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We have new information that can help explain the death of an entire San Carlos Park family. Maria Navas and her three young girls were murdered in their home back in June.

Deputies say the girls' father, Sonny Enrique Medina, shot them all before killing himself.

The final report is difficult to read due to the tragic details. Investigators say Maria Navas was looking to leave her husband, and he was determined to keep the family together.

It was a night that started out with fun - but ended in immense tragedy.

We were first on scene in early June - learning the family of five was found dead.

Shortly after, we discovered a 911 call, phoned in moments after Enrique Medina killed his family.

"I messed up...I just want my brother," Medina told dispatchers.

Detectives say there were signs the oldest child, just 10, was trying to defend herself.

Investigators found her little sisters, just 5 and 2, in the bed, covered with a blanket.

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Central Point, Ore. -- It's a chilling case of a domestic violence homicide that shattered a family.

A husband allegedly shot and killed his wife while family members said two children and a teenager were inside the home.

The suspect, 42-year-old Wade Phillips, is now in jail and charged with murder. Now, the kids are left with just memories of their mom Cynthia, who friends called Cindy.

Tammi Pitzen is the Executive Director of Jackson County's Children's Advocacy Center. She said children who experience a traumatic event like this is something they'll never get over.

"We often underestimate the effects domestic violence can have on children. It is a very very serious threat to their emotional stability as well as their physical safety," Pitzen said.

She said while every child responds to traumatic events differently kids in these types of situations often suffer from post traumatic stress.

"Some of the things kids might experience is the same types of trauma responses we see in war vets," she said.

And the effects are long lasting, and wide ranging. Pitzen said experiencing domestic violence can impact all areas of a child's life from school performance to relationships.

Therapy and support from family can help, but Pitzen said it never fully makes the pain go away it just makes it easier to live with.

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Remington Arms Co. laid off 126 people at its Ilion factory in Herkimer County on Tuesday.

In August, 105 workers lost their jobs.

A Remington spokesman did not immediately return phone and email requests for comment. Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney, whose district includes Ilion, said she was told that the layoffs are the result of a downturn in the market and the completion of a recall of a line of rifles.

"I feel really sad for the employees and the 126 families (who) have a huge impact on our economy," Tenney said. "My heart goes out to them. It's been a very, very rough ride this year for Remington."

In May, the company said it would consolidate some operations at its Alabama factory. Among the manufacturing lines moved were the Bushmaster and R1 lines. The Ilion jobs would not have gone to Alabama, Tenney said.

The company employed about 1,200 workers in Ilion at the time. Tenney said the company has about 1,000 employees left.

The fate of Remington's operations in New York has been questioned since the passage of the SAFE Act in early 2013. SAFE Act opponents have said the laws are the reason Remington and others gun makers have considered moving operations elsewhere. In August 2013, Kahr Firearms Group moved its corporate offices from Rockland County to Pennsylvania, citing, in part, the SAFE Act. In the fall of 2013, American Tactical Imports, a firearm and ammunition manufacturing and import company based in Rochester, left for South Carolina. In December 2013, AR15.com left the Finger Lakes for Texas, citing the SAFE Act.

"When you're manufacturing guns in a state that the most powerful person in the state has indicated that they don't like what you manufacture (it doesn't help)," Tenney said Tuesday about the Bushmaster line of rifles, some of which are illegal under the SAFE Act because they have features that classify them as assault weapons. "It doesn't help that there's an unfriendly attitude by elected officials not us up here about the products they produce."

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Private Ernest Cable was buried in a cemetery in Wimereux, France. He died from dysentery in a hotel turned hospital in the northern French town. Courtesy of Genome Research Ltd hide caption

Private Ernest Cable was buried in a cemetery in Wimereux, France. He died from dysentery in a hotel turned hospital in the northern French town.

In the early months of World War I, British Pvt. Ernest Cable was a member of the 2nd Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. Records show that in early 1915, his regiment was fighting in the trenches of Flanders, Belgium.

But by March of that year, Cable, 28, was in a hospital in the northern French coastal town of Wimereux. On the 13th he died from dysentery, a diarrheal disease caused by the bacterium Shigella flexneri. Spread by poor hygiene and lack of sanitation, dysentery stalked the water-logged trenches of WWI, killing hundreds of thousands on both sides.

Now a sample of the very bug that felled Pvt. Cable 99 years ago may provide a boost to efforts to find a vaccine to prevent the disease, which is highly contagious and kills hundreds of thousands of children a year, mainly in developing countries. It's also wholly resistant to antibiotics.

When Cable died, a bacteriologist collected a sample of the microbe, which was sent to London and preserved at Public Health England's National Collection of Type Cultures, essentially a repository of bacteria.

Cable was certainly not the first British soldier to die from dysentery, but his sample was among the first collected and preserved. "It is the oldest living available strain," says Alison Mather, a researcher at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a genome research lab near Cambridge. She did the detective work that determined that the strain almost certainly came from Cable.

Earlier this year, Mather's colleagues at Sanger and researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine began using new, sophisticated gene-sequencing technology to reconstruct Cable's S. flexneri genome and compare it to its modern samples. Their studies were reported in a special First World War edition of The Lancet, published Nov. 8.

The sample's genome had been reconstructed before, but a new technology allows whole strands of DNA to be sequenced without having to shred it into hundreds of pieces and put it back together like a jigsaw puzzle, says Kate Baker, one of the Sanger researchers. That's allowed investigators to see more precisely how the bug evolved and determine parts that remained unchanged useful knowledge for development of a vaccine.

It turns out that only two percent of the genome differs from its modern equivalent. "That is a conservative amount of change," Baker says. "But the two percent that did change was the important elements that make it resistant to antibiotics. It was the right two percent."

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Mark Wahlberg said Transformers director Michael Bay freaked out after the actor shed 60 pounds to play a down-on-his-luck college professor in his new movie, The Gambler.

Wahlberg began downsizing his famously muscular physique by jumping rope and sticking to a liquid diet as Transformers: Age of Extinction wrapped last year. He then shot The Gambler, set to open in theaters Dec. 19.

Transformers producers called for additional shooting after The Gambler wrapped, and Wahlberg wasnt exactly welcomed with open arms when he attended Bays housewarming party earlier this year.

He goes, You look like crap! What are you going to do? Weve got to shoot in five weeks,' Wahlberg said in an interview before his new films AFI Fest premiere Monday night.

I probably put on 40 pounds back. But it still wasnt enough for him. He said, Aw, Ive got to shoot you like this to make you look cool again,' the 43-year-old actor said. Hes a perfectionist. He was more upset than my wife (Rhea Durham). I mean, my wife was a little freaked out that I was losing this much weight, but he was really freaked out.

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LOS ANGELES - On Monday, we got a look inside one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. It was in in June of last year, that 19 hotshot firefighters were killed in Yarnell, Ariz. Video shot by other firefighters has just been released.

The video shows the intensity of the fast-moving flames the Granite Mountain hotshots faced in their final moments.

As shifting winds pushed the fire and billowing smoke back on the command post -- forcing fire managers to evacuate themselves -- they were plagued by communication problems.

John MacLean has written five books about wildland firefighting and is independently investigating this fire.

"The videos that came out show a very chaotic situation," he said. "The difficulties of communication, the fact that no one knew where Granite Mountain was," said MacLean. "You see people on the ground asking for cell phone numbers because they can't communicate."

A video released Monday shows the chaotic fight to save 19 firefighters in Arizona who were killed on Granite Mountain.

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"I had his old number, but I don't have his new number," a firefighter is heard saying on the video. "Can you text it to me, I really need it bad right about now."

During the communication chaos, the hotshots were trapped by 2,000 degree heat and surrounded by a 100-foot wall of fire that was closing in fast.

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ESO astronomers have used the Very Large Telescopes (VLT) Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument to make detailed observations of a cosmic collision, revealing secrets as to how star-forming gas was ripped out of a distant spiral galaxy. The findings help shed light on the mystery of how star formation ceases in galaxy clusters.

The team made use of MUSE a new, visible wavelength instrument designed for the discovery of objects that standard imaging surveys arent able to identify. MUSE provides astronomers with a band of colors (or spectrum) for every pixel recorded, allowing them to build a detailed map of the properties and motions of the objects being studied.

The instrument was used to study the spiral galaxy ESO 137-001 as it moves into the Norma Cluster. The spiral galaxy, located 200 million light-years away, is undergoing a process known as ram-pressure stripping, wherein a strong drag force is exerted upon the object, eroding its raw materials.

Falling into a cloud of thin, hot gas at a speed of several million kilometers per hour, ESO 137-001 is being stripped of the majority of the gas required to produce young stars, transforming it from a blue galaxy filled with the gas required for star-formation into a gas-poor red one.

MUSE has allowed the team to not only confirm the existence of the gas in and around the galaxy, but also to observe how it moves. Viewing the object for a single hour was enough to build a high-resolution image detailing the distribution and movement of material in the object. The team found that the gas had already been fully stripped from the outer edges of the galaxy, where the gravity from less dense star clusters has a weaker hold on the material.

"It is one of the major tasks of modern astronomy to find out how and why galaxies in clusters evolve from blue to red over a very short period of time," said Durham Universitys Michele Fumagalli, the team lead on the project. "Catching a galaxy right when it switches from one to the other allows us to investigate how this happens."

Eventually, all galactic gas will be swept out into bright streaks behind the galaxy, stretching out over 200,000 light-years. Both the gas in the bright tails and stars in ESO 137-001 continue to rotate in the same way, providing further evidence that it is the gas in the cluster, rather than gravity, thats responsible for the stripping.

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KASPERSKY Labs Global Research and Analysis Team experts researched the Darkhotel espionage campaign, which has lurked in the shadows for at least four years while stealing sensitive data from selected corporate executives travelling abroad.

Darkhotel hits its targets while they are staying in luxury hotels. The crew never goes after the same target twice.

They perform operations with surgical precision, getting all the valuable data they can from the first contact, deleting traces of their work and melting into the background to await the next high profile individual.

The most recent travelling targets include top executives from the US and Asia doing business and investing in the APAC region: CEOs, senior vice presidents, sales and marketing directors and top R&D staff have all been targeted.

Who will be next? This threat actor is still active, Kaspersky Lab warns.

How the hotel attack works

The Darkhotel actor maintains an effective intrusion set on hotel networks, providing ample access over the years, even to systems that were believed to be private and secure.

They wait until, after check-in, the victim connects to the hotel Wi-Fi network, submitting his room number and surname at the login.

The attackers see him in the compromised network and trick him into downloading and installing a backdoor that pretends to be an update for legitimate software - Google Toolbar, Adobe Flash or Windows Messenger.

The unsuspecting executive downloads this hotel welcome package, only to infect his machine with a backdoor, Darkhotels spying software.

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