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A Panama City man is recovering after colliding with a black bear while riding his bike to work.
John Hearn said he saw something out of the corner of his eye early Thursday morning. The nearly 300-pound bear smacked him off his bicycle and then fled into some nearby woods. Passing motorists stopped to help Hearn, who sustained minor injuries. The back tire of his bike was also ripped off.
Hearn, who bikes to work at Tyndall Air Force Base a few times a week, said he still plans to bike to work.
A Minneapolis mother is looking for the public's help in finding a mob of teenage girls that she says assaulted her family.
The attack happened Thursday afternoon inside Folwell Park on Minneapolis' north side.
Shawnee Twiet says she was in and out of consciousness when the attack happened.
"As soon as I hit the ground, I just started feeling just everything coming from everywhere," Twiet said. "I mean blows coming from the back of my head. I felt somebody grabbing the back of my hair."
She suffered a black eye, bruises all over her body and imprints on her back.
Twiet says she was not the original victim; her two daughters were targeted first. Twiet says the group blamed her daughters for taking a pair of sunglasses.
Twiet's 15-year-old called home after she said she was threatened by the group. Twiet then made the three-block journey to Folwell Park.
Twiet said when she arrived at the park she saw a woman and some teenage girls crossing the street. She also saw her 15-year-old walking toward her, but she noticed that her 4-year-old daughter was missing.
- 'I'd rather go to jail than sit on another jury'
- Husband worried about her health
The woman, known only as juror number 12 left her job and went into hiding fearing co-workers would 'want her head on a platter'.
Her husband said before leaving she told him: 'I'd rather go to jail than sit on a jury like this again.'
© The Associated PressProtest: Anthony to four years for lying to investigators but can go free in July or August because she has already served nearly three years in jail
© Getty ImagesControversial verdict: Anthony case has been compared to the controversial OJ Simpson trial
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Canada's largest public sector union, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, is vowing to initiate a major offensive against any plans to radically reduce its membership.
President John Gordon says his union, which represents about 172,000 federal employees, won't start a general strike but will be actively be campaigning against the Tories and any potential job cuts.
Stephen Harper's government has made it "very clear" its plan to find $4 billion in annual savings to balance the federal budget will mean some programs will be eliminated or scaled back, Gordon told Bloomberg News.
A Jet Blue flight took off from Boston Friday night and then landed in Newark, New Jersey, where the plane's cleaning crew found a stun gun.
The Striker 1800 was found in a seat back pocket and was turned over to authorities. Now the investigation is turning to how a stun gun made its way onto a plane and who brought it on, something investigators may never know.
Jet Blue passengers are uneasy with the stunning discovery, and rightfully so. Fred Hevalt, an airline security expert who produced the documentary "Please Remove Your Shoes," however, says that it's possible to get all sorts of things through airport security and people shouldn't be all that surprised now.
© unknownRobert Nowak
Nowak, 51, is accused of killing 26-year-old Moross in February 2001 and leaving his body in a parking lot in Madison Heights.
Investigators linked Nowak to Moross in 2010, after Nowak was arrested in California on a theft charge and his DNA matched that taken from Moross' body.
But Nowak's defense attorney, Lawrence Kaluzny, said Moross likely was a victim of a bizarre sexual cult operating in a home in Rochester, where men were mutilated and tortured in the basement of the home in the 400 block of 6th Street.
Federal agents with Immigration and Custom Enforcement have been investigating the cult, and have seized thousands of photos of mutilations and torture. On Monday, agent David Dominique, who is expected to be called as a defense witness, declined to answer questions from reporters.
© file photoGilbert’s sister, left, with a 48 Hours reporter.
Peter Hackett, long reported as one of the last people to see the missing Gilbert, had denied that he reached out to her family, as her mother alleged.
But tonight, the show reveals that he acknowledged making two calls to Gilbert's family last May, saying he only offered to help search.
A Westside Chicago neighborhood has gone to the birds! A peacock was roaming free Sunday afternoon on West 19th Street.
An animal control officer spotted the bird Sunday morning but wasn't able to catch it. She did finally corner it Sunday afternoon.
It's unclear where the peacock came from. A city spokesperson says if no one claims it, the bird will go to a sanctuary.
Source: CNN
Police and firemen evacuated a block of apartments in North Miami on Monday night when they discovered an apartment filled with a mysterious smell and cryptic, possibly threatening notes.
When a hazmat team entered the fourth-floor apartment at 1475 NE 125th Terrace, they encountered a strong odor similar to gasoline fumes. The smell, which was noticeable from outside the apartment, appeared to come from containers filled with an unknown chemical.
Responders also discovered a bedroom door covered with notes in English, Spanish, and Creole. The notes warned that "whoever entered the apartment was going to meet Jesus," a Miami-Dade police spokesman said.
When a hazmat team entered the fourth-floor apartment at 1475 NE 125th Terrace, they encountered a strong odor similar to gasoline fumes. The smell, which was noticeable from outside the apartment, appeared to come from containers filled with an unknown chemical.
Responders also discovered a bedroom door covered with notes in English, Spanish, and Creole. The notes warned that "whoever entered the apartment was going to meet Jesus," a Miami-Dade police spokesman said.
A 32 year old woman died under mysterious circumstances in J P Nagar police station limits on Monday afternoon.The deceased has been identified as Padma, a resident of Jaraganahalli near G K Mallaiah College. Police said that her body was found in a sitting posture and a rope was tied around her neck and it looks like she committed suicide by hanging.However, it is mysterious as one cannot commit suicide while sitting on the floor, police said. She has two children Tejas Gowda and Kiran Gowda. She was alone at home as her husband J C Gowda went to his mobile SIM card shop. Tejas, who came from the school at 3 PM found the front doors opened and room locked from inside. He called the neighbours and opened the doors found his mother dead. At the sametime, his brother Kiran and father J C Gowda returned home. According to the police, Gowda used to go to home generally at 3 pm as the children used to return home at that time.SuspicionTejas told police that there are some external injuries on the body and her gold ear rings and chain were missing. Family members suspect that some known person might have committed murder for stealing gold, but created a scene like she committed suicide.J P Nagar police now have registered a unnatural death case, but are waiting for the autopsy from Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS). The police have registered a case and are investigating. They are questioning J C Gowda, her husband for more information.
