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Chelsea O’Donnell didn’t run away from home shortly before her 18th birthday, she says: In her version of the story, mom Rosie O’Donnell showed her the door. Chelsea O’Donnell was reported missing by the former View host in August, who claimed she had run away and was mentally ill, but the teenager has alleged her adoptive mother ordered her to …

A toddler has died from E. coli after visiting a county fair in Maine. Jon Guay says his son Colton began experiencing severe diarrhea shortly after going to the fair and visiting the petting zoo last month. His condition quickly worsened and he eventually began experiencing brain seizures which led to his death. Guay posted about his son’s death on …

A michigan woman with a gun and a concealed-carry license opened fire on a shoplifter Tuesday afternoon as security chased the man out of an Auburn Hills. According to The Detroit News, the 47-year-old woman was watching from the store’s parking lot on Tuesday as a loss prevention officer appeared to be trying to stop a shoplifter. When the suspects …

Matthew Keys, the former web producer and social media manager accused of helping hacking group Anonymous deface the LA Times website, has been found guilty on three criminal counts. A tweet from Keys around the time the verdict was handed down simply said, “That was bullshit.” Keys faces up to 25 years in prison, though reports indicated that the U.S. …

Nearly a week after a 790-foot cargo ship sailed headlong into a Category 3 storm carrying a crew of 33, the U.S. Coast Guard called off the search for survivors Wednesday. Investigators have turned their attention to finding the vessel’s data recorder three miles down at the bottom of the sea.

Luke Gatti, a college student from Bayville is facing criminal and disciplinary charges at the University of Connecticut following a profanity-laced tirade and physical altercation in an on-campus food court — over macaroni and cheese. In a YouTube video (Warning: extreme profane language) that was posted on Monday, the student, identified in reports as Luke Gatti, 19, of Bayville, is …

Meri Brown recently revealed that she was catfished by a man who pretended to be a woman during a difficult time in her life. Meri Brown told PEOPLE in an exclusive statement that the man with whom she was forming a on online relationship was actually a woman. “During an emotional and vulnerable time earlier this year, I began speaking …

Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman has died of an apparent suicide at the age of 65, Le Monde reports. Chantal Akerman began making movies at age 17 with her first short, 1968’s Saute Ma Ville. Among her oeuvre are such films as Je, Tu, Il, Elle in which she starred with Niels Arestrup; Les Rendez-Vous D’Anna and The Captive. Her most …

Billy Joe Royal, a 1960s pop and 1990s country star, has died. He was 73. Royal was born on April 3, 1943, in Valdosta, Ga., and raised in Marietta, Ga. He became a local star in Savannah, Ga., in the ’50s and ’60s, then released his debut album, Down in the Boondocks, on Columbia Records in 1965; the album’s title …

A Chinese glass walkway suspended 3,500 feet above ground cracked as tourists screamed and pushed while scrambling to safety. “I heard a bang from under…Everybody is screaming. I cried, ‘It’s really cracked! It’s really cracked!’ And pushed the people in front of me to get away,” a tourist told Chinese media. The same tourist posted a photo of the shattered …

A Canadian study suggests that patients who undergo weight loss surgery may be more likely to attempt suicide after the weight-loss surgery. The study, published today in the journal JAMA Surgery, examined the records of close to 9,000 patients undergoing gastric bypass surgery, most of whom were women over the age of 35. A total of 111 patients had 158 …