More than 11,000 waterfowl and wetland birds have shine dead from the sky follow a dramatichailstormthat play havoc through the state of Montana sooner this week . As Montanans run to drop crops and broken window damaged by thebaseball - sized hailin the area , wildlife biologists shape in the eastern part of the United States Department of State accumulate “ all in duck and shorebirds with broken extension , smash skulls , internal equipment casualty , and other combat injury coherent with massive blunt - military group injury , ” grant toMontana Fish , Wildlife , and Parks ....

Photo: McCall Miller Photography She’s here! The couple is still deciding on a name for their new addition. “She’s perfect and bringing her into this world was a perfect way to close this chapter of growing our family. Our hearts are so full,” Morgan and Bode tell PEOPLE. “Bode told me the day after she was born that this is the happiest he thinks he’s ever been in his whole life,” the new mom adds....

Amountain lionentered a classroom at a high school in California, according to authorities.On Wednesday morning, the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Officetweetedthat the animal was “being contained in a classroom” at Pescadero High School, located about 45 miles south of San Francisco, California.“The SMCSO can confirm at this time that ALL STUDENTS AND STAFF ARE SAFE at Pescadero High School,” the sheriff’s office shared. “There is currently a mountain lion that entered the La Honda-Pescadero Unified School District grounds....

I was 8 when my mom and dad told me to pick my favorite toys and pack them into one of six suitcases. They didn’t see a future for our family in Venezuela, and they were willing to risk everything to find it in the U.S. — a country full of possibilities. There was the time shots rang through the air while we were stuck in traffic and my dad had to speed away, and the afternoon we were walking home from school when a guy approached us and pulled out a gun....

Univision reports that Robin Bernstein, the ambassador of the United States to the Dominican Republic, saidrecent high-profile incidentsinvolving American tourists in the Caribbean island nation were isolated cases. “We have 2.7 million Americans who come to the country and the statistics is that this is a very … unique event,” Bernstein said. “They come to visit the beautiful beaches and enjoy the great culture. Unfortunately sometimes those things happen to people....

Mary Brown.Photo: FacebookA South Carolina hair dresser described as “loving and selfless” was found dead in a wooded area last week, and the case is being investigated as a homicide.“She always had love for everybody else and never asked for anything for herself,” Allyson Stewart toldWPDEabout her 50-year-old colleague Mary Brown. “We always had a good time. No matter what was going on. We got to work, we were always laughing....

Photo: McLaurin Funeral Home & Pinecrest Memorial Park A North Carolina toddler found a gun in his dad’s truck and shot himself, and now the father faces criminal charges. Detectives believe the 2-year-old climbed into his dad’s pickup truck through an open door and found a loaded handgun in the cab. He began to play with the gun and accidentally shot himself, authorities say. According toABC 11, the boy’s father, Warren Tyler Oser, is charged with failure to properly and safely store his firearms to protect minors....

A North Carolina woman won a “life-changing” $723, 755 lottery jackpot.Photo:N.C. Education LotteryTalk about a reversal of fortune.When Cynthia Neely of Gold Hill, North Carolina, checked her lottery tickets, she was disappointed to see she hadn’t won.“When I got in the truck and saw my first ticket said the jackpot was back to $20,000, I thought, ‘Oh darn, somebody already won the jackpot,'" Neely said in a Mondaynews releasefrom the N....

Keven Rodriguez.Photo: Raleigh Police Department A police officer in Raleigh, N.C., is under arrest after authorities allege he was caught dealing cocaine from his marked patrol car while on duty and wearing his uniform. “This complaint alleges that an on-duty Raleigh Police Department officer, in his police cruiser, with his gun, dealt drugs,” Michael Easley, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, said at a news conference Thursday....

Photo: KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty The plight of Omoyele Sowore, 48, has continued to draw attention, most recently from the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which issued astatementdemanding he be freed on bail. “It is outrageous that Nigeria continues to imprison a journalist and Presidential candidate after a court has ordered his release. TrialWatch will continue to monitor Mr. Sowore’s trial and calls on the authorities to implement the court’s order as soon as possible,”Amal Clooneysaid in a statement....

Photo: MIchael Ochs Archives/Getty Nancy Sinatrais a celebrated singer best known for her 1966 smash “These Boots Are Made for Walkin',” but she’s also a movie star. Reflecting on her career and life for this week’s issue of PEOPLE, the performer and oldest daughter of music and screen legend Frank Sinatra had especially fond memories of once working with her late friendElvis Presley. They collaborated onSpeedway, a 1968 American musical action film starring Presley as a racecar driver and Sinatra, now 81, as his romantic interest....

Nancy Wilson.Photo: RICHARD STEEL IMAGES Nancy Wilsonmay have been forced to live a quieter life over the past year amid theCOVID-19lockdowns, but the star says she still turned up the volume. In this week’s issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday, the Heart guitarist, 67, opens up about how she spent most of 2020 jamming in her home studio, where she recorded her newly releaseddebut solo album,You and Me. “I could sing as loud as I wanted to and have fun with music — the thing that I’ve done all my life,” says Nancy, whose impeccable guitar skills have bewitched fans since she first joined Heart alongside her older sister, Ann, in 1974....

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