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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jason Statham (Photo: Getty Images)Kleb keb!Longtime lovers Jason Statham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley are engaged, a rep for the couple confirmed to The Insider With Yahoo. The 28-year-old model debuted her Neil Lane engagement ring at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night.It is unclear when Statham, 48, proposed, but the couple, who have been dating for about five years, had just returned from a romantic getaway to Phuket, Thailand.Related: Golden Globe Awards 2016 Red Carpet ArrivalsHuntington-Whiteley and the action star have been notoriously private about their relationship, but last year the model and actress opened up to…

A New York college student is getting into the Christmas spirit in a unique way, which means she’ll be sitting on the same Santa Claus’ lap for the 19th year in a row.”The only thing my mom wants for Christmas is for me to sit on Santa’s lap,” Mackenzie Doig of Syracuse, New York, told ABC News US.Six-year-old Mackenzie Doig with Santa Claus. Photo: Provided”I found it really embarrassing in high school, but now I think it’s really funny.”Doig, a senior at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, said he first went to see Santa at ShoppingTown Mall in Syracuse when…

A New York college student is getting into the Christmas spirit in a unique way, which means she’ll be sitting on the same Santa Claus’ lap for the 19th year in a row.”The only thing my mom wants for Christmas is for me to sit on Santa’s lap,” Mackenzie Doig of Syracuse, New York, told ABC News US.Six-year-old Mackenzie Doig with Santa Claus. Photo: Provided”I found it really embarrassing in high school, but now I think it’s really funny.”Doig, a senior at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, said he first went to see Santa at ShoppingTown Mall in Syracuse when…

Heather McManamy, an American cancer patient and mother who wrote greeting cards for her daughter’s future milestones, has died.But before he wrote a touching, funny, and heartbreaking eulogy that has been shared thousands of times around the world.”Hello everyone. I’m posting this on behalf of a loved one,” her husband Jeff McManamy posted on his Facebook page today. “These are her words. Lots of love to you all.”When Jeff, Heather and Brianna McMummy were still together. Photo: Attached”So…I have good news and bad news,” Heather wrote in a prepared note. “The bad news is, it looks like I’m dead.”The good…

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…

The heartbroken father of reporter Alison Parker, who was killed by a gunman on live TV, has vowed to campaign for legislation to stop firearms from getting into the hands of “crazy people”.”Is this true?” Andy Parker asks in a heartbreaking new interview after his daughter was tragically shot on air by a former colleague at WDBJ in Virginia.”I don’t watch any news,” Parker said in an interview.“It just breaks my heart even more than it already is.”Since Andy Parker’s daughter died, he confessed that the grief was unbearable and said he was constantly grieving. The devastated father told The…

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…