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Woman pleads guilty to kidnapping a newborn in 1998. The child is now 19 years old.

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Two decades after taking a baby from a hospital and raising the child as her own, a South Carolina woman pleaded guilty Monday to kidnapping and interference with custody, prosecutors said.

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Police are hunting for the man who viciously punched a California grandmother, Mi Reum Song, 86, Saturday afternoon, causing her to suffer serious head injuries.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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California grandmother beaten in random attack, police hunt suspect

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

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Several Russians killed in US airstrikes

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The men were working for a private Russian company called Wagner, which has sent hundreds of private contractors to Syria to help both the Russian military and pro-regime forces, according to people who knew them.

One of the dead was 51-year-old Vladimir Loginov. Like many contractors who have gone to Syria, he was a member of a Cossack group of ultranationalists who have also fought in eastern Ukraine.

The Baltic Cossack District said in a statement that Loginov was a Russian citizen who was killed in an "unequal battle" while "heroically defending our Fatherland in its far reaches from crazy barbarians" when he died on February 7.

"Vladimir died for the Fatherland, the Cossacks and the Orthodox faith!" the group said.

CNN has been able to confirm the names of at least three other Russians who were killed supporting pro-regime militia in a large-scale attack that day. According to US officials, a force of some 500 crossed the Euphrates River near Deir Ezzor, along with tanks, missile launchers and artillery.

Their target was a base of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, which came under artillery fire. A US detachment was at the base. The US responded with airstrikes that killed about 100 of the attackers, according to the coalition, with the rest retreating.

One of the Russians killed was Kirill Ananyev, according to his friend Aleksandr Averin. He said Ananyev had been in Syria "a little over a year" and that he had been killed when "American artillery smashed the Wagner unit."

Averin said he believed that casualties among the Russians present amounted to more than "the typical Wagner loss of just a couple of people."

Most of the casualties, according to local sources, appear to have been members of a pro-regime Christian militia from the town of al Suqaylabiyah. Earlier this week, there was a mass funeral for about 30 members of the militia -- which often describes itself as the "ISIS hunters" -- in the town.

Two sons of a prominent tribal leader were also killed, according to social-media posts from Syria.

Wagner, which is under US sanctions for supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine, has several hundred contractors in Syria, according to analysts. In December, Nikolay Tikhonivch from Tomsk was killed "in the area of the Hama-Idlib highway," according to a social-media post from the "Rus" patriotic group to which he belonged.

Two Wagner contractors who were captured by ISIS in November have not been heard from since appearing in a video soon after being seized. They are believed to be dead, according to Russian officials.

Wagner is registered in Hong Kong and has no public offices in Russia and no contact details. Efforts by CNN to reach the company were unsuccessful.

US Defense Secretary General James Mattis has said that the US was puzzled by the attack near Deir Ezzor last week.

"The Russians told us they had no forces there initially. I think that's still the case but we don't have full clarity on what the regime forces are doing there," Mattis said over the weekend.

The US and Russian militaries have de-confliction channels to prevent accidental clashes in Syria and alert each other to movements.

"The Russians professed that they were not aware when we called them about that force that had crossed [the Euphrates]. As it came closer they were notified when the firing began," Mattis said.

Neither the Kremlin nor the Russian Ministry of Defense talks about private military contractors in Syria. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday: "We have no information regarding other Russians who may be in Syria."

It is very difficult to estimate the number of Russians working as military contractors in Syria and the number who are killed.

For days, rumors have swept through Russian social media that far more than a handful of Wagner contractors were killed in last week's engagement. On Monday liberal presidential candidate Grigory Yavlinsky said: "If massive Russian casualties took place, then relevant officials ... must announce this to the country and find out who is responsible."

Kremlin spokesman Peskov rejected Yavlinsky's assertion, saying: "I don't think Yavlinsky has more reliable sources than this."

There were many Russian citizens overseas, Peskov said, "and it's very hard to have detailed information."

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Worm in woman's eye lids leads a new discovery.

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"I looked at it, and it was moving," recalled 28-year-old Abby Beckley of Grants Pass, Oregon. "And then it died within about five seconds."

Now, imagine doing that not once but 14 times.

"This is only the 11th time a person has been infected by eye worms in North America, " explained lead author Richard Bradbury, who is the team lead for the CDC's Parasite Diagnostics and Biology Laboratory. "But what was really exciting it that it is a new species that has never infected people before. It's a cattle worm that somehow jumped into a human."

A summer adventure

Growing up on a ranch in Brookings, Oregon, surrounded by cattle and horses, Beckley loved the outdoors. She also had a burning desire to travel. So, in July 2016, she jumped at a chance to combine the two by working on a commercial salmon fishing boat in Craig, Alaska. It was only a couple of weeks into the job that the symptoms started.

"My left eye just got really irritated and red, and my eyelid was droopy," Beckley remembered. "I was getting migraines too, and I was like, 'What is going on?' "

She'd been suffering for five days when the ship finally returned to port. Beckley found a good mirror and looked closely into her eye, never expecting what she would find.

"I pulled down the bottom of my eye and noticed that my skin looked weird there," Beckley said. "So I put my fingers in with a sort of a plucking motion, and a worm came out!

"I was just in shock," she said. "I ran into my crewmate Allison's room, and I said, 'I need you to see this! I just pulled a worm out of my eye!' "

Believing it to be a salmon worm, the women feverishly searched for similar cases on the internet but could find nothing. Visits to a local doctor and ophthalmologist also proved fruitless.

"They said they had never seen anything like this," Beckley said, adding that during that time, she pulled another four worms from her eye. "And then I could see them moving across my eye at that point, too. There were so many."

Worried family and friends encouraged her to return home and set up an appointment at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland. She went directly there from the airport.

"There were several doctors examining my eye, and at first, they were a bit skeptical, because who comes in and claims they have a worm in their eye?" Beckley remembered. "I am thinking to myself, 'Worms, please show up,' because sometimes they would go behind my eye and under the eyelid, and you couldn't see or feel them anymore."

Luckily, she says, after a half-hour, the worms made an appearance.

"I felt one squiggle across my eye, and I told the doctors, 'You need to look right now!' " Beckley said. "I'll never forget the expression on their faces as they saw it move across my eye."

'I tried not to go to the darkest place'

While some of the worms Beckley removed were sent off to the CDC for identification, she frequently visited the university for vision tests and eye washes designed to flush out additional worms. Although her vision remained fine, the flushes were unsuccessful.

"I just kept pulling the worms out of my eye at home, but when I went to the office, they would flush, and nothing would come out," Beckley said. "They were trying to figure out what to do because there was no road map, no protocol for this."

The worst part, she says, was wondering what the worms might do to her body, "so close to my brain and eyes."

"I tried not go to the darkest place, like, are these worms going to paralyze my face or infect my brain or impact my vision?" she said. When a doctor explained that the worms would remain on the surface of her eye, she calmed down.

"I was definitely in distress, for sure, but I also started making jokes, because I had to, to deal with it," Beckley said. "It's so gross to think about, but it was happening to me."

'Fascinating ecological niche'

Parasitic eye worms are common among dogs, cats, pigs, sheep, goats, cattle and wild carnivores like foxes and wolves. The larvae are transmitted by female " face flies" that feed on the animal's eye secretions.

"Tears are full of proteins of various kinds, so the flies get a lot of nourishment from those tears," explained Dr. William Schaffner, a professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University's Division of Infectious Diseases, who was not involved in Beckley's case. "For a scientist, it's a fascinating ecological niche."

The worm larvae grow into adulthood and reproduce between the eye and the eyelid. Their offspring leave the host's body via more secretions from the inflamed eye, which the flies ingest, completing the life cycle.

"The early-stage larvae need to go through the fly's digestive system to be able to develop to a more advanced stage to infect another host," Bradbury explained. "It's a complicated life cycle."

Veterinarians treat the infection in pets and livestock with the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. But in untreated animals, Bradbury says, the worms can live and reproduce up to 30 months, leading to vision loss or even blindness.

People infected by the parasite typically don't suffer that fate, because, like Beckley, they can remove the worms from their eyes.

Unraveling a medical mystery

When the worms from Beckley's eye arrived at the CDC's diagnostic lab, scientists were expecting to find a species of the Thelazia parasite called californiensis. That's what infected the eyes of the 10 cases found in the US: nine from California and one from Utah.

"It's an eye worm that often infects dogs and very occasionally affects humans," the CDC's Bradbury explained. "Another type of eye worm called callipaeda, found in Asia and Europe, has also infected people, but it's also rare, with only about 163 reported cases in the world."

Most cases of human infection around the world occur in poor, rural communities among the very young and elderly, who may be less able to keep flies from their face. But not always. In 2015, a 21-year-old South Korean soldier developed eye worms from the Asian strain, callipaeda, after multiple brief contacts with a dog in his father's factory.

"He recalled nothing abnormal about the dog," said Dr. Kyungmin Huh, a South Korean doctor who wrote about the case in the New England Journal of Medicine. "But I should note that previous reports show that patients cannot remember how it was transmitted in the majority of cases."

Beckley has no memory of any fly landing close to or in her eye.

"It makes me curious if there was someone else who had this happen but wasn't seen by a doctor," she mused. "The only reason that I knew the cause is that I physically pulled one out of my eye."

Schaffner agreed: "Dollars to doughnuts, there were people in the past that had these infections but were never specifically diagnosed. Here, we have someone who developed this unusual infection, and the physicians were interested enough to send the materials to the CDC, where they have extraordinary diagnostic abilities."

Without that expertise, says Schaffner, investigators may have never noticed the small differences in the anatomy of the worms from Beckley's eye.

"Something was strange about it," Bradbury said, "and we had to go digging to find out what it was. I finally found the microscopic pictures I needed to find the exact species in a paper written in German in 1928."

Bradbury says the species, Thelazia gulosa, is unique to cattle and has never before been seen in a human eye. That means Beckley was infected by cattle near her home, before she left for Alaska.

"It's possible that there are cases that were misdiagnosed as another species of the worm, californiensis, because people just assume that it will be," Bradbury said. "But through our work, we were able to understand that a brand-new species can now infect people who are around cattle."

The end of a nightmare

Beckley was not treated with anti-parasitic medicine because doctors were worried that a dead worm might remain in her eye, possibly causing scarring. Instead, she was told to continue to monitor her eyes and remove any worms she found. How did she handle the uncertainty?

"You can go into 'Poor me, Oh, my God, I'm going to let this destroy me,' or you can just think, 'OK, these are worms, and now I know the life cycle, and I know that they will die, and they are just sharing space,' " she said. "Doesn't mean I wasn't grossed out! It doesn't mean I wasn't angry! But I would try to self-soothe and put it in perspective."

Twenty days after pulling the first worm from her eye, Beckley discovered the final wiggling worm. Once that was out, her ordeal was over. She knows because she's not found another since. Her vision remains good, with no other complications.

But why go public with her story?

"Part of the reason I'm speaking out is that I had wished I could find one article or source that would reassure me this happened to someone else and they are fine," Beckley said. "if this does happen again, I'm hoping my story will be out there for the next person to find."

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Nearly three months after his death, Charles Manson's body is still on ice in Kern County, California, as at least four people fight to claim his body.

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Nearly three months after his death, Charles Manson's body is still on ice in Kern County, California, as at least four people fight to claim his body.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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California grandmother beaten in random attack, police hunt suspect

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

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A teacher adopts a former student and his brother.

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Chelsea Haley was single, 22 years old and teaching in a Louisiana school when she met a 12-year-old student who would change her life.

The boy, Jerome Robinson, and his younger brother, Jace, are now Haley's adopted children, which has given this now 26-year-old single mom a new outlook.

"Over the last two years, my decision-making has gone from focusing on myself to really focusing on my boys," Haley, who adopted the brothers when she was 24, said today on " Good Morning America." "So when I think about my money, my time, my energy, all of it is really on the boys and what's best for them."

Haley was teaching in Baton Rouge on a two-year commitment to Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates to work in low-income schools, when Jerome was in her 4th-grade class.

When she saw Jerome getting suspended from school and failing to progress academically, Haley looked for ways to help.

"After exhausting all of my resources in the classroom, I realized the only way to reach Jerome was to get to know him and just build a relationship," she said. "I started spending a lot of time with him outside of school, going to his football games, his basketball games, just hanging out with him at home, buying school supplies and groceries, all those kinds of things."

Haley said she soon discovered Jerome was a "really witty, very smart and just kind" kid.

"So although there were still days in the classroom when he made me want to pull my hair out, I knew that below that tough-boy exterior, there was just a little boy begging to be loved," she said.

In October 2015, Jerome asked Haley if he could live with her. Haley said she had a dream the same month in which God told her she was destined to be Jerome's mother.

Within two months, Haley was granted full custody of both Jerome and Jace, now 3. With their birth mother's blessing, the brothers were then formally adopted by Haley.

Today the family lives in Marietta, Georgia, where Jerome is an honor-roll student.

"I don't think there are many words to really describe just how awesome it is to celebrate all of Jerome's achievements," Haley said. "I think it just goes to show that he's always had the potential, all he needed was the support and the self-confidence to be successful.

"I'm just really, really proud of him," she added.

Haley said she has taken on two part-time jobs, on top of her full-time job, "to make ends meet." A GoFundMe account has also been established to help the family.

Jerome said he knows Haley "really believes in me." He also said his story is a lesson to other kids to "never give up."

"To never give up and to keep trying no matter what people say," Jerome said when asked for his advice. "You always have to believe that you can do anything."

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Heartbroken family explains why 3-year-old who died from flu wasn't vaccinated

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An Indiana family that decided against vaccinating a 3-year-old is now haunted by that decision, wondering if a flu shot could have saved the girl's life.

Alivia Viellieux, of Muncie, Indiana, died at home Monday morning, just days after being diagnosed. The girl's grandmother, Tameka Stettler, said the family is second-guessing its decision not to vaccinate her.

Stettler said Alivia's parents declined to give her the flu shot after hearing that the vaccination could be ineffective.

"Alivia did not have it because they had told us once the flu is going around it's not going to matter if you got it or not," Stettler said in an interview with ABC affiliate WRTV on Monday. "We just decided not to put those chemicals and the girls body if it's not gonna help."

"Nothing anybody says or does is going to bring that little girl back to us," she added.

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Stettler said the family was preparing to celebrate Alivia's fourth birthday next month and that the girl already was signed up to attend preschool later this year.

Alivia had a blazing temperature of 106 degrees when the family took her to a local medical clinic last Tuesday, Stettler said.

The clinic said she tested positive for Influenza A and sent her to the emergency room at Ball Memorial Hospital, where she stayed for three days.

The hospital sent her home on Thursday after she appeared to be doing better, but the progress didn't last. Alivia died in her sleep on Monday morning.

"She was eating cheerios last night," Stettler said. "She was walking last night. How does that just happen?"

The exact cause of Alivia's death has not been determined. Representatives at Ball Memorial Hospital, where she was last treated, declined to comment on the specifics of her case but issued a statement that read: "While we can't discuss any patient's care, we are very saddened by her passing. Our hearts go out to her family."

Her death comes as the nation battles one of the most brutal flu outbreaks on record. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said at least 14,676 people have been hospitalized with influenza since the flu season began in October -- double the number from all of last year and the highest ever recorded.

At least 63 children have died from influenza in the current flu season, according to the CDC, which is urging those who haven't been vaccinated to do so.

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An Indiana family that decided against vaccinating a 3-year-old is now haunted by that decision, wondering if a flu shot could have saved the girl's life. Alivia Viellieux, of Muncie, Indiana, died at home Monday morning, just days after being diagnosed. The girl's grandmother, Tameka Stettler, said the family is second-guessing its decision not to vaccinate her.

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Chloe Kim got a gold medal and ahd a 93.5, and everyone loves her relationship with her dad.

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Kim is arguably his daughter's biggest fan. The elder Kim was seen in the crowd during his daughter's run, holding a "Go Chloe" sign with hearts drawn on. After her win, Chloe Kim's mother and father embraced her and her father was heard saying, as he pointed to himself, "American dream."

"I was very stressed because everyone was saying Chloe was going to win gold but no one knows the result -- that I cannot control," he told CNN Sport.

"Now I'm happy, all the stress is gone. I'm the dad of an Olympic gold medalist, not many people have this kind of feeling."

And then, he proceeded to celebrate in the most American way possible: By enjoying a nice cold beer.

It's been a long road for the Kim family, and one that's brought them full circle in the most satisfying of ways. Jong Jin Kim emigrated from South Korea to the United Stated in 1982 with $800 cash.

As his daughter's talent emerged, he gave up his job to help her chase her snowboarding dreams. During a Monday appearance on the Today Show, he reiterated the reason behind his sacrifice: "We - an immigrant like me -we always say, 'the American dream,'" he said.

He explained that to him, Chloe Kim is the American dream.

None of this is lost on the younger Kim, who has at times teared up when recalling her family's love and support.

After winning gold, she admitted she was unable to fathom "leaving your life behind and chasing this dream with your kid."

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Kim is arguably his daughter's biggest fan. The elder Kim was seen in the crowd during his daughter's run, holding a "Go Chloe" sign with hearts drawn on. After her win, Chloe Kim's mother and father embraced her and her father was heard saying, as he pointed to himself, "American dream."

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A man with a stuck gas pedal and goes tumbling down a highway at nearly 100 mph in Florida.

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A runaway BMW tore down a Florida interstate for nearly 40 miles Monday, but the motorist managed to keep his cool while authorities made several attempts to stop him, telling a 911 dispatcher calmly "my gas pedal is stuck," according to the Florida Highway Patrol and dramatic recordings.

The driver, Joseph Cooper, was alone in his car on I-95 near Vero Beach just before 1 p.m. when he lost control, he told emergency dispatchers. Authorities helped control traffic as he careened as fast as 95 mph with a flashers and a green strobe on.

Asked if he could shift to neutral, he told the dispatcher, "I can't, ma'am, I tried that already. I'm trying to hold onto the wheel and talk to you at the same time."

He told the dispatcher he almost hit someone.

"Get out of the way!" he yelled, according to the recording.

When authorities tried to slow down the car using spiked stop sticks, Cooper avoided them, the highway patrol reported. The officials tossed out stop sticks again, blowing out the right two tires, which slowed the car down to about 60 mph, the highway patrol said.

More stop sticks were thrown which affected the left two tires, slowing the car to 40 mph, but Cooper was still unable to stop. "The vehicle was traveling on all 4 rims with no tire," the highway patrol said.

The car started swerving and eventually came to a stop, the highway patrol said.

At that point Cooper had traveled more than 40 miles. Miraculously, no one was injured, Lt. Alvaro Feola of the Florida Highway Patrol told ABC News.

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Feola said Cooper made the right choices in the dangerous situation.

"He did call 911, he wore a seat belt, he kept the dispatch aware of the mile markers," Feola said.

"Thank God in this situation nobody got hurt," Feola added. "Traffic was maybe a little light, it wasn't rush hour."

A representative for BMW did not immediately respond to ABC News' request for comment.

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U.S.-born Chloe Kim blew away the competition in becoming the youngest ever to win a gold medal in half pipe snowboarding.The 17-year-old, who scored an astonishing 98.75 on her final run, is attracting fans from around the world -- including from South Korea, where her father lived before emigrating to the U.S. in 1982.

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U.S.-born Chloe Kim blew away the competition in becoming the youngest ever to win a gold medal in halfpipe snowboarding.

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The 17-year-old, who scored an astonishing 98.75 on her final run, is attracting fans from around the world -- including from South Korea, where her father lived before emigrating to the U.S. in 1982.

"It means a lot just being able to do it where my family is from," Kim said during a press conference after her record-setting performance. "A lot of pressure, but I'm happy I was able to do it here and do it for the fans and the family. It was a really fun moment for everyone."

Local media in South Korea have published several stories about the proud Korean-American, giving her as bright a spotlight as many of the host country's own atheletes.

Chosun Ilbo, a newspaper with a circulation of about 1.8 million, published a closeup of Kim sticking her tongue out, with the caption: "Chloe Kim, who once scored 100 out of 100, shows off technique at a whole different level."

Seoul Broadcasting System aired a two-minute documentary on Kim after she won gold, featuring the first time, in 2016, when she landed back-to-back 1080 spins. The broadcast piece announced her as "Sun Kim," her name in Korean.

Kim's fans also took to social media to show their admiration for her incredible performance. Actor Park Seo Joon uploaded a screencap of Kim and wrote, "This is unbelievable ..."

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U.S.-born Chloe Kim blew away the competition in becoming the youngest ever to win a gold medal in halfpipe snowboarding. The 17-year-old, who scored an astonishing 98.75 on her final run, is attracting fans from around the world -- including from South Korea, where her father lived before...

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Charles Manson's body is still on ice. While 4 battle over who gets his body.2 with a actual will of his or two relatives.

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Why Charles Manson's body has been on ice for nearly three months

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Nearly three months after his death, Charles Manson's body is still on ice in Kern County, California, as at least four people fight to claim his body.

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US luger Emily Sweeney suffered a frightening crash Tuesday at the women's singles competition during the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

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Sweeney was on curve No. 12 in her final run of the event when she bounced around the track and crashed.

Sweeney was conscious and she eventually got up and walked off the ice under her own power, though she was moving gingerly. She was taken to the Olympic Village clinic for evaluation, said USA Luge.

Sweeney, 24, had difficulties in curves 8 and 9 before she crashed, according to a tweet sent out by USA Luge shortly after the accident.

"Emily was picked up and brought to the finish building where an initial examination was given by the medical staff," the tweet said. "It was determined that, while feeling bruised and sore, she was OK."

Sweeney had no broken bones, a representative from the International Luge Federation told CNN, adding that she walked and gave interviews after her luge crash.

Sweeney said the big curves on the track just got away from her.

"I know I caught a good amount of air going in to (turn) 12, and I just couldn't stop it," Sweeney told NBC after the accident. "There's a lot of pressures in these big curves, and unfortunately I was not taking them correctly, so it was pretty rough."

She said she felt sore and stiff after her big spill.

"I'm going to go get an X-ray on my back after this, but I wanted to have the last word," she said. "So, thanks for all the support, guys. Yeah, it's a bummer, for sure, and I know I'm better than that, but here we are. It happens."

After a brief delay, the competition resumed.

Sweeney is competing in her first Olympics after missing out on a spot in the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. She's a junior world champion, and her older sister Megan is a former Olympic luger.

Sweeney, who is also a member of the National Guard, missed out on a spot on the 2010 Winter Olympics team after losing a special race-off -- to her big sister.

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Sweeney was on curve No. 12 in her final run of the event when she bounced around the track and crashed. Sweeney was conscious and she eventually got up and walked off the ice under her own power, though she was moving gingerly. She was taken to the Olympic Village clinic for evaluation, said USA Luge.

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California woman, 19, fatally stabbed, left for dead, ID's suspects on death bed

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A 19-year-old woman, who was stabbed multiple times and left for dead on a rural road in a town outside San Francisco, has been credited for fighting "like a soldier" and identifying the two suspects in her killing.

Reports of her condition when discovered early Monday are chilling.

Four men who were carpooling to their jobs at UPS found the bloody woman on lying in the middle of a rural road in Livermore at about 2 a.m. There was so much blood, the men said they could not determine her hair color. A 911 caller reported that the woman was missing an arm.

She was not.

The woman was dumped off the road and crawled about 100 yards to the roadside, Fox 40 reported. Authorities determined the distance by following a trail of blood.

"You could tell it was so bad to where you just had to give her comfort," Richard Loadholt, one of the men who found her, told Fox 40. "Anything else was going to be painful."

Loadholt said the men comforted her while another driver called 911.

The victim was airlifted to Eden Hospital where she died about two hours later, KRON4 reported. She managed to give police a "compelling" account of who killed her before dying and authorities arrested a man and woman-both 19-in Modesto, The San Francisco Chronicle report said.

"I've been around a long time, and I can only think of two to three times that I'm aware of in our agency that we've been able to get a dying declaration like that," Sgt. Ray Kelly of the Alameda County Sheriff's Office told The Chronicle. "A dying declaration is a very compelling piece of evidence that's recognized in the court to be very credible and reliable information."

A motive for the killing is under investigation.

"This victim really tried to survive, and she fought and she fought," Kelly said. "The last thing, we believe, that she was able to do was to point us in the direction of the people that killed her. And that's pretty remarkable."

Edmund DeMarche is a news editor for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @EDeMarche.

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A 19-year-old woman, who was stabbed multiple times and left for dead on a rural road in a town outside San Francisco, has been credited for fighting "like a soldier" and identifying the two suspects in her killing. Reports of her condition when discovered early Monday are chilling.

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Gregg Popovich Says 'We Live in a Racist Country,' Talks Black History Month.

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San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich explained Monday night why he thinks it's important for the NBA to celebrate Black History Month.

"I think it's pretty obvious," he told reporters. "The league is made up of a lot of black guys. To honor that and understand it is pretty simplistic. How would you ignore that? But more importantly, we live in a racist country that hasn't figured it out yet. And it's always important to bring attention to it, even if it angers some people. The point is, you have to keep it in front of everybody's nose so they understand it still hasn't been taken care of and we have a lot of work to do."

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Popovich espoused a similar view last February when he made an appearance on the San Antonio Express-News' Spurs Nation podcast (h/t For The Win's Alysha Tsuji).

"It's a remembrance and a bit of a celebration in some ways," Popovich said. "It sounds odd because we're not there yet, but it's always important to remember what has passed and what is being experienced now by the black population. It's a celebration of some of the good things that have happened and a reminder that there's a lot more work to do."

According to NBA.com's Brian Martin, players have been sporting warmup shirts in February with a series of words that "reflect NBA players' longstanding commitment to equality and diversity through using the game of basketball to bring people together."

Off the floor, teams across the league are holding events in support of the African American community.

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San Antonio Spurs Alec Nathan Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images @@AlecBNathan Twitter Logo Featured Columnist San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich explained Monday night why he thinks it's important for the NBA to celebrate Black History Month. "I think it's pretty obvious," he told reporters.

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Colorado Boulder scientists created "electronic skin" which can act like your skin through measuring temperature, pressure, humidity, and air flow.

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Biomedicine just took another leap forward. University of Colorado Boulder scientists created so-called electronic skin-e-skin for short. The e-skin is a thin, semi-transparent material that can act like your skin through measuring temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow. The new material, which was detailed in a study published Friday in Science Advances,could make better prosthetics, improve the safety of robots in the future and aid development of other biomedical devices.

"This has quite broad applications, in a sense, to enable sensation of otherwise passive systems," Jianliang Xiao, mechanical engineer at Boulder who led the study, told Newsweek. Those passive systems are the electronic devices we use, but which don't have the same capabilities that our skin naturally has.

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This e-skin has the ability to sense for pressure, which is a key factor for improving prosthetic limbs. For instance, if the e-skin is wrapped around a prosthetic hand, the e-skin would enable the prosthetic to sense for pressure when holding a glass cup. Knowing how much pressure the mechanical hand is applying could prevent a person using it from accidentally crushing the cup, Xiao explained.

"If you think about what real skin can do, real skin can prevent people getting burned [and] can prevent people getting hurt," Wei Zhang, a chemistry professor at Boulder and co-author of the study, told Newsweek. "E-skin can basically mimic those [preventative] functions. At least that's one big part of the electronic skin."

The e-skin also has applications for the future of robots. In the future, should robots handle babies in some form, they would be able to feel for pressure and temperature.

"Sensing is critical because when human beings interact with robots, we want to make sure that robots don't hurt people," Xiao said. Robots in the future could be handling a baby and, if the robot can feel for pressure, the robot could handle a baby more safely. Detecting a fever is another benefit.

"When the baby is sick, the robot can just use a finger to touch the surface," Xiao said. Then, "it can tell what the temperature of the baby is."

The material is made from a polymer network called polyimine as well as silver nanoparticles, the latter which provide strength, chemical stability and electrical conductivity. Researchers explained that the e-skin can heal itself, just by mixing compounds found in ethanol with the material. Heat and pressure can allow the e-skin to wrap around curved objects easily, such as human skin and intricate robotic hands. Plus, the material is recyclable, which is what researchers say makes their e-skin material unique.

"I think we are the first group to demonstrate recycling of such multifunctional e-skin," Xiao said. E-skin is recycled by soaking the polymers into a solution that degrades the polymers down and separates the silver nanoparticles, which sink down to the bottom of the solution. "What drives us to make such devices to be recyclable is because, nowadays, we are facing very serious environmental pollution due to tens of millions of tons of electronic waste," he added.

Zhang took the recyclability concept a step further. He sees a future where you can simply soak your cell phone or your laptop in a solution that dissolves the materials down to be reused again. That would be the "dream," he said.

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Self-healing, recyclable electronic skin creates a way for prosthetic limbs to feel just like real skin

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Biomedicine just took another leap forward. University of Colorado Boulder scientists created so-called electronic skin-e-skin for short. The e-skin is a thin, semi-transparent material that can act like your skin through measuring temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow.

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Trenton Lewis' legs ached from the 11-mile walk he made every morning to get to his 4 a.m. shift.

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He didn't tell anyone. He's never been one for excuses -- especially when it comes to providing for his 14-month-old daughter, Karmen.

"My pride is strong," he told CNN. "Whatever she needs, I'm the person who is supposed to provide it for her."

But his co-workers at a UPS facility in Little Rock, Arkansas, found out. And last week, they decided to make things right.

They asked Lewis to come to a brief union meeting.

When he showed up, his stoic face gave way to disbelief and then a grateful smile as his coworkers handed him keys to a new car.

"I was emotionally moved. My heart just fell," the young worker recalled.

Rallying behind a colleague

When Lewis began working at the UPS facility, he had no means of getting to and from work.

"I was banking on my feet," he said.

So every morning, he walked, and kept most of his colleagues in the dark about his pre-dawn journey.

But every large workforce has that one "queen bee" who knows all and sees all.

For Trenton Lewis, that was Patricia "Mama Pat" Bryant.

"She was like a second mom," Lewis said. "She actually got upset with me when she found out I was walking to work."

Bryant and her husband, Kenneth, have both put in almost 40 years at UPS.

"For a young person to decide in their mind 'if I don't have a ride, if I can't get a ride then I'll walk,'" Kenneth Bryant said. "If a guy can do that, we can pitch in to help."

The Bryants quietly shared Lewis' story with their fellow workers and took up a collection to buy their determined colleague a car.

Most of the employees didn't even know Lewis but were impressed with his grit.

Soon enough, the group raised almost $2,000.

"Everybody that I talked to said yes! The hardest part was reminding them to bring cash," Kenneth Bryant said. "I told the seller what I was doing and who it was for and he said he was willing to work with me on a price."

Bryant wanted everything to be perfect for the big reveal. He even went as far as fixing a small nick on the bumper.

The group lured Lewis to the parking lot for that brief "union meeting." Kenneth Bryant reached into his pocket, pulled out the keys to the 2006 Saturn Ion and stunned Lewis.

"God always has something for you," said Lewis. "I'm never going to forget this ever."

Lewis thanked his co-workers profusely.

His first ride in the car was to pick up his daughter for a bite to eat.

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He didn't tell anyone. He's never been one for excuses -- especially when it comes to providing for his 14-month-old daughter, Karmen. "My pride is strong," he told CNN. "Whatever she needs, I'm the person who is supposed to provide it for her." But his co-workers at a UPS facility in Little Rock, Arkansas, found out.

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Couple sells all possessions for sailboat, sinks 2 days into their new boat life

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A couple's plan for a better life has been sunk.

Nikki Walsh, 24, and boyfriend Tanner Broadwell, 26, decided nearly a year ago that they were tired of working.

"How can we live our lives when we're working most of the day and you have to pay so much just to live?" Walsh, who booked time-share tours for a living, said to The New York Post.

"Most of the work you do goes to your home. There has to be another option," she added.

So the Colorado couple sold all their furniture and their SUV and purchased a 49-year-old boat in Alabama to live on and eventually sail the world in.
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The couple moved onto the 28-foot boat, which was in the marina of Tarpon Springs, a town on Florida's Gulf Coast, and lived there for months with their two-year-old pug, Remy, while they stocked up on food and supplies.

"We were pretty prepared," Walsh said, of gathering items to last them for their planned trip to the Caribbean.

However, the two were not prepared for what happened next.

Nearly two days into their venture, the couple's boat capsized in a channel of water called John's Pass.

"We thought the channel was where we were going, but it wasn't," Walsh told the Post, telling the publication they were armed with GPS and paper navigation charts.

Local boat captains say the sandbars often shift in John's Pass, the Post reported.

"We started freaking out because waves were coming, and it was tossing our boat back and forth," Walsh recalled.

Broadwell was at the rear of the boat, holding onto Remy when the trouble hit.

"My hands were shaking. We were terrified," she said.

Before abandoning ship, Walsh said they grabbed some clothes and important documents, as well as things for their dog.

"I also grabbed Remy's food and just about everything he needed," said Walsh. "He doesn't deserve to go without his favorite toys."

Walsh admitted she and her boyfriend, who used to drive for Uber, were "new to sailing."
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However, the couple, who has been left with just $90 in cash, no jobs and no boat insurance, say they are still hopeful for their world-sailing plans and have started a GoFundMe begging people to help them "not give up on [their] dreams."

The pair are seeking $10,000 to rescue the ship, which sunk off the coast of Madeira Beach, FL. Walsh said raising the boat alone will cost at least $6,700.

"We have a lot of family helping us, but it's hard when you've lost everything," Walsh told The Post from Jacksonville, where the couple is staying with loved ones.

Though the pair seem down and out, they still plan to "buy or salvage another boat" at some point and "try try try again," Walsh writes on the GoFundMe.

"You only have one life. Why spend it doing what you don't love. Money isn't everything!" Walsh told the Post.

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A couple's plan for a better life has been sunk. Nikki Walsh, 24, and boyfriend Tanner Broadwell, 26, decided nearly a year ago that they were tired of working. "How can we live our lives when we're working most of the day and you have to pay so much just to live?"