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Mar. 16, 2025

9 Year Old Sells All Her Girl Scout Cookies to Canadians Waiting in Line for Newly Legalized Pot

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. Seann Childs “My dad asked me if I wanted to sell cookies and I said yes,” Childs said, according toHuffington Post Canada.

Mar. 16, 2025

9 Years After Escaping Cleveland Kidnapping, Michelle Knight Says Love for Animals Helped Her Heal

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

9 Years After Sandy Hook Massacre, Newtown Students Attend Classes Remotely Amid Threats to Other Schools

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

9 Years After Utah Woman Was Brutally Killed in Her Bookstore, Daughter Hopes DNA Solves the Case

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

9 Years Before Dying in Murder-Suicide, In-Laws of Jimmie Johnson Lost Son in Skydiving Accident

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.