Dead at 99, Pearl Harbor’s ‘national treasure': If you’ve visited the memorial, you know his face; Corpus Christi’s tap water off limits after chemical leak. Schools, restaurants close.; Woman believed to be the first to have a baby using ovary frozen before puberty; A whipped cream shortage is looming, just in time for peak holiday pie; A small Indiana town doesn’t have a police force because all its officers just quit; ‘Some guy just kidnapped this little girl’: Alert 11-year-old boy averts tragedy; She claimed she was attacked by men who yelled ‘Trump’ and grabbed her hijab. Police say she lied.; On 4th anniversary of Sandy Hook shootings, Colo. school district votes to allow staff to carry firearms; Pinball — once a source of ‘vice and immorality’ — now legal in Kokomo, Ind., after 61-year ban; A New Jersey trooper targeted women at traffic stops to ask them out on dates, officials say;
 
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The fentanyl crisis is so bad in western Canada that funeral homes are stocking up on naloxone kits
In the first 10 months of 2016, 622 people died from apparent illicit drug overdoses in British Columbia, compared to 397 during the same period in 2015. About 60 percent of the deaths were linked to fentanyl, according to the British Columbia Coroners Service.
Dead at 99, Pearl Harbor’s ‘national treasure': If you’ve visited the memorial, you know his face
"Everyone's saying it was his last wish,” said his daughter-in-law. But “his last wish, of course, would be working at Pearl Harbor as a volunteer forever."
 
Corpus Christi’s tap water off limits after chemical leak. Schools, restaurants close.
The Gulf Coast city's 320,00 residents were told to avoid all contact with tap water after a corrosive industrial chemical contaminated water supplies.
 
Woman believed to be the first to have a baby using ovary frozen before puberty
The case provides evidence that doctors could potentially restore fertility in women by freezing their ovary tissue at a very young age, doctors say.
 
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A whipped cream shortage is looming, just in time for peak holiday pie
A tragic accident in August triggered the whipped cream shortage.
 
A small Indiana town doesn’t have a police force because all its officers just quit
In a statement, the town's council denied many of the officers' claims that they detailed as their reasons for deciding to resign.
 
‘Some guy just kidnapped this little girl’: Alert 11-year-old boy averts tragedy
The 11-year-old Texas boy and another neighbor chased the man, holding him until police arrived.
 
She claimed she was attacked by men who yelled ‘Trump’ and grabbed her hijab. Police say she lied.
Yasmin Seweid claimed three drunk men attacked her because of her faith. Police investigated and people rallied to support her. But it may have all been a fabrication.
 
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On 4th anniversary of Sandy Hook shootings, Colo. school district votes to allow staff to carry firearms
"We are authorizing teachers to pull a weapon and kill a human being, and I cannot support that,” said the school board president.
 
Pinball — once a source of ‘vice and immorality’ — now legal in Kokomo, Ind., after 61-year ban
Pinball games were “against peace and good order,” the city of Kokomo declared in 1955.
 
A New Jersey trooper targeted women at traffic stops to ask them out on dates, officials say
The state trooper's attorney told local media that his client intends to plead not guilty to charges relating to falsifying or tampering with records or information.
 
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