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Kiara Diaz, 29, fell 15 feet through the floor while hiking El Miro in Jaco, Costa Rica, according to a GoFundeMe page. The Worcester woman is currently hospitalized in Costa Rica with two spinal fractures and a broken shoulder, according to the fundraiser. She sustained "fractures at T11 and T12, leaving her paralyzed." She is receiving "very limited medical care," the fundraiser states. "She has been lying in the hallway without monitoring or surgical intervention since she arrived."

After receiving a report about the distressed dolphins, staff from the Wareham Department of Natural Resources responded to a part of Beaver Creek off the Weweantic River at about 10:45 a.m. Monday. They found the two animals "alive and active" in the marsh, but low tides had apparently stranded them in shallow waters, according to town officials. The department contacted the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which operates a local marine mammal rescue team.

All of a sudden the front wheel hit the car, just came crashing down, sparks flying, debris everywhere,

A handful of people gathered in the hallway where a Los Angeles grand jury listened to Mogul Vision general manager Robert Morgenroth give lengthy testimony on Monday allegedly overheard him relay to his lawyer that Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman was very pushy on why [he] didn't call police. I said I feel like I didn't have the responsibility to do that, and just wanted to continue with the tour, Morgenroth, also the president of Zara Brothers Travel, reportedly told his attorney, according to TMZ.

The company is recommending an average 2.6% statewide rate decrease for personal lines accounts beginning on June 1. Personal lines accounts include multi-peril and dwelling/fire coverage of owner-occupied single-family homes, condo units, and mobile homes. It also includes wind-only hurricane coverage. Across the state, a projected 463,096 policyholders would save an average premium savings of $359 compared to 2025. The company projects that 228,961 personal lines policyholders in South Florida's tricounty region would see rates decreased by more than 11%.

The past week has been up and down for Iowa State fans. The men's hoops team beat top-ranked Purdue on Saturday and replaced the Boilermakers as a 1-seed as a result. But longtime football coach Matt Campbell also left for Penn State, and the university faces a hefty fine from the Big 12 for the Cyclones declining to play in a bowl game.

If the flotation proceeds as planned, it would sit just below Saudi Aramco's record-setting $1.7 trillion IPO in 2019. Musk, 54, founded SpaceX in 2002 with the goal of revolutionising space travel by slashing launch costs and making human missions to Mars viable. Over the past two decades, the company has reshaped the global launch market, fielding its reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets and becoming the partner of choice for governments, satellite operators and private clients.

The 31-year-old Lowe has been a consistently above-average hitter throughout his big league tenure, dating all the way back to his MLB debut in 2018. That includes 2025, when Lowe belted 31 home runs in just 134 games. The lefty-swinging slugger turned in an overall .256/.307/.477 batting line. While his 6.9% walk rate was the lowest of his career, Lowe's 91.1 mph average exit velocity and 46.4% hard-hit rate were some of the best he's posted in his eight major league seasons.

Lisa Torres woke up with an unexplained chest pain on July 29, 2017. She was in Guanajuato, visiting family. She thought she was going to get sick. She had a feeling something was wrong, although at that moment she didn't know that her 22-year-old son, Roberto Franco Jr., had just disappeared on the way to where she was. Roberto had left Houston, Texas, at the wheel of a vehicle around 4:00 a.m. He was due to arrive in the Mexican city by 10:00 a.m.

NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Tuesday granted the Justice Department's request to publicly release grand jury transcripts and other material from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case, citing a new law that requires the government to open its files on Jeffrey Epstein and his longtime confidant, but he cautioned that people shouldn't expect to learn much new information from them.

At the Dec. 2 hearing, Commissioner Todd Olsen issued a protective order prohibiting Smith from any in-person, written or electronic contact with the children. When Smith asked the court to consider pretrial release, Olsen asked the state's opinion, and prosecutor Clifford Ross opposed the request unequivocally. "That's a hard no, your honor," Ross said. He directed the court to the probable cause declaration, citing safety concerns, and maintained that a no-bail warrant remained appropriate, given the severity of the allegations against Smith.

Alameda County prosecutors have struck plea deals with two alleged robbers, both of whom were accused of luring their victims into a false sense of security with the help of a suspected prostitute. In one case, Nicholas Lewis, 31, was sentenced to nine days he already served in jail plus probation after pleading no contest to grand theft. In another, Luis Silva, 24, also pleaded no contest to grand theft for a two-year probation term, court records show.

The US Department of Justice has detained two men for allegedly violating export control laws by attempting to smuggle at least $160 million worth of Nvidia Corp. AI chips to China. A third, the owner of a Houston company, has already pleaded guilty. The department alleges the men operated a smuggling network that spanned the Houston business, run by Alan Hao Hsu, and several warehouses across the US, which replaced Nvidia labels from H100 and H200 AI chips with the fictional Sandkyan brand before shipping them.

The photo of the students went viral and showed eight students laying on the ground, forming the symbol. According to KNTV-TV and the Los Angeles Times, the social media post also had an antisemitic 1939 quote from Adolf Hitler. Silbergeld told SFGATE that the photo was "a disturbing and unacceptable act of antisemitism." She said school officials identified the students but they can't be named publicly because of federal law.

State Police forensic scientist Matthew Sheehan spent Monday afternoon walking jurors through blood and bloody items he said stretched from the basement of the Walshe home in Cohasset to a trash bin outside Brian Walshe's mother's home in Swampscott. Walshe is standing trial for allegedly killing his wife, Ana, on New Year's Day 2023. Prosecutors say he then dismembered her body and tossed her remains in dumpsters around the region, including one near his mother's home. Investigators never found her body.

Between July 2017 and May 2018, Mary Carole McDonnell, 73, falsely claimed to be the heir to the McDonnell aircraft family and said that she would have access to an $80-million secret trust fund, according to an FBI news release. The FBI is now appealing for the public's help in locating this fugitive who remains on the run. McDonnell is accused of fraudulently obtaining about $14.7 million from the Banc of California

The Labor Department reported Tuesday that employers posted 7.67 million vacancies in October, close to September's 7.66 million. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), which was delayed by the extended government shutdown, also showed that the layoffs rose and number of people quitting their jobs - a sign of confidence in the labor market - fell in October.

Briles, a longtime offensive coordinator, has been at TCU since 2023, following stints at Arkansas, Florida State, Houston, FAU and Baylor. The 2015 Broyles Award finalist mentored TCU quarterback Josh Hoover, who set a school record last year with 3,949 yards passing with 27 touchdowns and 11 interceptions as the Horned Frogs ranked eighth nationally in passing offense at 312.9 yards a game.

Two Tribal communities in New Mexico - the Santa Clara Pueblo in Rio Arriba County and the Fort Sill Chiricahua Warm Springs Apache Tribe in Luna County - each received a maximum $100,000 planning grants from the state's Grant Writing, Engineering and Planning Program (GWEP). GWEP is funded and administered by The New Mexico Office of Broadband Access and Expansion (OBAE), which has provided $5 million in funding. GWEP helps Tribes, local governments and cooperatives win grants to bring broadband to unserved areas.

I have always been fond of Judi Dench. She is an extraordinary person who played an important role in my career. I've now spent more than six and a half years incarcerated, including a year and a half in Rikers, which counts as double time. I am grateful for the kind words that have been expressed, and all I want is the chance to return to my family and children.

With there being little sign of the Pokémon TCG bubble bursting any time soon, and many Pokémon cards literally worth more than their weight in gold, it's becoming all too normal to hear stories of thieves breaking into stores and stealing the shiny cardboard. A particularly audacious example happened in California this weekend, where around $100,000 worth of cards were stolen by a masked gang in a matter of minutes-a gang who could well be responsible for a number of other similar crimes.

The woman allegedly pushed another woman onto the Green Line tracks in an "unprovoked" attack, The Boston Globe reported. Nyleamah Kinsey, 50, was charged with assault and battery of a person over 60 and disorderly conduct, according to court documents. Kinsey reportedly followed the victim, who is from Revere, into the station, before pushing her with both hands onto the tracks.

As we wrap up 2025, we're looking at the year's biggest winners: the people, companies, products and trends that made the most impact over the year. Almost at the top of the pile, of course, are the tech billionaires. According to a recent report by Oxfam, the 10 richest US billionaires (who are all tech leaders, save for Warren Buffet) increased their wealth by $698 billion in 2025. Some of that has been spent treating and lavishing donations on President Trump.

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