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Photo: Jennifer Sutcliffe A 40-year-old man is recovering in the hospital after receiving more than 20 doses of antivenom to save him from a bite from the severed head of a rattlesnake. On May 27, Jennifer Sutcliffe was prepping her yard and garden for a family cookout when she came across a frightening sight amongst her flowers. The snake, a four-foot long Western diamondback, was slithering through the garden and had come dangerously close to the mother of two....

Photo: Garrett Nicholson/Facebook A Federal Express driver in Rogersville, Tennessee, reportedly saved a woman’s life on Tuesday after she allegedly made a suicide attempt off of a local bridge. Garrett Nicholson, 42, held the arm of a 54-year-old woman dangling over the Marble Hall Road bridge for five minutes until officers from the Hawkins County Sheriff’s Office could help pull her to safety, theKingsport Times Newsreported. Nicholson said he first saw the woman — whose identity has not been released — when he was driving past the bridge shortly before 6....

Samaria Blackwell.Photo: Avon Police Department “As an intelligent, straight A student, Samaria could have done anything she chose to put her mind to, and because she loved helping people, she dreamed of becoming a police officer,” her family said, describing her as a “people person” who will be “immensely” missed.“Although that dream has been cut short, we believe that right now she is rejoicing in heaven with her Savior,” they added....

Wisteria Lane, this is not. Felicity Huffman‘s Snowmass, Colorado, home may be a picture-perfect Colonial, but her neighbors are more likely to be roaming elk than desperate housewives. It’s “so indescribably beautiful in any direction you look, just magnificent,” her husband,ShamelessstarWilliam H. Macey, tellsarchdigest.comof the Rocky Mountain location. But it’s the sentimental connection that Huffman loves most. The actress grew up in a slightly smaller original house on the same plot and she and Macy were married there in 1997....

The Nobska Lighthouse along Nantucket Sound.Photo:Getty Getty A French man recently came across a message in a bottle that was tossed into the Atlantic Ocean 26 years ago as part of a school project. Hubert Eriau, a 71-year-old fisherman, found the bottle on the shores of a beach in Les Sables-d’Olonne, Vendée, on Aug. 11, according toUnited Press InternationalandThe Enterprise. Eriau’s response, which was addressed to Lyons, only recently reached Oak Ridge School, also within Sandwich’s public school district....

Photo: Jacksonville Police Department A Florida high school chorus director is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old student in 2018. On Monday, First Coast High School chorus director Christine Dennard, 32, pleaded not guilty to five counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor between the ages of 16 and 17,WJXT,Action News JaxandFirst Coast Newsreport. The Jacksonville County Sheriff’s Office began its investigation into Dennard on Nov....

Julie Ann Stewart.Photo: State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit A Florida man aware of his wife’s plan to divorce him and “take everything, including their son,” stabbed her to death and then placed her body in the trunk of his car before telling a neighbor he’d done so, later surrendering to police after a standoff. The man, Gerard Stewart, 49, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing 42-year-old Julie Ann Stewart, hours before he was scheduled to go on trial for her murder....

Jessica Bortle.Photo: Escambia County Jail Police in Florida have arrested a 34-year-old mother, alleging she caused the injuries that killed her daughter, who has special needs, while the 14-year-old was in the hospital receiving treatment for an infection. When Jasmine Singletary arrived at Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola on July 8, her ribs and liver were fine, according to a statement from the Pensacola Police Department. But police say the results of an autopsy showed Jasmine, who had a neuromuscular disorder, died from massive injuries to her ribs and liver — injuries allegedly sustained while she was in her hospital bed....

Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo.Photo: Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo is defending himself after a lawmaker undergoing treatment for breast cancer said he refused to wear a face mask during a recent meeting with her. Ladapo’s explanation came after state Sen. Tina Polsky, a Democrat, said Ladapo, 45, refused to wear a mask during an in-person meeting with her last week in Tallahassee....

Photo: Orange County Jail; University of Central Florida A Florida woman who is accused of fatally stabbing her executive husband used to be his stepdaughter, according to multiple reports. Danielle Redlick, 45, was arrested on charges of second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence in the death of her husband, Michael Redlick, an executive at the University of Central Florida who once worked for the NBA’s Memphis Grizzlies. According to WESH, a family friend told investigators that Michael had been married to Danielle’s mother Cathy and he allegedly married her because she was dying of cancer and he wanted her to have better medical coverage....

Flavor Flavhas been bestowed the ultimate Swiftie title: “King Swiftie!” ThePublic Enemymember, 64, talked on the NFL Honors red carpet about getting that crown fromTaylor Swiftfans — and revealed what he talked to Swift herself about at the 2024 Grammys this past Sunday. The rappertold theLos Angeles Timesthat he finally “got to get some Taylor time” at the awards show after attending her Eras Tour show last year. “The discussion [at the event] was about me congratulating her on all her success....

Knox MacEwan.Photo:Gofundme Gofundme A Florida teenager has died after going into cardiac arrest during a high school 5K race. Knox MacEwen, 14, was a member of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program at his Western High School in Davie, Florida. “I am saddened to share tragic news impacting our Wildcat community. One of our JROTC students passed away this morning after being transported to the hospital,” Jimmy Arrojo — the school’s principal — said in a message to students, families and staff, per the outlet....

Late last month, a man, whose identity has not been released, was leaving his girlfriend’s Lake Worth Beach apartment to go to work in the morning when a kinkajou came barging into the second-story residence and attacked him, CBS 12reports. The four-legged rainforest creature — which resembles a monkey, but is related to raccoons — had been waiting outside the door all night hoping to get more food after the man and some neighbors fed it watermelon the day prior, according to the outlet....