A 33-year-old man suffering from a debilitating disease who volunteered to have his head transplanted onto another person’s body has pulled out of the experimental operation. “Here you have a patient who is dying, dying, dying every single day,” Canavero said of Spiridonov’s commitment to the surgery in aninterview with Canada’sNational Postin 2016. “What is going to happen if I do nothing?” The procedure was initially scheduled for 2017, but Canavero had to push the date back while he continued his preparations....

Photo: WLTX19 A South Carolina man remains on the loose after robbing a church and shooting one of its members early Sunday morning. The horrifying incident occurred just after 6 a.m. when the “lone” gunman barged into Centro Cristiano De Columbia Church on Decker Blvd. where churchgoers were kneeling in prayer, demanding money, Forest Acres Police Department revealed in anews release. He was armed with a small silver semi-auto pistol....

A Minnesota woman’s boyfriend is facing murder charges nearly two monthsafter she was found dead in her home and wrapped in layers of blankets. Police also allegedly found her boyfriend Matthew Brenneman, 39, inside the bathroom “grunting, and growling” and smelling of bleach, the complaint stated. In the aftermath of her death, Bergeson’s father recalled her as being “really engaging” and someone with a clear moral compass. Go Fund Me...

An aspiring pastor in North Carolina who said he discovered his wifefatally stabbed after waking from a haze he blamed on cold medicinehas pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, multiple news outlets report. Matthew James Phelps, now 30, was charged in the Sept. 1, 2017 death of his wife,Lauren Hugelmaier Phelps, 29. In the early morning hours,Phelpscalled 911 and told the operator that he had consumed “more medicine than I should have....

Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses.Photo: Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty The married couple and former congregation members were identified as Melissa Susanna Martinez, 44, and Enoch Noah Apodaca, 46, according to press releases from theOffice of the Coroner of Adams and Broomfield Countiesand theThornton Police Department. Officers responded to a call of a structure fire and a shooting around 9 a.m. on Dec. 25 at the Kingdom Hall in Thornton, police said....

Photo: North Carolina Education Lottery The thirteenth year was a charm for one lucky North Carolina man who used the same lottery numbers for more than a decade until he finally won it all on Friday. “They’re my lucky numbers,” Goins said. “They just came to me one day while I was filling out the play slip and I’ve been using them ever since.” The handyman bought the winning ticket at the Tobacco Road Outlet in Southport on Friday evening, but it wasn’t until the next afternoon that he discovered he hit the six-figure jackpot....

A Florida man who went missing after a boating trip was rescued on Saturday after spending more than 24 hours floating on a partially submerged boat in the Atlantic Ocean. On Saturday morning, aircrew in an HC-130 Hercules airplane spotted Gregory “sitting in his partially submerged jon boat,” the US. Coast Guard said. The boat crew saved the man and brought him to a Station Mayport boat crew, who took him to the Vilano Beach Fishing Pier to receive aid from EMS personnel....

Kilauea Volcano.Photo: Maxar Technologies/Getty An elderly man has died after falling into Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano, according to authorities. “A 75-year-old Hilo man died after falling from a closed area within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park late Sunday night,” the National Park Service said in astatementshared on Monday. (Hilo is a town located on the northeastern side of Hawaii.) “After searching for the man in the darkness, National Park Service rangers and Hawaiʻi County firefighters located the man’s body about 100 feet below the crater rim, west of the Uēkahuna viewing area at the summit of Kīlauea volcano,” the NPS said in the statement....

Mandy Moore at the season 2 premiere of ‘Dr. Death’ in L.A. on Dec. 14.Photo:Leon Bennett/FilmMagic Leon Bennett/FilmMagic After more than half a decade asmatriarch Rebecca PearsononThis Is Us,Mandy Moorewanted to flex a different muscle, so she signed on for the second season of true crime seriesDr. Death. “Coming off of six seasons of a show, I wanted to deviate as much as possible and find something that didn’t remind me of the past at all,” Moore 39, tells PEOPLE....

Photo: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP/REX/Shutterstock Mandy Mooreis going to be missing the VW Beetle like candy. On Thursday,Volkswagenannounced that they would “end production of the iconic Beetle” in July 2019 — and theThis Is Usstar, 34, who famously drove in and danced around a lime green version of the car in the music video for her song “Candy,” is just one of many fans who will mourn the loss of the iconic ride....

Photo: on Kopaloff/Getty; Mandy Moore/Instagram Mandy Moore’s home renovation project is still going strong, six years on! TheThis is Us Alum,38, gave a sneak peek of her soon-to-be-finished home that she firstpurchased in January 2017and has been working on ever since. In a visit to the project site on Wednesday, Moore showed off some newly-added design elements on herInstagram Story. She started with a clip of the wood beam ceiling in a room leading directly to an outdoor area, along with the caption, “site visit....

Photo: Ana Calderone You’ve probably heard that baking is a science, but sometimes, it can also seem like magic. I’m not talking about the flashy, pull a rabbit out of a hat kind of magic, but more like the DIY card trick with intricately-planned secrets only the dealer is privy to. In this case though, the dealer is a baker, and the trick is marble buttercream. I came across this mesmerizing frostingtechniquefrom Mijji Song ofMijji Cakes(@mijjicakes) during one of my frequent bouts of Instagram scrolling....

Photo: Peter Byrne/getty Marcus Rashford is addressing the racist hate he’s endured after a mural in his hometown was vandalized following Team England’s loss in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday. The mural — located in the suburb of Withington in Manchester, England — wasdefaced with “racially aggravated” graffitisome time before 2:50 a.m. on Monday, according to the Great Manchester Police. In a message shared to the Rashford’s social media accounts, the 23-year-old soccer player, whose missed penalty kick at the match contributed to securing Italy’s win, said that he can “take critique” of how he performed, but will “never apologise for who I am and where I came from....