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A 6-year-old girl was reportedly taken away from her foster family because of her Native American heritage. Social workers arrived at the home of Rusty and Summer Page near Ron Ridge and Pamlico drives shortly before 3 p.m. to take the girl, named Lexi, so she can be placed with Choctaw Nation extended family in Utah.

The wife of famed concert pianist Vadym Kholodenko has been charged with two counts of capital murder for the deaths of their children ages 1 and 5, Texas authorities announced Monday. Benbrook Police Cmdr. David Babcock said Sofya Tsygankova killed her daughters but she has not been arrested because she is undergoing a mental evaluation at John Peter Smith Hospital …

Former wrestler Hulk Hogan got $25 million in punitive damages in his sex tape lawsuit, bringing his total haul to $140 million, TMZ reports. Gawker is set to appeal the court’s decision and the pay outs, which could see the site and its sister sites shut down. The video was published back in 2012 and showed secretly recorded footage of …

So you wanted a smaller iPhone? You got it! Last night, Apple announced the iPhone SE, a new 4-inch smartphone that offers a smaller (and cheaper) option to the company’s flagship iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. The phone is a throwback in a lot of ways. It’s got the same 1136×640 resolution screen as the iPhone 5 family, and its …

This week our friends at Renault dropped us a line that the Twizy 40 will soon be available in Canada. The Canadian transportation authority, Transport Canada, has certified the Renault Twizy 40 for use on Canadian roads as a low-speed commuter vehicle. The Twizy 40 has a 25 mph (40 km/h) speed capability and a range of about 62 miles …

World leaders reacted with shock and resolve Tuesday to a terror attack in Brussels that killed at least 31 people and wounded more than 150 others. 34 people were killed and many others injured after two explosions rocked Brussels’ Zaventem Airport Tuesday morning at about 8 a.m., causing heavy damage and panic, Belgian media reported. An hour later, an explosion …

Najim Laachraoui has been identified as an accomplice of the Paris attackers who killed 130 people in a series of shootings and bombings last November. In early December, the Belgian authorities put two alleged accomplices of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the Paris attacks, on a wanted list. They had used forged Belgian IDs under the names of Samir …

At a recent interview at SXSW, Burt Reynolds admitted that he regrets posing nude for Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1972. “It was really stupid. I don’t know what I was thinking,” Reynolds, now 80, said of his most famous photograph.

A Russian judge on Monday said Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was complicit in the killing of two Russian journalists, an assertion certain to inflame already dire relations between Moscow and Kiev. “Nadiya Viktorovna Savchenko committed the killing of Kornelyuk and Voloshin by a group of persons by previous concert for hatred and enmity motives,” Leonid Stepanenko, chairman of the collegium …

Health officials in Brampton, Ont., are warning that residents may have been exposed to measles between March 12 and 17. A representative from Peel Public Health says the organization has confirmed that a child in Brampton has measles. In a news release issued last week, the public health agency said the child had travelled ot a measles-endemic country before becoming …

2016 Spring Equinox is the earliest on record since 1896. Spring officially has arrived! To be exact, the Northern Hemisphere officially began its tilt toward the sun at 9:30 pm on March 19th. The Spring Equinox – or Vernal Equinox – marks the point in the year when winter yields to spring. When the Sun passes the imaginary line above …