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Samsung started pushing Android 6.0 to the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge earlier this week, and now it looks like the push has been extended to another Galaxy flagship. The Canadian carrier Telus has announced that the Marshmallow update will be available to the Note 5 on March 9, the same day when the Galaxy S6 will be upgraded. …

Harper Lee, who wrote one of America’s most beloved literary classics, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and surprised readers 55 years later with the publication of a second book about the same characters, died at the age of 89 on Friday. Harper Lee is most known for her first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” which was published in 1959. The novel …

A 5-year-old girl is being hailed as a hero after acting quickly to save her grandmother and dog from their burning house in Louisiana. According to WWL-TV, Cloe Woods, 5, jumped into action when a fire started on the stove early Wednesday morning. She immediately went to her grandmother’s room.

81-year-old woman chases fleeing robbers, rams them with car. Alice Makla was sitting her car in her Mount Pocono driveway on Tuesday when she was approached by a man and woman. As she talked to them through an open window, one grabbed her purse and they fled in a car.

Five passengers safely emerged from a dramatic helicopter crash near the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, which was caught on camera. Local media reported that the Bell-206B chopper was carrying five people on board when it crashed around 10am local time and that the victims were pulled to shore by witnesses. The teen was reportedly under water for …

Albert Woodfox was released from a Louisiana prison Friday afternoon after spending 43 years in solitary confinement. Albert Woodfox, 69, pleaded no contest to manslaughter and aggravated burglary Friday. The judge then ordered Woodfox’s immediate release.

A rare La Plata dolphin died earlier this month after a group of beach-goers apparently took it out of the ocean, then surrounded and handled it. Footage shows the small dolphin being scooped up and taken to land where it was surrounded by a gawking crowd. It quickly overheated and died when it was paraded along the beach so holiday-makers …

A US auction house says a rare copy of a comic book featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man has sold for $US454,100. It was purchased by an anonymous collector, and Heritage Auctions of Dallas, Texas, says the sale is a record for a public auction price for any Spider-Man comic book.

Cat has introduced a smartphone with a genuinely new feature – a thermal imaging camera. The Cat S60 is built for professions that involve a lot of time outdoors – it’s a rugged model, it’s waterproof, and it’s the first to feature a thermal imaging camera. The Cat S60 includes an embedded thermal camera from FLIR, the global leader in …

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Volunteer firefighters rescued a missing dog from a sinkhole Wednesday, two days after her owners reported her disappearance. The dog, a 7-year-old golden Labrador retriever named Skye, was missing for nearly 48 hours before authorities located her Monday nearly 15 feet underground. She had fallen through a small space that opened into a sinkhole.

Miami’s police union members have voted to boycott Beyoncé’s concert at Marlins Park in April because of her Super Bowl performance and the release of a video that pays homage to the Black Panthers. The decision comes after Beyoncé ’s controversial Super Bowl performance, which alluded to the Black Panther movement and was called a “political call to action.” The …