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Baylen Dupree.Photo: Aileen McCarron Baylen Dupreewas about 7 years old when her parents noticed she had very simple motor tics — an early sign of Tourette syndrome — but they brushed it off because it didn’t interfere with her everyday life. However, when she was 15, her tics worsened and caused her to struggle in school and at home. She spent the next few years searching for a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders, specifically Tourette’s....

Photo: Fire Department of New York Two retired New York firefighters died this week of illnesses related to the World Trade Center attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, bringing the department’s victim count to a total of 200 people as the fight to renew funding for their health care continues. Richard Driscoll, 73, succumbed Wednesday to a 9/11-linked illness, making him the 200th member of the FDNY to do so since the twin towers fell 18 years ago, thedepartment said....

On April 30 theWorld Dog Show, a “joyful gathering for dog lovers and lovely dogs across the world,” starts in Shanghai, China. The presence of a celebratory canine event in a country where some still sell and consume dog meat, has many animal lovers outraged. HSI’s Chinese activist partner recently visited one of the slaughterhouses in Peixian and discovered 22 flithy, injured dogs that the animal organization believes used to be people’s pets because they also found a pile of “pet collars discarded in the corner” near where the canines were caged....

Though it ’s often clumped together with its neighbor to the due north , South Carolina boasts its own unique story , civilization , and way of life of life . Before your next sojourn , lodge away these 25 facts about SC : 1 . Today it ’s known as the Palmetto State , but at one time , South Carolina ’s license plate study “ The Iodine State ....

Photo: Ziad Ahmed/NurPhoto via Getty The treasures were recently found at the necropolis of Saqqara near Cairo and will go on display at the Grand Egyptian Museum, officialsannouncedon Monday. “The Supreme Council of Antiquities unveiled the discovery of the largest cache of 150 bronze statues, dating back to the Late Period, in the cemetery of the sacred animals in Saqqara,” Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said on social media....

Three senior members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s K-9 unit were wounded during an armed standoff in Lincoln Heights, Wednesday. The officers had been searching the 3800 block of Broadway for a parolee at large at around 3:50 p.m. when they finallylocated him barricaded inside a shed, the LAPD said on Twitter. The suspect then refused to “comply with officer orders” to surrender and so K-9 officers were called in and"chemical agents" releasedon the shed to try and force the suspect out, the LAPD added....

Photo: ABC13 A Houston mother and father, who were parents to four children, have been left “distraught” and heartbroken after three of their kids tragically drowned while swimming in Texas this week. “I just did a jump in the water — go straight for the boy drowning,” Alvarez, 23, told the outlet. “I kept him up, but the current kept pulling us both down, so I knew to just keep him up....

Photo: Dallas County Jail The young boys called each other “Robert” because they did not appear to know each others’ names. Inside the squalid Dallas apartment where they were found, they used “gesturing and screams” to communicate. On Saturday police arrested the boys’ father, 31-year-old Robert Preston, and charged him with four counts of abandonment and endangering his four children, ages 3 to 5, after alleging he left the boys home alone with the stove on while he stepped away....

01of 33 Andra Day as Billie Holiday Billie Holiday (L); Andra Day.Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images; Takashi Seida/Paramount Pictures/Hulu The latest actress to take on the role of the famed singer stars in Lee Daniels’The United States vs. Billie Holiday -and in early 2021, earned a Golden Globe nomination for her work. “I didn’t anticipate I would go into acting this soon or start with a role like this,” shesaid, viaUSA Today....

When it comes to gifted and becharm actresses in Hollywood , Jodie Turner Smith is a name that can not be ignored . This British - brook beauty has made quite a splattering in the amusement industry with her impressive playacting skill and striking mien . From her breakout function in the critically herald cinema “ Queen & Slim ” to her late star role in the arrive at series “ Anne Boleyn , ” Jodie Turner Smith continues to fall and pull up stakes a lasting belief on audience worldwide ....

The scene in Atlanta Tuesday night.Photo: Brynn Anderson/AP/Shutterstock According to police, the victims killed at Young’s Asian Massage outside Acworth, Ga., have been identified as Delaina Ashley Yaun González, 33, of Acworth; Paul Andre Michels, 54, of Atlanta; Xiaojie Yan, 49, of Kennesaw; and Daoyou Feng, 44, whose hometown was not immediately known. Police have yet to release the names of the other four fatal victims from Tuesday’s shootings. Six of the eight people killed were Asian women, police have said....

The parents with their 4-year-old son.Photo: Wolfe County Search & Rescue Team A 4-year-old boy is lucky to be alive after a hike with his parents on a Kentucky trail took a dangerous turn. The family was hiking near thePrincess Arch Trailin Pine Ridge on Friday when the boy suddenly “slipped away from his parents and took a tumbling fall off of a cliff,” according to aFacebook post from the Wolfe County Search & Rescue Team(WCSART)....

Who is Marshon Lattimore?Marshon Lattimore is a name that resonates with football buff , especially those of the New Orleans Saints . Born on May 19 , 1996 , in Cleveland , Ohio , Lattimore has become one of the NFL ’s premier cornerback since being drafted in 2017 . Standing at 6 feet marvelous and count 192 Irish pound , his athleticism and skill have earned him numerous accolades , including the NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year award ....