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Investigators: Boy Was Chained in Closet by Day, Put in Dog Crate at Night

Investigators: Boy Was Chained in Closet by Day, Put in Dog Crate at Night

Investigators: Boy Was Chained in Closet by Day, Put in Dog Crate at Night

Deputies found the 13-year-old boy naked and chained at the ankle.

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SC lawmaker Ralph Norman defends remarks related to Kavanaugh allegations

Congressman Ralph Norman is defending himself after being criticized for comments he made saying Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg claimed she was groped by President Abraham Lincoln.

POLITICS
Night vision goggles used to rescue 100 people from flooded town

N.C. National Guardsmen and U.S. Coast Guardsmen flew into darkness to rescue about 100 people from Florence's floodwaters rising in their town because of a breached levee.

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Plants, but no pants: Florida man gardens in the nude

The miffed residents tell news outlets they've called the Martin County Sheriff's Office, but the man continues to do yard work naked.

WEIRD
That's bananas! Nearly $18,000,000 worth of cocaine found in boxes of bananas

The Ports of America in Freeport offered two pallets of fruit to the TDCJ after no one ever claimed them -- and that's when TDCJ officers discovered what was hidden beneath the bananas.

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1.7 million chickens drowned in Florence flooding

In addition, the company reported there are about 6.33 million chicken at about 30 farms in the Lumberton area isolated by floodwaters and currently unreachable.

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Suspect arrested for terroristic threat has tattoos on face, Bible verse on shirt

A suspect accused of making a terroristic threat toward a student and school has a Bible verse about being gentle and patient featured on the shirt in his mug shot.

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Ellen has big surprise for McDonald's pranksters from Pearland

The clever UH students who put up a fake marketing poster of themselves in McDonald's got their own surprise Monday on "Ellen."

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Parents upset after school bus seen driving through deep floodwaters

Other parents took to social media to complain about how some students did not have power and had to wait outside in lightning to catch the bus to school Monday.

NEWS
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Man casually rides horse shirtless through Florence flooding

WFMY's crews were out in the area doing live reports about the high water and flooding when this man casually rode his horse through the back of the camera shot.

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Video appears to show looting at Family Dollar in Wilmington after Florence

Wilmington PD said they were aware of looting at a Family Dollar in Wilmington after Florence came through the area, but management had asked them not to intervene. | *Warning video contains graphic language*

NEWS
Oh Baby! Hurricane Florence Could Cause Expectant Mothers to Go Into Labor

Nurses at Cone Health's Women's Hospital say they're all hands on deck, as Hurricane Florence draws closer to the coast.

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