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Champions of organic farming have long portrayed it as friendlier to humans and the earth. But a new study in a California county found a surprising effect as their acreage grew: Nearby conventional farms applied more pesticides, likely to stay on top of an increased insect threat to their crops, the researchers said. Ashley Larsen, lead author of the study …

After Vice President Kamala Harris announced her plans to walk the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a parent of one of the victims of the deadly 2018 school shooting shared his frustration about the blatant “push” and “promotion” of gun control. Ryan Petty, whose 14-year-old daughter Alaina Petty was tragically killed in the Parkland, Florida …

Authorities said a mother in Florida has been charged after day care staff found a handgun inside her 2-year-old son’s lunchbox. Shanae Davis, 39, faces several charges including allowing a minor to obtain a firearm and child neglect after a teacher at Jackson’s Daycare Center in Riviera Beach opened the lunch box with a 9mm Glock 43 handgun inside it. …

Police have captured two people of interest after a New York woman was allegedly killed by squatters and stuffed into a duffel bag in her apartment. Two people connected to the death of 52-year-old Nadia Vitels were captured in York, Pennsylvania, Friday by the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, the New York Police Department told Fox News Digital. Halley Tejada, …

An argument between a Florida couple about their differing political views turned violent Wednesday, investigators said. The Lee County Sheriff’s Office was called to a home in North Fort Meyers after a 70-year-old man allegedly grabbed his fiancé’s neck and squeezed, an affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital states. The woman, a “Democrat,” called for help, investigators said. “She (and …

A 40-year-old California drama teacher faces a slew of felonies after police learned of her yearslong sexual relationship with a female student who was 15 years old at the onset, police said. San Diego Police wrote in a press release that Mt. Carmel High School teacher Stacey Michelle Walker “began engaging the 15-year-old victim in conversations that became sexual in …

William Franklin, recently released after serving 44 years in prison, could walk from a Philadelphia courtroom an exonerated man on Friday, or he may face another trial for a 1976 murder he says he did not commit. His 1980 conviction based on tainted testimony was overturned after the lone eyewitness against him recanted. His conviction dates to a high-crime era …

The mother of a U.K. woman who vanished from her American boyfriend’s yacht in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2021 sent an open letter to President Biden on Friday, demanding he do something about the “failures” of police in the tourist hot spot, known for gorgeous beaches and a leisurely island life. Sarm Heslop vanished overnight between March 7 and …

A top Southern Baptist administrative body has selected its first permanent leader in nearly two-and-a-half years, a time when it has navigated a tumult of controversies ranging from a sexual abuse scandal to financial struggles — to its own stumbling efforts to find a new president. Jeff Iorg, the longtime president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s only seminary outside of …

A woman who claimed to be a witch was attracted by a “Witches Welcome” sign outside a stranger’s home and nearly burned the porch down in Iowa, police said. Responding officers in Burlington, Iowa, found Michelle Young, 46, allegedly torching a handful of bizarre items, like a taillight, tin foil, bark and a yellow lawn flag, outside what she thought …