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4 days ago | nytimes.com | Johnny Diaz

A Colorado man who was on his honeymoon in Central Florida was killed after being struck by lightning at New Smyrna Beach on Friday in what may have been the state’s first lightning fatality this year, the authorities said. The man, Jake Rosencranz, 29, of Denver, was struck shortly before 12:30 p.m. as he stood in ankle-deep water, according to officials from the Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue and the Volusia County Medical Examiner Office.

4 days ago | nytimes.com | Johnny Diaz

A Wisconsin couple have been charged with plotting to stalk and poison two women whom the man had previously dated, using cyanide, homemade poisons and other substances, the authorities said. The couple, Paul VanDuyne Jr., 43, and Andrea Whitaker, 41, both of Madison, Wis., were charged with attempted murder, stalking, aggravated battery and recklessly endangering safety, the Wisconsin Department of Justice and the Police Department in Middleton, Wis., said in a statement on Friday.

2 weeks ago | seattletimes.com | Johnny Diaz

The search for a runaway pet zebra that had evaded capture for nearly a week in Rutherford County, Tennessee, came to an end. The Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office, which had been searching for the animal that residents named Ed, said in a statement Sunday that the zebra had been recaptured and returned to its owner.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Johnny Diaz

The outbreak has been tied to multiple brown organic and brown cage-free egg brands distributed to grocery stores in seven states, officials said. Dozens of people across seven states, most of them in the West, have become ill in a salmonella outbreak linked to a recall of 1.7 million eggs, federal safety regulators said. The August Egg Company, of Hilmar, Calif., issued the recall of brown organic and brown cage-free eggs tied to multiple brands that were distributed to grocery stores from Feb.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Johnny Diaz

Whether minted on a U.S. coin, captured as a bobblehead or painted in a new Miami mural, the late "Queen of Salsa" continues to draw attention to her musical legacy 100 years after her birth. Celia Cruz delivered many salsa hits in more than 70 albums of a career that started in Cuba and reached its peak in the United States. She died in 2003. Credit...