Mar. 16, 2025
Elina Childs knew a financial opportunity when she saw one.
After Canadalegalized marijuana on Wednesday, Childs, 9, set up shop sellingGirl Guidecookies to the receptive audience waiting outside Nova Cannabis in Edmonton,CNNreported. (Girl Guide is the Canadian equivalent of Girl Scouts.)
Childs reportedly sold her supply of about 30 boxes in 45 minutes, raking in $120 in Canadian dollars.
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“My dad asked me if I wanted to sell cookies and I said yes,” Childs said, according toHuffington Post Canada.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Courtesy Lilly Rose Lee
At 4 a.m. each morning,Michelle Knight— who changed her name to Lily Rose Lee— wakes up and prepares to feed her menagerie, which includes a dog, chickens, birds, reptiles and a pony. Today was no different.
“God put me on this earth for a purpose. And I believe the purpose was to help animals and humans connect in a special way,” Lee says. “They mimic and feel everything that you’re going through.
Mar. 16, 2025
The scene outside Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14, 2012.Photo: Shannon Hicks/Newtown Bee/ZUM
Nine years ago, on a brisk Friday morning, 20 first-graders and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., had just started their day when they were fatally shot.
With so many children killed in such an unspeakable manner, many hoped that the massacre on Dec. 14, 2012, would convince legislators to enact policies to curb school shootings.
Mar. 16, 2025
On the morning of November 30, 2010, Sherry Black was attending to post-Thanksgiving shoppers at the bookstore she owned, B&W Billiards and Books in Salt Lake City, Utah.
But the day took a tragic turn sometime before noon, when somebody bludgeoned and stabbed Black to death. Her body was found in the back of the store, behind stacks of books.
The violent murder devastated Black’s family, who mourned the loss of the loving mother and grandmother who greeted all her customers with a smile.
Mar. 16, 2025
Nearly a decade before this week’s tragic deaths ofJimmie Johnson’s three in-laws, the NASCAR driver’s family experienced another tragedy when his brother-in-law Jordan died in a skydiving accident.
Jordan Janway, 27, was killed in San Diego in early 2014 when he collided with another skydiver in midair and was knocked unconscious, unable to open his parachute.
Janway, the brother of Johnson’s wife Chandra Janway, was a skydiving instructor who had done more than 1,000 jumps throughout his career, NBC San Diegoreportedat the time.