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January 6, 2025

Myanmar startup looks to bring ‘affordable housing’ to Bhutan, India
TOKYO — A Myanmar-based startup that builds affordable housing made from bamboo for displaced people in the country hopes to bring its business model to South Asian nations such as Bhutan and India, according to its co-founder. Housing Now won the Nikkei Asia Award for the enterprise’s social and economic contributions to Myanmar, a country…
Authorities reveal possible new look for ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ escapee
It’s been nearly 10 days since the convict depicted in an HBO document as the ‘Devil in the Ozarks’ escaped from an Arkansas prison, long enough for his appearance to possibly change. On Tuesday, the Arkansas Department of Corrections distributed a photo illustration of Grant Hardin, 56, with a short beard and mustache. “With over…
Mike McDaniel isn’t keeping up on Jalen Ramsey trade talks
Now that June 1 has come and gone, it becomes much easier from a cap standpoint for the Dolphins to trade cornerback Jalen Ramsey. But a trade still hasn’t happened. Coach Mike McDaniel was asked about it on Tuesday. Here’s what he said: “I don’t really check in on a day-to-day [basis]. Zero has changed…
Connecticut man gets 33 years in prison for stray-bullet killing of Olympian’s mother
WATERBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut man was sentenced to 33 years in prison on Tuesday for the stray-bullet killing of a Puerto Rican Olympic athlete’s mother. Jasper Greene, 23, of New Haven, was one of three men charged in the death of Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi on April 9, 2022. The 56-year-old woman was sewing in…
California teen ID’d as suspect in teacher’s 1978 fatal stabbing
A teenager suspected of fatally stabbing a teacher in a California high school more than four decades ago was identified after a relative told authorities about a decades-old confession made immediately after the murder, officials said. Harry Nickerson, who was 16 when the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said he killed Diane Peterson at…
‘We are better than this.’
BOULDER, Colo. — The 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who was burned during an attack by a man armed with a “makeshift flamethrower” had a message on Tuesday for the rest of America: “We are better than this.” In her first words spoken publicly since Sunday’s gruesome attack on a group of demonstrators advocating for the return…
TikTok can’t get enough of ‘Pretty Little Baby,’ a Connie Francis song from the 60s
TikTok often popularizes songs from music’s biggest and buzziest artists. But one of the most viral songs right now was recorded in 1961. More than six decades ago, singer Connie Francis recorded enough music to fill three albums. Buried on the back of one of those records was the song “Pretty Little Baby.” It wasn’t…
New searches underway in Portugal near where toddler Madeleine McCann disappeared in 2007
LAGOS, Portugal — Police investigating the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann searched near an abandoned rural building in southern Portugal on Tuesday as they launched fresh probes near the holiday resort where she was last seen 18 years ago. The case received worldwide interest for several years, with reports of sightings of McCann occurring…