Starbucks Coffee Co. will bring its Mobile Order & Pay to 300 stores in the Toronto area on Oct. 13, the coffee brewing firm announced on Tuesday. Following successful launches in company-owned stores across the U.S., mobile ordering is emerging as the fastest and easiest way for Starbucks customers to order ahead, then pay and pick up their purchases – …
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Sabastian Prosa sentenced to five years in wrong-way crash that killed father, daughter
The man who killed two people and badly injured another person in a wrong-way crash back in 2012 has been sentenced to five years in prison. Sabastian Prosa was 19 at the time of the 2012 crash and was also banned from driving for eight years. He was found guilty of 12 charges, including impaired driving causing death, in June.
Read More »Flu shots lower risk of developing pneumonia; new study says
Getting a flu shot may protect you not only from flu, but also from pneumonia, the leading cause of flu-related hospitalizations and deaths, a new study suggests. Scientists took data from the Etiology of Pneumonia in the Community, or EPIC, a study conducted at academic medical centers in Chicago, Memphis, Nashville and Salt Lake City in collaboration with the Centers …
Read More »Audrey Carey: Quebec Woman found dead in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park
A 23-year old South Shore woman who was backpacking on the U.S. West Coast has been murdered. The body of Audrey Carey was discovered last weekend in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Carey’s death, which is being investigated as a homicide. The night before, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival hosted its first day of music further east in the …
Read More »Chloe Goins: “Model” sues Bill Cosby, alleging sex assault at Playboy Mansion in 2008
Chloe Goins, a model who has accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault at the Playboy Mansion in 2008, filed a civil lawsuit in a Los Angeles federal court on Tuesday. In the lawsuit, Goins said Cosby brought her a drink. She said she felt sick and dizzy after drinking the cocktail.
Read More »Ancient Megatsunami hit Africa 73000 years ago, scientists say
Scientists may have uncovered the signs of an ancient, megatsunami that could foretell a modern hazard. Researchers have found evidence of the sudden collapse of a volcano that generated an ocean tsunami that dwarfed anything seen by humans. The collapse of the volcano occurred about 73,000 years ago at the Fogo volcano. The Fogo volcano at Cape Verde, which triggered …
Read More »Sofa Shark Found Off The Coast of Scotland ‘Photo’
‘Sofa shark’ found off the coast of Britain for the first time in a decade. The false catshark, also known as a sofa shark, was found by scientists at the Scottish Shark Tagging Programme conducting a deep sea survey with Marine Scotland near the remote islands of Barra and St Kilda.
Read More »Cayden: Racists Post Offensive Comments About Black Co-Worker’s Child; Go Viral
Man Fired for Making Racist Jokes About His Coworker’s 3-Year-Old Son “Cayden”. The Root reports that last month, Polaris Marketing Group employee Gerod Roth, who goes by Geris Hilton online, uploaded a photo with Cayden, his Black co-worker’s 3-year-old son. Soon after he uploaded the photo to social media, it was flooded with racist comments from his friends.
Read More »Kentucky python attacks Newport reptile shop owner “Video”
A Kentucky man is in critical condition after being attacked by a large python at a reptile shop. Kentucky police tell local news outlets that owner Terry Wilkens was feeding the snake Monday morning when the 125-pound (56.7-kilogram) python attacked.
Read More »Boy kills 8-year-old girl over puppy, reports say “Video”
8-year-old girl shot and killed by 11-year-old boy over argument about puppy. WATE reports the boy has been charged with first-degree murder. The unidentified boy was talking to three girls who were outside his mobile home on Saturday evening and asked one of them if he could see her two new puppies, but the girl refused, according to Jefferson County …
Read More »Al Roker: ‘NBC weatherman’ apologizes for taking smiling selfie amid flood destruction
Al Roker is apologizing for taking a smiling selfie amid the South Carolina floods that have ravaged parts of the state and left multiple people dead. “Absolutely correct,” Roker, 61, tweeted in response to social media posts taking him to task for the since-deleted image, which he had captioned, “My crew and I getting ready to report on East Coast …
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