Photo: Google Maps A woman is lucky to be alive after she went skydiving this weekend and her parachute failed, causing her to freefall more than 5,000 feet to the ground. “It’s a miracle,” Denis Demers toldCanadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canadaon Wednesday, adding that the woman was falling faster than anybody else. “I don’t know how a person can survive a fall from an airplane like that,” Demers said. The 30-year-old was participating in a jump at Quebec’s skydiving facility, Parachutisme Adrénaline, near Montreal-Mirabel International Airport, CBC reports....

Photo: Delray Beach Police Department In November 1983, Carla Lowe waited for the train at the Amtrak station in Delray Beach, Fla. The 21-year-old from Pompano Beach never boarded the train. On Nov. 13, 1983, her lifeless body was found in the middle of Depot Avenue, near the station,The Palm Beach Postreports. She had been brutally beaten and run over. For years the case went cold, until now. On Nov....

Photo: Tippecanoe County JailAfter serving 18 years of her nearly 45-year prison sentence for stabbing her boyfriend to death in 2001, an Indiana woman has been freed.Local outlets report Anastazia Schmid, now 45, was released on Tuesday.Schmid was convicted of murder in 2001, but last May, that conviction was vacated. Subsequently, she pleaded guilty to manslaughter on Monday, and was freed the next day.The Lafayette Journal & Courierreportsthat Schmid’s 44-year, 299-day sentence was reduced because of both her good behavior behind bars and other time-cut credits she’d received....

The first time Wandjell Browning ever went to summer camp, it was at an Illinois prison. Just 10 years old and in the care of her grandmother — while her mom, also named Wandjell, and dad, Terry, both served time for drug-related issues — Browning had longed to experience the summers her classmates would describe at the start of each school year. “Kids would come back from break saying they went to Disneyland or kayaking or hunting — all of these fun family memories,” Browning tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue....

Photo: Jacqueline Adan/InstagramThe body shamers don’t seem to change — but Jacqueline Adan gets stronger.After losing 350 lbs.in three years,Adan was body shamed during a 2017 vacation for the loose skin on her body. The incident went viral, and became an empowering moment for the Montessori preschool teacher.Now a year later — and after difficult skin removal surgeries — Adan was body shamed yet again during a beach vacation. The difference was, though, that she didn’t care....

Diane Gordon’s car broke down a year ago last February, and since then, the Michigan resident has walked nearly three miles to and from work five days out of the week. But her luck recently changed after she did a good deed. As she recalled to FOX affiliateWJBK, Gordon was walking home on Jan. 21 when she spotted something out of the ordinary on the ground while stopping at a gas station for a snack....

Andrea Hudson.Photo:Abe and Andrea Hudson Abe and Andrea Hudson A Washington state mother and three children died in a high-speed crash in a Seattle suburb on Tuesday afternoon, authorities said. Andrea Hudson, 38, was driving a van with five children, including two of her own, when the accident which involved four vehicles occurred in unincorporated King County shortly before 1 p.m.,the King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) said. Hudson and three of the children were pronounced dead at the scene, according to the King County Sheriff’s Office....

Rachel Reuter.Photo: Urbandale Police Department An Iowa man faces murder charges in the death of a missing woman he met on a dating site whose body has not yet been found, say police. On Wednesday, James Shiloh Klever, 46, of Mt. Ayr, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder in the disappearance and presumed death of Rachel Reuter, 30, of Cassville, Wis., the sheriff’s office of Polk County, Iowa, said in a statement....

Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty For women hoping that the gender pay gap will soon come to a close, “soon” might mean nearly three more centuries. The World Economic Forum released its Global Gender Gapreportfor 2020, and found that the gap won’t even out for another 257 years due to a “lack of progress” in closing the economic participation and opportunity gap. The report looked at 153 different countries and ranked each one on four key dimensions, including economic participation and opportunity, educational attainment, health and survival, and political empowerment....

A medical professional giving a vaccine shot.Photo: GettyThe head of theWorld Health Organizationis calling for a moratorium on administeringCOVID-19vaccine booster shots until at least the end of September in order to ensure more initial doses are available to countries with minimal access.During abriefing on Wednesday, director-general of WHO Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made the appeal to the “wealthiest countries,” explaining that more than 80% of the 4 billion vaccines administered around the world have gone to high and upper-middle-income countries....

Photo: Sara Lee/Instagram Alcohol may have played a part in the sudden death of 30-year-oldSara Lee, a source close to the WWE wrestler’s family tells PEOPLE. “He [Westin] had just come back from working in Orlando. He took the kids somewhere and came back and found her. It was sudden.” The source adds, “It wasn’t intentional and it was accidental.” Lee was “never that person you would think would do this,” according to the insider....

Conor Maynardloved social media. And he logged off. “It was something IknewI needed to do,” admits Maynard, 30, in a recent interview with PEOPLE. “I keep up this positive persona online, so when I’m going through a difficult period, it makes it feel so much worse to feel the pressure to keep up that appearance of being happy and pretending that everything is OK when you know deep down it’s not....

Zayn Malikis upset and he isn’t holding anything back. The 26-year-old singer, who has been on and off with modelGigi Hadidover the past few years, unleashed into an expletive-filled rant on Thursday, just one day after he shared a series of cryptic messages on Twitter. Zayn Malik/Twitter Kevin Tachman/Getty Many believed that Malik’s last tweet, in particular, may have been about the model, especially after she was spotted out with her longtime friend Samuel Krost last week, but the singer quickly squashed any rumors....