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On March 3, 1991, four police officers were filmed beating taxi driver Rodney King after a pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles. The video shocked the city, and the events that followed shocked the nation. George Holiday recorded this scene from his apartment balcony. It shows LAPD officers beating a man later identified as Rodney King. King, who was …

The Opéra de Montréal is turning Pink Floyd’s The Wall into an opera for its 2016-2017 season to mark the city’s 375th anniversary. Roger Waters wrote The Wall after an incident at a 1977 Pink Floyd show at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium in which he spat on a fan and guitarist David Gilmour refused to perform on the band’s encore. Roger …

Gator in pool? A lakeland family was in for a shock when they discovered a 9-foot, 300-pound alligator hanging out in their swimming pool. Craig Lear, 38, came home from work around 5:30 p.m. and let his cats out in the backyard screened-in patio. He noticed bubbles rising to the surface of his pool, but because they live on a …

Brian Encinia, the Texas state trooper who arrested Sandra Bland, has officially been fired by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Brian Encinia can still appeal against the decision, which came after a grand jury indicted him on a charge of perjury in December. He was accused of lying about the July 2015 arrest of Sandra Bland after a confrontational …

The American Sleep Apnea Association (ASAA) has partnered with IBM Watson to launch a ResearchKit study app, called SleepHealth. Researchers aim to use the app to explore the connection between sleep habits and health outcomes. It’s also the first ResearchKit app to partner with IBM Watson. The SleepHealth study uses the open source ResearchKit designed by Apple to make it …

Joey Feek shared “one last kiss” with her family before she fell into a deep sleep over the weekend. In his blog, This Life I Live , Rory Feek wrote that his wife’s hospice nurse delivered some bad news Monday.

Footage of a March 1 gun store robbery in southwest Houston has been released, showing the moment at least 10 suspects raided the store and escaped with at least 50 weapons. Houston police say as many as 10 suspects raided the store and got away with at least 50 weapons. The amount of weapons is not counting those they dropped …

Google acknowledged “some responsibility” in a minor fender-bender crash involving one of its autonomous vehicles earlier this month. According to a report filed by the California DMV, a Google autonomous car ran into the side of a bus at low speed. The full report reads:

With an anticlimactic shuffle of paperwork, Health Canada quietly added a paragraph to the online documentation for Truvada on Feb 28, 2016, opening the door to a new era of HIV prevention in Canada. “Multiple clinical trials have demonstrated that Truvada for PrEP is effective at reducing the risk of HIV infection acquired through sexual exposure,” said Dr. Cécile Tremblay, …

Rob Ford is back in hospital as he continues his battle with a rare form of cancer. Ford’s brother, Doug, confirmed Wednesday that he was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital five days ago.

The Vatican newspaper said the Oscar-winning film, “Spotlight,” is not anti-Catholic. L’Osservatore Romano published a piece titled “It’s not an anti-Catholic film” on Tuesday morning, praising Tom McCarthy’s film for “managing to voice the shock and profound pain of the faithful confronting the discovery of these horrendous realities”.