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Melvin Morse of Georgetown, Delaware has been detained and charged with reckless endangerment for allegedly waterboarding his young daughter while the girl's mother watched.

Ryan Lochte's sister is making a splash in the media by confusing the media into thinking she is one of her brother's flavors of the week. Shortly after completing his London Olympic duties, Lochte, along with his sister, Megan J. Torrini, and his stylist went out on the town to celebrate. On their way out of the club at which they were partying, photographers captured shots of Lochte with the two women as they piled into a van.

Caster Semenya, a South African middle-distance runner, is the latest Cinderella story to come out of the London Olympics. Semenya, 21, made her Olympic debut on Wednesday morning finishing and impressive second in her preliminary heat.

A 4.1 earthquake hit near Yorba Linda, Calif., at 9:33 a.m. The quake is the latest in a series of earthquakes to hit the Southern California area.

Kourtney Kardashian is showing off her new baby girl, Penelope Scotland Disick, on the latest cover of Us Weekly. Penelope, along with her older brother Mason, appears alongside her mother on the most recent edition of the magazine's cover.

On Thursday, Shannon Eastin will officially become the first female NFL referee when she serves as the line judge for the Green Bay Packers-San Diego Chargers preseason game.

Snowfall greeted the people of South Africa for the first time in five years on Tuesday. A strong area of low pressure at high altitudes, along with a deep pool of cold air, passed directly over South Africa on Tuesday, producing widespread snowfall.

Stuart Swanlund, the lead guitarist for The Marshall Tucker Band, died on Monday, Aug. 4 at 54. According to Publicist Don Murry Grubbs Swanlund died in his sleep of natural causes at his Chicago home.

Some physical play in a Major League Soccer game resulted in a nasty altercation between two players on opposite teams. During play between Philadelphia and Montreal, Union midfielder Antoine Hoppenot got a little too close for comfort to Montreal defender Nelson Rivas.

The video from Stephan Feck's failed dive at the London Olympics has everyone wondering what went wrong during the qualifying round of the men's three-metre springboard.

Jonathan Roth, the son of a Massapequa, N.Y. man who was reported missing in waters off a Long Island beach and turned up five days later in South Carolina has been arrested.

A Manila flood has killed more than 50 people in recent weeks and has continued to drench the country with torrential rains in the Philippine capital.

Thousands of fish have been found dead in the Midwest as the summer heat causes rivers to dry up and water temperatures to reach nearly 100 degrees. Reports indicate about 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon to be dead in Iowa after water temperatures climbed to a blistering 97 degrees last week.

More details emerged Monday about the man said to be responsible for the Sikh temple shooting that left six other people dead and four wounded on Sunday in Wisconsin.

Sanya Richards-Ross, the wife of Jacksonville Jaguars cornerback Aaron Ross, took home the gold medal in the 400-meters at the Olympics in London. Richards-Ross's win comes four years after an emotional loss left her unsatisfied with an Olympic bronze medal.

Wade Michael Page is the man being named as the alleged gunman who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., and killed six people on Sunday. Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran who served from April 1992 through October 1998, allegedly opened fire outside the temple before entering around 10:30 a.m. Sunday morning and taking the lives of six innocent people.

A lightning strike left one dead and nine others injured on Sunday following a NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono Raceway.

Adam Smith, a chief financial officer for a Tucson medical manufacturing company, recently posted a controversial YouTube video of himself going through a Chick-fil-A drive-thru and belittling a patient restaurant worker.

Since Kristen Stewart decided to publicly admit to cheating on boyfriend Robert Pattinson with director Rupert Sanders, Hollywood has been buzzing with talk about what fueled the brief fling and what will happen to the "Twilight" stars career. Will Ferrell got extremely emotional on 'Conan' about the situation and even culminated the appearance by calling Stewart a "trampire."

Floyd Mayweather was seen exiting a Las Vegas jail early Friday, Aug. 3. The WBC Welterweight Champion was released after two months of a three-month sentence in a misdemeanor domestic battery case.

Electronic dance music DJ/producer Tiesto is officially the world's highest paid DJ, according to Forbes.com. The last two years in pop-culture have seen EDM make its successful crossover into the mainstream and so it's no surprise that the "Club Life" artist raked in a staggering $22 million in 2012. Check out Forbes' list of top 10 highest paid DJ's!

William Patrick Hitler reportedly wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt requesting that he be allowed to enlist in the U.S. military to fight against the Nazis in WWII.

Katherine Jackson has been reinstated as the guardian of Michael Jackson's three children. The arrangement made on Thursday by Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff keeps their cousin TJ Jackson as temporary co-guardian.

South Korean fencer Shin Lam got denied an advance to the Olympic final of the women's epee after she misinterpreted a clock re-setting.

Katy Perry and John Mayer are the latest couple to hit the rumor mill. The two have been spotted out multiple times now with most of them being at night and in posh celebrity hangouts.

The California city of San Bernardino filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, citing more than $1 billion of debts. The filing makes it the third California city to seek protection from creditors in recent weeks.

Rainer Reinscheid, a 48-year-old pharmaceutical sciences professor, is being held without bail after he wrote emails describing in graphic detail a plan to murder students and administrators, carry out sexual assaults, burn down a school and kill himself, authorities said.

Wisconsin running back Montee Ball was attacked by five men near campus early Wednesday morning. Ball sustained serious head injuries after he was jumped as he was walking down a street on the edge of campus around 2:15 a.m., according to a police report

Crop circles have appeared in a wheat field located in Wilbur, Washington, not far from the nation's largest hydropower producer.