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Satellite Radio giant SiriusXM will acquire the Oakland, Calif.-based digital radio company Pandora for an estimated 3.5 billion dollars. The reports of this deal say it will be an all stock purchase. The merger would create “the world’s largest audio entertainment company,” SiriusXM CEO James Meyer said in a conference call. The deal would still need to be reviewed by antitrust regulators …

A school in Georgia is implementing a policy that will allow administrators to discipline students by paddling them. Parents at the Georgia School for Innovation and the Classics, a K-9 charter school in Hephzibah, Georgia, which is an Augusta suburb , received consent forms from the institution seeking permission for administrators to hit their children with a wooden paddle should they need …

It was an unbearable situation in Minnesota. A 150-pound black bear got its head stuck in a 10-gallon milk jug, which prompted a lengthy and dramatic rescue by local fire and EMS crews. After a report that the bear was wandering through a local neighborhood, it found the large container and began trying to consume the final drops of fluid in …

A woman was killed while trying to protect her dog from an alligator attack at a private resort in South Carolina, officials have said. The Beaufont County Sheriff’s said that it responded to a report that an alligator had attacked a woman at the Sea Pines Resort in Hilton Head, South Carolina, early on Monday morning. Witnesses told authorities the woman, who officials identified as …

A judge has ordered that Michigan’s health director, Nick Lyon, stand trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in the deaths of two men linked to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in the Flint area. Lyon is accused of failing to issue a timely alert about the outbreak. Some experts have blamed Legionnaires’ on Flint’s water, which wasn’t properly treated when it was …

Closing arguments concluded Wednesday in the financial crimes trial of Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman for Donald Trump. Jurors will begin deliberations Thursday morning in Alexandria, Virginia. If found guilty, Manafort, 69, faces a prison sentence of up to 305 years. Manafort has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Manafort has been accused of shielding millions of dollars in offshore bank …

White House revoking security clearance of John Brennan, mulling others The White House is revoking the security clearance of John Brennan, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, and mulling pulling them for several other former intelligence chiefs and other officials. Reading a statement from President Trump at the top of Wednesday’s press briefing, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders announced that the president has …

Aretha Franklin, the woman known as the “queen of soul” and having had one of the most prolific female voices in history has died at the age of 76. Franklin died Thursday morning after a long battle with advanced pancreatic cancer. Aretha passed away in her Detroit home where she was under hospice care. Reports late last week said Franklin …

Audrey Larson is a 14-year-old inventor. For past competitions, she’s created glow-in-the-dark pajamas and a device to pet your dog. But this year, after hearing about the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, she felt compelled to focus on a more serious issue. “It’s really scary to just think about, and that’s kind of what sparked that idea,” Larson said. “Some …

Two California men reunite decades after the Holocaust, a bittersweet bond out of unimaginable horror.