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A man punched a 13-year-old girl inside a RaceTrac convenience store, knocking her unconscious as her parent pumped gas outside, Pinellas deputies reported. Kolbe Wayne Smith, 27, of St. Petersburg now faces charges of aggravated child abuse, violation of probation and resisting arrest without violence. According to a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office release, Smith and the victim were in the store on the 2500 block of 54th Avenue N about 3 p.m. Saturday. He did not know the girl and punched her in the face unprovoked, deputies said, causing her to lose consciousness and fall to the floor. Other customers prevented Smith from leaving the store until deputies arrived. Smith then refused to be placed

In a sad conclusion to a disturbing relationship, a woman who married her birth father and gave birth to their child was laid to rest this past weekend, along with her baby and her adoptive father, after investigators said the birth father killed them all in a murder-suicide. Steven Pladl, 42, was found dead in early April in his vehicle in Dover, N.Y., several miles from the New Milford, Conn., murder scene where Katie Pladl and her adoptive father, 56-year-old Anthony Fusco, were discovered. In 1995, Steven Pladl was 20 when he met a 15-year-old girl named Alyssa on the Internet. Alyssa Pladl said in an interview last week that they put the girl up for adoption when she was 8 months old.

For Bourdain, his focus began to shift from the culinary to the cultural in July 2006, when he and his crew found themselves trapped in Beirut during the Second Lebanon War, a 34-day military conflict between the Israel Defense Forces and Iran-funded Hezbollah terrorists. The second-season finale to No Reservations, the previous iteration of Parts Unknown, documented that chaotic, war-torn week in Beirut, and earned an Emmy nomination. It was the center of my life for thirty years and I’ll always look at the world through that prism, but it is not the only thing,” Bourdain tells me. Parts Unknown’s Season 11 premiere takes the tattooed ex-New York City chef deep into the heart of Trump country: West Virginia.

The first-ever machine to clean up the planet’s largest chunk of ocean plastic is due to set sail. It’s heading to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, halfway between California and Hawaii, where it will commence collecting the 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic rubbish amassed there by ocean currents. The system uses a combination of huge floating nets (dubbed “screens”) held in place by giant tubes, ironically made out of plastic, to suck stubborn waste out of the water. It will then transfer this debris to large ships that will take it to shore for recycling. The beginnings of this intricate system will launch from San Francisco Bay within weeks and will start working by July, with plans to keep