police and they just went quickly upstairs," Joshua Coria, a resident, told WABC. "Then I heard screaming. There was a knock at the door and they told everybody to get out."

Everyone in the apartment building's 12 residences was evacuated, with police opening a triage area outside on the front lawn. At least 35 people were treated for symptoms of CO poisoning, with some residents passing out in front of the building, according to WABC.

A 13-year-old girl was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead, according to police.

Six victims, including a 14-year-old boy, were unconscious when they arrived at the hospital, WABC reported, and their current conditions are unknown.

The temperature in Perth Amboy, located just southwest of New York City, was only around 20 degrees Thursday evening.

"We immediately knew it was some kind of toxin that was taking everybody over. We knew that if we went in there we would put ourselves in danger, but that's our jobs, that's what we need to do to get the people out to be able to do what we need to do and attempt to save their lives," Perth Amboy Deputy Chief Lawrence Cattano told WABC.

Seven officers who rushed into the building were treated for symptoms, police said.

According to WABC, a criminal investigation is underway because although there were many carbon monoxide detectors in the building, none of them worked.

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One teenager has died and dozens of people were sickened after a massive carbon monoxide leak at an apartment building in New Jersey late Thursday. Seven of those treated for poisoning were first responders. Police responded to the three-story apartment building in Perth Amboy, New Jersey, Thursday...

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Indian National accused of sexual assault on US Flight. He was seated in between his wife and the alleged victim. She claims she woke up with her shirt unbuttoned and his hand down her pants. The woman reported the incident just before the train ended.

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US authorities have arrested an Indian man after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her as she slept in the seat next to him on a US flight.

Prabhu Ramamoorthy, 34, was sitting between his own wife and the alleged victim, officials say.

The woman said she had woken up to find her shirt and trousers unbuttoned and the suspect's hand in her trousers.

Mr Ramamoorthy denied the accusations, telling police he was himself asleep after taking a pill.

Mr Ramamoorthy, an Indian citizen living in the US on a temporary visa, was sitting in the middle seat, with his wife on the aisle side and the alleged victim in the window seat.

The flight was on Spirit Airlines, travelling overnight and arriving in Detroit on Wednesday morning from Las Vegas.

Mr Ramamoorthy was held without bail after appearing in a federal court in Michigan on Thursday after prosecutors argued there was a risk he could abscond.

Prosecutors told the Washington Post that he had been charged with aggravated sexual abuse.

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The woman reported the incident shortly before the plane landed, according to the police complaint.

Mr Ramamoorthy's wife alleged that the woman had been sleeping on her husband's knees.

She also said the couple had requested a flight attendant seat the woman elsewhere.

But flight attendants told investigators that only the alleged victim had asked for her seat to be changed.

They said she was crying when she came to them and that the buttons on her shirt and trousers were undone. They assigned her a different seat at the back of the plane.

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US authorities have arrested an Indian man after a woman accused him of sexually assaulting her as she slept in the seat next to him on a US flight. Prabhu Ramamoorthy, 34, was sitting between his own wife and the alleged victim, officials say.

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A woman got released freely after serving 16 years for a Las Vegas murder

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LAS VEGAS (KTNV) - UPDATE JAN. 3: A Nevada woman who was twice convicted of a 2001 murder and sexual mutilation of a homeless man has been ordered free from a Las Vegas jail.

A court spokeswoman says a judge ordered Kirstin Blaise Lobato released Wednesday after she was exonerated in the July 2001 slaying of Duran Bailey, last week.

"I don't think I can get those years back, all I can do is move forward," said Lobato as she sat down with 13 Action News just moments after she was released.

Lobato is now 35.

She was 18 when she was first arrested for Bailey's death. She was convicted twice for the murder, but eventually got a third trial.

Lawyers from the Innocence Project took on Lobato's case and were eventually able to prove her innocence to a Clark County judge December 29.

"It was the first time we had forensic evidence to prove, the time this person died was at a time when she could not have physically done this crime," said Innocence Project Attorney Jane Pucher. "That's the thing that cracked it."

Pucher along with the team at the Innocence Project believe Lobato was at her parent's home in Panaca, 150 miles from Las Vegas, when the crime occurred.

"I'm not asking anybody to just believe me, look at the evidence, read the documents to see what is really there and then form an opinion," Lobato said.

Lobato was greeted by friends, family and her lawyers as she walked out of jail Wednesday afternoon.

"There are 11 years worth of Christmas presents waiting waiting for her to finally have a chance to see them," said Michelle Ravell, Lobato's long time advocate.

"I'm excited and you know I get a brand new start," Lobato said.

Lobato had been moved last Friday to the CCDC from state prison, after she was exonerated. Before Wednesday, she was told she would be serving a one-year misdemeanor sentence in a 2007 prisoner sexual contact case.

#KirstenLobato attorney says she'll be released in about 30 mins. from CCDC @KTNV pic.twitter.com/PSyB6RNBBn
- Lesley Marin (@lesleymarin) January 3, 2018

UPDATE DEC. 29 2017: A judge is setting free a Nevada woman who has spent 10 years behind bars for a murder and sexual mutilation she says she didn't commit.

The Review-Journal reports a Las Vegas judge dismissed the case against 34-year-old Kirstin Blaise Lobato in a one-page order on Friday.

Lobato was found guilty of killing Duran Bailey in Las Vegas when she was 19. But Labato has long maintained she was in her hometown of Panaca, about three hours away, when the homeless man was killed in 2001.

More than 14 witnesses testified in support of Lobato's claim. The Nevada Supreme Court gave her a chance at a new hearing last year, citing "strong alibi evidence" and her lawyers' failure to hire an expert witness to pinpoint Bailey's time of death.

ORIGINAL STORY: A woman who says she was wrongly convicted in the 2001 killing and sexual mutilation of a homeless man in Las Vegas will get a new evidence hearing.

The Nevada Supreme Court handed down the ruling Wednesday in the case of Kirstin Lobato, who says there's new evidence that would bolster her alibi and show someone else could have killed 44-year-old Duran Bailey.

She is serving 13 to 35 years in prison after being convicted of killing Bailey, cutting his genitals and leaving his body in a trash bin.

Prosecutors say Lobato, then 19, was on a methamphetamine binge when she killed and mutilated Bailey after refusing a sex-for-drugs deal.

She later claimed she was in her hometown of Panaca at the time.

Supporters have petitioned for her case to be reconsidered.

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the georgia college football team has came a long way. Though the falling action int their last game gave them a scare. Thinking that they wouldn't make it to the next round, their coach led them down the right path.

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Bang, bang, bang. Just like that, Georgia was rolling toward an epic comeback against Alabama in the 2012 SEC Championship Game.

Down 32-28 with less than a minute to play, quarterback Aaron Murray went to work inside the Georgia Dome in Atlanta. First, Murray found Arthur Lynch on the sideline for a quick 15-yard gain. Then, he fired a 23-yard strike through the heart of the defense to Tavarres King. And to bring the drama to a fever pitch, he sidestepped the rush and connected with Lynch again for another 26 yards.

The clock showed 16 seconds and no timeouts as Lynch fell to the turf on the Alabama 7-yard line. The offensive line hauled tail downfield. Guard Chris Burnette and center David Andrews looked at one another and realized they were making the same gesture to spike the football. But Murray wasn't on the same page.

The Knights plan to raise a banner and hold a parade after their 13-0 season, and they're far from the first football program to write their own history.

The chants of S-E-C started early at the Sugar Bowl, and after Alabama dominated Clemson, there is no doubt which is the No. 1 league in college football. As the Tide prepare for Georgia in an all-SEC CFP title game, the chorus will only grow louder.

For all his trolling, Lane Kiffin was straight up when predicting how the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T will play out. Kiffin's call? Alabama wins.

"He's looking at the sideline," Burnette recalled. "He's not responding to me, to David, anybody. He just says, 'Get lined up.' He doesn't call a play, doesn't give us protection or anything. We get to the line and we're panicked. The ball gets snapped and we're rolling."

The rest unfolded in slow motion. Murray took the ball and knew exactly where he wanted to go with it, turning to his right where Cris Conley had a step on his defender in the flat. But Alabama linebacker C.J. Mosley broke into the backfield like a blur, leaped over the right tackle and got a hand on the pass, slowing it down just enough. The ball fluttered to Conley like a knuckleball, where he cradled it in his gut as he went down at the 5-yard line.

"When he fell it became clear like, 'Oh my gosh, the clock is going to keep running, he's not going to score,'" Burnette said. "... We were just standing there looking at it. I remember it going from 0:03 to 0:02 and just dropping my head and I remember seeing Arthur Lynch dropping his head and just walking off. It sunk in that quickly. It was all over."

To this day, it's all anyone wants to talk about from the 2012 season: Should Georgia have spiked it? Burnette says yes. Lynch says no. Linebacker Amarlo Herrera is somewhere in the middle.

"We should have spiked it, but I thought it was a great call," Herrera said. "Everybody was sad because we knew they got away with one."

Alabama's evisceration of Notre Dame in the BCS title game weeks later only added to the Bulldogs' pain. Burnette threw a watch party for friends and teammates, and quickly realized it was a terrible idea.

"Ten minutes had passed and Alabama was laying the smackdown on Notre Dame and it all set in," Burnette said. "The room got deathly silent because it all set in that, 'This would be us. We would be the ones smacking them right now if we would have had just a little more time to get those five more yards.'"

They couldn't finish watching and changed it to the movie "The Sandlot."

Had then-coach Mark Richt just called for the spike, had Georgia scored and won and gone on to beat Notre Dame to claim the school's first championship since 1980, he might not have been fired. Had he done better than a 1-3 record against Alabama, he might have never left.

In turn, former Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart, who ran onto the field and jumped into his players' arms that afternoon in 2012 to celebrate winning an celebrating an SEC title, might have not been hired as his replacement.

On Monday, it's Smart's turn to see if he's up for the task of toppling the Tide when Georgia plays Alabama in the College Football Playoff National Championship presented by AT&T in Atlanta, right next door to the recently demolished Georgia Dome.

All anyone wants to know these days is how Smart turned Georgia into a championship contender in the span of just two seasons. But go back to 2012 and ask Burnette and members of that team about it. The gap between Alabama and Georgia was almost nonexistent then, they'll say.

"I felt like we weren't that far away even before he got there," Burnette said. "I've always felt like we're right on the cusp. We had the talent, we had the leadership, we had really good coaching. But there was always something missing to get us over the top, and it seems like Kirby found what it is."

Smart opened his fingers an inch or so apart as he addressed his Georgia team for the first time back in 2015. The difference between Georgia and Alabama, he told them, was only that much.

"It's just this little bit," linebacker Davin Bellamy recalled Smart saying. "It's the margin for error."

The roster, Smart knew, wasn't the problem. As he told ESPN, "The cupboard wasn't bare when I got here."

"There was no talent gap between us and Alabama," Lynch said. "You look at that team: Todd Gurley, Alec Ogletree, Aaron Murray, Tavares King, John Jenkins. There were a bunch of draft picks on that field, myself included.

"Keith Marshall was drafted, Malcolm Mitchell played in a Super Bowl, David Andrews played in a Super Bowl. The talent gap was never there."

At last check, Georgia has roughly 35 players in the NFL, including stars such as quarterback Matthew Stafford, wideout A.J. Green and defensive tackle Geno Atkins.

But for all the players Richt produced and all the games he won -- he averaged 9.7 wins in 15 seasons -- there was a missing ingredient. Fans grew restless from coming so close and never breaking through.

It hurt, Herrera said, to see Richt ultimately get let go.

"It wasn't his fault," he said. "People just weren't excited, and you need that. I don't think there was energy there anymore."

Lynch saw it, too, and it wasn't just people outside of the building.

"The cancer to life is complacency," he said. "And I'm not saying we got complacent at Georgia, but some things were being done that were just good enough and we weren't exceeding the expectations. And I'll be the first to admit it because I was a part of it.

"Had we won in 2012 against Alabama and won the national championship, does Coach Richt get fired? Probably not. But once we didn't win it, we kind of hit a little lull and people higher up wanted a new face of the program and new juice."

And in Smart, they got that bottled in the form of a 40-year-old rookie head coach eager to make his mark at his alma mater, where he played defensive back from 1995-98 and served as running backs coach in 2005 under Richt.

Recruiting was ratcheted up under Smart and players were struck by his intensity. Defensive lineman Jonathan Ledbetter said he's "not afraid to get on you" and it's not unusual for him to "take over a whole practice if he needs to."

Lynch was skeptical at first. In fact, after Georgia lost to Florida last season, he got in some hot water when he tweeted that they might be looking for a new coach soon if they continued losing games like that.

Then he visited campus for a scrimmage this past summer and watched Smart up close -- not the plays he called, necessarily, but how he dealt with players.

"It was a totally different take from the way Coach Richt coached," Lynch said. "It was very hands on. It was super intense. It was attention to detail.

"It doesn't surprise me that he could turn it around so quickly after seeing that scrimmage. Really seeing that kind of detail and the way he presents himself on and off the field, it screams a little bit Saban."

He has the Saban blueprint all right, but he also had his own approach.

"Kirby is a very, very high-energy, very intense -- he loves football," Georgia defensive coordinator Mel Tucker said. "He's always trying to find a way to make it better for the players, always trying to find a way to find a competitive advantage."

It's hard to describe exactly what that is, but it boils down to attitude. Consider the 2012 SEC title game when Georgia blew a 15-point lead to Alabama, and now think of the Rose Bowl when Georgia trailed Oklahoma by 14 points at halftime and clawed its way back to win in double-overtime, 54-48.

The talent level wasn't discernibly different from year to year.

The mindset was.

"Georgia had a pretty good nucleus of players there," Saban said. "I think they won 10 games the year he took over. Now, [Smart] has done a fantastic job of bringing those players along, getting those players to play with discipline, getting them to play together. They play hard. They're very relentless, and I think this last game was sort of a reflection on the attitude that he's been able to instill to overcome adversity."

Said Smart: "Our kids are so resilient. They never stopped chopping wood. They kept fighting. They believed."

On Monday in Atlanta (8 p.m. ET on ESPN and ESPN App), they'll need that same belief.

Georgia is on the doorstep once again, poised to break through, and again it's Alabama standing in the way.

Five years since the last time these two programs met with so much on the line, it's time to see whether Smart can make up a difference of five yards.

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9:21 AM ET Alex ScarboroughESPN Staff Writer Close Covers the SEC. Joined ESPN in 2012. Graduate of Auburn University. Bang, bang, bang. Just like that, Georgia was rolling toward an epic comeback against Alabama in the 2012 SEC Championship Game.

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1 dead, 12 tourists injured in Egypt hot air balloon crash.

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One tourist is dead and over a dozen more were injured in a hot air balloon crash in Egypt on Friday, the latest balloon accident in a number of tragedies in the popular tourist region of Luxor over the past few years.

All of those involved in the accident are believed to be foreign tourists. An official from Luxor's governor's office said the person killed was a 36-year-old woman from South Africa. The injured included tourists from Spain, South Africa and Argentina.

The Egyptian Aviation Authority confirmed 19 people were injured in the crash, which took place at about 7:30 a.m. local time.

The crash was caused by strong winds that led the driver to lose control over the balloon as he was landing, according to the governor's statement.

The accident occurred in Luxor, in southern Egypt, which is popular with tourists due to its number of ancient temples and ruins. The Karnak Temple Complex, which dates back to around 2000 B.C., is located within the modern-day city. The Valley of the Kings, which has dozens of ancient tombs, including that of King Tutankhamun, is located just outside the city.

Hot air balloon rides were temporarily suspended in Egypt in 2016 after a crash landing led to the injuries of 22 Chinese tourists.

The deadliest balloon crash in history occurred in February 2013 in Luxor, when 19 people were killed. Balloon flights were grounded for two months after that accident.

Sixteen people were injured in a Luxor hot air balloon flight in 2011 as well.

ABC News' Mark Osborne contributed to this report.

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One tourist is dead and over a dozen more were injured in a hot air balloon crash in Egypt on Friday, the latest balloon accident in a number of tragedies in the popular tourist region of Luxor over the past few years. All of those involved in the accident are believed to be foreign tourists.

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Alex Trebek of 'Jeopardy!' on leave after brain surgery for blood clots

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Trebek, 77, was diagnosed in mid-December with a condition known as subdural hematoma, a complication from hitting his head in a bad fall in October, he said. He underwent surgery the following day.

"After two days in the hospital, I came home to start recovery," Trebek said in a video posted to the game show's website. "The prognosis is excellent, and I expect to be back in the studio taping more 'Jeopardy!' programs very, very soon!"

"He is expected to make a full and complete recovery," the post states, noting that because the show tapes months in advance, its broadcast schedule will be unaffected except for its College Championship, which will now air in April.

Though the iconic host said he suffered a "slight medical problem," a subdural hematoma is considered "among the deadliest of all head injuries," according to the US National Library of Medicine.

Symptoms include slurred speech, headaches

It is a blood clot on the brain's surface beneath its outer covering, called the dura. It usually results from severe head injuries but can be caused by minor injuries as well and can go unnoticed for days or weeks.

In severe cases, blood could fill the brain "very rapidly" and lead to death. Many older adults, who are more susceptible to such injuries, experience slower, minor bleeding. Other factors that increase risk of developing such clots are taking certain medicines that thin the blood, long-term consumption of alcohol and repeated head injuries.

Slurred speech, headaches, problems with balance or walking and nausea can be signs of subdural hematoma.

Neither Trebek nor the show's producers said whether Trebek suffered any symptoms before his diagnosis.

Retired Houston Astros coach Rich Dauer, 65, recently recovered from a subdural hematoma after he slipped and hit his head the night before the team's World Series parade in November, according to Bleacher Report.

Dauer attended the parade but was later taken to a local hospital.

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Trebek, 77, was diagnosed in mid-December with a condition known as subdural hematoma, a complication from hitting his head in a bad fall in October, he said. He underwent surgery the following day. "After two days in the hospital, I came home to start recovery," Trebek said in a video posted to the game show's website.

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From wooden sleds in a Texas garage to the Winter Olympics for Nigeria

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It will reach its culmination in February 2018 on a twisting ice track in South Korea, where she will cling on for dear life, reaching speeds of up to 90mph at the Winter Olympics.

This is no Hollywood script, but the reality of the last four years for Nigeria's Seun Adigun -- a woman that has made a habit of striving to go where no others have gone before.

As a child she dreamed of becoming the first woman to compete in the NBA. On the slopes of Pyeongchang next year the 30-year-old will drive the first African bobsled in the history of the Games.

The former 100m hurdler could not have envisaged this day would come as she lined up alongside the world's best at London 2012.

But, as she puts it: "Fear is really just another opportunity to learn."

"This is beyond a dream come true," Adigun tells CNN Sport, having qualified for PyeongChang 2018 alongside brakewomen Akuoma Omeoga and Ngozi Onwumere.

"To be able to bring something back to not only the country of Nigeria -- which has so gracefully given me my family, my culture and everything I stand by -- but also to the continent of Africa and the world...

"To bring a gift for people to know that resilience is something that you can actually live to achieve, and that the fear of the unknown doesn't need to be something that limits your ability to thrive in life ... Those qualities will be important for everybody to be able to take in."

'Absolutely amazing'

How those times spent with a hammer and nail have paid off.

Adigun and her companions will brace themselves, sprint and leap into a state of the art machine by the time the women's heats begin on February 20, having raised funds of $75,000 on a GoFundMe online donation page.

They will do so 30 years to the day after the Jamaican bobsled team captured hearts around the world at Calgary '88.

The team have seen the hit film Cool Runnings and "love it" but, despite the irresistible comparisons, Adigun wants to do more than just act out a sequel.

"It didn't really play a role in my decision to actually do this team or have the other ladies join me," she says. "This was more of an opportunity to do something selfless that the world could take on.

"To be compared to a group of people who 30 years later are still being celebrated for something legendary is amazing. If we can leave that type of legacy or have that type of impression on others, then we've really done something special as well.

For now, stints on leading US talk shows aside, there remains plenty of hard work to be done if the Nigerian bobsled team are to fulfill their goal of standing the podium in PyeongChang.

But, beyond the pursuit of medals, the trio preach a universal message.

"Don't be afraid to take that risk," says Adigun. "Impossible is nothing.

"You can sometimes stand in front of a door without knowing what's on the other side and open it. You won't know what's on the other side until you open it.

"Being in an uncomfortable place isn't bad [and] it isn't wrong; it's just different. Sometimes you need to be able to take that chance."

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Good Samaritan rescues a couple before a train hit their car

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An elderly couple is happy to be alive after two Good Samaritans pulled them out of their car just before a commuter rail train struck it.

Police in Bridgewater, Mass., said they were called to a rail crossing on Broad Street after a report an MBTA Commuter Rail train had struck a car early Thursday afternoon.

The vehicle got stuck at the rail crossing due to heavy snow. The elderly couple inside, a driver and passenger, were quickly helped out of the car by two bystanders before the train came through, police said in a press release.

The car was thrown into nearby gates and a control shed which exposed live wires.

Dramatic photos shared on the department's Twitter page showed the heavily damaged vehicle.

No injuries were reported.

Now, authorities are seeking help to identify the two Good Samaritans who helped, but appeared to have left the scene after the crash.

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An elderly couple is happy to be alive after two Good Samaritans pulled them out of their car just before a commuter rail train struck it. Police in Bridgewater, Mass., said they were called to a rail crossing on Broad Street after a report an MBTA Commuter Rail train had struck a car early Thursday afternoon.

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Now closing: 64 Kmart and 39 Sears stores

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It's closing time for another 39 Sears locations and 64 Kmart stores.

Sears Holdings , which owns both Sears and Kmart, made the announcement Thursday, building on months of similar closings aimed at getting the company on solid financial footing.

Closeout sales at the affected locations will begin next week, the company said in a press release, and all 103 locations will be shuttered by May.

The company said in a press release that "eligible associates impacted by these store closures will receive severance and will have the opportunity to apply for open positions at area Kmart or Sears stores."

A spokesperson for Sears Holdings declined to say how many employees will be affected by the closings.

Related: Big American retailers are still hurting

The decline of Sears Holdings has been swift in recent years.

In 2006, the company operated more than 3,000 locations in U.S. and a few hundred in Canada.

But with the rise of e-commerce, Sears and other traditional brick-and-mortar retailers have struggled to keep pace with digital darlings like Amazon .

Sears Canada filed for bankruptcy last year, and is in the process of shuttering its business entirely. And by the end of October 2017, Sears Holdings had just over 1,000 stores left in the U.S.

The company said the closures are part of an ongoing effort to "right size" its store footprint.

"[A]s previously announced, we will continue to close some unprofitable stores as we transform our business model so that our physical store footprint and our digital capabilities match the needs and preferences of our members," Sears Holdings said in a statement Thursday.

--CNNMoney's Chris Isidore contributed to this report.

CNNMoney (New York) First published January 4, 2018: 4:49 PM ET

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Paris Jackson is known for her very very light blue eyes and there is a seientic reason for that.

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There's a scientific reason why Paris Jackson has the bluest eyes you've ever seen

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In an interview, Paris Jackson's makeup artist revealed she has a rare eye condition that makes her eyes super blue. Here's what that might be.