Many gun owners say they need military-style weapons to defend themselves against ‘government overreach’President Joe Biden arrives with Vice President Kamala Harris to lay a wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022, in Arlington, Va. President Joe Biden arrives with Vice President Kamala Harris to lay a wreath at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30, 2022, in Arlington, Va. Gun activists who claim they need the type of weapons used in a pair of deadly mass shootings earlier…
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Everyone who knew Martha ignored her because of what they’d been told about her, but her lonely fate changed one day when a little boy approached her.Martha was unusual. She knew it, and so did everyone who lived in the quaint little town she moved to after losing her life savings to a con artist. When she first arrived in town, Martha avoided any attempt to socialize with the townspeople, and eventually, they took the cue and stopped trying to be friendly with her. “She’s such a snob,” they would whisper behind her back while she pretended not to hear.…
A man is stunned to discover that the little blind girl he rescued was his father’s child from a second marriage to a woman he hated for breaking up his family.Adam looked down at the little girl’s delicate face turned up to his trustingly, the tiny hand in his, and felt a wave of hate that threatened to overcome him. “Your dad is the man with the dog?” he snarled. “THAT’S your father?””Yes,” the girl smiled. “I can’t see much at all, and Fluffy is my seeing-eye dog…”Adam abruptly dropped the girl’s hand and shoved her roughly towards the anxious-looking…
After Ethan Jenkins’s death, his widow, Myra, discovered that his entire estate would go to his newest business partner, Carl Ferguson, so she was forced to live in a dirty, old trailer. But their kids would not let the matter go, and they found out something shocking.”My deepest condolences, Myra,” Carl Ferguson told Myra at her husband, Ethan Jenkins’ funeral.His death was felt through the community in their town in Oregon. He was the founder of a major clothing store, although it started as a small business many decades ago.He met Myra when she came looking for a job as…
New video shows police response to deadly Texas school shootingThe gunman was inside the school for 77 minutes before law enforcement breached the locked door with a key and killed the shooter.ABC News When gunfire rang out at Robb Elementary School Tuesday, 9-year-old Daniel Garza said his teacher, Elsa Avila, ran to the door to lock their classroom, which was near the rooms where 19 students and two teachers were killed. Avila was shot through the glass and dropped to the floor, Daniel told ABC News, but she still told her students to stay quiet and said she was playing…
A son discovers his mother’s will and what he reads in it makes him tell her to pack her bags immediately and get ready to leave his house.Gerald Nizbit stared at the text on his screen in astonishment, then he picked up the phone. “Helen,” he said crisply to his assistant. “Get me my lawyer on the phone, then Margaret Pratt, then my mother — in that order!”Helen had been Gerald’s personal assistant for ten years, and she knew he wasn’t a particularly patient man, so she immediately started calling his attorney. In his office, Gerald was staring at the…
The city mayor was a millionaire and his stepdaughter, Karla, got into some trouble. She was taken by Officer Alana Denison to the station, where she told the officer something strange before they let her go quickly due to the mayor’s influence, and Alana couldn’t get those words out of her mind.”Why did you do that, sweetie? You can talk to me,” Officer Alana Denison told the teenage girl sitting in front of her at the station. After the neighbors reported her for throwing rocks at an apartment window in downtown New York, she had picked up the girl.”No reason,”…
A married couple is split apart when one midnight they both hear a kid crying somewhere in their home — the man wanted to kick the child out, but the woman refused. Oliver Robinson had been a husband for ten years but had, for some reason, not been able to father a child with his wife, Mary. Anyone could have told them that it had to do with their stunted sex life and busy lives, but it was something they had to figure out from a doctor.”When last did you spend a full weekend at home Oliver?” Dr. Ben Ross…
A grieving mother is frozen stiff in disbelief when she hears her son’s voice a few days after his death and decides to check his room.Amanda raised her son Eric alone after her husband died of cancer and left for his heavenly abode. Eric was merely four then, and raising a kid alone was nothing but challenging for Amanda.However, as time went on, she somehow reconciled with the situation and gave the best of everything she could to raise her boy. Problems arose only when Eric started growing up and became a teenager.The boy, like many other children his age,…
A former bully accidentally meets the man he used to make fun of when he tries to do a good deed for a haggard-looking beggar. Did karma never get to him? Robert Dean was hurting as he paid for purchases in Mary’s Mart — the town’s largest supermarket. As the clerk finished with him, rather than leave the premises, he stood near the exit, lost in thought. “Why did I buy so many groceries?” he wondered, staring down at his full hands. Robert was a one-year-old divorcée who still hadn’t gotten used to living independently, which is why he sometimes…