Eleven-year-old Roman Lopez disappeared in January 2020, and detectives who came to his family's Placerville, California, home after he was reported missing ultimately found him curled up in a 55-gallon storage bin, his 42-pound body dressed only in a diaper, a trickle of blood coming from his nose. It was later determined the boy had been poisoned with table salt; hypernatremia, or excess sodium in the blood, can cause seizures and delirium before turning fatal. Keep reading It's already been established that the number of pedestrians fatally struck by vehicles is on the rise in the US. In fact, the number began ticking upward about 15 years ago, reversing a decades-long trend, reports the New York Times. Keep reading
Police body cameras were supposed to change everything. But a decade after they became commonplace in departments across the US, one big problem has emerged, according to an investigation by ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine. Keep reading When a defector fled from North Korea earlier this year with his family, it was the fulfillment of a scheme he'd been planning for seven months. Now, the BBC has the story of what it describes as a "seemingly impossible escape," with as many dangerous obstacles as a Mission: Impossible flick. Keep reading In the US, you have to be 18 to work as a roofer due to the inherent danger of the job. But as the New York Times reports in a grim investigation, a growing population of children are ending up on our roofs anyway, in some cases without safety gear or training: migrant children. Keep reading
Mary Turrell had been living at England's Easterlea Rest Home for a year or two when Derek Brown arrived; one day, he sat down next to her during a concert at the home and started singing along. When she turned to look at him, he winked, and it wasn't long before he was asking her, as the Guardian puts it: "Mary, will you be my woman?" Keep reading "Abject terror" isn't a phrase you'd readily associate with sports, but Sierra Shafer's use of it becomes increasingly understandable as you make way through her piece for Outside. In it, she recounts her first go at skiing the Mürren Inferno—the world's oldest, longest, and most challenging downhill ski race. Keep reading A surgical procedure for infants known as "tongue-tie release" is on the rise, though an in-depth story by the New York Times suggests it shouldn't be. The condition occurs when a band of tissue connects the tip of the tongue to the bottom of the mouth. Keep reading
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