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: The "ruby slippers" which Judy Garland wore during the 1939 filming of The Wizard of Oz are put on display during a press preview for the exhibit "Ray Dolby Gateway to American Culture" at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History October (AP) - Federal prosecutors say a man has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of stealing a pair of ruby red slippers worn by Judy Garland in "The Wizard of Oz." The FBI recovered the slippers in a sting operation in 2018.A grand jury indicted Terry Martin on Tuesday with one count of theft of a major artwork, federal prosecutors in North Dakota announced Wednesday. The indictment did not provide any further information about him.The indictment alleges that in 2005, Martin stole an authentic pair of shoes that Garland’s character, Dorothy, wore in the 1939 MGM musical.

Defendants sit on May 16, 2023, at the Higher Regional Court in Dresden, eastern Germany, prior to a hearing in the trial over a jewelry heist on the Green Vault (Gruenes Gewoelbe) museum in Dresdens Royal Palace in November 2019. (Photo by SEBASTIAN BERLIN - A German court convicted five men Tuesday of breaking into a Dresden museum and stealing 21 pieces of jewelry containing more than 4,300 diamonds.The men, ages 24 to 29, received prison sentences ranging from four years and four months to six years and three months, German news agency dpa reported.

her son, The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, arevery close, and the actress and presenter often references him on social media. On Wednesday, she talked about her eldest child again, as she talked about her mental health struggles, as you can see in the video below… Who is Clive Myrie's wife? All there is to know about the Italian Road Trip star's familyLoose Women hosts' heartbreaking splits: Jane Moore, Coleen Nolan and moreInside the 2023 Oscars goodie bagSean Penn and Charlize Theron grace the red carpet togetherThe former Coronation Street star has become known for her candour about her health, particularly her mental health and the fact that she had experienced anxiety and depression after giving birth to Matty.  She recently shared a throwback photo from her pregnancy that showed her bump on full display as she smiled at the camera.

PHILADELPHIA - Two men were struck by gunfire after several shots were fired on board a SEPTA bus Wednesday afternoon.The shooting unfolded near 21st and Diamond streets around noon.One man was shot in the leg, and transported to a local hospital.

Prince Harry, his wife Meghan Markle and her mother were pursued by paparazzi photographers in a “near catastrophic car chase,” a spokesperson for the couple told media Wednesday.

FILE - Apple Inc. iPhone 14 smartphones at the companys store in the Gangnam District of Seoul, South Korea, on March 31, 2023.

DEPTFORD, N.J. - Family, friends, fellow officers and the community he served are paying their respects to Officer Robert Shisler, whose life came to an abrupt and heartbreaking end.Shisler, an officer with the Deptford Township Police Department, was left fighting for his life after he was shot in the line of duty this past March, and paying the ultimate sacrifice.RELATED COVERAGE: Deptford Police Officer Robert Shisler dies from injuries sustained in line-of-duty shootingAfter he succumbed to his injuries several weeks later, Deptford Township Police, along with Philadelphia Police and law enforcement from across New Jersey gathered to show their support.On Wednesday, that same sea of red and blue came together yet again to escort the fallen officer to his funeral at Rowan University.RELATED COVERAGE: 'We lost a good one': Community remembers officer who died from injuries sustained in line-of-duty shootingAn endless line of mourners honored the fallen officer for hours ahead of the noon service., which is set to end with him being taken to his final resting place.

NEWARK, Del. - A scary scene unfolded in the parking lot of a child care center in Newark, Delaware, after a road rage incident between two women quickly escalated.The victim told police that she and the suspect pulled into the Kinder Care on Meadowood Drive after the initial road rage on Kirkwood Highway Tuesday.The suspect, identified as 35-year-old Tyesha Bethea, approached the suspect as she sat in her car, and pointed a handgun at her, according to police.Officials say she went on to swing the firearm and hit the victim's car, causing minor damage.MORE HEADLINES:Bethea also contacted police, denying she threatened the victim or hit her vehicle with the gun.After a search of her vehicle, officers say they found a loaded black 9mm handgun was found hidden underneath a child’s car seat.She was then arrested and charged with possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, carrying a concealed deadly weapon, possession of a weapon in a safe school zone, aggravated menacing, terroristic threatening, and criminal mischief.

Two skeletons were found beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful earthquakes that accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius. (Pompeii Archaeological Park) MILAN - The discovery of two skeletons buried beneath a collapsed wall in the Pompeii archaeological site point to deaths by powerful earthquakes that accompanied the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the first century, experts said Tuesday, in addition to the victims of volcanic ash and gas.The two skeletons believed to be men at least 55 years old were found in the Casti Amanti, or House of Chaste Lovers, beneath a wall that collapsed before the area was covered in volcanic material.

MOSCOW, Idaho - Bryan Kohberger, the criminology Ph.D. student accused of the home invasion murders of four University of Idaho undergrads, has been indicted by a grand jury in Latah County, authorities have confirmed.The superseding indictment means the accused quadruple murderer will not have a chance to attack the evidence used to arrest him at a preliminary hearing that had been scheduled for the week of June 26.

an encouraging new phase Tuesday as President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy named top emissaries to negotiate a deal to avert an unprecedented national default. Biden cut short an upcoming overseas trip in hopes of closing an agreement before a June 1 deadline.The fresh set of negotiators means discussions are now largely narrowed to what the White House and McCarthy will accept in order to allow lawmakers to raise the debt limit in the coming days.

NEW YORK - Prince Harry, Meghan Markle and her mother were involved in a "near catastrophic" paparazzi chase in New York, according to a family spokesperson. "This relentless pursuit, lasting over two hours, resulted in multiple near collisions involving other drivers on the road, pedestrians and two NYPD (New York Police Department) officers," the spokesperson for Harry said in a statement. The pair says they were followed by a half-dozen vehicles with blacked out windows."While being a public figure comes with a level of interest from the public, it should never come at the cost of anyone’s safety," the statement from the couple said.Markle was in New York accepting a "Women of Vision" award from the Ms. Foundation for Women for her "lifelong advocacy for women and girls."Doria Ragland, Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex attend the Ms.

Five Germans have gone on trial over a far-right plot to kidnap the country's health minister and overthrow the government in protest against Covid-19 restrictions.

PHILADELPHIA - After an extensive search involving multiple law enforcement agencies, an inmate who escaped a Philadelphia prison in early May has been taken into custody Wednesday, according to Philadelphia Police.Ameen Hurst, 18, escaped the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center on May 7 around 8:30 p.m. with Nasir Grant, 24. Prison guards did not realize the duo was missing until the afternoon of May 8, police say. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle M.

​Sukoon Health, India's leading integrated Mental Healthcare provider, inducts senior psychiatrists to strengthen its focus on comprehensive inpatient care. Dr Mathew Varghese, faculty at the Department of Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bangalore, and Dr Alok Sarin, Honorary Consultant to the Sitaram Bhartia Institute of Science & Research in New Delhi have joined Sukoon’s Clinical Advisory Board.

Lauren Harries' mum has pleaded for help in solving a mystery condition affecting her daughter.The 45 year old Celebrity Big Brother legend was rushed to hospital for an emergency procedure in April, with her mum, Kate Harries, later confirming Lauren had undergone brain surgery. At the time, Kate begged fans to "send prayers" as her daughter recovered from the operation. But Lauren has stayed in hospital, first suffering from memory loss and confusion and later acquiring an unknown illness.

FILE - Steam and exhaust rise from different companies on a cold winter day on Jan. 6, 2017, in Oberhausen, Germany.

WASHINGTON - Chrysler-parent Stellantis has recalled more than 132,000 Jeep Cherokee vehicles over the risk of fire, telling owners to park their SUVs outside in the meantime.The recall, announced on Tuesday, impacts certain model year 2014-2016 Jeep Cherokee vehicles, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said.An electrical short in the power liftgate module could lead to a vehicle fire with the ignition on or off, according to a notice from the NHTSA. The recall affects 132,099 vehicles previously repaired during a 2015 recall."Owners should park their vehicles outside and away from structures and other vehicles until the recall has been remedied," a notice from the NHTSA reads. "According to the manufacturer, that remedy is currently under development."A power liftgate is a motorized hatch that opens and closes electronically and can be activated by pressing or holding a button inside the car, key fob, or the hatch itself, as Motor Trends explains. The liftgate module on the recalled Jeep Cherokee vehicles has a spot that could allow water to leak inside, recall documents state. FILE - A Jeep Cherokee makes its way through the Camp Jeep Test Track at the 108th Annual Chicago Auto Show at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois on Feb.

DELAWARE COUNY - It's about to be a very happy Hump Day for one lucky winner waking up a millionaire!A ticket worth $1 million was sold at Frank's Steak Shop in Delaware County for Saturday's Powerball drawing.The winning ticket matched all five numbers: 3-15-20-23-46. MORE HEADLINES:So far, no one has come forward to claim the million-dollar winnings. The estimated $146 million grand prize is still up for grabs for Wednesday night's Powerball drawing.

Kylee Deason graduated in May 2022. She decided to stay at home and work full time, leading her parents to start charging her rent.

More than £3.5m was owed by a Covid-19 testing firm when it collapsed into administration despite earning millions from the pandemic.

FILE - In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023 in Rockville, Maryland. (Photo illustration by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) NEW ORLEANS - Legal arguments over women's access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion move to a federal appeals court in New Orleans on Wednesday, in a case challenging a Food and Drug Administration decision made more than two decades ago.The closely watched case is likely to wind up at the Supreme Court, which already has intervened to keep the drug, mifepristone, available while the legal fight winds through the courts.The Supreme Court on Friday preserved women’s access to a drug used in the most common method of abortion, rejecting lower-court restrictions while a lawsuit continues.

DOVER, Del. - A former U.S. Post Office employee in Delaware who stole more than 100 packages from the mail over a course of several months will not serve any time in prison.A federal judge on Monday sentenced Jasmine Holloway, 33, to six months of home confinement followed by two years' probation.

TRENTON, N.J. - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked part of New Jersey's new handgun carry law that barred weapons from being carried in so-called sensitive places and halted a new insurance mandate the law sought to institute.Second Amendment rights groups that filed suit against the law hailed the opinion as a victory, while the spokespeople for the Democrat-controlled Legislature's leaders and Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy stood by the law.State Attorney General Matt Platkin filed an appeal to the order by chief U.S.

report the result of a free NHS rapid lateral flow test.You do not need to register your PCR test if there’s a ‘Registered Kit’ label on the outer bag or the instructions say the test is already registered.If you have a free NHS rapid lateral flow test, take that instead of the PCR test if both of the following apply:You’ll get the results of the rapid lateral flow test quicker.You need all of the following:a mobile phone number so you can get the resultthe test kit barcode number - this is on the plastic tube, plastic bag and the return box in the test kitthe Royal Mail barcode number, if you have it - this is on the Royal Mail postage labelIf you’re registering tests for more than one person, you need to register each test separately to get all the results. Start now Call 119 if you cannot use the online service.Calls are free from mobiles and landlines.

Denise Welch emotionally opened up about her mental health struggles, including postnatal depression, as she appeared on Good Morning Britain. The Loose Women panellist, 64, reflected on how she experienced postnatal depression following the birth of her eldest, The 1975 frontman Matty Healy, as she discussed the long he later wrote about her struggles, titled She Lays Down.

New Delhi: India has reported 1021 new covid cases across the country in the last 24 hours, the union health ministry said on Wednesday. The number of active cases has declined to 11,393, while the daily positivity rate stands at 0.78%, and the weekly positivity rate at 0.97%. Health officials have observed that the current wave of hospitalizations mainly consists of older individuals with comorbid conditions.

WestJet is telling its pilots it was offering “significant” wage increases that would make them among the highest paid workers in Canada before the pilots’ union issued notice for a strike that could begin this week, Global News has learned.But the union says the “cherry-picked” six-figure salaries included in internal communications do not represent the full scope of the offer they rejected, and criticized the airline for bargaining in public.Global News obtained a memo sent to pilots by John Aaron, WestJet’s vice-president of flight operations, to the airline’s pilots hours after the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) issued a 72-hour strike notice Monday evening.WestJet pilots are set to walk off the job at 3 a.m. Eastern on Friday unless a deal is reached.In the memo, Aaron said the airline’s latest offer — which expired after the strike notice was issued — would have raised salaries to “around” $300,000 for a narrowbody aircraft captain and $350,000 for a widebody aircraft captain, before overtime and other stipends.Aaron said those wages would have made narrowbody captains and first officers the highest-paid in Canada.Narrowbody aircraft are the more common passenger planes, like the Boeing 737, that have a single aisle separating passenger seating.

actor Jamie Foxx has been making headlines due to a health scare that led to his hospitalization. Fortunately, there have been updates regarding his condition, indicating positive progress in his recovery. The actor’s daughter, Corinne Foxx, shared updates and expressed gratitude for the outpouring of support from fans and well-wishers during this challenging time.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Republican Carolyn Carluccio has won the GOP nomination for a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which is playing a prominent role in settling disputes over voting rights, abortion rights and gun rights in the presidential battleground.Carluccio, Montgomery County’s president judge and the party-endorsed candidate, won the two-way race. She defeated Patricia McCullough, a Commonwealth Court judge who lost a primary for a high court seat in 2021, after party allies reported spending nearly $1 million to help her beat McCullough.On the campaign trail, McCullough repeatedly boasted of being the "only judge in 2020 in the presidential election in the entire country" to order a halt to her state’s election certification.McCullough was ruling in a Republican-backed post-election legal challenge that sought to tilt victory to Donald Trump in the presidential battleground state.

PHILADELPHIA - Cherelle Parker, a Democrat with a long political history in Pennsylvania, won Philadelphia’s mayoral primary on Tuesday, likely setting her up as the city’s 100th mayor and the first woman to serve in the role.Parker, 50, who served for 10 years as a state representative for northwest Philadelphia before her election to the city council in 2015, asserted herself as a leader whose government experience would allow her to address gaping problems with public safety and quality of life in the nation’s sixth-largest city. She will go up against Republican David Oh in the Nov.

Princess Catherine gets in on the fun during a visit to the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust on Tuesday (May 16) in Bath, England.

Alabama couple who welcomed a rare set of quadruplets in March are hopeful they will get to bring all four of their babies home soon. Michael and Hannah Carmack found out they’d be expecting quadruplets last Halloween during an ultrasound visit and all they could do was laugh in disbelief. "All of our emotions hit. Really not knowing what to think and all I could do was put my hands on my head and kind of laugh in disbelief like, is this real?" Michael told FOX TV Stations. And while they are not 100% sure, as far as Michael and Hannah know, there are no other twins in their family, and especially not quadruplets. Hannah Carmack with her quadruplets: Evelyn Ann, David Michael, Daniel Joseph and Adeline Grace.

Philadelphia police say a man is dead after he was shot in the head inside a Kensington basement Tuesday evening.  PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say a man is dead after he was shot in the head inside a Kensington basement Tuesday evening. Just before 5 p.m., police responded to a call for a well-being check inside a residence on the 3300 block of Argyle Street. Responding officers say when they arrived on location, they noticed the front door was wide open. Officers went inside to investigate and as soon as they entered the basement, they say they found an unresponsive man bleeding from the head. Medics were called to the scene and pronounced the man dead once they arrived. MORE HEADLINES Authorities say they found one spent shell casings just a few feet away from the victim's body, but they were not able to locate a weapon. At this point in the investigation, authorities say they do not know of a motive, nor do they have a description of the shooter.

WestJet says it is offering “additional flexibility” to air travellers ahead of the potential strike action by the airline’s pilots to provide “peace of mind.”But a consumer advocate is cautioning passengers about accepting the offer.The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which represents approximately 1,600 flight crew at WestJet and its subsidiary Swoop, issued a 72-hour strike notice Monday to the airline’s management and the federal government. The strike action will begin at 3 a.m.

A journalist is seen taking an interview with a smartphone on 21 April, 2017. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) A Missouri high school teacher who was videotaped repeatedly using a racial slur in class has resigned from the district, while the student who took the video finishes serving a school suspension.Mary Walton, a 15-year-old sophomore at Glendale High School in Springfield, will be allowed to return to school Wednesday after a three-day suspension for what the school district said was improper use of an electronic device.Walton’s suspension caused controversy, with supporters including the Radio Television Digital News Association saying she was exercising her free speech rights and documenting a disturbing incident that might have otherwise been ignored.Kate Wellborn, Walton’s mother, said in an interview Tuesday that she was "genuinely shocked" her daughter received the harshest possible punishment for recording the teacher during class last week.

PHILADELPHIA - Tuesday marked the warmest day of the week as temperatures are expected to drop on Wednesday.Overnight lows are expected to drop into the mid 50s as a late-night front moves through the area, bringing spotty showers to South Jersey and parts of Delaware.A northerly wind will make its way to the Delaware Valley during the early morning hours on Wednesday, but Meteorologist Kathy Orr says lots of sunshine is expected throughout the day.Wednesday's highs are expected to be about ten degrees cooler than they were on Tuesday. Philadelphia's afternoon highs will reach 68 with winds gusting up to 22 mph.A red flag warning is in effect from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.