• SFGate

    Body of Bay Area hiker found after fall from cliffs along Oregon coast

    A Bay Area man died after falling from a popular southern Oregon coastal trail on Sunday, officials announced. San Jose resident Richard Ehrhart, 69, was hiking with his wife on the coastal trail near Natural Bridges, about 17 miles north of the California border, when the two parted ways, authorities wrote in a Facebook post. At about 2:35 p.m. that day, 911 dispatchers at the Curry County Sheriff’s Office received a call from someone who had seen a person what appeared to be a body on the...

    • WBOY

    Man sentenced for fentanyl pills shaped like children’s vitamins found in Clarksburg

    An Ohio man who traveled to Clarksburg to sell drugs has been sentenced on multiple charges.

  • Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child

    Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adultsThe eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought.Led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University’s department of psychology, the study looked at more than 1,000 pairs of relatives to establish how likely...

  • Wokesters Have Found Something About Disney That They Don't Like

    I often say that "the left will devour itself" because leftists will inevitably turn on each other. The nature of wokeness means that even the most well-meaning leftist is going to come up against something that offends another fellow traveler.

    • KHON2

    Human remains found on Big Island property

    Police have opened an unattended death investigation after human remains were found on a property in the Hawaiian Ocean View Estates subdivision.

  • Confronting the ethical issues of human-like AI

    As AI becomes indistinguishable from humans, tech leaders must confront urgent ethical issues around transparency, trust and unintended harm.

  • Emma Stone would like to be called by her real name, if you don't mind

    If you thought Emma Stone was Emma Stone's real name, you are sorely mistaken. The two-time Oscar winner shared this week that she would like to be called by her given name — Emily Stone — despite her many years in show business using that other moniker. In a joint interview with "The Curse" co-star Nathan Fielder, Fielder said that he would be using the "La La Land" and "Poor Things" actor's actual name during the interview — in line with her close friends and collaborators. "Before we...

  • Unidentified Human Remains Found In Hudson Valley: Developing

    Authorities are working to identify human remains that were discovered near a Hudson Valley road.  The body was found in Putnam County on Tuesday, April 16 in the area of Ice Pond Road in Patterson, Trooper AJ Hicks of the New York State Police said on Wednesday, April 24.  The investigation to identify the remains is still in its "infancy," Hicks said, adding that no official connections to any missing persons cases have yet been made.  This is a developing story. Check back to Daily Voice...

    • Neowin

    Google Gemini would soon let you have human-like conversations with it

    Google's AI assistant, Gemini, would soon get a new "Conversation" mode which would allow users to have back-and-forth conversations with the AI tool, in a natural and intuitive way.

  • Pro-abortion graffiti found on Catholic church in Portland, Oregon

    The attack on St. Patrick's Church was the 252nd on a Catholic church in the United States since 2022.

  • Education, policy development likely at human trafficking prevention conference

    (The Center Square) – People with power and influence to help North Carolina stop exploiters of human trafficking are meeting in Raleigh to help educate, change perceptions and push new policies. Legislators, sheriffs, police chiefs, district attorneys and members of the anti-human trafficking movement are expected to attend. Organizers say the state is in the top 15 nationally for human trafficking incidents, and all of North America has a crisis. “As a state, we...

  • Puppy Was Dumped Like Trash And Found Inside A Tied Up Bag

    In a deeply upsetting case of animal neglect, a vigilant employee at Hamilton Park in Butler County made a shocking discovery that quickly turned into a rescue operation. While tending to her duties near the basketball courts, she noticed an oddly placed bag, something not entirely out of the ordinary for a busy park. Yet, upon closer examination, what she found inside was deeply distressing—a puppy, confined and tightly sealed within, struggling for space and air. This initial observation...