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Four arrested in connection with drugs at actor Hoffman’s home

Four people were arrested on Tuesday in connection with drugs found at the home of film star Philip Seymour Hoffman following his death of an apparent heroin overdose, the New York Daily News reported, citing unidentified police sources.

 
Bill Nye debates evolution with founder of Creation Museum

TV’s “Science Guy” Bill Nye says there are infinite discoveries yet to be made about the universe and how we got here. Ken Ham, the man Nye traveled to Kentucky to debate Tuesday night, says all those answers are already in the Bible.

Floods put Brits in real man against nature battle

A kayak at the front door is cute … for a while. But the novelty is wearing off for British villagers in an area known as the Levels, where a second year of flooding has tempers wearing thin

 
1 boy dies, another revived after being pulled from pool on cruise ship

One young boy died and a second was revived and taken to a North Carolina hospital after they were pulled from a cruise ship swimming pool off the state’s coast Monday, officials confirmed, though they offered few additional details Tuesday.

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Funeral homes, casket stores setting up shop in shopping malls

We eat there, buy our clothes there and some people suspect teenagers may actually live there. So perhaps it was just a matter of time until funeral homes began moving into the local shopping mall.

 
Man survives 13 months adrift eating birds, turtles

A man leaves Mexico in December 2012 for a day of shark fishing and ends up surviving 13 months on fish, birds and turtles before washing ashore on the remote Marshall Islands thousands of miles away.

 
Cars that ‘talk’ to each other to avoid crashes near reality

Your car might see a deadly crash coming even if you don’t, the government says, indicating it will require automakers to equip new vehicles with technology that lets cars warn each other if they’re plunging toward peril.

 
Student kills teacher, policeman in shooting at Moscow school

A 10th-grade student with two rifles burst into his Moscow school on Monday, killing his geography teacher and a policeman in front of about 20 students, investigators said.

 
Google must move ‘mystery’ barge because of permit issue

Google must move a mystery barge from a construction site on an island in the middle of San Francisco Bay because the permits are not in order, a state official said Monday.

 
Convicted killer captured after Michigan prison break

A convicted killer who peeled a hole in two fences with his hands to escape from a Michigan prison before abducting a woman and fleeing to Indiana was captured Monday evening, authorities said.

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