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 | | | NFL star Richard Sherman in jail | | Richard Sherman arrested on burglary domestic violence complaint. At least 68 major fires continue to burn. It's Wednesday's news. | | |
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| Free agent cornerback Richard Sherman was arrested. Fires continue to rage in the "tragically dry" West. And NASA says the moon's wobble is expected to cause some issues here on Earth. |
| It's Ashley, and this all feels so familiar. Let's do the news thing. |
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Richard Sherman arrested on burglary domestic violence complaint |
| Free agent cornerback Richard Sherman was arrested on a complaint of "burglary domestic violence," according to court records. According to the records, Sherman was booked into jail Wednesday and was denied bail. The case is being investigated as a felony. Police said Wednesday that officers responded to a report of an in-progress burglary and found Sherman "attempting to force entry into a family member's home." Sherman fought with officers, police said, with a K9 team being deployed during the encounter. Authorities are also investigating Sherman as part of a separate alleged hit-and-run incident. |
| Richard Sherman, 33, spent the past three seasons with the San Francisco 49ers. He spent the first seven seasons of his NFL career with the Seattle Seahawks, becoming one of the league's most feared cornerbacks. |
 | | San Francisco 49ers cornerback Richard Sherman celebrates after the NFL NFC Championship football game against the Green Bay Packers Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020, in Santa Clara, Calif. The 49ers won 37-20 to advance to Super Bowl 54 against the Kansas City Chiefs. | | AP | |
Oregon wildfire may burn until Thanksgiving |
| Thousands of firefighters battling Western wildfires fueled by near-record heat and drought conditions were finding little solace in the weather Wednesday. More than 16,000 firefighters are combating at least 68 major fires in 12 states. More than 1 million acres – almost 1,600 square miles – were ablaze. And long-range forecasts call for temperatures to increase over the weekend and into next week. |
| In Oregon, the Bootleg Fire remained the nation's largest blaze, and officials say it might take more than four months to fully contain it. More than 300 square miles have already burned – an area more than twice the size of Portland. |
 | | A sign thanking firefighters and first responders hangs near the Bootleg Fire, Monday, July 12, 2021, in Chiloquin, Ore. | | Nathan Howard, AP | |
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Brace for flooding. A moon 'wobble' is coming, NASA says |
| Thanks to a "wobble" in the moon's orbit and rising sea levels, every coast in the United States will face rapidly increasing high tides that will start "a decade of dramatic increases in flood numbers" in the 2030s. The conclusion, which was published by the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team, has to do with the moon's orbit. How severe will the floods be? In 2019, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported more than 600 floods that year. By the mid-2030s, scientists expect three to four times that number. NASA hopes the release of the findings will help potentially impacted cities take measures in order to prevent too much damage. |
Drug overdose deaths hit record high in 2020 |
| Overdose deaths soared to a record 93,000 last year in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. government reported Wednesday. That estimate far eclipses the high of about 72,000 drug overdose deaths reached the previous year and amounts to a 29% increase. The nation was already struggling with its worst overdose epidemic, but clearly "COVID has greatly exacerbated the crisis," said Brandon Marshall, a Brown University public health researcher who tracks overdose trends. Lockdowns and other pandemic restrictions isolated those with drug addictions and made treatment harder to get, experts said. |
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His son was kidnapped as a toddler 24 years ago. DNA testing just found him |
| A miraculous reunion. Thanks to DNA tracing and a father's devotion, one man in China was reunited with his son after 24 years. When Guo Gangtang's son was just 2, he was kidnapped by human traffickers outside of their home in the province of Shandong, China. China's Ministry of Public Security said the police were able to trace his son's identity and find him through DNA testing. And on Sunday, the father and son were photographed embracing each other for the first time in 24 years. |
 | | Chinese parents, abducted son reunite 24 years on | | CCTV | |
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Behold, the world's most expensive fries 🍟 |
| Turns out, the topping we've been missing on French fries is gold dust. These are the world's most expensive fries, and you can buy them in New York. They're topped with 23K edible gold dust — for a $200 price tag. |
 | | The Creme de la Creme Pommes Frites, finished with 23K edible gold dust, cost $200. | | Kristen L. Stephenson | |
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