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Past articles by Timothy:

Alex Jones spent $93,000 in July, but hasn’t paid Sandy Hook families

The right-wing conspiracy theorist, who owes Sandy Hook families nearly $1.5 billion, spent thousands on housekeeping, meals and entertainment, a court filing says. → Read More

Jan. 6 rioter likens herself to Jesus: ‘I did the right thing’

Yvonne St Cyr was sentenced Wednesday to 2½ years in federal prison for her role in the riot. She said, “I understood what Jesus felt like” before he died. → Read More

Grizzly bear that killed hiker is euthanized after breaking into home for food

The grizzly bear, which killed Amie Adamson near Yellowstone National Park in July and injured someone else in 2020, broke into a home in search of food. → Read More

A teen was hunting for fossils. She found a 34 million-year-old whale skull.

The rare whale skull, discovered by 16-year-old Lindsey Stallworth and her teacher Drew Gentry on her family’s Alabama property, could be a new species. → Read More

Record 14-foot monster alligator caught in Mississippi: ‘It was pandemonium’

It took seven hours for a group of hunters to catch and reel in the 14-foot 3-inch alligator, the longest ever caught in Mississippi. → Read More

Thinking about playing in Hilary floodwater? ‘Stay out,’ experts say.

While health experts have repeatedly warned people to “stay out of floodwater” during Tropical Storm Hilary, some in California are swimming or playing in it. → Read More

What we know about the rare flesh-eating bacteria that’s killed 3

Two Connecticut residents died after being infected with the rare flesh-eating bacteria after swimming with open cuts in the Long Island Sound. → Read More

An egging over a ‘lovers’ quarrel’ ended in murder charges for teens, police say

Sydney Maughon, 18; Jeremy Munson, 19; and McKenzie Davenport, 19, are all charged with the malice murder after allegedly shooting Johnathan Gilbert, 22, in Georgia. → Read More

The time Clarence Thomas said affirmative action was ‘critical’ for society

Decades later, the Supreme Court justice compared affirmative action to Jim Crow-era laws, saying the programs were used to justify segregation and slavery. → Read More

Scot Peterson, who didn’t act to stop Parkland massacre, is acquitted

The trial of Peterson, 60, marked the first time that a U.S. law enforcement officer has been tried in connection with a school shooting. → Read More

Police officers jail their toddler for struggling with potty training

“He was crying. I was getting the response I expected from him,” Lt. Michael Schoenbrod said of putting his 3-year-old in jail for having an accident in his pants. → Read More

Woman dies after stepping on fire ants at her Georgia home

Cathy Weed, 43, was at her home in Lawrenceville, Ga., when she died because of a severe allergic reaction she had to fire ants, her family said. → Read More

Daniel Penny to be arraigned in Jordan Neely subway chokehold death

The arraignment comes two weeks after a grand jury indicted Penny for allegedly placing Neely in a fatal chokehold in a subway train in May. → Read More

Ralph Yarl doesn’t have ‘hatred’ for shooter but wants him convicted

In an interview with “Good Morning America,” Ralph Yarl recounted how Andrew D. Lester shot him after the teen mistakenly went to the wrong house in April. → Read More

A teen died while hiking Big Bend. His stepdad died trying to get help.

A 14-year-old boy from Florida fell unconscious while hiking in the West Texas heat, officials said, and his stepfather died in a car crash when he tried to get help. → Read More

Titan CEO spoke of ‘discount’ parts, journalist invited on submersible says

Journalist Arnie Weissmann said Stockton Rush spoke in May of getting carbon fiber used to make the Titan submersible “at a big discount from Boeing." → Read More

CEO touted the Titan as ‘one of the great moments of submersibles’ in 2018

“The days of government funding are gone,” OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush said at the Titan's christening in 2018, five years before it went missing. → Read More

Titanic submersible CEO had spoken about worry of vessel not surfacing

Months before Stockton Rush became one of the five people in a missing submersible, he acknowledged fears but said he didn’t think such expeditions were “very dangerous” at all. → Read More

When James Cameron was on a Titanic submersible dive as 9/11 unfolded

The "Titanic" director, who completed submersible dives to the wreckage, said he was "presumably the last man in the Western Hemisphere" to find out about 9/11. → Read More

Her depression was crippling. Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter saved her, she says.

“If it weren’t for Jimmy and Rosalynn, honest to God, I don’t know what would have happened to me,” says Anne Mahoney Robbins, 81. → Read More