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It’s the spooky season for creepy crawlies, but maggots? Tucson Medical Center recently used them to help keep a patient from having surgery.

The guilty plea would set up a penalty phase where Nikolas Cruz, 23, would be fighting against the death penalty and hoping for life without parole.

Officer Cody Holte died in the line of duty last year, and will be memorialized alongside other fallen officers in the nation’s capital.

She survived five days without food and water by licking the moisture from the walls to sustain herself.

The move by the Justice Department comes after an appeals court on Thursday night left in place the law known as Senate Bill 8, which bans abortions once cardiac activity is detected, usually around six weeks. That is before some women know they are pregnant.

At a change-of-command ceremony at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin applauded her historic rise, calling her a “legend of a leader.”

An Illinois World War II veteran had some unexpected company for this 100th birthday.

In the recording, Gina Peddy told the teachers to remember a new Texas law that requires teachers to present multiple perspectives when discussing “widely debated and currently controversial” issues. She said: “And make sure that if you have a book on the Holocaust, that you have one that has an opposing, that has other perspectives.”

The officer, Michael A. Riley, is accused of tipping off someone who participated in the riot by telling them to remove posts from Facebook that had showed the person inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, according to court documents.

In the battle of the best mullet in the nation, Allan Baltz took home the prize in the kids’ division. Allan is donating the $2,500 prize for winning the mullet competition to two foster care organizations in Arkansas, Project Zero and Together We Foster, and is inspiring others to make their own donations.

The Alisal Fire in the Santa Ynez Mountains west of Santa Barbara grew only slightly since Thursday morning to 26.4 square miles, and containment of the blaze jumped to 41%, up from 5% 24 hours earlier. The improved situation allowed authorities Thursday evening to reopen U.S. 101, the region’s main highway, and a rail line that runs next to the highway. They had been closed since Monday.

TJ Mack has already been through so much, with 17% of his body burned and more than likely many surgeries ahead. But this day was about having a special moment in blue.

A spokeswoman with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office said that the bison is seven months old.

Victoria Farish Weiss, 27, is charged with possession of a Schedule 1 drug, according to warrants. She is no longer employed with the school district.

A woman attacked a Capitol Police officer with a bat near the U.S. Capitol Friday morning, multiple media reports say.

A family said they received a notice that their home was sold for $236 in a delinquent tax sale, but the sale was done by mistake.

The new policy will apply to both international air and land travel.

The owner of a home recently found more than a few rattlesnakes living under their house. In fact, nearly 100 snakes were found.

Under the report, the mortgage process, stock market disclosures, retirement plans, federal procurement and government budgeting are all being reconsidered so the country could price in the risks being created by climate change. The report is a follow-up to a May executive order by President Joe Biden that essentially calls on the government to analyze how extreme heat, flooding, storms, wildfires and broader adjustments to address climate change could affect the world’s largest economy.

The lawsuit is seeking damages for mental and physical trauma endured by Bernard during a sexual assault at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.

The suspect in a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people and wounded three in a small Norwegian town is facing a custody hearing Friday.

New information from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention shows a record number of Americans died from reported drug overdoses in a 12-month period.

The flight-control system automatically pushed down the noses of Max jets that crashed in 2018 in Indonesia and 2019 in Ethiopia. The pilots tried unsuccessfully to regain control, but both planes went into nosedives minutes after taking off. Most pilots were unaware of the system, called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, until after the first crash.

A federal appeals court is once again allowing Texas to continue banning most abortions.

Durst, 78, was convicted last month in Los Angeles Superior Court of shooting Berman point-blank in the back of the head in her Los Angeles home just before Christmas 2000.

Cher has sued the widow of her former musical partner and ex-husband Sonny Bono over royalties for Sonny and Cher songs including “I Got You Babe.”

Former President Bill Clinton has been hospitalized for a non-COVID-related infection.

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe has won back his full pension as part of a settlement of his lawsuit arising from his firing during the Trump administration more than three years ago, his lawyers announced Thursday.

Workers were emboldened to demand more this year after working long hours throughout the pandemic and because companies are facing worker shortages.

President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill raising the nation’s debt limit until early December, delaying the prospect of an unprecedented federal default that would cause economic disaster.