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Photo: File: Bernard Friel/Education Images/Getty A hiker who had been reported missing since Sunday was found alive in Glacier National Park. Using an infrared camera that detects heat,explainsThe New York Times, the Two Bear Air rescue team picked up a thermal heat signature in heavily forested terrain. They discovered Read’s location after an expanded search for his whereabouts began Monday morning. The teenager had last been heard from Friday,NBC Newsreports....

Photo: Waterford Crystal/Matthew Carasella Photography The countdown to 2021 wouldn’t be complete without a larger-than-life ball drop in New York City’s Times Square — and Waterford Crystal is promising to deliver once again. Though the socially distanced crowd will be smaller this year, Waterford is sticking with the tradition of its “Greatest Gifts” series. “For over twenty years, the Waterford Crystal Times Square New Year’s Eve Ball has been the symbol of New Year’s Eve for people all around the world,” the company said in a statement....

Two brothers have been arrested in the Jan. 29 apparenthate attackonEmpirestarJussie Smollett, according to Chicago police. A spokeswoman tells PEOPLE the suspects were arrested Wednesday evening but have not yet been charged. Because they have not been charged, police are withholding identifying information about them. On Thursday, Chicago Police Department Chief Communications Officer Anthony Guglielmi said on Twitter that “detectives have identified the persons of interest in the area of the alleged attack” who were being questioned but were “not yet suspects” in the attack....

Photo: Chase Agnello-Dean/NHLI via Getty Images (2) Two Chicago Blackhawks players’cars were reportedly stolenwhile they were dining in the city last month. Caleb Jones and Connor Murphy were eating at an establishment a short distance from United Center, the Blackhawks' home arena, around 8 p.m. local time on Dec. 29 when thieves allegedly stole their car keys from a valet, according to TMZ. Thieves got away with Jones' 2021 Jeep Trackhawk and Murphy’s 2017 Porsche Panamera, per the report....

Christy Giles, Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzola.Photo: Christy Giles/Instagram; GoFundMe Two men from Los Angeles have pled not guilty to a grand jury’s indictment over their alleged connection to a model and her friend’s 2021 deaths. Christy Giles and Hilda Marcela Cabrales-Arzoladied after they went to a party but never came home in November 2021. A second man, Brandt Walter Osborn, 43, pled not guilty to the two counts of being an accessory after the fact that he was charged with, ABC 7 reported....

Monique Baugh.Photo: Facebook A Minnesota judge this week handed down life sentences to the two men behind the killing of 28-year-old mother-of-twoMonique Baugh, a respected realtor who was found shot to death in an alleyway on Dec. 31, 2019. On Monday, Cedric Berry and Berry Davis, both 42, were sentenced to life without the possibility of release for Baugh’s first-degree premeditated murder, according to a statement from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office....

Photo: Polk County Sheriff’s Office Two men are believed to have drowned in a boating accident on a lake near theLegolandtheme park in Florida, authorities said. Marrero’s daughters, ages eight and 10, were alone on the vessel — a 16-foot Tahoe ski boat —when they were discovered, police said. The lake is now set to be closed until their bodies are found, according to the Polk Couty Sheriff’s Office....

Photo: USCG Southeast/ TwitterTwo people died and 10 more are still missing after a boat that set sail from Cuba capsized near Key West in Florida, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.The Coast Guard Cutter Resolute was on routine patrol Thursday when it spotted multiple people in the water and alerted watchstanders, the Coast Guard said in apress release.The Resolute crew rescued eight people from the water, while a Station Key West 45-foot response boat recovered the bodies of two people....

Photo: Michigan State Police Police have found a 2-year-old girl who was lost in a wooded area for more than a day after wandering away from her family during a camping trip, authorities say. Vitale’s family was preparing to leave the campsite in Comins Township on Monday morning when they realized the little girl was nowhere to be found,according to a statementfrom the Oscoda County Sheriff’s Office, which confirmed the disappearance to PEOPLE....

Nafiah Fatima.Photo: GoFundMe A 21-year-old woman is hoping to get justice after police say she was attacked on the driveway of her New York home. Ina press release from the Nassau County Police Department, officials confirmed that the assault happened around 8:15 p.m. outside of the victim’s Arlington Avenue residence in Elmont. On the GoFundMe page, Anjum stated that they later discovered the substance was “a dark brown acid known to cause blindness and severe burning....

At-home DNA testing company23andMehas created its first in-house drug, developed using its customers’ genetic data. Last week, 23andMe licensed a drug compound meant to target skin conditions like psoriasis to Spanish pharmaceutical company Almirall, according toBloomberg. The drug has undergone animal testing and will need to go through clinical trials, after which Almirall will have the rights to sell it on the market, according to apress release. “This is a seminal moment for 23andMe,” Emily Drabant Conley, vice president of business development, told the outlet....

Axum , an ancient city in Ethiopia , hold a treasure trove of history and refinement . eff for its toweringobelisks , this metropolis was once the heart of theAksumite Empire , a potent trading nation . Did you knowthat Axum is believed to be the resting spot of theArk of the Covenant ? Thiscityalso boasts theChurch of St. Mary of Zion , one of the oldest Christian church service in Africa ....

Stephanie Smith.Photo: Facebook A Texas bride-to-be who spent her would-be wedding day sharing her excitement with nurses while in a hospital bed died ofCOVID-19just five days after she was set to tie the knot. Stephanie Lynn Smith, 29,died on Nov. 18, less than a week after she and fiancé Jamie Bassett had planned to get married in the same Lubbock field where he’d proposed a year earlier, according toNBC News....