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Babies might not be able to walk very well, but luckily Houstonians are walking for them. More than 40,000 people attended the 43rd annual Houston March for Babies at the University of Houston Saturday morning The four-mile walk benefits the March of Dimes, which aims at helping all moms have healthy, full-term pregnancies.

Most of us use lip balm to keep our lips smooth when the weather is dry. But it seems some teens may be using one brand for something else: getting high. They are taking Burt’s Bees, which is made with beeswax and peppermint oil, and rubbing it on their eyelids to add to the experience of getting drunk or high. …

A tornado system ripped through the central and southern United States on Sunday, leaving at least 17 dead in a violent start to this year’s storm season, officials said. An Arkansas state agency reported that 16 deaths have been confirmed in that state. A separate tornado from the same storm system killed one person in Oklahoma.

The last letter known to have been written on board the Titanic sold at auction in Britain for £119,000 ($200,000) on Saturday. The letter was written by second class passenger Esther Hart just hours before the doomed ocean liner sank. The price tag paid by an unknown bidder breaks the previous record for a Titanic-related letter, which had stood at …

A teenager employed at an Italian restaurant upstate severed his arm while cleaning an industrial pasta maker. According to the AP, 17-year-old Brett Bouchard was cleaning the machine at Violi’s Restaurant on Thursday evening when his right arm became caught and was severed at the elbow.

Strong winds, high waves and rain effectively halted search operations Monday for more than 100 passengers still missing from a deadly ferry disaster two weeks ago. Only one body was retrieved in the on-and-off search operations over the weekend, and adverse weather conditions thwarted overnight attempts to resume search efforts, leaving the death toll unchanged at 188 and the number …

Detailed within a video report published by ABC News, 38-year-old Triana Lavey of Los Angeles told the news network that she recently went through facial surgery procedures in pursuit of the perfect selfie.

A Texas teacher is accused of giving one of her students a birthday lap dance in class. 42-year-old Felecia Smith has been charged with an improper relationship with a student. A 15-year-old boy told police she gave him a full contact lap dance at the Houston school on February 26th.

According to new reports, Tori Spelling was hospitalized. It is unclear if it was for stress or another medical reason. E! News says Spelling was hospitalized for “at least six days.”

DJ Rashad, a house music icon in Chicago whose new EP is set to be released next week, was found dead of an apparent drug overdose Saturday afternoon on the Lower West Side. Rashad Harden, 35, was found unresponsive by a friend around 1:30 p.m. in an apartment in the 2100 block of West 21st Street, authorities said.

A 16-year-old Connecticut girl stabbed at her high school on the day of her junior prom died of wounds to her torso and neck, Connecticut’s chief medical examiner said Sunday. The medical examiner’s office ruled that Maren Sanchez’s death was a homicide.