Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit offers $1K reward for information on who shot cat with an arrow
Read full article: Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit offers $1K reward for information on who shot cat with an arrowFriends for Animals of Metro Detroit is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction of the person who shot Santana the cat with an arrow.
Texas teen who disappeared 8 years ago wasn’t really missing, police say
Read full article: Texas teen who disappeared 8 years ago wasn’t really missing, police sayThe case of a Texas man who was reported as a missing teenager in 2015 and found last week took an unexpected turn Thursday when police revealed it all was a hoax.
Carlos Santana returning to Pine Knob for concert 1 year after collapsing on stage
Read full article: Carlos Santana returning to Pine Knob for concert 1 year after collapsing on stageLegendary guitarist Carlos Santana is returning to Pine Knob Music Theatre in Clarkston one year after he collapsed on that same stage due to heat exhaustion.
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Colombia struggles to keep social leaders safe
Read full article: Colombia struggles to keep social leaders safeSantana, who runs an organization that helps community leaders fleeing violence to settle in Bogota, is one of the thousands of activists assigned some sort of government protection. The Afro-Colombian community leader sometimes she uses a hat or a turban for disguise. Last year 120 community leaders were murdered in Colombia according to the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, up from 107 a year earlier. Now 46, he's spent half of his life promoting human rights and fighting against illegal mining and corruption in his province. The U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Michelle Bachelet, recently urged the government to increase protection for activists in rural areas.
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New law in Michigan cuts down on jail time for minor offenses
Read full article: New law in Michigan cuts down on jail time for minor offensesGretchen Whitmer signed a 20-bill bi-partisan package Monday, easing penalties such as traffic offenses, and cutting down jail time and parole for some people, including children. READ: Whitmer signs bills to shift away from jail time for traffic offensesSantana sponsored three of the bills, which got Michigan’s laws more in line with the federal statutes. I was one of those waiver youth at one point, so I understand why this legislation is important,” Santana said. Among the measures were 20 based on the recommendations of the Michigan Joint Task Force on Jail and Pretrial Incarceration formed in 2019. Law enforcement also will be allowed to use discretion to issue a citation and release a suspect from custody for most misdemeanors.
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Sheriff: Actress Naya Rivera missing in SoCal lake
Read full article: Sheriff: Actress Naya Rivera missing in SoCal lakeFILE - Actress Naya Rivera arrives at Logo's NewNowNext Awards in Los Angeles on April 13, 2013. Authorities say former Glee star Naya Rivera is missing and being searched for at a Southern California lake. Rivera played Santana, a cheerleader in the musical-comedy Glee that aired on Fox from 2009 until 2015. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)

Newly identified electric eel most powerful ever found
Read full article: Newly identified electric eel most powerful ever foundNewly identified electric eel is the most powerful ever found, say scientists. Researchers at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History have identified two new species of electric eel in the Amazon rainforest, tripling the known number of electric eel species. What are electric eels? Scientists long thought the electric eels found in swamps, streams, creeks and rivers across South America were all the same species. The newly discovered electric eel species could have evolved unique systems to produce electricity -- perhaps a different system than the first discovered species -- which could lead to more discoveries, de Santana said.