Mar. 16, 2025
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A 15-year-old Texas boy died after he fell into a Houston-area bayou while fishing with a friend, according to authorities.
The Harris County Medical Examiner has identified Dahmari Hayes as the victim of Thursday’s accident at Sims Bayou. An official cause of death have not been released.
Police were told the teen “slipped and fell” into the bayou on Scott Street in Houston around 5 p.m. on Thursday, said Houston Police Department Homicide Division Sergeant T.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: ShutterstockA teenage girl’s words went viral on Twitter last week when she began tweeting to her followers using a number of gadgets found around her house after her mom took away her smartphone.Dorothy, 15 — who hasn’t yet revealed her last name — told her followers in a series of posts that she was tweeting from a series of random electronics after being punished.When talking with theGuardian,the teenager revealed she had been disciplined two weeks earlier after she started a small fire while getting distracted while cooking.
Mar. 16, 2025
Venus Williams and Coco Gauff at Wimbledon on July 1.Photo: Clive Brunskill/Getty; BEN STANSALL/AFP/GettyCori “Coco” Gauff just made history at Wimbledon!The 15-year-old from Florida qualified for her first-ever U.K. tournament, officially becoming the youngest player to qualify in the Open Era since 1968. And that wasn’t the only history-making moment in the opening round of tennis play Monday.Gauff, who is ranked No. 301 in the world, defeated five-time Wimbledon champion Venus Williams, 6-4, 6-4, in an impressive debut against the 39-year-old veteran player, whom the teenager calls her idol.
Mar. 16, 2025
Davion Patterson.Photo: GoFundMe
A 15-year-old boy was killed and five women wounded in a shooting that shook a Wisconsin community this week, authorities said.
Police are still investigating but believe an argument sparked the gunfire that struck six people on W. Concordia Avenue in Milwaukee around 11:30 p.m. on March 20, according to apress release.
The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Five women, ages 18, 19, 21, and two 22-year-olds, were taken to an area hospital for treatment of non-fatal injuries, the release states.
Mar. 16, 2025
Asian elephant herd.Photo: CHINE NOUVELLE/SIPA/Shutterstock
More than 150,000 people have been evacuated in southwest China’s Yunnan province to clear a path for a pack of14 escaped Asian elephants.
Wan Yong, who oversees an organization that was tasked with returning the wild animals to the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture nature reserve,told reporterson Monday that in addition to the evacuations, 25,000 police and staff have been employed to make sure the elephants stay on track, according to local news outlet Xinhua.