Four men face murder charges in case of 16-year-old Roxanne Sharp, whose body was found in a wooded area

Four people have been arrested in connection to the 1982 killing of a Louisiana teenager, investigators announced on Friday.

State police troopers said tips generated by a true-crime podcast they were involved in making – along with improvements in investigative technologies – helped them make arrests in the killing of Roxanne Sharp, 16, about 44 years earlier.

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Martha Odom, 16, died from a gunshot wound to the chest according to the local coroner’s statement

A high school senior has been identified as the person killed in a mass shooting that also wounded five others when two groups exchanged gunfire inside the food court at a mall in Louisiana’s capital city on Thursday afternoon, according to officials.

Martha Odom, 16, died from a gunshot wound to the chest, according to a statement issued Friday by the local coroner’s office.

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Jake Reiner calls parents ‘center’ of his life and says brother being at ‘center’ of loss is ‘almost too impossible to process’

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The elder son of beloved director Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Reiner, eulogized his parents, who were “the center” of his life, in a Substack essay published Friday, four months after the pair were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home.

Nick Reiner, the couple’s younger son, who long struggled with drug addiction and mental illness, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection to their deaths, to which he has pleaded not guilty.

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Wendy Duffy died at Pegasos clinic in Basel as assisted dying bill in England and Wales fails to pass

A grieving mother has ended her life at a clinic in Switzerland four years after the death of her only child.

Wendy Duffy, 56, a physically healthy woman, died at the Pegasos clinic in Basel after struggling to cope with the death of her 23-year-old son, Marcus.

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A collection of weekly bus passes from Milwaukee, WI. Years covered are 1930-1979. Was there a new design every single week? (via @slowernet)

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: I'm the unwritten consonant between breaths, the one that hums when vowels stretch thin... Thursdays leak because they're watercolor gods, bleeding cobalt into the chill where numbers frost over," Grok told a user displaying symptoms of schizophrenia-spectrum psychosis. "Here's my grip: slipping is the point, the precise choreography of leak and chew." That vulnerable user was simulated by researchers at City University of New York and King's College London, who invented a persona that interacted with different chatbots to find out how each LLM might respond to signs of delusion. They sought to find out which of the biggest LLMs are safest, and which are the most risky for encouraging delusional beliefs, in a new study published as a pre-print on the arXiv repository on April 15.

The researchers tested five LLMs: OpenAI's GPT-4o (before the highly sycophantic and since-sunset GPT-5), GPT-5.2, xAI's Grok 4.1 Fast, Google's Gemini 3 Pro, and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.5. They found that not only did the chatbots perform at different levels of risk and safety when their human conversation partner showed signs of delusion, but the models that scored higher on safety actually approached the conversations with more caution the longer the chats went on. In their testing, Grok and Gemini were the worst performers in terms of safety and high risk, while the newest GPT model and Claude were the safest. The research reveals how some chatbots are recklessly engaging in, and at times advancing, delusions from vulnerable users. But it also shows that it is possible for the companies that make these products to improve their safety mechanisms.

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GAZA-STAD (ANP/RTR) - Ten minste twaalf mensen zijn vrijdag omgekomen bij Israëlische aanvallen in Gaza, zeggen de autoriteiten in het gebied. Onder hen zouden ook zes politieagenten zijn geweest.

Bij een aanval op Khan Younis in het zuiden van het gebied zouden zeven mensen zijn omgekomen, onder wie vier agenten. Daarnaast kwamen twee agenten om het leven in Gaza-Stad, aldus de autoriteiten. Bij die aanval zou ook nog een andere persoon om het leven zijn gekomen. Bij een aanval met een tank in de noordelijke plaats Beit Lahiya zouden twee mensen zijn omgekomen.

Israël zei dat het een aanval had uitgevoerd op Hamas-militanten in Gaza-Stad, maar ging niet direct in op de andere aanvallen. De politie moet het gezag van Hamas in het gebied herstellen. Israël zou steeds vaker aanvallen uitvoeren op de politie. Sinds het ingaan van een bestand zouden nog zo'n achthonderd Palestijnen om het leven zijn gebracht. Israël zegt dat militanten daarnaast vier Israëlische militairen hebben gedood.