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A nurse can now mark labor and delivery experience down on her resume after she delivered her own baby in her car outside of the hospital that she works in. The saga began when Katie Michael and her husband, George, got stuck in traffic on their way to Pinnacle Health in Harrisburg, Pa., on Friday

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A nurse can now mark labor and delivery experience down on her resume after she delivered her own baby in her car outside of the hospital that she works in. The saga began when Katie Michael and her husband, George, got stuck in traffic on their way to Pinnacle Health in Harrisburg, Pa., on Friday, Fox 43 reported.

"It was about 25-30 minutes after my water broke that she decided she wanted to be here," Katie Michael told the news outlet. "I knew she was going to be born in the car because she started coming out."

Sure enough baby Ella Katherine couldn't wait for her parents to get situated, and made her entrance at 5:25 p.m., as dad George was frantically searching for help inside the hospital.
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"I didn't know what was actually happening," George told Fox 43. "Usually, you have a baby in a hospital, not in the car."

Ella was born weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces and both she and Katie are doing well.

"I do a lot of the units in the hospital but L&D (labor and deliver) is not one of them. We're joking that I can add L&D now because I was my own L&D nurse," Katie said.

In addition to Katie and George, Ella joins an older brother.

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A nurse can now mark labor and delivery experience down on her resume after she delivered her own baby in her car outside of the hospital that she works in. The saga began when Katie Michael and her husband, George, got stuck in traffic on their way to Pinnacle Health in Harrisburg, Pa., on Friday, Fox 43 reported.

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A woman in Alabama climbed out of a person's trunk at a gas station and ran away. Police say she was kidnapped on Halloween and managed to escape the car, running into the gas station for help. The suspect noticed her enter and fled, but was later caught and put in jail.

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Police say an Alabama woman was kidnapped from her home, but managed to escape her alleged captor when he made a stop at a gas station.

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A man charged with fatally stabbing and shooting a popular Ohio middle school teacher was engaged to her daughter and a pallbearer at her funeral, officials said Tuesday.

Jeffrey Scullin Jr., 20, was charged with aggravated murder and is being held at the Cuyahoga County Jail on $1 million bond, FOX 8 reported.

Scullin had been living in the home where 49-year-old Melinda Pleskovic was found dead on Oct. 24 with stab wounds to her back, according to Strongsville Police Chief Mark Fender. A medical examiner said she died of "gunshot wounds and sharp force injuries."

Scullin and the victim's daughter were supposed to be married last Saturday, four days after the killing, according to an online registry.

Officials have so far not given a possible motive in the killing, but released 911 calls Tuesday made by Scullin and the victim's husband after her body was discovered.

"Mel Pleskovic was attacked," Scullin told a dispatcher in the call obtained by FOX 8, who then asked if the 20-year-old knew who the attacker was. "No. We just came home. She's on the kitchen floor."

The victim's husband told 911 dispatchers after finding Pleskovic's body that people had been trying to break into their home "all year."

"I just got in the door with my new son-in-law," Bruce Pleskovic told a dispatcher.

Just days before, police investigated a report that an unknown man tried to enter the home by forcing open the back door.

Records obtained by the Associated Press show police investigated a report of a theft from a car in January, and they went to the house again in July to investigate a suspicious person.

Officers also were called in September when Melinda Pleskovic told officers a set of car keys was missing, and that she kept finding her car unlocked and the alarm kept going off.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A man charged with fatally stabbing and shooting a popular Ohio middle school teacher was engaged to her daughter and a pallbearer at her funeral, officials said Tuesday. Jeffrey Scullin Jr., 20, was charged with aggravated murder and is being held at the Cuyahoga County Jail on $1 million bond, FOX 8 reported.

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A new type of "traversable" wormhole allows information to be passed between black holes.

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South Korea's spy agency predicts Pyongyang is preparing to carry out additional nuclear tests, after noting "active movement" of vehicles around a missile research institute in Pyongyang.

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A report based on South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) information which has been seen by CNN also said Pyongyang will continue to "push for the development of miniaturized, diversified nuclear warheads."

The report was co-written by Rep. Kim Byung-kee and other members of South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee after a closed-door briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Thursday.

"Tunnel 3 (at the Punggye-ri test site) is ready to carry out a nuclear test at any time," the report notes.

North Korea last claimed to have successfully conducted a test of a hydrogen bomb in early September -- the country's sixth nuclear test. That explosion created a magnitude-6.3 tremor, making it the most powerful weapon Pyongyang has ever tested.

On Thursday, the regime dismissed regional press reports that one tunnel at the underground nuclear test site collapsed after Pyongyang's sixth missile test in September, killing hundreds of North Korean workers.

A report from state news agency KCNA accused Japan of circulating "fake news" after its TV Asahi carried a report, citing an unnamed North Korean official claiming up to 200 people were killed in a tunnel collapse.

In addition to a potential future nuclear test, North Korea is working on an advanced version of its existing KN-20 intercontinental ballistic missile that could potentially reach the United States, less than six months after it launched its first ICBM,a US official told CNN.

Additional improvements are underway to North Korea's nuclear fuel, missile launchers, guidance and targeting systems as well, officials say. All of this comes as President Donald Trump is about to travel to Asia, where North Korea's weapons will be a major topic of discussion.

Last month, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis said Washington "does not accept a nuclear North Korea" and said "any use of nuclear weapons by the North will be met with a massive military response, effective and overwhelming."

CNN's Barbara Starr, Joshua Berlinger, Brad Lendon and James Griffiths contributed to this report

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A report based on South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) information which has been seen by CNN also said Pyongyang will continue to "push for the development of miniaturized, diversified nuclear warheads." The report was co-written by Rep. Kim Byung-kee and other members of South Korea's parliamentary intelligence committee after a closed-door briefing by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Thursday.

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Action star Chuck Norris is suing a medical manufacturing company because he believes that a chemical injected to improve the quality of scans has poisoned his wife.

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Action star Chuck Norris took on medical device manufacturers in a lawsuit filed in California on Wednesday alleging a chemical used in MRI imaging scans poisoned his wife.

Gadolinium that doctors injected into Gena Norris to improve the clarity of her MRIs have left her weak and tired and with debilitating bouts of pain and a burning sensation, the suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court says.

Gadolinium is a metal found in so-called contrast agents used in many MRIs. Studies have shown it is retained by organs such as the brain, bones and skin. The American College of Radiology said in a statement last year that gadolinium-based contrast agents have been used for diagnosis and treatment guidance in more than 300 million patients worldwide since the late 1980s and provide "crucial, life-saving medical information."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in May it found no evidence that retained gadolinium was harmful. A European Union agency reached the same conclusion in July but still recommended suspending some gadolinium contrast agents as a precaution.

The law firm representing the Norris', Cutter Law, has filed numerous lawsuits in recent weeks on behalf of people who it also says are suffering from gadolinium poisoning.

The Norris' lawsuit acknowledges no official, publicly stated link between gadolinium and symptoms reported by people who believe the metal has affected their health. But that's in part because blood and urine testing for gadolinium only became available recently and most doctors were not aware of any disease that was associated with gadolinium other than one that affects people with kidney problems, the lawsuit said.

"One of the problems is this is a very misdiagnosed and underdiagnosed condition," said Todd Walburg, an attorney for the Norris'.

The lawsuit accuses several manufacturers of gadolinium contrast agents of knowing about their risks, but failing to warn consumers. It seeks more than $10 million in damages, saying the Norris' have had to spend millions of dollars on treatment for Gena Norris.

Chuck Norris starred in the TV series, "Walker, Texas Ranger."

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Action star Chuck Norris took on medical device manufacturers in a lawsuit filed in California on Wednesday alleging a chemical used in MRI imaging scans poisoned his wife. Gadolinium that doctors injected into Gena Norris to improve the clarity of her MRIs have left her weak and tired and with debilitating bouts of pain and a burning sensation, the suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court says.

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Church maintenance man charged with arson. attempting to cover for himself.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Authorities have arrested a person suspected in the burglary and an arson at a Kansas City church. While Fox 4 is not naming him because he has not been charged, police say he is a 48-year old man who may have also been a disgruntled employee at the church.

Sunday morning, the congregation at Concord Fortress of Hope in south Kansas City found graffiti covering the east side of their church when they came to Sunday services. That graffiti included racial slurs. Inside, the church was burglarized and someone lit a chair on fire.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) is investigating the church fire. ATF spokesman John Ham said it was a small fire, but any fire in a house of worship is significant.

"Churches are sort of the cornerstone of our community," he said, "and when someone attacks the church, they attack that whole community."

Ham then addressed the graffiti, that appeared to include some poorly-drawn swastikas, several letter "K"s, and the phrase "You next, n--.".

"It's hurtful to this congregation; it's hurtful to the community, and it needs to be part of this investigation, obviously," he said.

The church is near 107th and Longview Road, near the Ruskin Heights neighborhood. Its location, coupled with the time this happened, means it can be difficult to find witnesses.

Ham noted, "It's sort of a remote area; it's kind of tucked back, out of the way. So if you happened to be out this way and you happened so see someone out here in the wee hours of the morning, or late last (Saturday) night, they were probably not supposed to be here."

There is a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. Tips can be called in to either 1-888-ATF-FIRE or (816) 474-TIPS.

Ham also noted there is surveillance video from inside the church, but that hasn't been released yet.

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Authorities have arrested a person suspected in the burglary and an arson at a Kansas City church. While Fox 4 is not naming him because he has not been charged, police say he is a 48-year old man who may have also been a disgruntled employee at the church.

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Tesla gets sued over Model 3 because it has taken too long to produce. Tesla in the past have had problems meeting deadlines. The company claimed that "a handful" of assembly lines had taken "longer to activate than expected."

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk warned company employees that ramping up production of the Model 3 would be put them in "production hell.' He didn't mention there would be lawyers.

But the bottlenecks and delays getting the new assembly lines up and running have prompted at least one shareholder lawsuit alleging that Tesla and Musk improperly hid its problems from its investors.

And six other law firms have issued statements recently seeking investors to be plaintiffs in planned class action suits against the electric car maker.

Tesla said on Oct. 2 that it could only build 260 of its Model 3 cars during the third quarter, rather than the 1,500 it had forecast to investors earlier in the year. The company claimed that "a handful" of assembly lines had taken "longer to activate than expected."

Related: Tesla factory at center of discrimination lawsuits

On Oct. 6 the Wall Street Journal did a story, quoting unnamed sources within the company, saying that the problem was that major portions of the new cars were still being built by hand rather than on automated assembly lines.

Shares of Tesla lost 4% the next trading day, and have lost an additional 6% since then. At that time, Tesla issued a statement disputing that article, saying that every Model 3 is being built on an automated assembly line.

"However, every vehicle manufacturing line in the world has both manual and automated processes," said the company's Tuesday statement. "As we've always acknowledged, it will take time to fine-tune the line for higher volumes."

The company said it is confident it can correct bottlenecks soon, and that it laid out potential short-term problems for investors back in July when it unveiled the first Model 3.

"There's a reason it's called production hell," said its statement.

Related: Tesla's Model 3 gets early boost from Consumer Reports

Tesla reports full third quarter financial results on Wednesday after the market close, and might provide new Model 3 production targets for the rest of the year.

The shareholder suit filed on Oct. 10, which seeks class action status, cites the Journal report in addition the company's own production number. Five of the press releases from other attorneys seeking investors to join their suits also cite the Journal's report.

Tesla did not comment on any of the shareholder suit efforts that have been announced. They aren't the only legal challenges the company now faces.

Tesla has been hit with four lawsuits in recent months from workers alleging racial, LGBT and gender discrimination at its plant in Fremont, California. Tesla has told CNNMoney that it takes all complaints seriously, but, "in the history of Tesla, there has never been a single proven case of discrimination against the company. Not one."
The United Auto Workers union has also filed an unfair labor practice complaint with federal labor authorities alleging that employees were fired for supporting unionization efforts at its assembly plant, a charge Tesla also denies.

CNNMoney (New York) First published October 31, 2017: 1:15 PM ET

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But the bottlenecks and delays getting the new assembly lines up and running have prompted at least one shareholder lawsuit alleging that Tesla and Musk improperly hid its problems from its investors. And six other law firms have issued statements recently seeking investors to be plaintiffs in planned class action suits against the electric car maker.

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Police arrest man suspected of opening fire, killing 3 people at Colorado Walmart

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THORNTON, Colo. -- A man nonchalantly walked into a Walmart and immediately opened fire with a handgun, killing two men and a woman before fleeing in a car on Wednesday night, according to Colorado authorities.

The shooting appears random and there are no indications that it was an act of terror, said Thornton police spokesman Victor Avila.

"This is a very heinous act," Avila said. "We don't know exactly what the motive of the person was, but it was certainly a terrible act."

Two men died inside the Walmart, which is about 10 miles (16 kilometers) north of Denver in a busy shopping center. The woman died later at a hospital. Authorities did not immediately release any other information about the victims.

Police released a picture of the suspect and asked for the public's help. They say he left in a red four-door Mitsubishi. Thornton, Colo., is about 9 ½ hours west of Kansas City, with a straight path across I-70.

Then, at about 9:15 a.m., police said they arrested the suspect: Scott Ostrem, 47.

Aaron Stephens, 44, was in the self-checkout line when he heard a single shot followed by two more bursts of gunfire before people started running for the exits.

"The employees started screaming. Customers were screaming. They were running like crazy, and I ran out too because I didn't want to get killed," he said.

Guadalupe Perez was inside the store with her young son when she heard what she thought was a balloon popping. A Walmart employee told her someone was shooting, and then Perez saw people running away yelling, "Let's go. Let's go. Leave the groceries."

"You see all these things in the news and you go through it, it's scary," she said. "But thank God we're OK and nothing happened to us."

Investigators, including special agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, were reviewing security video and interviewing witnesses to identify the suspect. Avila said police don't yet know how many rounds were fired.

Ragan Dickens, a Walmart spokesman, said the company is working with investigators and declined further comment.

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THORNTON, Colo. -- A man nonchalantly walked into a Walmart and immediately opened fire with a handgun, killing two men and a woman before fleeing in a car on Wednesday night, according to Colorado authorities. The shooting appears random and there are no indications that it was an act of terror, said Thornton police spokesman Victor Avila.

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A 70-year-old man attacked his 76-year-old wife with the blunt side of an ax, then killed himself using a chainsaw. He barricaded himself and his wife into their house at around 3:30 pm. After the assault, a family member was able to get to the victim and the two were taken to the hospital. The wife sustained non-life-threatening wounds, while the man died shortly after due to the chainsaw wounds.

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A Virginia man who assaulted his wife with a hatchet during a domestic dispute killed himself with a chainsaw, police said.

Fairfax County police said it received a report of an assault with a weapon around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at a home in Springfield after a family member allegedly arrived at the home and saw a 70-year-old man striking his 76-year-old wife with the blunt side of hatchet.

"The family member was able to rescue the victim, bring her outside," Fairfax County Police Officer Reem Awad told Fox 5 DC. "At which point, the male suspect did follow outside and a struggle ensued over the ax. 911 was called at that point and we responded."
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The man reportedly barricaded himself inside the home.

"One officer was able to see inside the garage where the suspect was located on the floor," Awad said. "He appeared to have life-threatening injuries to the upper body. He has since died from those injuries. They appear to be caused by a chainsaw."

Police said the man was pronounced dead at the hospital. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

The incident is under investigation.

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"When you have a voice, you can't just use it any kind of way, you know?" she said at the Obama Foundation's inaugural youth leadership summit in Chicago. The former first lady said that twitter is powerful and should be used correctly.

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During a conversation with the poet Elizabeth Alexander, Obama offered young people some simple advice on tweeting: Think before you hit send and use spell check.

"When you have a voice, you can't just use it any kind of way, you know?" she said at the Obama Foundation's inaugural youth leadership summit in Chicago. "You don't just say what's on your mind. You don't tweet every thought. Most of your first initial thoughts are not worthy of the light of day."

As the audience laughed, Obama clarified that she was not "talking about anybody in particular, I'm talking about all of us."

Obama described Twitter as a "powerful weapon that we just hand over to little kids."

"A 10-year-old, 'Here you go. Tell it like it is,'" she said. "No you don't. You need to think and spell it right and have good grammar."

Obama's comments were significantly more unbridled than those she made during her family's eight years in the White House. The conversation with Alexander, a poet who has known the Obama family for several decades, was free-wheeling and included notes on art, how Obama found her own voice and on sexual harassment.

"When we think about women in particular we ask them to speak up. We ask them to speak their mind. We ask them to just say no, to speak out against sexual harassment," Obama said. "But if we don't teach our young girls to speak at an early age, that doesn't just happen. It takes practice to have a voice. You have to use it again, and again, and again before you can say 'no.' Or 'stop.' 'Don't touch me.'"

Obama's comments come as several of the nation's high-profile industries, including media and entertainment, have been rocked by allegations of sexual harassment and assault.

She also made a number of observations about parenting and gender, and the differences between raising boys and girls.

Obama said that a lot of her focus as a mother had been thinking about how to make sure her two daughters were "sturdy" and "able to exist...in a world that is dangerous to women."

"The problem is we love our boys and we raise our girls, you know? We raise them to be strong and sometimes we take care not to hurt men, I think we pay for that a little bit" she said. "It's powerful to have strong men, but what does that strength mean, you know? Does it mean respect? Does it mean responsibility? Does it mean compassion? Or are we protecting our men too much so they feel a little entitled, you know, a little self righteous sometimes?"

She also discussed how integral her "girlfriends" were to keeping her grounded, and said that men needed to "talk to each other" more.

"Y'all should get you some friends," she said as she laughed, addressing the men in the audience. "Y'all need to go talk to each other about your stuff because there's so much of it! Talk about why y'all are the way you are."

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During a conversation with the poet Elizabeth Alexander, Obama offered young people some simple advice on tweeting: Think before you hit send and use spell check. "When you have a voice, you can't just use it any kind of way, you know?" she said at the Obama Foundation's inaugural youth leadership summit in Chicago.

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Scott Ostrem shot 3 people in a Colorado Walmart. The police took him into Thursday morning but police still dont know why he opened fire killing 3 people in the process. The police believe the killings were at random and that no one was targeted.

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Last night the Houston Astros defeated the LA Dodgers by a score of 5-1. The Astros were led by George Springer who absolutely destroyed Yu Darvish and hit a dinger and double in the game.

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HOUSTON -- WITH SIX outs left before the Houston Astros won the first World Series in franchise history, an Ethiopian driver named Daniel drove me to a tattoo parlor west of downtown. He arrived in Houston the year after the Astros' last World Series appearance, landing at the airport without knowing a single person in the country. The first time he saw the freeways, he panicked, wondering why in the world he'd come to this frightening place to be a driver. Now he loves this city.

While we rode, he listened to the game on 790 AM. He didn't really understand what the announcers were saying.

"Do you know the rules?" I asked.

"I have no idea," he said, laughing. "I support them because our city is winning."

We listened to the final two innings and when the game ended, he pumped his fist.

"Wow," he said softly.

A few minutes later, I went inside to meet Herc Lopez at Electric Chair Tattoo. Inside, the postgame interviews were beginning on TV. Herc had just finished his deadline drawing session. When the game had begun, he started creating Astros tattoos, just in case, because he expected a rush in the next day or two, people getting inked to rep the city. All the baseball tattoos were going for the store minimum, $50 each, and he drew a sheet of 22 designs. Fans could choose the state of Texas with the Astros logo, or just the Astros logo, or one that says "'Stros B4 Hoes," or any of the 19 others.

"I hear other tattoo shops around town are doing the same thing," Herc said.

Charlie Ramirez, who works at Electric Chair and is also a mechanic for high level motorcycle racing teams, saw the new drawings on the front counter.

"Guess what tattoos we're doing tomorrow?" he said.

He tapped Herc's designs.

"All of these," Charlie said.

Everyone in the shop laughed.

"There are already people texting me," Herc said.

FOR THE PAST two days, in yet another example of how this is the best job in the world, I wandered around Houston during Games 6 and 7. You know, checked out what the city felt like one win from its first title since Hakeem Olajuwon two decades ago. On Tuesday, when the sun started to go down, I parked outside the D&W Lounge and went inside, entering through the side door near the patio. With the first pitch in just under an hour, I sat at what clearly had been a Wendy's table in a previous incarnation, when they had those sepia gilded-age style advertisements.

Three small televisions hung in the place. On a piece of plywood covering the pool table, the regulars set up two crock pots, communal food for tonight's game. The bar hunched low in the shadow of a coffee factory, with those bright white factory bulbs that look like a luxury condo building from far away. Two miles east was the former location of the sprawling Hughes Tool Company, created by Howard Hughes' father, which funded his son's lifetime of movie, airplane and casino shenanigans. At the old headquarters on Polk Street, the building now used by the state, the company's interlocking HT logo remains carved in the freezes. This was the core of Industrial Houston and the few remaining beer joints left from those salad days stay open late. In the dark room, the slightly surly bartender served cold Lone Star longnecks wrapped in half a paper towel torn from a roll.

When I walked in, the jukebox played some classic country song.

The next song was by Too Short.

The third was Garth Brooks. The people at the bar sang along: "The beeeer chaaaases ..."

The fourth song was "Like a G6."

That's Houston, where any detail can be both absolutely true and yet also so unrepresentative of the messy whole as to be a lie. It's the fourth largest city in America, but it's not a city at all, really, rather dozens of villages, an archipelago of cultures and classes and races and religions. There's Vietnamese Houston, with a monument to ARVN soldiers, like a statue of Robert E. Lee in a southern courthouse square, and Indian Houston, which has its own cricket ground. There's inner city Houston, which is suffering from a gang war that barely makes the local news, and the suburban Houston and cowboy Houston and hipster Houston and Chinese Houston.

There's the Houston where the men (and boys over 12) must wear a jacket to the River Oaks Country Club if they want get dinner in the Main Dining Room before the Astros game. Wind through that neighborhood, down Kirby Drive, and see the rows of huge homes, visible from the street because that's the point, each a feat of ego and personal ambition, nobody adhering to any mutually accepted architectural motif. There are vaguely Tudor homes and white modern homes, and Spanish mansions that look like the designer channeled Miami Beach, and big columned mansions whose roots lie in some sort of Tara plantation fantasy. The real money is a turn away; along the quiet and private Lazy Lane, big estates hidden behind walls of shrubs, backed up by covered fences, guard shacks and stone walls and gates.

The sixth song on the jukebox was "Hurt."

"Johnny Cash!" someone screamed.

"Everyone I know goes away in the end," someone else sang.

A few minutes later, the song was in Spanish, a Mexican ballad.

Two songs later, Dwight Yoakam sang "Purple Rain."

About the only thing these various Houstons have in common is a deep inferiority complex, fueled and fanned by people who come to town and rip the place after only seeing the soulless downtown and the traffic. It's an easy target, given the sprawl and cookie-cutter subdivisions and strip malls. The commercial blandness hides a wild, cool place. Like Cleveland, Houston loves T-Shirts about itself, and for the same reason: The designs will say loudly all the things Houstonians believe should be said by everyone. The shirts are brag, a poor man renting a fancy car for the weekend, or talking too loudly about a business deal in an airport. They're a window into the city's pride and insecurities.

One local T-shirt company is called FUHA.

That stands for, naturally: F--- You, Houston's Awesome.

The store is above a barber shop. A guy named Edgar cuts hair in the back, surrounded by his collection of vintage skateboard decks mounted on the wall and a black leather jacket autographed by the Ramones. He watches the Astros games in his garage with a cooler of beer or listens to them on the radio in his truck if he can't find the television station. On Tuesday, after a visit to him, I went upstairs to FUHA and bought a shirt that says: Houston & Space City & Hustletown & Clutch City & H-Town & Bayou City & Screwston. Houston is all those places, and many more I won't ever know about. There are people who live their entire lives on their own island of Houston, without ever really learning about the ones just a mile or two away. There is no single truth.

Tuesday night, the national anthem came through the D&W Lounge's television speakers.

Someone in the bar stood up.

"You're only supposed to stand up if you're at the game," a guy says.

"I'm taking a knee like everybody else," a woman says.

Someone sang along, out of tune but strong.

"What so proudly we hailed ..."

MOST PEOPLE SPEND the first few innings of both Games 6 and 7 stuck in the city's Medusa's head of traffic-choked freeways and interstates. It rained on Tuesday, which made the brake lights lose definition and become, through the windshield's overwhelmed wipers, a blurred sea of glowing red, like the deepest pit of hell. That sentence is only purple if you've never sat in Houston traffic, which is another of those rare, universally shared experience in the metro area. To paraphrase Liam Gallagher describing a hangover past age 40, it's like being kidnapped by the Taliban.

On Tuesday I left D&W in the top of the first and walked into a coffee shop in Little Saigon right as the Astros took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third. The café was one of a handful of similar spots along Bellaire Boulevard. The air felt hot and stifling inside, with little or no air conditioning. The waitresses wore the whisper of a costume, not just on Halloween but every day -- lingerie nurses on Tuesday night -- and during rare moments when bad pop music wasn't blaring, the only sound came from the off-key jangling video poker machines in the side room, where people poured money while catching glimpses of the World Series. The target audience seemed to be lonely men a long way from home.

The Astros played on the big television in the main room, which is usually reserved for big European soccer matches. That's what makes this World Series run subtly important here, even if it's difficult to notice and hard to define without sounding preachy. Astros mania is nothing like Cubs mania, or Red Sox mania, at least in terms of ubiquity or palpable energy. But it does pop up in every corner of the city. Not every person in Houston cares about the Astros, but some people in every part of Houston care, and that might be as significant as a wild and frothing Wrigleyville.

As I sat in the Vietnamese café, it was the top of the fifth inning of a game the team would go on to lose. The waitress brought me an iced coffee. This café felt just like ones I've been to in Vietnam, like a businessman picked it up and moved it, changing virtually nothing, from the glassware to the waterfall on the wall. On most days, there's not a single thing about the room that might indicate, even a little, that you were sitting in America, much less Houston. But tonight, some folks are wearing Astros gear and watching the team nurse a lead, 15 outs away from a title that they'd have to wait another day to chase.

A guy in front of me put his hands behind his head and leaned back.

Houston's sports franchises carry the power to briefly shrink together this comically sprawling city. This week, it's the Astros. One day in the future it might be the Texans or the Rockets. This has little to do with the games and much to do with that feeling of being disrespected.

Anything or anyone from Houston doing well is celebrated.

Three hours later, after watching the final out downtown, I went back to the D&W Lounge for a nightcap. The driver looked over his shoulder at me.

"Did we win?" Mohamad asked.

"No."

"So we play tomorrow?"

"Yes."

"What was the score?"

"3-1."

He paused and almost spat the next word.

"S---."

In the next three hours I'd watch an Elvis impersonator, in full costume, rip Reverend Hairspray himself, Houston megachurch prosperity gospel huckster Joel Osteen (The King's opinion, although, having read my Bible, I agree). Suzanne talked almost pornographically about her butcher's jalapeno sausage and deer summer sausage, sold out on North Shepherd Drive. Gabriel told me about cooking his mama a brisket and then washing his clothes for work. Mary, the bartender, told me about seeing Jerry Jeff Walker at Liberty Hall in 1973. The bar would play the Astros manager's postgame conference live and eventually a Tejano ballad about a girl who likes to dance. Gabriel wore an Astros hat. Suzanne wore an Astros jersey.

Everyone made plans for Game 7.

"We're gonna shine tomorrow," Mary said.

Bean tostados would be the pot luck set up on the pool table.

The fans drank beers and bitched about Joe Buck and John Smoltz, who they were convinced had it out for the Astros and Houston, just like everyone else.

"We don't get no respect," a man at the other end of the bar said.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

"The Rockets don't and the Texans don't," Suzanne said.

GAME DAY ARRIVED on Wednesday morning in a typically Houston fashion.

At first glance, you'd never know a title game was being played. The city got up and went to work. The local cricket club didn't even have a watch party to watch the Indian national team play that morning at 8:30 local time. Members have jobs and bosses who didn't much care about a sporting event. At La Familia Meat Market on the east side, people shopped for marinated chicken ($1.69 a pound). Nobody talked about anything really, moving up and down the aisles. Men played the two video poker machines in the corner. Nearby, someone had painted an anchor on a building, with the words, "Houston Por Vida."

I drove around for hours, from the east side's factories to the west side's Chinatown, hitting a lot of the neighborhoods inside the loop, traveling the entire six and a half miles of Asian businesses on Bellaire Boulevard from basically Eldridge Parkway to St. Agnes Academy's athletic complex. Only if you did something like that (and a native Houstonian would be much too smart to attempt it) did the city's desire to win Game 7 come into focus. If you paid attention, you'd notice the messages on marquees all over the city, in Third Ward liquor stores and Montrose hipster bars and on billboards, one of which said, "Show L.A. Real Star Power," with the Astros star logo on it. At Fu Fu Café, in an upscale Chinese mall, a few customers watched "Days of Our Lives" and ate soup dumplings. A waitress lamented the fact that nobody would want to eat with such a big game to watch.

"Tonight no business," she said. "People stay home."

The past week of World Series games has briefly transformed Houstonians from a group of disparate people chasing disparate dreams into something that resembled a tribe. Only a communal experience, which comes so easy to some cities and so hard to others, can shape a huge metropolis like Houston into something resembling a cohesive place. People in big, anonymous places are always hungry for that feeling. This week a woman showed me a picture on her phone of some friends who'd flown to Seattle to see the Texans and instead of going home decided to go to Los Angeles. They wore old Colt .45s hats.

"Are they baseball fans or Houston fans?" I asked her.

"They're Houston fans," she said.

On Richmond Avenue, at The Hat Store, which sells Stetsons and does custom jobs, too, a few customers came in and out. The owner, Gary Silver, worked behind the counter with a steam iron, flattening the brim of a hat. He did his work carefully but with a familiar confidence, born out of decades of repetition, precise like a Japanese sword maker. They've sold hats to George H.W. Bush, Dusty Hill from ZZ Top, Lyle Lovett and Astros legend Craig Biggio. Last season, Jon Lester, David Ross and some of the Cubs came in to shop.

"We've been at it for 102 years," Gary said.

On Wednesday his son, Matt, helped the English-speaking customers and a female clerk helped those speaking Spanish. Gary's grandfather started the American Hat Company in 1915 and he taught his son the trade, who taught Gary, who taught Matt. Father and son were both watching the game tonight. Standing around the counter, shaping hats, repairing old ones, monogramming new ones, they debated the Astros pitching strategy. Why remove Justin Verlander the night before?

"Go 'Stros!" Gary said as I left.

Around five in the afternoon, the sky threatening more rain and the temperature still high enough to make the air sticky, I walked over to Minute Maid Park. As they'd done every time the team played a postseason game out of town, the team was having a watch party, opening up the concessions and playing the game on the big video board and on every television in the place. As I got settled in the press box and the fans arrived, I noticed the stadium's stereo was playing Lyle Lovett. It seemed like the perfect anthem to Houston, his hometown, and the theme song about this Astros season: "No, you're not from Texas, you're not from Texas ... but Texas wants you anyway."

The game was about 90 minutes away -- the wait almost over.

These upcoming hours would be the best this baseball season would ever feel. The fever brought on by the World Series never lasts long, maybe a few more days. It'll break soon, the villages and their inhabitants returning to insular orbits. Sports success is the ultimate civic sugar rush, a short high and a quick, tumbling crash. People will soon forget the way they felt when the Astros won Game 7, and they'll forget the hidden and beautiful unintended consequence of that victory: All over the flawed and beautiful city of Houston, for 48 hours, people with little in common cared about the same thing.

FUHA.

BOTH THE TENSION and pride were palpable as Minute Maid Park filled with fans.

The team gave away vouchers and all of them were claimed. There were at least 15,000 people, with more coming in as the game played out. Fans packed the lower deck from halfway down the right field line to the bleachers in left. The club level seats were filled, and people packed into the concourse and tried to find an angle to get a glimpse of "El Grande," the stadiums' enormous screen.

Long before the first pitch, the fans chanted, "Beat L.A.!"

A vendor shouted out about cold beer.

Fans wore shirts from NASA, from the local MLS team, from a Saudi energy company. Jonathan Almeida pushed his 2-year-old son, Elijah, in a stroller. A woman wore a shirt memorializing her grandmother, Gloria Renteria, who died in March.

Chiras Bhata, who played high school baseball and now plays cricket, wore a cricket jersey that was in the Astros colors.

"Once in a lifetime," said his friend Viral Bhata, no relation.

There was a lot of nervous energy.

The risk of coming together and caring so much about something is that earnest desire makes a city vulnerable. Earlier in the day, I'd been talking to underground rapper Cal Wayne, who is a star in the Third Ward but mostly unknown outside the inner city. "Every team that goes to a big game gets nervous because they know how much the city needs reviving," he said. "Being an underdog is one thing but knowing people literally need motivating, each of our teams go up in a series only to blow the lead."

The stadium shook when the first run crossed the plate. When the second run scored, Hami Elahmad started giving high-fives to his friend Omar Raad, and to strangers.

Elahmad wore a Clutch City tank top.

"It was crazy here yesterday," he said over the noise, "but it's even crazier today."

There might not be another moment like this in Houston for a decade, maybe two, when not only does the city unite, but that unity manifests in something you could see, and smell, and most of all, hear. Minute Maid Park rocked and rolled Wednesday night, the crowd acting exactly like the game was being played in front of them. Hami and Omar could have watched at home, or in one of the endless bars showing the game around town, but like so many people who came to Minute Maid on Wednesday night, they felt compelled to be with people. No other city has ever had these consistently busy watch parties through an entire postseason, and I wondered if the sprawling and disconnected nature of Houston somehow fueled this desire to come together, to not just live in their little village, not during a time like this.

"It's one time we get to experience it together," Elahmad said.

He looked around, wearing his Houston T-shirt proudly. He and his friends took in the celebration, the Astros staked to a lead they wouldn't give up. The next three hours would be a coronation, a victory lap, and Elahmad would stand in the crook between the upper deck and foul pole and feel the same thing as everyone he could so. That's why he came here, for a communion.

"I want to do it with the city," he said.

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As the Astros won their first title in L.A., their city was watching and celebrating back home. In every corner of Houston, in each of its disparate neighborhoods, one thing was true: This team represented this city, and everyone roots for this city.

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Nurse delivers own baby outside of hospital she works in. Pinnacle Health in Harrisburg, Pa.

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A nurse can now mark labor and delivery experience down on her resume after she delivered her own baby in her car outside of the hospital that she works in. The saga began when Katie Michael and her husband, George, got stuck in traffic on their way to Pinnacle Health in Harrisburg, Pa., on Friday, Fox 43 reported.

"It was about 25-30 minutes after my water broke that she decided she wanted to be here," Katie Michael told the news outlet. "I knew she was going to be born in the car because she started coming out."

Sure enough baby Ella Katherine couldn't wait for her parents to get situated, and made her entrance at 5:25 p.m., as dad George was frantically searching for help inside the hospital.
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"I didn't know what was actually happening," George told Fox 43. "Usually, you have a baby in a hospital, not in the car."

Ella was born weighing 7 pounds, 8 ounces and both she and Katie are doing well.

"I do a lot of the units in the hospital but L&D (labor and deliver) is not one of them. We're joking that I can add L&D now because I was my own L&D nurse," Katie said.

In addition to Katie and George, Ella joins an older brother.

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A nurse can now mark labor and delivery experience down on her resume after she delivered her own baby in her car outside of the hospital that she works in. The saga began when Katie Michael and her husband, George, got stuck in traffic on their way to Pinnacle Health in Harrisburg, Pa., on Friday, Fox 43 reported.

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THORNTON, Colo., Nov 2 (Reuters) - Police in Colorado on Thursday were searching for a gunman who calmly walked into a Walmart in suburban Denver and opened fire with a handgun, randomly shooting at shoppers and store clerks, killing three people, before he fled.

The suspect "nonchalantly" entered a Walmart in Thornton, Colorado, and opened fire a little after 6 p.m. local time on Wednesday and then walked out, got into a red four-door hatchback and drove away, Thornton Police Department spokesman Victor Aliva told reporters, citing witness accounts.

"What we have determined is that it is random as of right now," Aliva said. "As witnesses stated, the person came in and just shot towards a group."

Two men died at the scene of the shooting. A wounded woman was taken to a hospital where she died, he said.

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The shooter is a white man, who was wearing a black jacket, maroon shirt and blue jeans, Aliva said.

There was no indication that the shooting was an act of terrorism as no one has claimed responsibility, he said.

"We can't rule anything out," he said.

Thornton is city of about 120,000 people roughly 10 miles (16 km) northeast of downtown Denver.

A Walmart customer, Aaron Stephens, 44, of Thornton, told Reuters he was inside paying for groceries at a self-checkout stand when he heard gunshots and the sound of ricocheting bullets.

"The employees started screaming and the customers started screaming" as people began to flee the store, he recounted. "I ran out, too, because I didn't want to get shot."

Stephens said he did not see where the shooting had come from and did not see anyone struck by bullets.

Local NBC television affiliate 9NEWS reported that a woman whose son was in the Walmart had told her that he had heard about 30 gunshots and was still inside.

A video posted on Twitter showed the Walmart, which is in a large complex of big-box stores and other retail outlets adjacent to U.S. Interstate 25, apparently empty except for police officers with guns drawn.

(Additional reporting by Brendan O'Brien in Milwaukee; Editing by Nick Macfie)

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THORNTON, Colo., Nov 2 (Reuters) - Police in Colorado on Thursday were searching for a gunman who calmly walked into a Walmart in suburban Denver and opened fire with a handgun, randomly shooting at shoppers and store clerks, killing three people, before he fled.

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After the recent attack in NYC Trump has got people talking about the Visa lottery program and a merit based system

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There may be an important immigration debate to be had in the wake of what was undoubtedly a terrorist attack that killed eight people in Manhattan.

It did not get off to a good start yesterday.

Instead, hours after an Uzbek citizen allegedly used a truck to murder and injure pedestrians, there was sniping between President Trump and Chuck Schumer.

I took heat from plenty of liberals for saying, after the Las Vegas massacre, that Hillary Clinton and some Democrats might have waited one day before slamming the GOP on gun control (not that we shouldn't have a vigorous debate, as some said in distorting my comments).

Well, now I say the same thing on the other side. It was not helpful for President Trump to make this about New York's senior senator hours after the city was dealing with the casualties.

The president tweeted yesterday: "The terrorist came into our country through what is called the 'Diversity Visa Lottery Program,' a Chuck Schumer beauty. I want merit based. We are fighting hard for Merit Based immigration, no more Democrat Lottery Systems. We must get MUCH tougher (and smarter)."

So the fact that Sayfullo Saipov is an Uber driver who came in legally under that program seven years ago becomes Schumer's fault in the wake of the attack?

The Senate minority leader hit back in a statement: "President Trump, instead of politicizing and dividing America, which he always seems to do at times of national tragedy, should be focusing on the real solution - antiterrorism funding - which he proposed cutting in his most recent budget."

The merit-based program was passed in 1990 with bipartisan support and signed into law by George H.W. Bush. Schumer, then a House member, was one of numerous co-sponsors.

After the Las Vegas shooting, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that "today is a day for consoling of survivors and mourning those we lost," not debating gun control.

Again, there may be a strong case for ending or tightening the diversity program. I think we're all tired of people shouting "Allahu Akbar," as Saipov is said to have done, during acts of mass violence.

On the other hand, it's getting harder for law enforcement to detect people, as in Las Vegas and lower Manhattan, who have no previous criminal record.

The president also tweeted that "being politically correct is fine, but not for this!" The PC mentality can hinder anti-terrorism efforts, but it's not clear to me how it applies to this particular case.

When he spoke to reporters yesterday, Trump said he would move immediately to get rid of the diversity program but did not mention Schumer. He did say this, which we can all agree with:

"All of America is praying and grieving for the families who lost their precious loved ones. Horrible Act. Our hearts break for them and we pledge to renew our resolve in their memory."

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There may be an important immigration debate to be had in the wake of what was undoubtedly a terrorist attack that killed eight people in Manhattan. It did not get off to a good start yesterday. Instead, hours after an Uzbek citizen allegedly used a truck to murder and injure pedestrians, there was sniping between President Trump and Chuck Schumer.

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Trump states a average middle class family will revive 1100+ in tax cuts. Also Trump wants to add a fourth tax bracket at 12%, and the others will look like this Going to lower middle clash from 33% to 25%, and the higher class will be lower .4% to 35% and  the higher class will be put down to 39.6%. From 60% at its high.
12% 45k and lower and 25 will be at 200k and 35 will be at a rate of 500k and 500k+ is 39.6%.

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WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans on Thursday called for a range of changes to the U.S. tax code, including slashing the corporate tax rate and reducing the number of tax brackets for individuals, according to a summary document obtained by Reuters.

Largely in line with expectations for the tax-cut plan they have been developing for weeks, the House of Representatives tax committee proposed doubling the standard deduction for individuals and families, capping the deduction for state and local property taxes at $10,000 and maintaining the current tax treatment of 401(k) and IRA retirement pension plans.

The summary provided details for draft legislation that was expected to undergo further changes, with weeks and possibly months to go before any decisive action by Congress.

(Reporting by Susan Heavey and Susan Cornwell; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Nick Zieminski)

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WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans on Thursday called for a range of changes to the U.S. tax code, including slashing the corporate tax rate and reducing the number of tax brackets for individuals, according to a summary document obtained by Reuters.

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Middletown High School head football coach Lance Engleka resigned after the Middies' 1-9 season and said the decision was based on death threats he received online.

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Middletown High School head football coach Lance Engleka resigned after the Middies' 1-9 season and said the decision was based on death threats he received online.

On Wednesday, Scott Springer of the Cincinnati Enquirer passed along a portion of the resignation letter submitted by Engleka to the Middletown, Ohio, school following his 1-19 tenure that lasted two years:
"The online death threats, threats of physical violence, personal and deceitful attacks from parents and community members, and verbal abuse leveled against myself, my family, and my coaching staff have devolved into an unsafe environment which I refuse to tolerate. These threats of physical harm and verbal abuse stem from the misguided community perspective on the irrational importance on winning high school football games, unrealistic expectations from parents related to their son's abilities and future prospects, and parental belief that bullying coaches is an acceptable method of communication. I understand the high-profile nature and acceptable criticism associated with being the head football coach at Middletown High School, however, winning and losing at the high school level should not be a life-threatening situation."
Middletown superintendent Marlon Styles was surprised by the allegations made by Engleka, who remains on the high school staff as the Dean of Students.

"I was shocked to see what he had in the letter," he told Springer. "I was shocked from my chair as a superintendent. At every athletic competition that has taken place this fall season, whether that's football or any athletic program, I'm 100 percent confident in the leadership of Aaron Zupka and the athletic department that all practices and games for our visitors, players, coaches, parents and other teams were 100 percent safe."

Styles added the players "deserve a lot of praise for their commitment and hard work" and noted the district has started the process of finding a "high-quality coach that can inspire our kids."

Middletown earned its first victory under Engleka on Oct. 20, a 28-21 triumph over Oak Hills High School. It finished the campaign with a 48-0 loss to Fairfield High School last week, though.

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The Astros have won the 2017 World Series in 7 games it's their first Championship in 55 seasons in Houston. George Springer won World series Mvp after hitting 5 home runs in 7 games.

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The Houston Astros waited 55 years for a World Series championship. The wait is over.

Houston went on the road to earn a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Wednesday night's Game 7 at Dodger Stadium, concluding one of the most thrilling Fall Classics in history.
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Starting out in 1962 as the Houston Colt .45s, the Astros have spent nearly their entire existence out of playoff contention and made just one prior World Series appearance in 2005.

But behind a slow, youth-laden rebuild and timely moves for veteran pieces, the Astros emerged as a power capable of toppling the high-cost Dodgers.

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George Springer, Astros Hold Off Dodgers to Win 1st-Ever World Series Title

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Houston Astros Tyler Conway Alex Gallardo/Associated Press Twitter Logo Featured Columnist The Houston Astros waited 55 years for a World Series championship. The wait is over. Houston went on the road to earn a 5-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Wednesday night's Game 7 at Dodger Stadium, concluding one of the most thrilling Fall Classics in history.

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A California couple and their two daughters, who had been missing since Sunday, have been found after Brazilian pirates attacked their boat in the Amazon River delta area.

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(SAO PAULO) - A California couple and their two daughters who had been missing since Sunday when pirates attacked their boat in the Amazon River delta area have been found alive.

Except for insect bites and scratches, Adam and Emily Harteau and their 3- and 7-year-old daughters were in good condition and will spend the night in a hospital in the small city of Breves, not far from where they were found, law enforcement officials in Brazil's northern jungle state of Para said Wednesday.

The Harteaus were headed to Breves when gunmen boarded the boat they were on and forced it to go the city of Porto dos Dias, said Sergio Chene, a spokesman for Para's Public Safety Department.

The crew and passengers were held hostage for several hours and stripped of their personal belongings before the pirates fled, Chene said. When police arrived there was no sign of the Harteaus.

Police found the van the family had been using in their journey abandoned in the jungle.

It's unclear how the family escaped the assailants.

Colby Guillory, a Los Angeles resident acting as a family spokesman, said friends and relatives think the Harteaus decided to flee the boat to get away from the pirates and have been walking in the jungle since.

"Me knowing Adam, he probably took it upon himself to save his family," Guillory said. "We just know that sometime between pirates overtaking the boat and leaving the boat, (the Harteaus) went missing. We think they jumped."

When Guillory heard his good friends were safe he said he began "super excited ugly-crying."

"We just can't wait to have them home," he said.

Adam Harteau's brother, Keith Harteau, told The Associated Press earlier that the attack happened as the family was on its way to move back to California. They were set to arrive in Los Angeles on Nov. 15.

Keith Harteau said the couple wanted to be closer to home and for their girls to be near their family.

"It was their time to get a little bit of foundation," he said.

He said Emily Harteau grew up in Sacramento and Adam grew up in Juniper Hills in the San Gabriel Mountains just northeast of Los Angeles.

The Harteaus had recently been living in the southern Brazil city of Florianopolis. They have been using a website to document their journey around South America, which began in 2012 as a plan to travel to Patagonia in their Volkswagen van and return to California one year later.

But the Harteaus fell in love with South America and have been there since after they "decided to embrace a future unknown and the rewards of slow travel," according to their site, which says Adam is an artist and Emily a fashion designer.

They wanted their site to "serve as a modern family portrait, as they shed their robes of comfort to re-examine the American Dream."

"They hope to inspire others to create, eat well, spend quality time together, and adventure into their own great backyards," the site says.

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This Family Survived an Attack by Brazilian Pirates and Walked Through the Amazon to Safety

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Sharks are now protected no matter what water they swim in. 126 countries signed to have this happen.

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IT'S been a good week for beleaguered sharks. A cross-border conservation pact signed by 126 countries this week promises for the first time to extend extra protection to sharks and several other migratory species, whichever countries they stray into.

Among the biggest winners at the global Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS) were whale sharks: the world's largest fish. They are a vulnerable species and their population has been falling. Governments added whale sharks to appendix I of the convention, promising to protect them domestically from killing or capture, and to safeguard their habitats.

Conservationists welcomed the move because it means whale sharks will finally be protected at offshore "hotspots" to which they migrate, including Madagascar, Mozambique, Peru and Tanzania.

Several other sharks made it on to appendix II, which obliges countries within a species' migratory range to collaborate on measures to protect them, for example by regulating fishing or banning finning.

International cooperation

Conservationists particularly welcomed the new status for blue sharks. "They're the most highly fished sharks in the world, with 20 million caught around the world each year, but they're also the most migratory, so they're vulnerable to fisheries everywhere," says Matt Collis of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "This puts pressure on countries to commit to international protection."

Other sharks sharing in the same new protections included dusky sharks, angelsharks, white-spotted wedgefish and the bizarrely named common guitarfish.

As an additional bonus, Sri Lanka, Ecuador, Benin and Brazil joined the shark memorandum of understanding, an ad hoc agreement already signed by 41 countries to coordinate protection for sharks. Collis says the addition of Brazil is particularly significant, as it has a large part to play in protection of many species of shark.

On land, lions and leopards were placed on appendix II, again entitling them to coordinated protection across borders. Collis says that lack of cooperation has been a weakness of previous arrangements, allowing lion numbers in Africa to dwindle by 40 per cent over the past two decades to just 20,000 today.

Read more: Is positive thinking the way to save the planet?; Banning shark fin soup in the US is bad for shark conservation

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IT'S been a good week for beleaguered sharks. A cross-border conservation pact signed by 126 countries this week promises for the first time to extend extra protection to sharks and several other migratory species, whichever countries they stray into.