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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an alert to consumers about illnesses and deaths likely attributed to jerky treats from China, which has left left approximately 580 dogs and cats dead and sickened more than 3,600 since 2007, Fox News reported. The FDA used the opportunity to put out a call to pet owners to assist in gathering information about its cause.

A 14-year-old student at Danvers High School faces a murder charge in the death of a 24-year-old math teacher whose body was found in the woods behind the school, The Associated Press reported. Coleen Ritzer, of Andover,Massachusetts, was found in a wooded area near the high school, and the teenager will be arraigned on a murder charge, according to Essex District Jonathan Blodgett.

40-year-old Jofi Joseph, a senior White House official who had been part of the National Security Council nuclear non-proliferation team, was fired last week after it was revealed he was the man who posted derogatory comments on a Twitter account under a fake name for more than two years