Hormel Foods and its subsidiary Jennie-O Turkey Store said they will donate $25,000 to Jayme Closs, the 13-year-old girl who was recently found after being kidnapped last October following a shooting that left both her parents dead. Closs’ parents, James and Denise Closs, were both longtime employees of the Jennie-O …
Read More »One Dead, 12 Hospitalized Following Mass Overdose in California
Authorities in Chico, California, are investigating a “mass casualty overdose,” likely from the drug fentanyl, that left one person dead and hospitalized 12 others over the weekend. Police responded to a 911 call at a residence on Saturday, January 12th at approximately 9 a.m., and dispensed six doses of the …
Read More »True Crime Podcast: 'Happy Face'
This 12-part podcast from How Stuff Worksfollows Melissa Moore, who was raised as Melissa Jesperson, a writer from Washington State who also happens to be the daughter of Canadian-born serial killer Keith Hunter Jesperson, a.k.a. the Happy Face Killer. Jesperson, a six-foot-six truck driver who spent much of his life …
Read More »How an Alleged Serial Killer Went Unnoticed for 40 Years
Convicted killer Samuel Little, 78, could turn out to be among the country’s most prolific serial killers in history, and one that, until now, law enforcement didn’t even realize existed. According to the FBI, after being convicted and sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for three murders in Southern …
Read More »Sex Workers Say Incel Campaign to Report Them to IRS Won't Work
A few angry men on the internet have launched a campaign encouraging others to report sex workers to the IRS for failing to report income they make online, claiming they’ll get a cut of any back taxes collected as a reward for being “whistleblowers.” The campaign, dubbed the “Thot Audit,” …
Read More »Nevada Becomes 10th State to Ditch Tampon Tax
Tuesday’s midterms were all about the “blue wave” of voters who helped the Democrats take back majority control of the House of Representatives, but in Nevada, the crimson wave had its own victory. The state became the 10th in the nation to eliminate the so-called “tampon tax,” meaning women will …
Read More »Tiffany Haddish Announces #SheReady Stand-Up Tour
Tiffany Haddish has announced a stand-up tour. The 2019 trek is named #SheReady after her most common catchphrase. Haddish’s tour will launch in Miami on New Year’s Eve and then head to the west coast. The rest of the dates take place in California, Washington, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and New …
Read More »Rose McGowan Severs Ties With Asia Argento Following Sexual Assault Accusation
Rose McGowan, a leading voice in the #MeToo movement, has penned an open letter to Asia Argento, a beleaguered mouthpiece for the movement, following accusations that Argento paid off someone who’d accused her of sexual assault. Both women became some of the most prominent voices in the #MeToo movement in …
Read More »All-Star Game Pitcher's Racist, Homophobic Tweets Cause Online Furor
Tuesday night’s Major League All-Star Game is one Josh Hader will never forget. The Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher was on the mound for just a third of an inning, giving up a tie-breaking three-run homer that briefly put the American League in the lead. But enough about baseball! Hader’s disastrous …
Read More »Watch Terry Crews Testify Before Senate on Sexual Assault
Terry Crews discussed the importance of protecting survivors of sexual assault, his own experience as a survivor and the “cult of toxic masculinity that exists in our society” during testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. The Judiciary Committee was holding hearings on the Sexual Assault Survivors’ “Bill of Rights,” …
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