Mar. 16, 2025
At ages 9 and 11, sisters Kimber andMikelle Biggswere the best of friends — but could not have been more different.
“She was the perfect child, the straight-A student,” Kimber tells PEOPLE of her sibling. “She was very clean and organized, a borderline neat freak.”
“I was the exact opposite,” she says. “I did not like to clean my room. I didn’t care if it was a mess. Us sharing a room was a disaster for her.
Mar. 16, 2025
Two decades after losing his wife and two daughters in ahouse fire, one Massachusetts man helped save his neighbor from another blaze.
Mark Collum was at his home in Rowley on Sunday when he heard his neighbor, Deb Shanahan, calling for help around 5:00 a.m., according to ABCaffiliate WCVB.
“There were flames billowing out the back, smoke filling up the kitchen,” he told the outlet. “I just grabbed her and just took her out.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Kaylee Tyner, 17, doesn’t have any direct experience with gun violence. But as a current senior at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, she feels its lingering shadow over her town every day.
“I’ve seen firsthand how it doesn’t go away — how it continues to affect your community even two decades later,” she tells PEOPLE.
The campaign asks people to agree to allow graphic images of their dead bodies to be released to the public in the event that they die in a mass shooting.
Mar. 16, 2025
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After two decades, police can now identify the victim of a gruesome cold case homicide.
According tothe Garfield County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio, Lena Reyes-Geddes has been named as the unidentified woman who suffered a gunshot wound to her head and was found wrapped in a sleeping bag off a road near Ticaboo, Utah in 1998.
“We are now able to identify this victim through the diligent work of the State Bureau of Investigation.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Two decades ago, the world was sent into a panic over technology.
As 1999 came to a close, the U.S. government and programmers around the world were scrambling to finish fixing flawed computer software that some predicted would send civilization into chaos when the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1, 2000.
The “Millennium Bug,” or Y2K as it is commonly known, arose when experts in the early days of computing cut the code that designated the year from four digits to two, which changed “1998” to “98,” in order to save data space on hard drives, according toNational Geographic.