A woman shot with a crossbow and a priest stabbed in a rectory shake a small Nebraska town (apnews.com)
Hyperloop, once touted as future of transport in Missouri, reportedly shuts down (www.kshb.com)
Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy in his home after a 911 call has been reinstated after suspension (www.cnn.com)
Recreational marijuana sales continue to skyrocket in Maryland (www.fox5dc.com)
Body found in Kentucky lake by fishermen in 1999 identified as fugitive wanted by FBI (www.cbsnews.com)
Wife of Iowa trucker seeks answers a month after his disappearance (www.freightwaves.com)
Indianapolis Zoo says online reports of escaped lions were a hoax (www.wishtv.com)
Prosecutors in Idaho murder case request new trial date for defendant Bryan Kohberger (www.idahostatesman.com)
Fuel found in some homes on Navy water system, new EPA report finds (www.staradvertiser.com)
600-pound, 12-foot alligator found at this Florida mall. Deputies responded to gator found at Coconut Point Mall (www.clickorlando.com)
CT hits highest level of homelessness on record. A baby was born in a shelter; people are dying (www.courant.com)
Child dies after accidentally being shot in the chest at a target practice area (www.azfamily.com)
Fishermen and community leaders react to Trident announcement to sell a third of its Alaska plants (alaskapublic.org)
Judge weighs request to stop nation's first execution by nitrogen, in Alabama (apnews.com)
Revealed: how US residents are funding illegal settlements in the West Bank (www.theguardian.com)
Russia bans anti-war candidate from challenging Putin (www.bbc.co.uk)
Independent politician Yekaterina Duntsova wanted to run on a platform to end the war with Ukraine....
Alaska's rivers are turning orange and no one knows why (www.newsweek.com)
Florida man goes fishing in Bass Pro Shops pond, flees with live 50-pound tarpon (nypost.com)
Alabama mother with rare double womb gives birth to two babies in two days (www.bbc.co.uk)
Kelsey Hatcher, 32, delivered one daughter on Tuesday, and a second on Wednesday, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Hospital....
Sorry California, Amazon Will No Longer Sell You Donkey Meat (www.wired.com)
Technically donkey skin. Used in health supplements. And I just don’t know anymore…
Charlie Sheen “Assaulted In His LA Home By Neighbour Who Forced Her Way In” (deadline.com)
Charlie Sheen was assaulted in his Los Angeles home by a neighbour, police have announced. The woman charged was named as Electra Schrock. She was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, force likely to create great bodily injury and residential burglary.
More than 1,100 officers under investigation for sexual or domestic abuse in England and Wales (www.theguardian.com)
As one in seven accused of offences keep working, Lib Dems call on home secretary James Cleverly for ‘radical overhaul’ of vetting
Putin ally 'behind bomb' that killed Wagner boss, new report alleges (i.stuff.co.nz)
Yacouba Sawadogo, African Farmer Who Held Back the Desert, Dies at 77 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)
He took barren and dry lands and turned them into incredible forests. People thought he was insane as they fled dying villiages. They burned his forests. He replanted his forests and tripled his crop yields, becoming a hero to farmers all over.
Prices finally fell last month after 3.5 years of increases (www.nbcnews.com)
New government data showed prices notching a monthly decline for the first time since April 2020, adding to an improving picture on inflation as the new year looms....
