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Kids are silhouetted against a pond at a park in Lenexa, Kan., on Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020. Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world. In May 2022, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials said they are now looking into 180 possible cases across the U.S. More than 20 other countries have reported hundreds more cases in total, though the largest numbers have been in the U.K. and U.S. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

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Theories emerge for mysterious liver illnesses in children

By MIKE STOBBE MIKE STOBBE - AP Medical Writer
Mon,05/23/22-12:05AM, 542 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world.
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DNA breakthrough leads to arrest of burglary suspect

By CANDICE SLEDGE CANDICE SLEDGE - Washington Parish Sheriff's Office
Thu,03/14/24-4:30PM, 542 Reads
A detective with Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigation Division (CID), in collaboration with law enforcement agencies, has made significant progress in solving a residential burglary case that took place on Highway 440 i
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Vernon Community News

By DEBRA BURRIS DEBRA BURRIS
Wed,01/31/24-6:23PM, 542 Reads
Hello All. Happy last day of January and hello February.
Weekly Scripture
Humble yourselves..... under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time.
Congratulations
MHS 2024 Homecoming Queen....Miss Shunna Williams.
All the participants on the Homecoming Court were celebrated.
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Actor Cuba Gooding Jr. appears in court, Jan. 22, 2020, in New York. Three women who claim Cuba Gooding Jr. sexually abused them — including one upset she never got her day in court when Gooding resolved criminal charges without trial or jail — can testify at a federal civil trial next week to support a woman’s claim that the actor raped her in 2013, a judge ruled Friday, June 2, 2023. (Alec Tabak/The Daily News via AP, File, Pool)

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Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. settles civil sex abuse case, averting trial

By LARRY NEUMEISTER LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press
Mon,06/05/23-11:13PM, 542 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Just as a trial was to begin, it was revealed Tuesday that Cuba Gooding Jr. has settled accusations that he raped a woman in a New York City hotel a decade ago, according to court records. The actor had insisted through lawyers that his encounter with the woman was consensual after the two met at a nearby restaurant.
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