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THENATIONALPULSE (Pulse Wires) - Migrant Trucker Gets Just 20 Days in Prison for Killing Father and Son.
A judge has issued a mere 20-day jail sentence to a migrant truck driver responsible for the death of a father and son.
A truck driver from Haiti who caused a fatal crash in Ohio, killing a father and son and severely injuring the mother, has received a 20-day jail sentence. PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: A judge has issued a mere 20-day jail sentence to a migrant truck driver responsible for the death of a father and son. DETAIL: Yvio Michel, reportedly a migrant from Haiti working as a big-rig truck driver, caused a multi-vehicle crash in late February in Ohio. The crash killed 52-year-old Hurshel Gipson and his 11-year-old son, Michael Gipson. The crash also left 45-year-old Amanda Gipson, Hursel’s wife and Michael’s mother, severely injured. Other motorists sustained injuries as well. Michel failed to slow his tractor-trailer for halted traffic on…Open
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AMERICANALMANAC (Alan Benson) - A $35 plastic purse is humbling the $100,000 Hermès Birkin — and its owners aren't taking it well
The Jelly Firkin, a $35 plastic handbag shaped like the iconic Hermès Birkin, has gone viral across the U.S., and women who spent six figures on the real thing are watching its cultural cachet dissolve. On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, 40-year-old Natalie Mileo strolled through one of the wealthiest zip codes in America […] The post A $35 plastic purse is humbling the $100,000 Hermès Birkin — and its owners aren't taking it well appeared first on American Almanac .
The Jelly Firkin, a $35 plastic handbag shaped like the iconic Hermès Birkin, has gone viral across the U.S., and women who spent six figures on the real thing are watching its cultural cachet dissolve. On the Upper East Side of Manhattan, 40-year-old Natalie Mileo strolled through one of the wealthiest zip codes in America carrying a gummy, translucent purse made from the same material as a gym-class kickball. She paid $35 for it. She also owns ten real Hermès bags. She is not confused about the difference. She just does not care. The bag is called the Jelly Firkin, and it has become the most unlikely fashion phenomenon of 2026, a cheap plastic knockoff that is not just undercutting the Birkin's price tag but openly mocking the status…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Flea market 'fox head' turns out to be one of two known Tasmanian Tiger specimens on Earth
A British antique collector paid $85,000 for a taxidermied head mislabeled as a fox, then confirmed through X-ray and CT scans that it belonged to a Tasmanian Tiger, an apex predator extinct since 1936. James Cranfield, a 38-year-old natural history relics dealer who specializes in collecting unusual fox heads, was scrolling an auction site when […] The post Flea market 'fox head' turns out to be one of two known Tasmanian Tiger specimens on Earth appeared first on American Almanac .
A British antique collector paid $85,000 for a taxidermied head mislabeled as a fox, then confirmed through X-ray and CT scans that it belonged to a Tasmanian Tiger, an apex predator extinct since 1936. James Cranfield, a 38-year-old natural history relics dealer who specializes in collecting unusual fox heads, was scrolling an auction site when he spotted a listing for a "19th century fox head" consigned to Auctioneum, an auction house in Bristol, England. The image stopped him cold. The proportions were wrong. The teeth were wrong. Cranfield counted eight upper incisors in the photograph, two more than any fox has ever carried. He believed he was looking at the head of a thylacine, commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger, a carnivorous…Open
AMERICANALMANAC (Alex Tanzer) - Man with learning disabilities charged with attempted murder after throwing toddler into crocodile enclosure at English zoo
A 30-year-old man was charged with attempted murder and released on bail after allegedly hurling a three-year-old boy into a crocodile pit at a small English zoo, where the owner's wife jumped in to rescue the child before the animals could reach him. The attack happened at Johnsons Zoological Gardens in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, a rural […] The post Man with learning disabilities charged with attempted murder after throwing toddler into crocodile enclosure at English zoo appeared first on American Almanac .
A 30-year-old man was charged with attempted murder and released on bail after allegedly hurling a three-year-old boy into a crocodile pit at a small English zoo, where the owner's wife jumped in to rescue the child before the animals could reach him. The attack happened at Johnsons Zoological Gardens in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, a rural area near Cambridge, England. The suspect, a 30-year-old man from Norfolk with learning disabilities, was on a supervised day trip with a caretaker when he allegedly grabbed the boy, a complete stranger, and threw him into the crocodile enclosure. The caretaker had momentarily looked away when the incident occurred, the New York Post reported . The toddler suffered a broken arm and pelvis in the fall.…Open