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A fitness-obsessed model from New York has urged women not to date ‘lazy’ men and to dump their boyfriends if they don’t hit the gym five times a week. Puerto Rico-born, Buffalo-raised Santana Rodriguez explained that couch potatoes are a big no-no when it comes to her dating life, insisting: “Relationships with lazy people should be discarded.” Rodriguez’s trim physique and super-healthy diet have amassed her almost 200,000 followers on Instagram, and her chiselled snaps will make your abdominal muscles ache just looking at them. Rodriguez – who has graced the covers of Maxim, Harper’s Bazaar, FHM – works out…

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Dustin Lee Dennis, 31, is behind bars in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and facing two counts of second-degree murder after allegedly leaving his two children in his hot truck, according to jail records.The two children, identified by the family as 4-year-old Teagan and 3-year-old Ryan, 3, were allegedly left in the back of Dennis’ truck for several hours on Saturday.You’ll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. “There is no way to express our grief or what my sister is going through,” their aunt, Chantiel Keyes, wrote on a GoFundMe page. No one is ever expecting to go…

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After four years, a Connecticut man turned himself in to authorities and confessed to a cold case murder. Now, he will remain behind bars for more than three decades. On May 3, Hartford Superior Court Judge David P. Gold handed William W. Leverett 35 years in prison for the stabbing death of Melissa Millan. Leverett pleaded guilty to murder after he walked into a Simsbury Police station and confessed to the crime.According to prosecutors, Millan routinely jogged through the Simsbury Greenway trail. However, on the night of Nov. 20, 2014, the 54-year-old former insurance executive was jogging when Leverett accosted…

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President Donald J. Trump offers a fist pump to awaiting supporters as he disembarks Air Force One Saturday, Dec. 14 2019, at Philadelphia International Airport to attend the 120th Army-Navy football game, official White House photo by Joyce N. Boghosian. Democrats’ advantage among female voters has narrowed from recent campaign cycles, CNN analyst Harry Enten explained on Saturday. “The polling ahead of the 2022 midterms has been marked by a shrinking of electoral divisions,” he wrote. “Perhaps more surprisingly as we head into the heart of the primary season, the same is true when it comes to gender. Even after…

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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate1of5 Chandler Hickenbottom, an organizer in Saratoga Black Lives Matter, urged the crowd to stay involved to end racism.Show MoreShow LessALBANY – Organizers of a vigil to remember those killed at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo were blunt about the cause of the shooting there last Saturday: White supremacy. Racism. “We are standing in solidarity with those who have lost their lives to racist pieces of s—,” said speaker Gherian Foster of Schenectady.As those attending the Townsend Park gathering sang songs, read poetry and chanted, they said nothing would…

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A young girl brings a homeless man home without informing her mother and provides him with refuge and food. But her mother soon discovers the truth, and the events that follow drastically change their lives.Jackie Wilkinson was a single mother who raised her daughter Clarissa alone after her husband Andrew died of leukemia six years ago.After Andrew’s passing, several of Jackie’s friends advised her to get married, emphasizing that Clarissa was young and needed a father’s care as well, but Jackie refused and instead chose to raise Clarissa alone.Of course, juggling housework and raising a 6-year-old kid alone wasn’t easy,…

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Rich Man Kicks Out Homeless Girl Begging for Money, Later Sees Her at Wife’s Grave — Story of the Day A wealthy man scornfully refuses to give a poor girl money for flowers. But he sees her later at his deceased wife’s grave weeping and realizes who she is. David Salvi was nervous and excited. He was back in Boston after an absence of 15 years, and he was about to do something he’d sworn he’d never do: reach out to his wife. The florist he walked towards was rightly known as one of the city’s best, and he knew…

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Police in Minnesota have arrested the 28-year-old mother of a 6-year-old boy found dead in the trunk of her car during a traffic stop on Friday.Julissa Thayer has not yet been formally charged, but she was jailed early Saturday morning on a probable cause warrant for murder, jail records show.Details of the death have not been released.Family members identified the boy as Eli Hart, who had been a kindergarten student at Shirley Hills Primary School in Mound, KMSP reported.The boy’s body was found Friday morning when police responded to a 911 call reporting a vehicle with a tire driving on…

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A little boy from Omaha experienced a scary moment after a typical school day turned horrid due to the neglect of the adult in charge. Seven-year-old Quinci Jordan was having a regular after-school day until it was time for his drop-off. The bus driver pulled up at a stop, and after the young boy descended, he had a crippling feeling of being lost. Quinci was dropped off at the wrong location, despite letting the driver know it was not his destination. However, a quick-thinking act from the little boy saved the day and what could have escalated into a dangerous…

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NEWBURY, Mass. —A woman is dead and a man and child are injured after they were struck by a vehicle at a farm stand in a village of Newbury, Massachusetts. Newbury police Chief John Lucey said the crash happened at about 3:35 p.m. Saturday at Sforza Family Farm in Byfield, which is near the Byfield Greenhouse and Garden Center on Chute Road. Lucey said the vehicle involved, for unknown reasons, accelerated rapidly in reverse and crashed into the checkout area of the farm stand.Three people were struck by the vehicle. The woman who was killed, a man who suffered significant…

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