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The death of a six-year-old boy has left a Shreveport suburban community in shock, and now, residents have set up a roadside memorial at the site where he was tragically killed. Brendan Houston, a first-grade student Herndon Magnet School, was dropped off at his bus stop after school last Thursday. Houston stepped off the bus to realize that his shoelaces …

A Texas man faces a possible life sentence for making and selling marijuana brownies. Authorities in Round Rock charged 19-year-old Jacob Lavoro with a first-degree felony because he used hash oil to make the brownies.

Honolulu police arrested professional surfer Jill Anjuli Hansen, 30, Wednesday night after she allegedly drove a car into an elderly woman in Waikiki, Hawaii News Now wrote. Hansen was charged with attempted murder and is being held on $1 million bail.

A flight headed to Miami returned to Boston due to the smell of burning bread crumbs. An airlines spokeswoman says Flight 1532 took off from Boston’s Logan International Airport at 6:36 a.m. Sunday, but passengers soon began smelling smoke.

Medical researchers discovered that young adults who regularly smoked hookah water pipes in bars are at risk of developing cancer and other kinds of illnesses. Based on the study, elevated levels of cotinine, nicotine, tobacco-based cancer-causing agents and volatile organic compounds (VOC) were discovered in the urine samples of hookah smokers, University Herald reported.

Children as young as nine will be allowed to take drugs to block puberty, which doctors say provides a crucial delay to allow them to decide whether to undergo gender reassignment later. The treatment, which suspends the hormonal changes that cause puberty, will be offered by one NHS trust to children with gender identity disorder (GID), where a person is …

At least 25 people have been arrested in Turkey following the May 13 mining disaster in Soma that killed 301 people. Three people had been charged with manslaughter. Turkey’s Dogan news agency reported among those arrested on Sunday were the general manager Ramazan Dogru and the mine’s operations manager Akin Celik.

“Saturday Night Live” opened its season finale with a sketch about the now-infamous elevator fight between Jay Z and Solange Knowles … as Beyonce just watched from the sidelines.

The Obama administration is joining forces with Texas A&M University in the fight against “coffee rust” – a fungus threatening to devastate the Latin American coffee crop. The orange-colored fungus has already caused more than $1 billion in damage. It is especially dangerous to Arabica beans – used to brew gourmet coffees that are much in demand in U.S. coffee …

Dogs may help in the fight against prostate cancer because of their unique abilities to detect it. A study presented at the American Urological Association reveals that dogs can find the cancer through smell, and they have a high accuracy rating. The researchers believe the animals can be trained to quickly identify the cancer in men.

Kendra Wilkinson finally has a baby girl! On May 16, the 28-year-old beauty and her husband Hank Baskett welcomed their first daughter.