Volunteer middle-school football coach dismissed for making boy run laps after he bullied teammate; ‘Peacemaker’ Putin: ‘Small, bullying leader’ shows up on big, billowing banner; Man kept grandmother’s decaying corpse in N.Y. house for 5 months so he could keep living there, cops say; ‘I love Hillary,’ says daughter of staunch Trump defender Rudy Giuliani; Production of ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ on indefinite hiatus due to Kim’s robbery; Vegan mom fed her 11-month-old only fruit and nuts. Now she faces child endangerment charges.; CEO of Backpage, called ‘world’s top online brothel,’ arrested on pimping charges; ‘His criminality was astounding’: An osteopathic doctor, a motorcycle gang and $5 million in prescription pills; Sonography students forced to perform vaginal probes on each other will get their day in court; The really secret lives of bees: Ingenious experiment shows they learn like we do, from each other; Bruce Springsteen: ‘The republic is under siege by a moron’; ‘Not strong enough anymore’: Chrissy Teigen goes private on Twitter, devastating fans; Samsung Galaxy ‘safe’ replacement phone reportedly catches fire — on a plane; LA sheriff’s deputy who was fatally shot during burglary call had won medal of valor for rescue;
 
Morning Mix
Stories from All Over
 
 
‘Ferguson effect’? Savagely beaten cop didn’t draw gun for fear of media uproar, says Chicago police chief
"We have to change the narrative of law enforcement across this country," Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson said.
Volunteer middle-school football coach dismissed for making boy run laps after he bullied teammate
“[One of the school board members] said why did you feel that you were qualified to handle this bullying incident? I’m like because I’m a father,” Todd Kennedy told a local TV station.
 
‘Peacemaker’ Putin: ‘Small, bullying leader’ shows up on big, billowing banner
Witnesses said they saw two men unfurling a 20-foot-by-30-foot tarp with the Russian leader's image on the Manhattan Bridge.
 
Man kept grandmother’s decaying corpse in N.Y. house for 5 months so he could keep living there, cops say
When the elderly woman's daughter couldn't reach her, she asked police to check on her. When police arrived at the house in Queens, they discovered a gruesome sight that seemed more fitting in a Hitchcock film than real life.
 
ADVERTISEMENT
 
‘I love Hillary,’ says daughter of staunch Trump defender Rudy Giuliani
"I love Hillary, I think she's by far the most qualified candidate that we've had in a long while," Caroline Giuliani told Politico. "My dad knows. I was for Barack [Obama] in 2012. He knows and is fully comfortable with it and thinks I have a right to my opinion."
 
Production of ‘Keeping Up with the Kardashians’ on indefinite hiatus due to Kim’s robbery
The show, which follows the lives of Kim, Kourtney and Khloe Kardashian and Kendall and Kylie Jenner, has been on E! since 2007.
 
Vegan mom fed her 11-month-old only fruit and nuts. Now she faces child endangerment charges.
The mother 'was going to live on water and sunlight,' a relative said.
 
CEO of Backpage, called ‘world’s top online brothel,’ arrested on pimping charges
CEO Carl Ferrer, 55, was arrested Thursday and faces felony charges of pimping a minor, pimping, and conspiracy to commit pimping after an investigation uncovered that Backpage escort ads were being used to facilitate child and adult sex trafficking.
 
 
‘His criminality was astounding’: An osteopathic doctor, a motorcycle gang and $5 million in prescription pills
William J. O'Brien III, an osteopathic doctor, worked with the Pagans motorcycle gang to illegally sell millions of dollars of prescription painkillers. On Wednesday, a judge sentenced him to 30 years in jail.
 
Sonography students forced to perform vaginal probes on each other will get their day in court
The validity of a lawsuit cornering a Florida college's strange — and, the court decided, potentially unconstitutional — practice of forcing students in its sonography training program to perform transvaginal (penetrative) exams on each other was upheld by a federal appeals court on Wednesday.
 
The really secret lives of bees: Ingenious experiment shows they learn like we do, from each other
The scientists successfully trained 23 of 40 bees to pull a fake flower out from under a table.
 
Bruce Springsteen: ‘The republic is under siege by a moron’
“I admire Kaepernick, but it's a very difficult field to be outspoken in,” he told Rolling Stone.
 
ADVERTISEMENT
 
‘Not strong enough anymore’: Chrissy Teigen goes private on Twitter, devastating fans
“It’s not haters or trolls or generally mean people,” she tweeted, according to Time magazine. “I just feel like I’m absorbing bad s--t 24/7. My body and mind cannot handle it anymore.”
 
Samsung Galaxy ‘safe’ replacement phone reportedly catches fire — on a plane
Smoke began pouring from Brian Green's replacement phone as he prepared for a flight, causing the Southwest Airline flight to be evacuated.
 
LA sheriff’s deputy who was fatally shot during burglary call had won medal of valor for rescue
Sergeant Steve Owen, a 29-year-veteran, was trying to stop a burglary when he was shot in the face, officials said. He is the first on-duty sheriff's deputy in Los Angeles to die from gunfire in more than a decade.
 
Recommended for you
 
The Switch
The day's top stories on the tech industry and tech in our lives.
Sign Up »
 
     
 
©2016 The Washington Post, 1301 K St NW, Washington DC 20071