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Royalty-free/Getty Images (SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss.) -- A Mississippi bridge set to be demolished collapsed in a deadly accident on Wednesday, officials said.The Mississippi Department of Transportation confirmed there were fatalities, though it did not specify how many people died."[We] extend our deepest condolences to the families who have lost loved ones," the Mississippi Department of Transportation said in a statement.An inspector with the Mississippi Department of Transportation who was at […]

(NEW YORK) -- The husband of the owner of a New York City day care where a 1-year-old child died of fentanyl poisoning was sentenced Wednesday to 45 years in prison.Felix Herrera Garcia, 35, pleaded guilty in June to federal drug charges for trafficking fentanyl out of the day care center.In September 2023, a 1-year-old boy attending the day care, Nicholas Dominici, died, and three other children, ranging in age […]

Ilana Panich-linsman/Innocence Project/AFP via Getty Images (TEXAS) -- Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, has filed a request for a stay of execution and a petition for certiorari with the Supreme Court.Roberson argues that his federal due process rights were violated when Texas' highest court refused to consider his bid to reopen the case based […]

(WASHINGTON) -- The Federal Trade Commission finalized a rule Wednesday that seeks to make it easier for American households to cancel their subscriptions and memberships.The goal is to make it as simple for consumers to opt out of recurring payments -- including for gyms, retailers or other businesses -- as it is to sign up for them."Too often, businesses make people jump through endless hoops just to cancel a subscription," […]