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Missing Kayaker Melvin Phillip Emde faked his own death before court to apparently dodge rape charges hearing.Photo:St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office A missing kayaker whose son told authorities was dead has been found alive in Georgia, authorities said. Melvin Phillip Emde was due in court on rape chargeson the same day he was reported missing. Emde’s son Seth reported him missing on Aug. 7. Seth told authorities his father had gone overboard and drowned while kayaking in the Mississippi River near Matis Road in Hahnville, Louisiana, approximately 30 miles west of New Orleans, Champagne said....

As Russia’s ongoing attack on Ukraine began, Wendy Farrell stayed alert from afar. With her husband Ryan, the mother of five, of Springfield, Missouri, had adopted a daughter from Ukraine in 2013. She later built a bond with a Christian orphanage outside of Lviv, in western Ukraine, collecting money and clothes for them stateside but also escorting friends and family on trips over to engage with those she affectionately calls her “kiddos....

Senate Minority LeaderMitch McConnelltold reporters he is “fine” shortly after he stopped speaking mid-sentence during a press conference on Wednesday. Eventually, McConnell returned to the microphone, where he answered questions about what had just occurred. “Could you address what happened here at the start of the press conference and was it related to your injury from earlier this year where you suffered a concussion?” one reporter asked — a reference to the Republican’snearly five-day stint in the hospitalin March after taking a fall during a dinner event....

Photo: Kennedy News and Media Anthea Smith never thought about the dangers of tanning when she was a teenager. Now, after developing an aggressive form of melanoma in her left ear that led to its amputation, the U.K. mother of two is speaking out to warn others to stop using tanning beds. “I lost my left ear to my tanning addiction,” Smith, 44, told theBBC. “[My] whole left ear has been amputated, and then [in a] second operation I had my whole inner ear, middle ear, all my salivary glands on my left side, all my lymph nodes....

A mother lost four family members, including her husband and two of their children, when a tornado swept through central Iowa over the weekend. Melissa Bazley, 63, her son-in-law, 37-year-old Michael Bolger, and two of his children, Kinlee Bolger, 5, and Owen Bolger, 2, died when the tornado hit Madison County on Saturday, according to theAssociated Press. Michael’s wife, Kuri Bolger, was injured during the storm but survived along with her 8-year-old son, Brysen, in addition to her grandfather and uncle....

When Kristi Ouimet logged onto Facebook in June, 2020 and received a message from a man thousands of miles away in Nepal, she never thought in her wildest dreams that he would become family.Kristi, a mother of three in Antioch, California, had been scrolling through a Facebook group dedicated to people who sufferfrom primary hyperoxaluria type 1, a life-threatening liver condition that leads to kidney damage, and more often than that requires a kidney and liver transplant....

Photo: PayPal Pool WARNING: Photo below may be distressing to some readers. Mom of threeKaitlin Burge, whose son Beckett suffers from Leukemia, shared a photo a photo of Beckett onFacebook last week, leaning over the toilet about to throw up, as his sister lovingly pats him on the back. “One thing they don’t tell you about childhood cancer is that it affects the entire family. You always hear about the financial and medical struggles, but how often do you hear about the struggles families with other children face?...

Kumiko Love managed to pull herself out of thousands of dollars of debt thanks to a three-step plan she devised and is now sharing on her blog, “The Budget Mom.” Love, 33, was under a mountain of student loan debt that she struggled to pay off while raising her young son as a single mom, she explained toNBC News. “I tried every budgeting method out there,” Love told the outlet....

Dominique and Shana Decree.Photo: Bucks Co DA’s Office Grieving relatives say religious beliefs may have compelled a mother and her teenage daughter to allegedly massacre five of their family members —including three children— inside a suburban Pennsylvania apartment. Damon Decree, Sr., the ex-husband of suspect Shana Decree, 45, and the father of suspect Dominique Decree, 19, told WPVI that both women had been “talking about demons being all around them....

Photo: Jerod Harris/Getty Monica Lewinskyis reflecting on the 25th anniversary of heraffairwith former PresidentBill Clintongoing public. In a self-penned piece forVanity Fair, the activist and writer, 49, detailed what she has “observed and learnedin the quarter century since” she was a White House intern. “One thing everyone has in common is that we have all made mistakes. It’s inevitable. Get comfortable with the Art of the Mistake,” wrote Lewinsky, whose affair with Clinton, 76, made headlines on Jan....

UPDATE:As of August 9, more than 600 people have reported illnesses following dining at the Ohio-based Chipotle restaurant, according to theWashington Post. An OhioChipotleis back open following a temporary closure on Monday after more than 100 people reported illnesses to the health department after dining there, theNew York Postreports. According toiwaspoisoned.com, a website that tracks food borne illnesses, reports of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea have been filed to the website which suggested that more than 280 customers felt sick after eating at the burrito chain’s Powell, Ohio outpost....

Karlie Klosshas a “day job.” At least, that’s what she calls her job in fashion. She’s one of the most familiar faces in modeling, hostingProject Runway, posing inVogueand walking in countless fashion weeks and theVictoria’s Secret Fashion Show.But she wants to do even more. Speaking to PEOPLE at the American Express Toast to 10 Event, which celebrates the company’s 10th year of Small Business Saturday (coming up Saturday, Nov. 30), Kloss — in a very appropriately colored trench (“I didn’t want to match the backdrop, but I also was very excited,” she admits) — sported a huge smile....

Healthcare workers.Photo: Getty Images Cases of COVID-19 and hospitalizations are again rising in the U.S., but this time, they’re primarily occurring in younger adults now that older age groups are vaccinated against the virus. After months of decline, COVID-19 cases started to creep upwards again in late March as several faster-spreading, and more severe variants of the virus moved through the U.S. The highly-contagious B.1.1.7 variant, which was first identified in the U....