Tracing...

A 55-year-old man has been arrested in a 31-year-old cold case involving a young couple murdered in Washington state.

Sheriff’s Officers arrested William Talbott for the November 1987 murders of 20-year-old Jay Cook and 18-year-old Tanya Van Cuylenborg, the Skagit County Sheriff’s Office said.

Investigators tapped a public genealogy website to match crime scene DNA. The analysis was performed by Parabon, a Virginia company.

 A digital file containing DNA genotype data from evidence at the crime scene was uploaded to GEDMatch, a public genetic genealogy website, and promising matches were found for two of the suspect’s relatives, the sheriff’s office said.

Itch

Divorce occurred most frequently among couples at the height of their reproductive and parenting years—for men, ages 25 to 29, and for women, ages 20 to 24 and 25 to 29—and among those with one dependent child.

In more contemporary hunter-gatherer societies, women tend to bear their children about four years apart. After a child is weaned at around age four, the child often joins a playgroup and is cared for by older siblings. This allows unhappy couples to break up and find a more suitable partner.

Serial pair bonding may have been beneficial to survival among our forebears because having children with more than one partner produces offspring with greater genetic variety and a wider range of skills. Hence, in the changeable environment of ancient Africa, some offspring would have had a better chance of enduring.

The four-year divorce peak among modern humans may represent the remains of an ancestral reproductive strategy to stay bonded long enough to raise a child.

By understanding this susceptibility, we might anticipate, and perhaps be able to avoid, the four-year itch.

Fiske...

 Fiske was 17 weeks pregnant when she went to visit Imran to discuss raising the child, according to WROC. That's when he slipped a pill into her tea, which caused her to go into premature labor hours later. She was rushed to the hospital, but the infant did not survive. 

Despite Fiske's loss, she argued against a stiff penalty for Imran. The doctor, who lost his license following his arrest.

Imran told the judge he loved Fiske "more than anyone in the world" and prays for their unborn child everyday. 

WJLA reports Imran could also be deported to his native Pakistan after serving three years in prison, now that is the punishment.

Yanny...

Royal...

Santa Fe...

It was barely after 7:30 a.m. at Santa Fe High School, about 35 miles southeast of Houston, when gunfire first resounded through the halls, the opening volley of yet another massacre at an American high school that would leave students, teachers and staff members shocked, and in some cases bloodied. But they were not necessarily surprised.

No detectors?

MidLife...

A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals.  The phenomenon is described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight a person's growing age, inevitable mortality, and possibly shortcomings of accomplishments in life. This may produce feelings of depression, remorse, and anxiety, or the desire to achieve youthfulness or make drastic changes to current lifestyle.

During midlife typically we are burdened by taking care of children and parents, and a shift in our sense of time, leading us to reflect on our lives, decisions, and our future. 

Men feel hopelessly trapped in an identity or lifestyle they experience as constraining, fueled by an acute awareness of time passing. Finding themselves in a life that feels empty and inauthentic, they feel pressure to break out, and may desperately grasp at a chance for vitality and pleasure.  

Revenge...

Rapper 50 Cent will face legal action surrounding a social media post seen as revenge porn by Teairra Mari.

Mari said she discovered her boyfriend, actor Abdul-Ahad was cheating on her and broke up with him. Shortly after, he posted a "sex tape and an obscene photo" of her "clearly to humiliate" her.

"He had my Instagram password so he posted the video and photo to make me look terrible."

Mari claims that after the explicit content was taken down,  her ex's "good friend" 50 Cent then posted a sexually explicit photo of her on his account, which has more than 18 million followers.

Who are these folks and cares?

Coli...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said the harvest season for romaine lettuce, linked to the multi-state E. coli outbreak, was over.

The reported strain of E. coli, which produces poisonous substances known as Shiga toxins, can cause severe abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea and vomiting.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on May 2 one person from California had died related to the E. coli outbreak.

The last shipments of romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona were harvested on April 16, according to the FDA.

Twenty-three more people fell ill since the last update on May 9, bringing the total to 172 people from 32 states, the CDC said.

Didn't know nothing about it.

Post...

The final results of Iraq's first post-Islamic State (ISIS) election, held last weekend, have revealed a shock win for controversial anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The Shia leader, who has railed against both U.S. and Iranian influence, could dramatically change the landscape for major powers that have invested heavily in Iraq.

A firebrand religious leader with millions of loyal followers, Sadr gained infamy shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion by directing deadly attacks against American troops with his Mahdi Army, which also attacked Iraq's Sunnis.

Several of his election rallies triggered chants of "Iran out!" among his followers, voicing the desire for an Iraqi state run by Iraqis.

Most bets were on current Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to win,  but Abadi finished in a meager third place behind the Iranian-backed militia leader Hadi al-Amiri, head of the Badr Brigade, an organization created by Iran during the 1980s to fight Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war. Amiri was among Tehran's favorites to win — and this dynamic could create a rift in parliament between Iran loyalists and Sadr supporters.

So what was our plan for invading Iraq?