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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is growing taller as it shrinks... and turning orange

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half, and in recent years it has turned a deep orange color. Scientists are tracking these changes to see how the iconic spot is morphing, as well as how it might break apart altogether in the future, according to a new study.

A team of researchers created a timeline for the diminishing cyclone by looking at archived observations of the Great Red Spot, according to a recent statement by NASA. To trace the storm's size, color, drift rate and shape, they combined these historical findings with spacecraft data going as far back as 1979, from the two Voyager missions, as well as data obtained from annual observations conducted with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope by the Outer Planets Atmospheres Legacy project. [ Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A Monster Storm in Pictures ]

One surprising finding is that the Great Red Spot is growing taller. This study, led by Amy Simon, planetary atmospheres expert at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, found that the diameter of the storm is shrinking, but its clouds are stretching upwards.

"It's almost like clay being shaped on a potter's wheel," NASA official Elizabeth Zubritsky said in a recent statement about the findings. "As the wheel spins, an artist can transform a short, round lump into a tall, thin vase by pushing inward with his hands. The smaller he makes the base, the taller the vessel will grow."

Jupiter's Great Red Spot is thought to have been so large that at one point it could have contained three Earths inside its width, according to NASA. As of April 3, 2017, the storm was 10,159 miles (16,350 kilometers) wide, slightly wider than Earth's diameter.

Researchers don't know why the storm has become more intensely orange since 2014, but suggest it's possible that the growing height of the Great Red Spot might be the cause. As the storm stretches upward, the chemicals that give color to the storm might reach higher in the atmosphere, where they would receive more UV radiation from the sun and therefore darken.

"If the trends we see in the Great Red Spot continue, the next five to 10 years could be very interesting from a dynamical point of view," said Rick Cosentino, co-author of the study and postdoctoral fellow at Goddard. "We could see rapid changes in the storm's physical appearance and behavior, and maybe the red spot will end up being not so great after all."

The study was published on March 13 in the Astronomical Journal.
Original article on Space.com.

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot is growing taller as it shrinks... and turning orange

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Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half, and in recent years it has turned a deep orange color. Scientists are tracking these changes to see how the iconic spot is morphing, as well as how it might break apart altogether in the future, according to a new study.

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Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Elias Diaz mother rescued after kidnapping

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Police in Venezuela have rescued the mother of Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Elias Diaz three days after she was kidnapped, authorities said Sunday.

Ana Isabel Soto, 72, was rescued by judicial police, state police and other security officers, Zulia state Gov. Omar Prieto announced on Twitter. Prieto also said that he had ordered state police to investigate an anti-drug team for alleged involvement in Soto's kidnapping.

La Nacion newspaper reported earlier Sunday that six people, including five police officers, had been arrested in the case. The paper reported that one of the arrested officers was a neighbor of the family.

Venezuelan media reported Thursday that Soto was kidnapped by three armed men at her home in San Francisco, a city located about 430 miles west of the capital Caracas.

In a statement released Thursday, Pirates President Frank Coonelly said the team was "shocked and deeply concerned about Elias' mother, as well as Elias and his entire family."

Coonelly added that the team was "using all of the resources available ... to support Elias and his family during this incredibly difficult time."

The team had no immediate comment on the report of Soto's rescue.

Diaz played 64 games for Pittsburgh in 2017, batting .223 with 19 RBIs and 18 runs scored.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Elias Diaz's mother rescued after kidnapping

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Police in Venezuela have rescued the mother of Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Elias Diaz three days after she was kidnapped, authorities said Sunday. Ana Isabel Soto, 72, was rescued by judicial police, state police and other security officers, Zulia state Gov. Omar Prieto announced on Twitter.

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Prosecutors will seek the death penalty against suspect in Parkland school massacre

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France's government has proposed setting a formal age of sexual consent after two-high profile cases involving 11-year-old girls, according to the country's Equality Minister.

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Equality Minister Marlene Schiappa said the government "has decided to set the age at 15," after consultations with the public and an expert panel. She said a new law would be presented to Council of Ministers -- France's equivalent of a cabinet -- on March 21.

In France, current laws criminalize sex with children under the age of 15 but prosecutors must prove that the sexual act was forced.

Two cases involving the 11-year-old girls provoked outrage in France after the alleged perpetrators were acquitted of rape.

In November a 30-year-old man was cleared of rape after the court found that the victim had not been subjected to "constraint, threat, violence or surprise."

In the other case, charges against a 28-year-old man, also accused of raping an 11-year-old girl, were downgraded to "sexual relations with a minor," according to French news agency AFP.

Schiappa said that the French President wanted to set the age of consent at 15 and she "had expressed the same preference on many occasions."

In October 2017, she told CNN that she wanted to address rape culture.

"We want to fix an age in the law below which it's always forbidden to have sex with children, with young girls. Below which it's always considered as a rape," she said in an interview.

The law, once implemented, will set the age at which a person cannot agree to any sexual intercourse at 15 and will criminalize any sexual activity with any minor younger than that age.

Saskya Vandoorne contributed to this report.

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Equality Minister Marlene Schiappa said the government "has decided to set the age at 15," after consultations with the public and an expert panel. She said a new law would be presented to Council of Ministers -- France's equivalent of a cabinet -- on March 21.

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US Airman kills both his kids, his wife, and them himself.

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A member of the U.S. Air Force in Washington state fatally shot his two young children and his wife before killing himself, authorities said Tuesday.

The Pierce County sheriff's office said they found the bodies inside a home near Spanaway, about 45 miles south of Seattle, after the man called 911 reporting that he killed his family.

The victims were identified as Samantha Field, 33, and the couple's children, 4-year-old Ava and 2-year-old Ashen, according to the county medical examiner's office. The alleged shooter was Clint Field, 29. He was originally from Florida and his wife was from New Hampshire, the News Tribune reported .

The sheriff's office said the children were shot while they were sleeping and their mother also was shot in bed. It said Clint Field was stationed at nearby Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer told Seattle-area TV station KOMO that investigators have learned Clint Field had been upset and had a past incident in which he mentioned suicide. Troyer also said family members mentioned that the couple may have had a divorce proceeding about to start.

"We have not been to this house before and there's no history of domestic violence," Troyer said.

Daine Patton, who sold the home a year ago to the family, said in an interview that it was a "tragic" situation.

"It really breaks my heart for those kids ... to be killed by their father. That's horrible," Patton said.

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Police: Man shoots his 2 kids, wife before killing himself

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A member of the U.S. Air Force in Washington state fatally shot his two young children and his wife before killing himself, authorities said Tuesday. The Pierce County sheriff's office said they found the bodies inside a home near Spanaway, about 45 miles south of Seattle, after the man called 911 reporting that he killed his family.

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A majority of Egypt's soccer team will be fasting during the beginning of the World Cup.

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Well-traveled and much experienced as a soccer coach, Hector Cuper is facing a new obstacle when it comes to preparing Egypt for this year's World Cup.

The tournament in Russia starts on the final day of Ramadan, the holy month that requires Muslims to fast from sunrise to sunset. Egypt is scheduled to play its opening match a day later, on June 15, against Uruguay.

That means much of Egypt's preparations for the World Cup - the country's first in 28 years - will be done while the all-Muslim team is supposed to be fasting during daylight hours.

"If I deal with that pragmatically, I should turn the day upside down. Maybe Egyptian players are accustomed to doing this, but I as a Western person am not," Cuper said late Tuesday on a TV talk show. "How can I train them at night around 11 or 12 after iftar (the meal Muslims eat at sunset to break their fast)? And how can I train them during the day without water and when they had nothing to eat?

"We are working on this and seeking to find the best way to overcome fasting fatigue and prevent it from hurting the players."

Egypt, a record seven-time African champion, will also face host Russia and Saudi Arabia in Group A at the World Cup. Cuper, an Argentine who has coached extensively around his native country and in Europe, took over as national team coach in 2015.

There has been widespread speculation on whether soccer authorities in Egypt will request a fatwa, or a religious edict, from the country's top theologian exempting the squad from fasting during the crucial month of preparation before the tournament begins.

In comments published Wednesday, Cuper said it would be up to the individual players to decide.

"Players of the national squad are absolutely free to fast and we cannot interfere in this because of my full respect for all faiths," Cuper said, adding nutrition experts have been retained to advise the players on how to cope with fasting and sleeping during Ramadan.

In Russia, the Egyptian team will be based in Chechnya. Team officials have said they are happy to be in Grozny because it is a Muslim city where the players would be comfortable.

Devout Muslims refrain from food, water and sex while the sun is out during Ramadan. The lunar month is in May and June this year, with the long days making the fast a grueling 15- or 16-hour test of stamina. During Ramadan, Muslims break their fast at iftar, the traditionally large meal after sunset. Just before dawn, they eat another meal, sohour.

"I endure a great deal of hardship when I am fasting, but I prefer to honor my religious duty as long as I am able to cope,' said Egypt defender Saad Sameer, who plays for Cairo club Al-Ahly. "I will fast the month of Ramadan, regardless of what the team decides."

Another Egypt player, Zamalek midfielder Tareq Hamed, said he would abide by any decision reached by the team's management on whether to fast.

"I hope we do well in the World Cup and not be distracted by issues like fasting," said Hamed, adding he and many other players have in the past played matches while fasting.

Edicts exempting soccer players from fasting are not without precedence.

A 2008 edict by Egypt's mufti, the country's top theologian, exempted players from fasting during match days, arguing that if playing is what they do for a living then they should break their fast, provided that they compensate for those days after the end of Ramadan. Training, he said, did not provide grounds for breaking the fast.

The issue of Ramadan has showcased the religious dimension of sports, especially soccer, in Egypt, a majority Muslim country of about 100 million people, of whom about 10 million are Christians.

Egyptian match commentators routinely pray to God to come to the aid of the national team and they offer a prayer of thanks when they score. Beside the "Pharaohs," the Egyptian national team has another nickname: "The Squad of al-Sajedeen," or the team that kneels down and offers prayers, which they do after scoring.

It is also traditional for the team to collectively read the opening verse of the Quran before kickoff.

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Well-traveled and much experienced as a soccer coach, Hector Cuper is facing a new obstacle when it comes to preparing Egypt for this year's World Cup. The tournament in Russia starts on the final day of Ramadan, the holy month that requires Muslims to fast from sunrise to sunset.

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National School Walkout: Students to protest gun violence, call for action one month after Parkland shooting

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Thousands of students are set to walk out of classrooms nationwide Wednesday to protest gun violence and call for new gun control measures on the one month anniversary of the Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead and sparked a grassroots wave of activism.

From Maine to Hawaii, students planned to walk out of school Wednesday to protest gun violence in what could be the biggest demonstration yet of the student activism that has emerged in response to last month's massacre of 17 people at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

In nearly 3,000 protests nationwide, students from the elementary to college level are taking up the call in a variety of ways. Some planned roadside rallies to honor shooting victims and protest violence. Others were to hold demonstrations in school gyms or on football fields. In Massachusetts and Georgia and Ohio, students said they'll head to the statehouse to lobby for new gun regulations.

The coordinated walkouts were loosely organized by Empower, the youth wing of the Women's March, which brought thousands to Washington, D.C., last year. The group urged students to leave class at 10 a.m. local time for 17 minutes -- one minute for each victim in the Florida shooting -- and suggested demands for lawmakers, including an assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun sales.

"Our elected officials must do more than tweet thoughts and prayers in response to this violence," the group said on its website.

But each community was urged to shape its own protests, and while parents and teachers in many districts worked together to organize age-appropriate activities, school administrators had mixed reactions. Some have applauded students for taking a stand, while others threatened discipline.

Districts in Sayreville, New Jersey, and Maryland's Harford County drew criticism this week when they said students could face punishment for leaving class. In Pensacola, Florida, Superintendent Malcolm Thomas ordered students to hold an in-school assembly instead, telling them they could discuss voting and mental health issues, but not guns, and saying that political banners would not be allowed.

"You can't make political statements, it can't be a pro-gun or anti-gun assembly," Thomas told the Pensacola News-Journal.

Free speech advocates geared up for battles.

The American Civil Liberties Union issued advice for students, saying schools can't legally punish them more harshly because of the political nature of their message. In Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Texas, some lawyers said they will provide free legal help to students who are punished. The ACLU of Georgia's guidance letters to districts said "The United States Supreme Court has long held that students do not 'shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate'."

This nationwide action is one of several protests planned for coming weeks. The March for Our Lives rally for school safety is expected to draw hundreds of thousands to the nation's capital on March 24, its organizers said. And another round of school walkouts is planned for April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine High School shooting in Colorado.

After the walkout Wednesday, some students in Massachusetts say they plan to rally outside the Springfield headquarters of Smith & Wesson, where students and religious leaders are expected to call on the gun maker to help reduce gun violence.

At Case Elementary School in Akron, Ohio, a group of fifth-graders organized a walkout with the help of teachers after seeing parallels in a video they watched about youth marches for civil rights in 1963. Case instructors said 150 or more students will line a sidewalk along a nearby road, carrying posters with the names of Parkland victims.

The walkouts have drawn support from companies including media conglomerate Viacom, which said it will pause programming on MTV, BET and all its other networks for 17 minutes during the walkouts, and allow students to temporarily take over MTV's social media accounts.

In suburban Atlanta, one of Georgia's largest school systems announced that students who participate might face unspecified consequences.

But some vowed to walk out anyway, understanding that accepting punishments is part of what can make civil disobedience powerful.

"Change never happens without backlash," said Kara Litwin, a senior at Pope High School in the Cobb County School District.

The possibility of being suspended "is overwhelming, and I understand that it's scary for a lot of students," said Lian Kleinman, a junior at Pope High. "For me personally this is something I believe in, this is something I will go to the ends of the Earth for."

Other schools sought a middle ground, offering "teach-ins" or group discussions on gun violence and working to keep things safe. Officials at Boston Public Schools said they arranged a day of observance Wednesday with a variety of activities "to provide healthy and safe opportunities for students to express their views, feelings and concerns." Students who don't want to participate could bring a note from a parent to opt out.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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National School Walkout: Students to protest gun violence, call for action one month after Parkland shooting

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Thousands of students are set to walk out of classrooms nationwide Wednesday to protest gun violence and call for new gun control measures on the one month anniversary of the Parkland school shooting that left 17 dead and sparked a grassroots wave of activism.

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Tragedy struck on a United Airlines flight 1284 from Houston to New York City, when a dog in a TSA-compliant pet carrier died after a flight attendant allegedly forced its owner to store the animal and its carrier in an overhead bin for the duration of the four-hour Monday flight.

United has since claimed full responsibility for the "tragic accident" that killed Kokito, a black French bulldog, owned by Catalina Robledo of New York, who was traveling with her two children, ABC 13 reports. Robledo says that the airline has since contacted asking to settle the situation with money, which she says the situation is not about.

Passenger Maggie Gremminger told the New York Times that Robledo was insistent that the dog carrier should stay by her side, with no avail.
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"The pet owner was very adamant that she did not want to put the pet carrier up above," Gremminger said. "She was saying verbally, 'My dog is in here, no, this is my dog.' The flight attendant, in response, really just continued to ask her to put it above because it was a hazard where it was, it was a safety emergency, someone could trip."

Gremminger said that she and her fellow travelers were horrified to learn the animal had died later in the trip, according to People.

"A stranger offered to hold her newborn while she sat on the floor, there in the airplane aisle. She was holding her dog and rocking back and forth. Her daughter was also crying," she told the publication about the scene following the discovery.

Gremminger further divulged that once Kokito was found dead, the flight attendant became "frazzled" and insisted she did not know there was a live animal in the carrier.

"I want to help this woman and her daughter. They lost their dog because of an @united flight attendant. My heart is broken," she wrote on Twitter, sharing a photo of the family who allegedly lost their dog.
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Meanwhile, Robledo's daughter Sophia Ceballos told ABC that the flight attendant was fully aware that Kokito was in distress, as he barked through takeoff.

"While we were flying, the dog started barking and barking and there was no flight attendants coming. We couldn't stand up because there was a lot of turbulence so we weren't allowed to," Ceballos said, adding that attempts to inform the flight attendant of the severity of the situation were unsuccessful.

"She said, 'Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know it was a dog. I thought it was a normal bag.' But we told her it was a dog, she's lying."

For their part, United's pet policy reads as follows:

"A pet traveling in cabin must be carried in an approved hard-sided or soft-sided kennel. The kennel must fit completely under the seat in front of the customer and remain there at all times."

United Airlines spokeswoman Maggie Schmerin returned Fox News' request for comment with the following statement:

"This was a tragic accident that should never have occurred, as pets should never be placed in the overhead bin. We assume full responsibility for this tragedy and express our deepest condolences to the family and are committed to supporting them," she said.

"We are thoroughly investigating what occurred to prevent this from ever happening again," Schmerin added.

The cause of death is not yet known, but, while the overhead compartments are not air-tight, lack of oxygen may have been a factor.
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According to a report from the Department of Transportation, United had the highest number of animal deaths and injuries amongst all U.S. airlines in 2017, with 18 animals killed and 13 injured while flying through the airline's PetSafe cargo program.

The heartbreaking story comes weeks after United and Delta made headlines for tightening rules for flying with animals amid emotional support and service animal controversy.

United did not immediately return Fox News' request for comment on the updates to this story.

Janine Puhak is an editor for Fox News Lifestyle. Follow her on Twitter at @JaninePuhak

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Dog dies on United flight after flight attendant allegedly forced passenger to put carrier in overhead bin

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Tragedy struck on a United Airlines flight 1284 from Houston to New York City, when a dog in a TSA-compliant pet carrier died after a flight attendant allegedly forced its owner to store the animal and its carrier in an overhead bin for the duration of the four-hour Monday flight.

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Ohio residents mourn loss of 'Kangaroo Crossing' sign

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March 13 (UPI) -- Residents of an Ohio neighborhood are lamenting the end of an era after city officials removed a "Kangaroo Crossing" street sign that had stood for years.

The sign, a silhouette of a kangaroo on a yellow diamond-shaped road sign, had been a local mystery for years after it was erected in 2014 at the side of a road in the Clintonville neighborhood in Columbus, and the saga came to a close Monday when the city Department of Public Service had it removed.

"It's my understanding that this did not have a permit or any sort of agreement to have in the right-of-way, and it was removed after the city was made aware of it. From the city's perspective, it was an unregulated sign," city spokesman Jeffrey Ortega told WOSU-FM.

The sign came to the attention of the city after a WOSU reporter contacted officials following an inquiry by former resident Ann Miller-Tobin about the sign's origins.

"You know the saying, 'Curiosity killed the cat?' Well, my curiosity killed the kangaroo," Miller-Tobin said.

Residents expressed their disappointment at the sign's demise on a Clintonville Facebook group, and resident Scott Hammond started a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for a replacement sign. Miller-Tobin pitched in $20 with an apology for her part in the sign's demise.

The taking down of the sign had one unexpected side effect -- neighbor Jared Laughbaum, 37, came forward as the person who put the sign up in 2014. He said he put up the sign as a joke to replace a construction sign that had been left up long after the project was completed.

Laughbaum said he never expected the sign to remain as long as it did, assuming the city would remove it within days.

"I never expected it would become a landmark of Clintonville," he told the Columbus Dispatch, "but it's something everyone seemed to enjoy."

Laughbaum said he is going to attempt to claim the sign from the city and see if it can be displayed at a nearby school.

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March 13 (UPI) -- Residents of an Ohio neighborhood are lamenting the end of an era after city officials removed a "Kangaroo Crossing" street sign that had stood for years.

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Muslim teen watched jihadi videos, read Koran for 'courage' before Florida sleepover stabbings.

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A Florida teenager -- who had previously been investigated for "alleged violent tendencies" -- watched jihadist videos and read the Koran "to give him courage" before stabbing a 13-year-old boy to death and seriously injuring two others at a birthday sleepover Monday, cops said.

Corey Johnson, 17, was charged with first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder after police said he confessed to the assault at the 13th birthday sleepover party at a BallenIsles Country Club home, the Palm Beach Post reported.

Jupiter Police, Palm Beach County School District police and the FBI previously received "intelligence gathering" on Johnson that prompted an investigation into his "alleged violent tendencies," the Palm Beach Post reported. It's unclear what happened in those investigations.

Johnson reportedly told police he woke up at 4 a.m. Monday at Kyle Bancroft's home and had an urge to kill Kyle's mother, Elaine Simon; Kyle's brother, 13-year-old Dane Bancroft; and Dane's friend, 13-year-old Jovanni Sierra. The three victims were each asleep at the time, the Post reported.

"In his statement, Johnson advised he stabbed the victims because of his Muslim faith," the affidavit stated.

Johnson and Kyle Bancroft allegedly watched violent jihadist videos the night before the 17-year-old carried out the deadly stabbing. Using a knife he brought to the home, Johnson stabbed Sierra multiple times before slitting his throat.

Simon, apparently hearing Sierra moaning in pain, began walking upstairs around 6 a.m. when Johnson allegedly lunged at her. Police say he stabbed her at least a dozen times before she fell down the stairs. Dane was stabbed 32 times while attempting to help his mother, according to the Palm Beach Post.

"He's a hero," the boy's father said during a phone interview with the Post. "He saved his mom."

Sierra was pronounced dead at the scene. Simon and Dane were taken to the hospital, where Simon remains in good condition as of Tuesday.

Kyle Bancroft and Johnson were not harmed in the incident.

Police were alerted after Simon ran to a neighbor begging to call 911.

"She rang my bell she's bleeding," the neighbor said later. "Corey Johnson is out there with a knife. He's a murderer. That's all I know. They're trying to help the kid the kids filled with blood."

Johnson was taken into custody about 8 a.m. after briefly barricading himself in a room.

He later told authorities he was upset Sierra, who turned 13 on Monday, called celebrities "gods" because it went against his Muslim faith. Johnson also said Dane made fun of his Islamic faith.

The teen told police he read the Koran before going to the sleepover "to give him courage to carry out his intentions," according to an affidavit.

Johnson went to William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, but recently withdrew, according to the report. Dane Bancroft and Jovanni Sierra were attending Watson B. Duncan Middle School.

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

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A Florida teenager -- who had previously been investigated for alleged violent tendencies -- watched jihadist videos and read the Koran to give him courage before stabbing a 13-year-old boy to death and seriously injuring two others at a birthday sleepover Monday, cops said.

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Stephen Hawking dies

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Stephen Hawking, science’s brightest star, dies aged 76

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The physicist and author of A Brief History of Time has died at his home in Cambridge. His children said: ‘We will miss him for ever’

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Paul Manafort faces 305 years

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A California teacher is believed to have accidentally fired his weapon in a classroom today.

Seaside police officers were summoned to Seaside High School Tuesday after the teacher, who was teaching a public safety class, discharged the weapon, police said in a statement.

Officials said one student was injured either by a bullet fragment or ceiling debris and transported to a local hospital by his parent for treatment. No one was seriously injured.

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The teacher involved was identified by police as Dennis Alexander, who is a reserve police officer for the City of Sand City as well.

The incident is under investigation.

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Drug deaths rose 8.370% in some US counties over 34 years

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More than half a million people lost their lives to "drug use disorders" in this period, the study says. Although the rates of death varied widely, with increases between 8.2% and 8,369.7%, drug deaths were up in nearly every single county in the United States.

Boone County, West Virginia was the county with the largest increase, 8369.7%, in deaths due to drug overdose followed by Wyoming County, West Virginia which saw a rise of 6973.1%. In addition to West Virginia, many of the regions that saw the biggest jumps are familiar from stories about the nation's raging opioid epidemic. Counties in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and eastern Oklahoma saw the greatest increases in drug deaths: more than a 5,000% increase.

"This study is the first to consider alcohol and drug use disorders, apart from other types of unintentional poisonings and distinct from intentional overdoses, at the county level in the United States," the researchers explained in the study.

"It is important to show the local burden of these diseases so health officials and others can better plan programs and interventions in their own communities," said study co-author Ali Mokdad, a professor of global health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

The researchers created small-area estimation models to help interpret death records from the National Center for Health Statistics and population data from the center, the US Census Bureau and the Human Mortality Database to estimate the county-level mortaility rates.

In this time period, more than 1.28 million Americans died of self-harm. Most counties nationwide also saw increases in the suicide rate, with those in the West seeing the most, but deaths overall decreased 6%.

Nationally, there were 256,432 deaths from alcohol-use disorders during this time period, a decrease of 8.1%. The National Institutes of Health defines those disorders as "a chronic relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive alcohol use, loss of control over alcohol intake, and a negative emotional state when not using."

There were some counties with higher than average increases of deaths in Wisconsin, South and North Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Alaska. Alcoholdeaths were down in counties in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Georgia.

Although more than 760,749 people died between 1980 and 2014 due to interpersonal violence, meaning domestic violence or abuse, those deaths decreased nationally by 34.6% between 1980 and 2000. Between 2000 and 2014, the country saw an overall decrease of 44.9%. At the county level, the Midwest and Atlantic states still had problem areas, especially along the southern half of the Mississippi River and in Alabama.

"This is a really important paper because it debunks a popular argument," said Dr. Andrew Kolodny, executive director of Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing, who was not involved in the study.

That argument, he said, is that deaths from drugs are not unique and are "deaths of despair" rather than deaths of addiction. This would mean opioids aren't to blame for the soaring death rates; rather, it's the shrinking middle class and downward economic mobility that is killing people.

"If this was a 'deaths of despair' phenomenon, you would likely see alcohol deaths and suicides and all these factors rising together in the same areas," Kolodny said. "But this paper debunks that. There are geographic differences, and the rates of deaths didn't all go up together."

Alcohol-related deaths, for instance, are down in Appalachia, where the study found the biggest increases in drug deaths, he said. "This paper shows that opioids are really part of the overall problem," Kolodny said. "People are drugging themselves to death because this is an epidemic of addiction."

In October, President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a public health emergency. He vowed that "we can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic."

His Commission on Combating Drug Addiction issued a report in the fall that offered more than 50 suggestions on how to end the crisis, including expanding treatment, increasing drug courts and doctor education about prescribing addictive pain pills.

Critics called out the commission for doing nothing. Among commission member and Democratic Rep. Patrick Kennedy, who said that the Republican-led Congress had turned the work of the commission into a "charade" and a "sham," in part because there was no new funding made available when these recommendations were made.

In February, an additional $6 billion was added to the budget deal to fight the crisis, but treatment advocates voiced concerns that it isn't enough and won't be spent wisely. County-level data like these may help lawmakers better target problem areas, experts say.

"In our previous work, we showed that many factors drive health outcomes such as access to and quality of health care, risk factors and socioeconomic factors," Mokdad said. "Understanding the drivers of drug use from education, income or mental factors is crucial to best develop and implement programs or policies to address the epidemic. Our data provides such an opportunity for our country to do so."

Trump shared some of his ideas for combating the epidemic this month during a meeting to discuss the opioid epidemic, talking about the "drug dealers and drug pushers" who are "really doing damage."

"Some countries have a very, very tough penalty. The ultimate penalty. And by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do. So we're going to have to be very strong on penalties," Trump said.

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Drug deaths rose 8,370% in some US counties over 34 years

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More than half a million people lost their lives to "drug use disorders" in this period, the study says. Although the rates of death varied widely, with increases between 8.2% and 8,369.7%, drug deaths were up in nearly every single county in the United States.

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Stephen Hawking passes away at 76

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Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, dies at 76

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Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died.

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ford recalling cars saying steering wheels will fall off

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Ford announced on Wednesday that it is recalling nearly 1.4 million midsize cars in North America because their steering wheels can detach and drivers could lose control.

The recall affects certain Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ car models from 2014 through 2018.

Ford said steering wheel bolts can loosen over time and acknowledged two crashes and one injury. A majority of the cars being recalled are in the U.S., with fewer than a 100,000 cars being recalled in Canada and Mexico.

Ford said dealers will replace the bolts with longer ones and install a nylon patch to stop them from coming loose.

A Ford spokesman did not immediately return FOX Business' request for additional comment.

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Ford recalls nearly 1.4M cars, says steering wheels can detach

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Ford announced on Wednesday that it is recalling nearly 1.4 million midsize cars in North America because their steering wheels can detach and drivers could lose control. The recall affects certain Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ car models from 2014 through 2018. Ford said steering wheel bolts can loosen over time and acknowledged two crashes and one injury.

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Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, dies at 76

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Stephen Hawking, renowned scientist, dies at 76

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Stephen Hawking, the brilliant British theoretical physicist who overcame a debilitating disease to publish wildly popular books probing the mysteries of the universe, has died.

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United Airlines is in trouble again, as this time they basically killed a French bulldog. A United flight attendant forced a passenger to store her bag with a dog in it in the overhead bins. Sadly the dog suffocated and died during the flight, it whined the whole time but people assumed it was just sad. The attendant claims she didn't know it was a dog. The family is doing okay now and hopes that the airline learns from this.

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A grieving family is speaking out after, they say, a United Airlines flight attendant forced them to put their dog in an overhead bin, where he died in flight. The 10-month-old French bulldog was kept there for the entire three-and-a-half hour trip from Houston to New York Monday. The airline has apologized.

United Airlines issued a statement accepting full responsibility for the incident, which it says is under investigation. Still, many are wondering how an experienced flight attendant could let this happen, reports CBS News' Kris Van Cleave.

"He was a really special dog. It's just sad the way he has to, just leave," said 11-year-old Sophia Ceballos. For Sophia and her mother, Catalina Robledo, Kokito was part of the family,

Robledo put the dog in a carrier but struggled to put Kokito's carrier under the seat in front of her. The family says a flight attendant insisted it go in the overhead bin.

"'It's a dog, it's a dog.' He can't breathe up there.' And she said, 'It doesn't matter, it still goes up there.... She felt the dog and she put him up there," Sophia recalled.

The family says they heard Kokito barking for two hours, then he stopped.

They wanted to check on him but couldn't.

"We tried, but there was a lot of turbulence. And we weren't allowed to stand up," Sophia said.

When the flight was over, they found Kokito had died.

A fellow passenger posted a photo of the dog, saying, "My heart broke with theirs as I realized he was gone."

"My mom was crying, she was just screaming, she was looking at him," Sophia said.

In a statement United says: "This was a tragic accident that should never have occurred, as pets should never be placed in the overhead bin. We... Express our deepest condolences."

Retired airline captain Denny Kelly says the pitch black overhead bin is dangerous for any live animal.

"There is no circulation at all in there," Kelly said. "They're scared, their heart rate goes up and they use more oxygen. And there's not enough oxygen in the first place, that just makes it worse."

Kokito's owners hope others learn from this death. The family says the flight attendant claimed afterward that she didn't know there was a dog inside the bag. She's been described as distraught.

The American Kennel Club says a French bulldog's short face can make its breathing less efficient. They stress easily, increasing their need to breathe.

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Owners of dog that died mid-flight in overhead bin speak out

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A grieving family is speaking out after, they say, a United Airlines flight attendant forced them to put their dog in an overhead bin, where he died in flight. The 10-month-old French bulldog was kept there for the entire three-and-a-half hour trip from Houston to New York Monday. The airline has apologized.