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Why We Celebrate Friendsgiving—Including a Connection to ‘Friends’

Why We Celebrate Friendsgiving—Including a Connection to ‘Friends’

By Emily VanSchmus | BHG.Com Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks #Lifestyle None of the six friends ever said the word 'friendsgiving' on the show—but there is an interesting connection between the show and the tradition.  Friendsgiving is a relatively new tradition that I’ve wholeheartedly embraced. If you’re not familiar with the celebration, it’s basically a Thanksgiving dinnerthat’s shared between friends rather than family. Of course, I’m all for eating two Thanksgiving meals—especially when there’s pumpkin pie involved—but there’s just something about a day dedicated to celebrating friendship that gives me the warm fuzzies.  But where did the tradition come from? It’s become increasingly popular over…
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Louisiana body donated to science was dissected for a paying audience

Louisiana body donated to science was dissected for a paying audience

By Christine Hauser, The New York Times Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks The blurred video showed a cadaver on a table in a hotel ballroom. A man stood over the body, addressing an audience that had paid to watch the dissection of a corpse. Some people snapped on gloves and hovered, peering and touching. This was the body of David Saunders, a 98-year-old Louisiana man. It was not, his widow said, what she intended when she donated his body for medical research after he died of COVID-19 in August. “My impression, it was strictly for medical science, not that his body…
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Natalie Wood was assaulted by Kirk Douglas, sister alleges

Natalie Wood was assaulted by Kirk Douglas, sister alleges

By HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks NEW YORK — For decades, it’s been one of Hollywood’s darkest rumors: A teen-age Natalie Wood was sexually assaulted by a top movie star more than twice her age when she met with him at a hotel in Los Angeles. In a memoir coming out next week, Wood's younger sister identifies the long-suspected assailant: Kirk Douglas.   “I remember that Natalie looked especially beautiful when Mom and I dropped her off that night at the Chateau Marmont entrance,” Lana Wood writes in “Little Sister,” alleging that the incident happened in the…
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Father charged with killing man who sold his daughter into sex trafficking ring

Father charged with killing man who sold his daughter into sex trafficking ring

By ArLuther Lee, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks A 60-year-old father from Washington state has been charged in the murder of a teen who was found dead nearly a year after he allegedly sold the man’s underage daughter into a sex trafficking ring for $1,000. John Eisenman, of Spokane, was arrested last Friday in the slaying of 19-year-old Aaron Sorenson, according to KIRO News 7. Police say Sorenson was killed in November 2020 but his body wasn’t discovered until late last month in the trunk of an abandoned car in Spokane. Sorenson had been dating Eisenman’s daughter in October…
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U.S. prisons face staff shortages as officers quit amid COVID

U.S. prisons face staff shortages as officers quit amid COVID

By KERI BLAKINGER, JAMILES LARTEY, BETH SCHWARTZAPFEL and CHRISTIE THOMPSON of The Marshall Project and MICHAEL R. SISAK of The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks #Business #COVID-19 At a Georgia state House of Representatives hearing on prison conditions in September, a corrections officer called in to testify, interrupting his shift to tell lawmakers how dire conditions had become. On a “good day,” he told lawmakers, he had maybe six or seven officers to supervise roughly 1,200 people. He said he had recently been assigned to look after 400 prisoners by himself. There weren’t enough nurses to provide medical care. “All…
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Daylight saving time: 7 things to know

Daylight saving time: 7 things to know

By Stephanie Toone, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks If you've been staying up later this fall have something to look forward to early Sunday: one more hour to catch up on sleep. On Nov. 7, daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. and we turn our clocks back one hour. For those who may not know the backstory on the time-changing occurrence, we’ve gathered some notable facts about daylight saving time: The tradition started with bug hunting (of all things). In 1895, George Hudson, New Zealand entomologist, thought up the modern concept of daylight saving time. He proposed…
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Cuban exile told sons he trained Oswald, JFK’s assassin, at secret CIA camp

Cuban exile told sons he trained Oswald, JFK’s assassin, at secret CIA camp

By Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald (TNS) Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks Almost 40 years after his death following a bar brawl in Key Biscayne, Ricardo Morales, known as “Monkey” — contract CIA worker, anti-Castro militant, counter-intelligence chief for Venezuela, FBI informant and drug dealer — returned to the spotlight Thursday morning when one of his sons made a startling claim on Spanish-language radio: Morales, a sniper instructor in the early 1960s in secret camps where Cuban exiles and others trained to invade Cuba, realized in the hours after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963 that the…
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Why You Should Always, Always Pull Over For A Funeral Procession

Why You Should Always, Always Pull Over For A Funeral Procession

By Melissa Locker | BHG.Com Troy Warren for CNT #EditorsPicks It really boils down to good manners and showing respect for a grieving family. Everyone knows to pull their car to the side of the road to let an ambulance, police car, or firetruck pass. Most people these days know that it’s important to pull over to make a phone call. Safety first and all! And, of course, drivers should always pull over for a funeral procession. Not only is it polite to let a grieving family make their way from the funeral home to the burial site, but in many states, it’s…
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Phoenix: Grant Woods, former Arizona attorney general, dies at 67

Phoenix: Grant Woods, former Arizona attorney general, dies at 67

Craig Harris | Maria Polletta | Arizona Republic Troy Warren for PhoenixNewsAndTalk.Com #EditorsPicks   Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, the prosecutor and politician who frequently broke with his longtime party to support Democratic candidates and causes, died Saturday from a heart attack. He was 67 years old. “I am so proud of the man he was, public servant, advocate for the everyday person, lover of music and stories and sports. He made me a better person. I can’t even fathom our lives without him. But we are strong, and a close family and we will work hard to honor his life,"…
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Guns, Ammo, Accountability: Hollywood Munitions Experts Grapple With ‘Rust’ Tragedy

Guns, Ammo, Accountability: Hollywood Munitions Experts Grapple With ‘Rust’ Tragedy

BY GARY BAUM, CHRIS GARDNER | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment #EditorsPicks Questions swirl about on-set gun safety and who could be at fault after Alec Baldwin shoots prop gun with live rounds, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. Firearms safety guidelines are clear and longstanding in Hollywood, where guns have been employed on the big screen since the silent film era: Live ammunition is never to be used nor brought onto any studio lot or stage. Blanks can kill. Treat all firearms as though they are loaded. But following the weapon-discharge tragedy involving Alec Baldwin that resulted in the…
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