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After a video surfaced showing two sheriff’s deputies using their fists and batons to beat a suspect in a San Francisco alley as he tried to turn himself in, two Bay Area public defenders have called for criminal charges to be filed against the officers.The assault comes at a time of increased scrutiny of police use of force following several high-profile clashes with suspects that have sparked protests across the country over the past two years.The footage has sparked calls for criminal charges to be brought against the two officers. Photo: ScreenshotThe Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said suspect Stanislav Petrov,…

The families of three students who died after being hypnotized by their Florida high school principal will each receive $200,000.The Sarasota County School District’s board of education unanimously agreed to a $600,000 settlement Tuesday, bringing to an end a bizarre, years-long lawsuit that began when former Northport High School Principal George Kenney admitted to hypnotizing 16-year-old Wesley McKinley the day before his suicide in April 2011.A subsequent investigation found that Kenney had hypnotized as many as 75 students and staff members between 2006 and McKinley’s death, the Herald Tribune reported.One of the school’s basketball players said Kenny hypnotized him 30…

An American Airlines pilot died during a flight despite desperate attempts by flight attendants to resuscitate him.The pilot of Flight 550 became “incapacitated” Monday morning while flying from Phoenix to Boston.A flight attendant, a former nurse, reportedly tried to resuscitate him, but he died before the plane landed.The overnight flight took off at 12:08 a.m. MST, was rerouted to Syracuse, and landed around 7:10 a.m. EST.In an air traffic control recording, the co-pilot can be heard reporting the emergency, saying, “Medical emergency, pilot incapacitated. Requesting response to runway 108.”Emergency services met the Airbus A320 on the ground at Syracuse airport,…

Cast members at the premiere of “The Martian” (Getty Images)With his 1978 monster thriller Alien and 1982 neo-noir epic Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott helped set the tone for more than three decades of dark, gritty, and thought-provoking sci-fi movies. Three decades later, having made everything from historical epics to crime comedies, he returned to his roots with the 2012 Alien prequel Prometheus, and now the 78-year-old British filmmaker is continuing his own unique sci-fi revival with The Martian, the long-awaited film adaptation of Andy Weir’s 2011 hit novel.The film stars Matt Damon as botanist and astronaut Mark Watney, who…

Jeremy Stamper said he was heartbroken when he learned that just a few weeks into their marriage, his wife, Justice Stamper, had lost her short-term memory in a car accident and had forgotten details of their wedding day.”She finally came out and said she didn’t remember the wedding,” Stamper, of Bristol, Tenn., told ABC News. “I said, ‘Don’t worry. We’ll do it again.'”Stamper, 21, said she and Justice met at their church’s Sunday school class when they were around 10 and 11 years old.Jeremy Stamper married his new wife a second time after she lost all memory of their first…

A 13-year-old American girl has taken her own life by jumping out of a moving car on a highway overpass, after her father allegedly humiliated her by cutting off her long hair as punishment and posting a short video of the incident on YouTube a few days earlier.The case has reignited the controversial parenting issue of public shaming as punishment.The girl was reportedly Isabel Laxamana of Tacoma and was a student at Jadron Middle School.Blogger Jack Cameron wrote about both the public humiliation video and the suicide on his website Tacoma Stories, without naming the victim.”Yesterday, this same girl got…

A high school quarterback fulfills a childhood promise to take a friend with Down Syndrome to prom.Mary Lapkowitz, 17, had been looking forward to prom ever since she set a date for her friend, Ben Moser, in the senior year.Seven years later, the two kept their party promise and paired up for her milestone dance on May 8 at the Radisson in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.”He made good on that promise,” Mr. Lapkowitz’s brother, Tom Lapkowitz, wrote on Facebook.”And in the process, put a smile on Mary’s face.” [and] It restored my faith in humanity.”Even as a primary school student, the…

Rebel Wilson may have looked chic in a black and hot pink cape dress on the blue carpet at the MTV Movie Awards, but it was what she wore onstage that was truly impressive.On Sunday, Wilson, who was at the event to premiere a clip from her upcoming film Pitch Perfect 2, changed into leather leggings, a beaded bra with dangling fringe, big white angel wings, and black, winged sneakers. The bottom of her pants had the word “THINK” written in big, crystal-embellished block letters. While it was clear that Wilson was emulating Victoria’s Secret models (the brand’s bottoms often…

A single gene could pave the way for increased human intelligence by dramatically increasing the number of brain cells in key areas of the brain.The gene appears to be unique to humans: It is found in modern humans, Neanderthals and another extinct human lineage, the Denisovans, but not in chimpanzees.This small piece of DNA may have laid the basis for a huge expansion of the human brain by allowing a region of the brain called the neocortex to accommodate many more neurons.”It’s incredible that just one small gene can influence the phenotype of the stem cells that contributed most to…

He may go further and remove part of his nose to look like a Marvel Comics villain.But Venezuelan comic book fan Henry Damon, 37, underwent stomach-churning surgery to look more like Red Skull, the Nazi supervillain from Captain America.Damon, now calling himself Red Skull, already had a subdermal implant in his forehead, but had the tip of his nose removed as the first step in his transformation.He also has black tattoos on his eyes.The operation was performed by Emilio Gonzalez, a medical school dropout who now specializes in tattooing and body surgery.Damon is said to have undergone numerous psychological tests…