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Suspect in Denver area school shooting identified:

A school shooting not far from Columbine High School left one student dead and eight others injured on Tuesday, authorities said.

Two suspects were apprehended after the shooting at the STEM School Highlands Ranch, which covers K-12, Douglas County Sheriff Tony Spurlock said. About 1,850 students attend the school, according to its website.

Spurlock said earlier that one suspect is an adult male and one is believed to be a juvenile.

He identified one of the suspects as Devon Erickson. Erickson, 18, is the adult suspect, the Douglas Colorado Sheriff’s office said on Twitter. The department also said it will not release photos at this time to maintain the integrity of the investigation

A doorbell camera captured the terrifying moment a snake attacked a man:

A doorbell camera captured the moment a snake attacked a man in a video that will make your skin crawl.

Jerel Heywood was visiting Rodney Copeland’s home on Sunday in Lawton, Oklahoma when the attack occurred.

The snake was wrapped around a porch light, Copeland said.

As Heywood opens the screen door, the snake pops into the corner of the camera and bites into Heywood’s head before retreating.

Heywood’s first thought? “I got bit by a snake. Didn’t know what kind it was,” he said. “Have to get to the hospital.

Sandra Bland recorded her own arrest in 2015. The video was just released:

Newly released video shows the controversial 2015 traffic stop arrest of Sandra Bland from her vantage point, and her family’s attorney questions why the footage didn’t emerge before now.

The 39-second video, which Bland recorded on her cell phone, was published Monday by Dallas TV station WFAA in partnership with nonprofit news organization The Investigative Network

Climate anxiety is real, but there’s something you can do about it:

A student in Wendy Petersen Boring’s climate-change-focused class said she woke at 2 a.m. and then cried for two solid hours about the warming ocean.

“This is a computer science major,” Petersen Boring said.

Petersen Boring, an associate professor of history, religious studies, women & gender studies at Willamette University in Oregon, has been teaching about climate change for a little over a decade. In that short time, she has watched her students’ fear, grief, stress and anxiety gro

Heart failure deaths on the rise in younger US adults, researchers say:

A recent decline in heart failure-related deaths in the United States has reversed, and those types of deaths are now climbing nationwide, especially among adults ages 35 to 64.

The trend, which also revealed some racial disparities, was found in a research paper published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on Monday.

The paper points to an increase in the prevalence of obesity and diabetes as possibly driving a parallel rise in heart failure deaths.

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