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Miss Puerto Rico has been suspended indefinitely for posting a series of anti-Muslim messages on Twitter. Miss Puerto Rico Destiny Vélez has been suspended indefinitely from her pageant duties following an anti-Muslim Twitter rant. The Huffington Post reports Puerto Rico’s official Miss America organization released a statement on Saturday in response to the firestorm of controversy her online remarks touched …

A Scoutmaster is recovering Monday after being dragged into a cave by an angry bear. Rockaway Township Mayor Michael Dachisen says the attack occurred around noon Sunday at Split Rock Reservoir in the Morris County community. The scoutmaster was flown to a hospital for treatment of injuries that are not considered life-threatening.

Another intentional car crash, this time in Las Vegas, has left one dead and 36 injured, and officials debate whether to treat it as an attack or another sign that America’s care for the mentally ill is lacking. A woman swerved multiple times onto a busy sidewalk on the famous Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, leaving police confident she crashed …

Street gangs migrating from drugs, robberies to white-collar crime like credit card fraud. The Van Dyke Money Gang in New York made off with more than $1.5 million this year — but it wasn’t in gunpoint robberies or drug running, it was a Western Union money order scheme. In New Jersey, 111 Neighborhood Crips used a machine to make dozens …

German automaker BMW has been fined $40 million by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration for failing to issue safety recalls in a timely manner to Mini owners. The fine, announced Monday in a press release, caps a year of auto industry crackdowns by the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency. Regulators have come down hard on a …

Heidi Loughlin, who gave birth 12 weeks early before starting course of herceptin, announces death of Ally Louise on her blog. Heidi Loughlin was just three months pregnant when diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. Doctors recommended she should start a strong course of chemotherapy, which would have been harmful to her unborn child. The 32-year-old, …

Two London clinics will perform the province’s new government-funded fertility treatments, the health ministry announced Monday. The London Health Sciences Centre’s fertility clinic at Victoria Hospital and Southwestern Ontario Fertility Technologies on Southdale Road East will both be receiving funding.

Eight people were taken to hospital, including one child, after a carbon monoxide leak at a North York restaurant late Sunday night. Around 10:30 on Sunday night, Paramedics and Toronto fire services were called to a restaurant at 101 Ravel Road near Finch and Leslie. The initial call was for the suspicion of a carbon monoxide leak. Upon crews arrival, …

Firefighters across US suing siren manufacturer over their hearing loss. More than 4,000 current and former firefighters are suing an Illinois company that makes sirens, claiming the firm did not do enough to make them safe on fire trucks. The group say Federal Signal, based in Oak Brook, could have designed the fire truck sirens so that the volume was …

New York drug bust nets 136 pounds of cocaine worth estimated $3 million. The busts began at 6:15 p.m. when Homeland Security and immigration agents and cops pulled over a car in Morris Park in which 24-year-old Xavier Herbert-Gumbs, of San Juan, was riding passenger, according to a detective’s account. In the trunk, cops say they found a box containing …

A snowplow driving erratically on Highway 11 near Gravenhurst drew the attention of a concerned motorist who called police. The OPP say they were contacted on Saturday, at around 7:30 p.m. over concerns about the driving behaviour of a snow plow on Highway 11, near Doe Lake Road.