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Florida authorities recently arrested a former middle school teacher after officers reportedly found that he had child pornography on his cellphone.

Ryan Hamil, 22, was charged with possession of materials depicting sexual performance of a child, according to documents obtained by FOX 35 Orlando. He was booked into jail on a $2,000 bond.

Hamil was a teacher at Water Spring Middle School in Winter Garden when he was terminated in late August. After the district learned of the allegations, they acted immediately and sent a letter to parents on August 25.

"Although I cannot discuss employee matters, please be assured I take all allegations very seriously and we will work closely with investigators," a letter from the principal read. "Law enforcement may reach out to families in order to obtain statements from students."

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According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Hamil was interviewed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers after he went on a cruise in July. He allegedly admitted to taking pictures of children on the cruise, as well as purchasing child sex abuse materials on the dark web. The pictures that he took "focused on the children's genitals," according to the arrest warrant.

Not only did Hamil photograph children on the cruise, but he also admitted to taking "similar" pictures at Winter Garden's YMCA – where he worked part-time. The YMCA also fired Hamil after the allegations.

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"The individual in question no longer works for the Y and is restricted from all access to Y programs and locations. We will cooperate fully with authorities during their investigation," the YMCA said in a statement obtained by FOX 35.

During his August arrest, Hamil told officers that he had not taken pictures of students at Water Spring Middle School. After handing over his phone, detectives found two explicit pictures of a preteen on the device. 

"The child mentioned above is obviously under the age of eighteen based upon her child-sized arms and legs and her child-like facial features," the arrest warrant read.

Authorities are actively investigating the case. There are no additional details at this time.

A Grundy County, Iowa firefighter has been charged with several counts of arson for allegedly setting fires and responding with his team to put the flames out.

The Grundy County Sheriff’s Office opened an investigation into a string of fires suspected to be arson, back in April 2023.

Most of the fires were in ditches, though some spread into nearby corn fields. Other fires the investigators looked into included structures on abandoned properties.

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Last week, the investigation came to a head when detectives arrested 60-year-old Kendall Eugene Rhoads of Grundy Center.

Rhoads has been a member of the Holland Volunteer Fire Department for the past six years.

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According to police, Rhoads allegedly started the fires and would respond with the fire department to extinguish the blaze.

Rhoads has been charged with 13 counts of second-degree arson and a single count of reckless use of fire or explosives.

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The investigation into the matter is ongoing, and the sheriff’s office encourages anyone with additional information to contact them.

Rhoads remains in the Grundy County Jail, the sheriff’s office said, and is being held on bond.

A Baltimore, Maryland man has been charged in connection to the fatal shooting on Friday of a Howard County deputy.

The Baltimore Police Department said 40-year-old Jewel Crowder was arrested and taken into custody the same day and has been charged with first-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing 23-year-old Deputy Ryan Alexander Demby.

The Howard County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that Demby was at a Baltimore bar early Friday morning when a "verbal argument broke out between other patrons."

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During the altercation, the post read, shots were fired, and Demby was struck.

City Councilman Eric Costello said in a press release that the incident started inside the bar’s front door and carried over outside.

When officers arrived at the scene, Demby was discovered to be suffering from "numerous life-threatening gunshot wounds."

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The deputy was transported to an area hospital where he was ultimately pronounced dead.

Crowder was arrested without incident.

Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said on Saturday morning that the entire incident was caught on camera.

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The Associated Press reported that the footage, along with testimony from witnesses, allowed police to quickly identify Crowder as a suspect.

Howard County Sheriff Marcus Harris said during the news conference that Demby was an "outstanding young man" who followed his father, a sergeant with the department, into law enforcement.

According to a social media post from the Howard County Sheriff's Office, Demby just graduated from the police academy in March. Photos show his father is also a Sheriff's Deputy.

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FOX 45 in Baltimore reported that Deputy Demby is the city's 208th homicide victim in 2023, and so far this year, adding that 498 people have been shot and injured this year.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

San Francisco leaders are pushing to extend a lease for an RV parking lot for the homeless, despite the program becoming the "most expensive homeless response intervention" initiative in the city, according to a report.

The city established a safe parking site at Candlestick Point in January 2022, with city officials saying the area could hold 155 recreational vehicles for homeless individuals, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. As of this year, however, only 35 RVs are on the lot due to a lack of electricity.

All in, the annual cost per parking spot sits at about $140,000, according to the Chronicle. A budget analysis drafter for the Board of Supervisors noted that the initiative is "by far the most expensive homeless response intervention" in San Francisco. 

The city carried out a pilot program at a different location on San Jose Avenue back in 2021, which allowed enough space for 29 vehicles. The city spent a total of $1,793,003 on that pilot program, meaning each parking spot cost about $61,828, less than half of the cost at Candlestick Point.

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Despite the high costs, the city’s board of supervisors’ Homelessness and Behavioral Health Select Committee unanimously recommended in September that San Francisco extend the program for another two years. If approved, the city would spend an additional $12.2 million to continue funding the site, the Chronicle reported.

"This is an expensive endeavor, but it will be more expensive — and we cannot afford the alternative — of leaving the unhoused and housed, quite frankly, to fend for themselves," Supervisor Shamann Walton said, according to the outlet.

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Costs include the city renting or buying trailers that have toilets and showers and providing drinkable water, according to the report.

"There’s a lot that goes into making it a safe, dignified location," Emily Cohen, deputy director of the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, told the outlet.

Officials said the site hasn’t been able to accommodate its full capacity of 155 vehicles due to a lack of electricity. The city instead installed diesel generators to help power the site and accommodate the 35 vehicles on the lot, which sparked a federal lawsuit from residents who said the generators violate the Clean Air Act. San Francisco installed solar-powered lights following the suit.

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Walton and Supervisor Hillary Ronen slammed electricity company PG&E as "evil" and "a big part of the problem" at the site, but the company said it is not at fault for the lack of electricity.

A spokesperson for PG&E told the outlet that the city first applied for a temporary service connection in order to power a COVID testing site. That project was delayed and the city reportedly pulled its application a month after permits were approved to complete the project in January of this year.

PG&E said that months later the city applied for a different permit at the same address in order to power the RV site. 

"The SFPUC’s application was missing key information and was not deemed complete until Aug. 15, 2023," the PG&E spokesperson told the Chronicle. "PG&E is now estimating the cost of the requested interconnection for the SFPUC. Federal regulations governing interconnections between utilities allow 45 business days to complete estimates. PG&E is on track to provide its estimate within the regulatory timeline."

The Chronicle reported last year that the city had more than 7,754 homeless people, with more than 4,000 of those individuals living on the streets or in vehicles. The RV lot has served 115 people since it opened, according to the report. 

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The city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing said it made 13 placements from RVs to permanent housing. It is unclear if that means 13 people have found permanent housing through the program, or if more than 13 people found permanent housing due to multiple individuals living in one vehicle. 

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Neighbors living in homes near the RV site, however, have spoken out that the project is inefficient and that officials need to increase how many people are referred to permanent housing. 

"At less than one placement per month, it would be more cost-effective to provide each VTC client with a monthly rental stipend," Marsha Maloof of the Bayview Hill Neighborhood Association wrote in a letter to supervisors opposing continued operation of the site, according to the Chronicle. "It is inconceivable that the City would continue to extend such a program with metrics of success at this level."

Offices for supervisors Walton and Ronen, as well PG&E and San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for additional comment.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez says two people were killed, and two others injured in a shooting at a home on the northwest side of the county on Sunday. 

"Incident possibly stemmed from a break-up/divorce, but not yet confirmed," Gonzalez said in a tweet, updating his initial statement, in which he said that four were pronounced dead as a result of the violence.

The scene is reported contained, and there is no active threat to the community.

The tragic violence unfolded in the 8700 block of Cypressbrook Drive on Sunday morning. 

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None of the victims have been identified at the time of this reporting, and police have yet to comment on the two surviving victims' conditions.

The shooting came two days after an area teen was killed by cops after he reportedly aimed a gun at them.

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A Houston police officer shot the teen, believed to be 17 or 18 years old, at an apartment complex in the 6700 block of Bennington shortly before 9 p.m., according to FOX 26 Houston.

Officers said they responded to the location following a social media post. Once there, they say they encountered a group of males who were armed, and the group took off running.

One of the males had an assault rifle, according to reports, and the officer chasing after him stated that the male pointed the gun in his direction before the officer fired several times, Houston Police Department said.

The teen was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The medical examiner is expected to release his identity in the coming days.

Five guns in total were recovered from the incident, police said, and seven or eight males were questioned about the fatal shooting.

"If anybody comes into contact with police officers, do me a favor; please drop the guns, and let's all go home safely," HPD Chief Troy Finner told ABC13 Houston.

This is a breaking story and will be updated as events warrant.

An Oklahoma man reportedly stepped in when his girlfriend's estranged husband allegedly broke into their home, leading to one neighbor praising the state's gun laws.

"People just be breaking into other people's houses over here and... I guess that's what's going on. And I'm just glad that it's open carry in this state because people need to be able to protect [themselves]," Midwest City, Oklahoma, resident only identified as Gabrielle told OKC Fox. 

Oklahoma is a permitless carry state, meaning law-abiding residents 21 years old or older are permitted to open or concealed carry firearms without a license.

Gabrielle is the neighbor of a home on Flannery Drive that was broken into Wednesday morning. The affidavit for the shooting states the male and female resident were home when they heard their dog’s barking, prompting the male resident to go inspect, OKC Fox reported.

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The male homeowner then encountered Mauricio Alexander Delarosa, 34, inside the home, OKC Fox reported. Delarosa was identified by police as the female homeowner’s estranged husband. The male resident of the home is the boyfriend of Delarosa’s estranged wife.

The estranged husband and new boyfriend had never met, according to police records. 

The suspect reportedly charged at the boyfriend before the male resident grabbed his firearm. The boyfriend fired a single shot at Delarosa, hitting him in the chest. 

Police records showed that Delarosa had called his estranged wife more than 170 times from Tuesday afternoon until the shooting Wednesday morning. 

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Delarosa reportedly fled the home after being shot and was found collapsed in a neighbor’s yard. He was transported to a hospital for treatment and will later be taken to the local jail, according to the police department. 

Gabrielle warned criminals that many men and women are armed in the state, and will open fire if they come under attack, according to her comments to OKC Fox.

"I guess they see targets, but I'm telling you, you think them single moms aren't armed, or, you know, them single dads or people are not going to protect their home. You come in them doors you know and you're not invited you might get filled up with holes. And that's just the honest truth," added Gabrielle.

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Gabrielle said crime has increased in the Midwest City neighborhood since an elementary school closed last year and is calling for more lighting and safety measures on the street. 

Delarosa was charged with first-degree burglary and stalking.

A massive search is underway for a 9-year-old girl believed to have been abducted from Moreau Lake State Park in New York. 

Charlotte Sena was last seen on Loop A at approximately 6:15 p.m. Saturday wearing an orange tie-dye Pokémon shirt, dark blue pants, black Crocs and a gray bike helmet, New York State Police say. 

The child is described as being White with blonde hair, standing 5-foot-1 and weighing 90 pounds.

"The child was taken under circumstances that lead police to believe that they are in imminent danger of serious harm and/or death," the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children stated online. 

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Sena was on a camping trip with her family and disappeared after going for a bike ride in the park, the Times Union reports. 

Police received the call about her disappearance around 6:45 p.m. Her bike was apparently found, but it is not clear whether it was located by family or first responders.

"She is a highly intelligent, adventurous 9-year-old – but obviously this is out of character for her," State Police Troop G Public Information Officer Stephanie O'Neil told the Times Union. 

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Sena is from Saratoga County. Multiple agencies are using helicopters, bloodhounds, K-9s, air boats and ATVs to try to find her. 

Anyone with any information is asked to call NYSP at 518-457-6811, dial 911 or email crimetip@troopers.ny.gov.

A fugitive in New Jersey was recaptured Friday nearly a week after escaping custody, authorities said.

Edward Berbon, 54, was taken into custody without incident shortly before 2:30 p.m. after investigators with a fugitive unit located him in Camden, the New Jersey Department of Corrections said.

"My deepest appreciation to the hard work and dedication by the Special Investigation Division to locate and bring this individual into custody," Commissioner Victoria L. Kuhn said in a written statement. "The New Jersey Department of Correction’s Fugitive Unit is among the best at what they do and we are grateful for their work to bring this case to a quick resolution."

Berbon had been in serving in a residential community release program but failed to report back to his halfway house in Camden County on Sept. 23 after finishing a work shift in Mount Laurel. Officials said the work release program is designed to help inmates who are nearing the end of their sentence transition back into the community.

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Authorities considered Berbon an escapee, though they said there was no information that he posed a threat to the community.

Berbon had been in custody since 2005 for the attempted murder of his parents and was scheduled to be released on Feb. 12, 2024.

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He had attacked his parents at their home in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, in July 2004, just hours after he had been released from prison, authorities said. His parents survived, though it remains unclear what spurred those attacks.

Berbon had previously served prison sentences for theft and robbery. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

A suspected serial sex offender in Virginia was arrested Thursday evening after getting caught on surveillance cameras creeping around a park with children nearby, authorities said.

Officers were alerted around 7 p.m. to a man captured on surveillance cameras who fit the description of a recent indecent exposure suspect in the Groveton area, the Fairfax County Police Department said.

Patrol officers from the Franconia and Mount Vernon police districts immediately responded to the 6600 block of Telegraph Road and spotted the suspect attempting the flee, police said.

As the suspect ran, authorities said he began to strip off some of his clothing and throw them into the woods.

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Officers quickly caught up to the man and placed him under arrest.

The suspect was identified as Felix Antonio Mejias Vigil, 35, of Fairfax.

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Police said that Vigil is believed to be responsible for multiple sex offenses that occurred between July and September in Fairfax County.

He faces two counts of indecent liberties with a child under 15, four counts of actual/simulated masturbation in public, and false identification to law-enforcement. 

He is being held at the Adult Detention Center with no bond.

The lawyer for a Philadelphia looter known as "Meatball" who livestreamed herself following a mob breaking into stores says criticism of her client is racist.

Dayjia Blackwell, 21, filmed and followed a mob of looters as they broke into a series of stores last week, including at least an Apple store and a Lululemon. Blackwell broadcasted the incident to her 181,000 followers on Instagram, and police arrested her for encouraging the incident.

"It sickens me to witness the media's complicity in what can only be described as an all-out assault on black and brown people, as their character and actions are mercilessly vilified," Blackwell's lawyer, Jessica Mann, wrote on Friday, going on to accuse police of posting Blackwell's mugshot "with tears streaming down her face and her hair a mess to satisfy your need to get ‘clicks’ and to sell a salacious story."

"The rightful story should be one of Dayjia doing nothing more than capturing the raw reality of public outrage when she streamed the events that occurred on the night of September 26, 2023, in Philadelphia. Yet, the media seems to have forgotten the underlying catalyst for her actions. It was the dismissal of all charges against Police Officer Mark Dial, who callously murdered Eddie Irizarry. Then, the Philadelphia Police Department, with lies and deceit, attempted to cover up the heinous act," Mann wrote.

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Throughout her stream, Blackwell is heard cheering on the crowd. 

Blackwell’s livestream ended with her apparent arrest in the back of a Philadelphia police car.

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According to FOX 29 Philadelphia, she was charged with six felonies and arraigned early Thursday morning, with her bail set at $25,000.

Six businesses in a single retail corridor of North Philadelphia were looted, including three pharmacies, a hair salon, a tax preparation company and a cellphone store, according to the North 22nd Street Business Corridor, a business group.

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Photos of the destructive wake show a sporting goods store at a mall with mannequins and sneakers scattered about; an Apple Store and a T-Mobile store with phones and accessories toppled over; and several businesses with shattered glass windows and smashed metal door gates.

Authorities made more than 50 arrests, including one burglary suspect who was out on bail for a major murder case from last year.

A Florida roller coaster has reopened nearly two months after a 6-year-old boy fell off of it.

The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services confirmed to FOX 35 Orlando Saturday that the Galaxy Spin, a "wild mouse"-style coaster, was cleared to reopen. 

"The department allowed for the reopening of the Galaxy Spin ride after conducting a thorough investigation," the agency said in a statement.

"The investigation found that the ride was operated in accordance with all ride safety requirements and the manufacturer’s operations manual."

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The incident happened at Fun Spot America's Kissimmee location the afternoon of Aug. 3. The child was found about 20 feet beneath the roller coaster's track "with traumatic injuries," according to the Osceola County Fire Rescue Department.

"The child fell off the ride. Right now we have him on the floor. They're screaming. We're trying our best not to move them," a caller told a 911 operator. "He's bleeding from his lip and the top corner of his head is very swollen. And um, I believe something with his hip, but I'm not too sure."

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The state agency tasked with "safeguarding consumers," FDACS, is now mandating two changes to the ride "out of an abundance of caution," FOX 35 reports.

Any child under the age of 10 must have another person who is at least 14 years old or older ride with them.

Additional safety messaging and signage was required to be placed around the ride.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with the child and their family, and we pray for a speedy recovery," the park previously said in a statement after the boy was taken to a hospital. "The safety of our guests is our number one priority."

Fox News Digital reached out to the park for comment regarding the coaster's reopening, but did not immediately hear back. 

Fox News' Adam Sabes contributed to this report. 

Companies are using a specific legal stipulation to force their former employees to repay training costs, sometimes to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars. 

Training reimbursement agreements require employees to pay back training costs if they leave within a certain period after their hiring. The Skin Cancer Institute in Delano, California, for example, filed a lawsuit against a former employee in August claiming she owed $38,000 in training costs and $100,000 for loss of business.

"I thought there was nothing that could happen that would make me want to leave the contract early," the employee, Drew Lakey, told The New York Times.

Nearly 10% of workers reported being covered by training reimbursement agreements in 2020, according to the Cornell Survey Research Institute. Further, a survey of 1,700 nurses found that more than a third were subjected to such agreements.

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"They’re just becoming ubiquitous," Ashley Tremain, an employment lawyer in Texas, said, "as people are trying to find creative ways to move around noncompete restrictions."

Tremain noticed that the use of the agreements began rising five or six years ago. Now workers contact her about them several times a month, most commonly owing $20,000.

"It’s really an enormous amount of power that the employer holds in that situation," Tremain told the New York Times. 

Employers, however, believe the costs are justified. 

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"When the employee is going through the training voluntarily, primarily for their own benefit, in those situations, as a rule, the repayment obligation would be enforceable, and would be legal," Dan Pyne, a lawyer who has written and represented companies enforcing agreements, said. "When the training is required by the employer, that is the employer’s cost of doing business."

Employees who move from job to job can have a detrimental impact on business, according to the owner of a Washington state skincare clinic. She sued a former employee for $2,244, claiming she lost time and money on training the former employee. 

Meanwhile, the Biden administration has worked to limit stipulations like training reimbursement agreements. In January, the Federal Trade Commission proposed a rule that could ban many noncompete and reimbursement agreements. 

Madison Burch, a 26-year-old who quit her health care job in November without passing a board certification exam, was sued for $30,000 by her former employer.

"I told myself mentally that I could never work for anybody that made me hate what I did," she told The New York Times. 

Her lawsuit is still ongoing. 

The Skin and Cancer Institute did not return a request for comment. 

Advocates and lawyers of women who have detransitioned are speaking out after nonbinary Netflix "Queer Eye" star Jonathan Van Ness suggested it was "transphobic" of actor Dax Shepard to question if minors should undergo transition surgeries.

As a guest on an episode of the Shephard’s podcast, "Armchair Expert," Van Ness suggested Shepard was "parrot[ing] what he deemed "trans-misogyny" and "transphobic ideologies" for questioning if it is fair to women to oppose men in sports or to "question" if teenagers should undergo gender transitions. 

"I think to say that someone can't question without threatening to take someone's rights away to explore these things … some people are very uncomfortable about teenagers transitioning, they're challenging that. How do we know that the person is not going to change their mind?" Dax asked.

"This whole notion that to be critical or to question … because to even question it makes you an enemy. I don't think that's the way forward."

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Van Ness at one point responded that "there isn’t legitimate questioning" but rather an "onslaught towards queer people." 

"There's been 500 bills this year alone in the United States that target trans kids. Whether that's gender-affirming care, whether that's bathrooms, whether that sports. There isn't legitimate questioning going on. There is like a public targeted onslaught towards queer people," Van Ness said. 

But lawyers and advocates for women who have undergone hormone therapies and surgeries at a young age, who later regret and "detransitioned," are disputing Van Ness’s claims. 

Kelsey Bolar, an author and creator of the series "Identity Crisis," which documented the stories of several women who have detransitioned, said labeling such questions about gender transitioning as "transphobic" is "cruelty cloaked in altruism." 

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"A growing number of young women, who are now adults, feel betrayed by medical professionals who allowed and encouraged them to pursue opposite-sex hormones and surgeries before they were able to truly consent," Bolar told Fox News Digital. 

"These individuals now suffer from a range of permanent and debilitating side effects, including irreversible harm to their sexual function, reproductive health and general health. Though the total number of detransitioners is unknown, as no large-scale, long-term studies have tracked the incidence of detransition and regret, their devastating stories are becoming more frequent.

"To suggest that it's ‘transphobic’ to question whether children should be given access to drugs and surgeries that are banned in other countries due to their adverse effects is dangerous, naive and insulting to the experiences of an untold number of detransitioners.

"Simply put, it's cruelty cloaked in altruism."

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Chuck Limandri is an attorney representing Chloe Cole, who at 15 years old underwent a double mastectomy and at 13 was prescribed testosterone and hormone blockers. At 16, she detransitioned. She is now 19, an outspoken activist on a mission to "end child transition procedures," and she’s suing doctors, claiming she could not properly consent to those procedures at such a young age.

Limandri says the defendant, Kaiser Permanente, has a policy of not asking questions to get to the root of gender dysphoria or looking at underlying comorbidities. It moves right to surgeries and treatments for transitioning. 

Chloe testified before the House Judiciary Committee this summer about her experience, saying her "childhood was ruined." She said she felt "perfectly normal" feelings for a young girl, like body insecurity. 

Her issues with her body and gender, she said, led doctors to treat her for gender dysphoria to prevent suicide. However, she said she did not experience suicidal thoughts until after receiving medical treatment for gender dysphoria

"What message do I want to bring to American teenagers and their families? I didn't need to be lied to. I needed compassion. I needed to be loved," Cole testified. "I needed to be getting therapy to help me work through my issues. Not affirmed to my delusion that by transforming into a boy, it would solve all my problems," Cole said.

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Prisha Mosley, now a 25-year-old woman, started to medically transition at 16 and had a double mastectomy at 18. She is suing her doctors, hoping it will "serve as a warning to other doctors and therapists not to do this to anyone else."

"I trusted these health care providers to take care of me. Because of that relationship of trust and my vulnerable condition, I believed what they said, and I thought they were treating me properly, "she wrote in an op-ed published on Fox News Digital in July. 

"Years later, I realized that I had been lied to and misled in the worst possible way. Years of taking testosterone prevented my body from developing as it should have. It caused significant vaginal atrophy and the inability to have intercourse.

"My voice was permanently changed; I was no longer able to lift my voice and sing, which I used to love doing. I experienced severe pain in my shoulders, neck, and genital area. I do not know if I will be able to conceive and give birth to a child.

"As a result of breast surgery, I have to live without my breasts, and I am unable to nurse a child, should I be able to conceive one. I have pain in my chest where my breasts used to be." 

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"Do I wish that the trans woman athlete had access and could play and follow her dreams? I do," Shephard said on his podcast. "Will I elevate her rights over women? We're pretending that women aren't the ultimate marginalized class throughout history. 

"People have written ‘cervix haver’ and she goes, ‘No, there's a name for us. You can't steal my identity to help your cause. You can't take away the defining characteristic that allows me to relate to all these other women who have been oppressed.’

"What people are questioning, which is, could the captain of the water polo team that was male for 19 years, next month or in one year compete against girls and women? Would that be fair to girls and women? That's a fair question." 

Van Ness suggested some Republican lawmakers have used that argument as a "boogeyman to make us feel that our girls are being attacked, that their things are being taken away with fairness and sport." 

Van Ness got emotional, saying through tears he wished "that people were as passionate about little kids being able to like be included or grow up as they were about fictitious women's fairness and sports.

"I have to tell you, I am very tired."

"I’m not calling you a transphobe," Van Ness argued. "You can not be transphobic and still have thoughts that espouse trans-misogyny and espouse transphobic ideologies or beliefs and not be transphobic.

"Little kids are not getting gender reassignment surgery," Van Ness added. "Three-year-olds are not going to need a hysterectomy. We're not getting f---ing breast implants."

Police stumbled across a gruesome discovery in 1973 – the remains of an unidentified teenager with two bullet wounds in her head found dumped in a landfill near Orlando, Florida.

She had been dead for at least a month when her remains were recovered on Aug. 22 of that year, near Route 431 in Altamonte Springs, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

There were no missing person cases matching her description in the area, and half a century later, she remains and unidentified Jane Doe.

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"What we're doing is laying in those tissue markers, the ligature, the muscles and then the skin to try to determine what she may have looked like in life in hopes that somebody will recognize this child and help us give her her name back," says Callahan Walsh, the executive director of the Florida branch of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. 

NCMEC forensic artist Joe Mullins typically takes up to two weeks to complete a reconstruction, he says, but spent three long, coffee-fueled days completing this one at CrimeCon 2023 in Orlando, hoping someone attending the true crime conference would recognize her.

"How do you go from a bare skull with obvious trauma, bullet holes, blunt force trauma, and turn that into a recognizable face? It's a combination of art and science," Mullins says.

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The sculptor works with parameters provided by a forensic anthropologist, he says.

The current Jane Doe is believed to have been between 13 and 18 years old at the time of her murder.

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She is described as a Caucasian female with brown hair pulled back in a ponytail. She was about 5 feet, 4 inches tall and, according to forensic testing on her bones, is believed to have spent her early life in the western or northwestern United States and may have spent time in the Midwest, according to the NCMEC.

No one with that description was reported missing from the area where she was found, prompting investigators to cast a wider net looking for clues.

"Last I checked, there's about 7.8 billion people on the planet," Mullins says. "We just need one person to see it and say, ‘I think I know who that is.’"

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Anyone who does recognize her is asked to call the Seminole County Sheriff's Office at (407) 665-6600.

Fox News' Emily Robertson contributed to this report.

A Navy veteran was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison for killing his sister with a bayonet blade and awl after her penchant for watching true-crime content led him to believe she would kill their mother.

Before he was sentenced in September, 53-year-old Anthony Dibella told a judge in Jefferson County, New York, that he was officially diagnosed with schizoaffective and bipolar disorders in 1994 after serving in operation Desert Storm, per courtroom minutes obtained by Inside Edition, in the hopes that he "might get [some] help from a VA hospital instead of going to prison."

On April 28, 2022, Dibella reported his sister's murder to 911 dispatchers, telling them "Wanda Paoli is being killed, she is a witch killed with a knife and awl, and is currently on the porch" of their town of Lyme home, per court documents. 

First responders found Paoli dead with stab wounds to the head, neck and face, per court documents.

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When officers arrived to the home he and Paoli shared, finding the deceased 67-year-old on the porch, Dibella allegedly told police that he "had to do what I did to her because she was getting in the way of me communicating to God."

Dibella was arrested after police found his 89-year-old mother unharmed inside and charged him with second-degree murder, assault with intent to cause serious injury and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon

Paoli's sons, Shawn and Josh, wrote that they hope Dibella "rots in prison with no chance of ever getting out for what he has done" and that their convicted uncle was "nothing to [them] now" in their impact statement shared at the Sept. 20 sentencing hearing. 

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"He selfishly and violently took her life and has destroyed our family," the statement read. "Every day is difficult, and no one can ever understand the physiological impact this senseless tragedy has had… on the lives of our entire family because our mother is no longer here with us. I cannot even put into words how much she is missed."

Instead of being apologetic, per court documents, Dibella followed their statement with attempts to justify the killing.

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Due to Paoli's "obsess[ion] with reality shows about serial killers," her recent purchase of a battery-powered chainsaw and a minor bruise he spotted on his mother's hand, Dibella said at his sentencing that he was convinced that his sister intended to kill their mother.

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Dibella acknowledged that he "stopped all [his] psychotropic medications" after "attending a healing church service" in 2019, leading his "paranoia to get the best of [him]," the veteran doubled down on his delusions in court.

"I believe without a shadow of a doubt that I saved my mother's life that day," Dibella concluded. 

A prosecutor objected to Dibella's statements in court, per the documents, noting that they were "here for sentencing, not to disparage the victim of an intentional depraved murder, here."

Judge David Renzi admonished Dibella before handing down his sentence.

"I was very familiar with issues that could potentially be a mental health defense – those, of course, were negated when you entered a guilty plea to murder in the second degree," Renzi noted. "When we discussed that plea, you made it very clear to me that you intentionally caused the death of Wanda Paoli. You described it as unsound measures that you took. Well, it's more than that. You made a choice… to kill somebody."

A pair of Kentucky high school students stumbled upon a unique and rare piece of history while cleaning up a local park this month.

The treasure – a dog tag belonging to Fred Jackson, a celebrated World War II veteran and Lexington’s first elected African American constable – was found by Woodford County High School juniors Meghan Burke and Hattie Steen while they were cleaning up around the foundation of an old house in Huntertown Community Interpretive Park near Versailles.

The place where the dog tag was found is where Jackson’s former home once stood, according to Lexington's WKYT News.

"I was surprised to just find it just sitting there on the surface level," Steen said, according to the outlet. "And it wasn’t rusty. It was just a little dirty, but that was about it."

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After the discovery, the students decided to turn the find over to Sioux Finney, a board member at Huntertown Interpretive Park.

"They were so excited because they knew the person," Steen recalled.

"I walked over there, and I looked at the dog tag, and I saw it said Fred D. Jackson, and I said, ‘Girls, I’m about to faint,’" Finney told the outlet.

Jackson, who also served as a civil rights leader in his community, passed away in 2007. However, the community continues to honor his legacy and the City of Lexington reportedly designated Nov. 19 as Fred Jackson Day.

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In an interview with Lexington's Fox 56, Ron Jackson, the son of the esteemed veteran, described the moment he received the "wonderful news."

"My heart just stopped for a moment. Tears would start flowing out of my eyes. I told my wife; I said, ‘They found Daddy’s dog tags,'" he recalled. "They didn’t mean anything to her, but it meant so much to me because my father was an amazing man. He did so much for us."

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Fred Jackson's sister, Geraldine Jackson Berry, was also shocked by the discovery and commended the teens for making sure it ended up in the right hands.

"I can’t describe how I feel about them. They’re amazing," Berry said, according to WKYT. "It’s good that they recognize that it was something important and showed it to Sioux."

The dog tag was later turned over to members of Jackson's family, who gathered in person to take a look at the one-of-a-kind relic.

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Though the discovery will be hard to beat, Burke told the outlet that she and Steen are eager to return to the site to see what else they can find.

"I don’t know if we can top that, but I would like to try," she said.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) dropped never-before-seen photos of one of Saturn's moons while comparing them to well-known food dishes.

"Ravioli, pierogi, empanada... What do you see? No wrong answers," NASA posted on its Instagram account Monday, accompanied by pictures of Pan, the innermost of Saturn's moons.

The photos, which were taken from the Cassini spacecraft, show the unique moon in a new level of detail.

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According to the space agency, the ridge around the equator of Pan has similar characteristics to Atlas, another moon that orbits Saturn. That ridge gives Pan its unique "dumpling" shape, according to NASA.

Pan orbits Saturn from inside a gap in one of the planet's rings, the post explained, making an orbit around the planet every 13.8 hours at an altitude of 83,000 miles.

The two images show how the Cassini spacecraft's perspective of Pan changed as it passed within 15,300 miles of the moon, the craft's closest ever encounter with Pan.

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Pan was originally discovered by M.R. Showalter "using images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft nine years earlier," according to a page about the moon on NASA's website.

According to Space.com, Saturn has 145 moons that are currently recognized by the International Astronomical Union. That number rose significantly in May this year as 62 new moons were discovered by a team of scientists led by Edward Ashton.

While most of Saturn's moons were originally named for Greco-Roman Titans, the discovery of many new moons forced scientists to start using names from other mythologies such as Gallic, Inuit and Norse stories, according to NASA.

"Pan, a satyr (a creature resembling a man with the hind legs and hooves of a goat), is a Greek god of nature and the forest," NASA explains on its website.

A middle school in Tualatin, Oregon, would not comment on whether a student who was seen beating up a smaller girl in a school hallway earlier this month is transgender.

Hazelbrook Middle School spokesperson Traci Rose told The Oregonian that federal law prohibited the school from discussing a student's gender identity.

Video footage of the incident showed a larger student wearing girl's clothes dragging a smaller girl classmate by her backpack in the hallway before pulling the victim's hair and hitting her several times.

The attack left the victim in tears, and can be heard in the video saying, "I can't breathe." It is unclear what prompted the beating.

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The identities of the two students have not been publicly released, but the video led to public outrage after it was shared online. Some members of the public angered by the incident have alleged that the attacker is transgender, but it is unclear at this time if the student is actually transgender.

Tualatin Police arrested the suspected attacker on assault charges and the case has been referred to the Washington County Juvenile Department, Oregon Live reported. 

The video of the attack was shared widely on social media, including by former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who has been a vocal advocate against transgender women competing in women's sports since she competed against transgender swimmer Lia Thomas in college.

After the attack and subsequent outrage over the incident, the school was forced to evacuate on Friday over social media and email threats to bomb and shoot up the school.

Bomb threats were made against the homes of school and district staffers and city officials the day after the clip was shared on social media. Threats of a school shooting were also made, and the school was forced to evacuate its staff and students.

The school board said in a statement on Thursday that the students in the video of the hallway attack had not consented to it being shared and that the clip prompted "false information and a focus and discourse on sexual identity."

"These acts have contributed to the trauma individuals and families are already experiencing," the statement read.

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A petition was shared among parents who called for harsher penalties for students who commit violence, particularly for repeat offenders.

A video of a second incident that allegedly involved the same attacker was shared online. In this clip, the student could be seen shoving another girl to the ground. A third student attempted to intervene, but the attacker began also hitting her, throwing her to the ground and throwing more punches. 

The fight ended after an adult was heard instructing the students to back away.

District superintendent Sue Rieke-Smith described the second incident as "horrific" but that the incident had been addressed by the school's principal and staff.

"Now that [the second video] has come to this office’s attention, I too am concerned about a repeated pattern and all the pieces around that … I have to get more information from the school, so I can understand that incident, how it was investigated and how it relates to the [other] one. That is the work that is ahead of me," Rieke-Smith told parents last week.

The superintendent defended the district's discipline policy that explains how students can learn from their mistakes, especially for minor behavior violations, including bullying and physical contact that is not assault.

"Zero tolerance is antithetical to our work as educators," she said Friday. "If it is safe for the victim and the school community as a whole to extend an opportunity for the student to relearn different behavior, that is what we do."

But Rieke-Smith said that when an incident rises to an assault, there is "no tolerance," adding that an immediate referral to law enforcement would then be made. She said that is what happened in the case of the first video.

A 28-year-old former event planner, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in August, has been sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison for the unprovoked shoving of an 87-year-old Broadway voice coach onto a Manhattan sidewalk last year. 

Manhattan state Supreme Court Judge Felicia Mennin on Friday added six months to the eight years already agreed upon in Lauren Pazienza’s plea deal, saying she didn’t believe Pazienza had taken responsibility for her actions. 

Pazienza left Barbara Maier Gustern bleeding on a Chelsea sidewalk soon after the woman cracked her head March 10, 2022, as a result of Pazienza's shove. She suffered a "massive hemorrhage" on the left side of her brain and died after five days in a hospital. 

The defendant could have faced 25 years in prison if she hadn’t taken the plea deal and had been found guilty by a jury.

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As part of a plea deal, Pazienza admitted to hurling profanities at Gustern and intentionally shoving her to the ground. Her motive remains unclear.

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Prosecutors previously said the younger woman rushed Gustern on a Chelsea sidewalk, called her a "b----," and knocked her to the ground from behind.

She has been held at the Rikkers Island jail since March 2022 when a judge revoked her bail. 

"Lauren Pazienza aggressively shoved Barbara Gustern to the ground and walked away as the beloved New Yorker lay there bleeding," Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement after she pled guilty. "Today’s plea holds Pazienza accountable for her deadly actions."

Gustern was a vocal coach whose clients have included such celebrities as Blondie singer Debbie Harry, as well as Kimilee Bryant, a South Carolinian performer who referred to her former mentor as her "New York mom," and who told Fox News Digital that Gustern and her late husband had taken her in when she arrived in the Big Apple years ago for her first stint on Broadway in "The Phantom of the Opera."

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"We'd really become close, because they really adopted lots of sorts of strays, as they would call us, for holidays because we couldn't go home," she said. "I couldn’t go home for Thanksgiving. We had a show."

Fox News Digital's Michael Ruiz and the Associated Press contributed to this report. 

The police chief who led a highly criticized raid of a small Kansas newspaper has been suspended, the mayor confirmed to The Associated Press on Saturday.

Marion Mayor Dave Mayfield in a text said he suspended Chief Gideon Cody on Thursday. He declined to discuss his decision further and did not say whether Cody was still being paid.

Voice messages and emails from the AP seeking comment from Cody's lawyers were not immediately returned Saturday.

The Aug. 11 searches of the Marion County Record’s office and the homes of its publisher and a City Council member have been sharply criticized, putting Marion at the center of a debate over the press protections offered by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

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Cody's suspension is a reversal for the mayor, who previously said he would wait for results from a state police investigation before taking action.

Vice-Mayor Ruth Herbel, whose home was also raided Aug. 11, praised Cody's suspension as "the best thing that can happen to Marion right now" as the central Kansas town of about 1,900 people struggles to move forward under the national spotlight.

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"We can't duck our heads until it goes away, because it’s not going to go away until we do something about it," Herbel said.

Cody has said little publicly since the raids other than posting a defense of them on the police department’s Facebook page. In court documents he filed to get the search warrants, he argued that he had probable cause to believe the newspaper and Herbel, whose home was also raided, had violated state laws against identity theft or computer crimes.

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The raids came after a local restaurant owner accused the newspaper of illegally accessing information about her. A spokesman for the agency that maintains those records has said the newspaper’s online search that a reporter did was likely legal even though the reporter needed personal information about the restaurant owner that a tipster provided to look up her driving record.

The newspaper’s publisher Eric Meyer has said the identity theft allegations simply provided a convenient excuse for the search after his reporters had been digging for background information on Cody, who was appointed this summer.

Legal experts believe the raid on the newspaper violated a federal privacy law or a state law shielding journalists from having to identify sources or turn over unpublished material to law enforcement.

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Video of the raid on the home of publisher Eric Meyer shows how distraught his 98-year-old mother became as officers searched through their belongings. Meyer said he believes that stress contributed to the death of his mother, Joan Meyer, a day later.

Another reporter last month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief over the raid.