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A man died and a woman was injured in a shooting at an Ocala, Florida shopping mall on Saturday, the third shooting incident in the city in less than 24 hours. Law enforcement officers rushed to the Paddock Mall around 4 p.m. on Saturday. But by the time they arrived, the shooter had already fled the scene. Both victims have yet to be identified. The man is believed to have been the shooter’s intended target, they added. Several other minor injuries were reported in the panic afterward as shoppers tried to flee the mall. On Friday night, two separate shootings were reported in the central Flor......

The company behind the “One Chip Challenge” is removing its extremely spicy products from store shelves following a teenager’s death. “The Paqui One Chip Challenge is intended for adults only, with clear and prominent labeling highlighting the chip is not for children,” Paqui wrote in a statement. “We have seen an increase in teens and other individuals not heeding these warnings,” they added. “As a result, while the product continues to adhere to food safety standards, out of an abundance of caution, we are actively working with our retailers to remove the product from shelves.” Paqui issued ......

A new employee sweeping the sidewalk outside a Harlem supermarket was beaten to death with a wooden plank by a homeless man, cops and distraught colleagues said Tuesday. Bernardo Gonzalez Perez, 63, was excited he had just cashed his paycheck when he clashed with a homeless man around noon June 7 outside Food Universe on W. 138th St. near Broadway, police said. He’d only been working the new job for a couple of weeks. As their quarrel escalated, Carlos Ramirez, 48, picked up a “large plank of wood” and hit Gonzalez Perez “in the head several times” with it, leaving the older man with a massive......

A 75-year-old woman leaving Macy’s Herald Square was confronted by a shirtless attacker who shoved her to the ground and repeatedly kicked her before getting away, police said Thursday. The unprovoked assault happened just past 3:10 p.m. on June 10 as the victim left the department store’s flagship location and was about to cross the street at W. 34th St and Sixth Ave. The suspect made a comment to her then knocked her to the ground, according to cops, then started kicking her. The victim was taken to Mount Sinai West Hospital to be treated for bruises to her legs. Anyone with information abou......

Last September, when Baltimore resident Tzu Yang went grocery shopping for his intellectually disabled daughter with a food benefits card that he thought was worth about $300, he discovered at the checkout that the card had no value left. The same thing happened in October, November and December. The benefits meant for Hawlie Yang, age 37 but with the mental capacity of a 5-year-old, were being systematically stolen. Tzu Yang contacted local authorities but never got the money back. The stolen electronic benefits were used locally and as far away as New York, he discovered. But neither he nor ......

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Don’t look now — the price of lettuce is soaring across the Bay Area. It’s $5.99 for a head of romaine at Country Sun Natural Foods in Palo Alto. Nearly $10 for little gem lettuce at Draeger’s Market in Los Altos. And a whopping $10.99 for iceberg at Piedmont Grocery in Oakland. Nationwide, the average cost of a head of romaine is currently just $2.50, according to federal data. But that’s still a 47% jump from October. Produce prices can vary widely across regions and even individual stores due to a range of factors, including local seasonal growing trends and the contracts......