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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A search for two suspects in a St. Louis suburb that’s undergone racial unrest continued Sunday after a Ferguson police officer was shot in the arm following an encounter with two men at a community center who ran from him and then opened fire during a foot chase, authorities said.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said at a media briefing early Sunday that the officer approached the men around 9:10 p.m. Saturday because the community center was closed. As the officer approached, the men ran away. When the officer gave chase, “one of the men turned and shot,” Belmar said. The officer was shot in the arm and is expected to survive, he said. Belmar did not identify the officer or give further details about his condition. He said the officer returned fire but said police have “no indication” that either suspect was shot.

A search was underway for the suspects early Sunday in Ferguson, where some community members remain uneasy in the wake of the August shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

Belmar said he did not think the officer’s shooting was related to two separate protests about Michael Brown’s shooting that were going on Saturday night around the same time.

Around midnight at the police station, approximately two dozen officers stood near a group of about 100 protesters who mingled on a street corner, occasionally shouting, “No justice; no peace.”

Nearby, part of a road was closed in town as police conducted a search for the suspects. Numerous law enforcement agencies were responding, and police helicopters were canvassing the area.

The officer’s shooting comes after Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson issued a videotaped apology to Brown’s family earlier in the week and attempted to march with protesters, an effort that led to a clash with activists and several arrests on Thursday.

Brown’s parents told The Associated Press on Saturday they were unmoved by the apology.

Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said, “yes,” when asked if Jackson should be fired, and his father, Michael Brown Sr., said rather than an apology, they would like to see the officer who shot their son arrested.

A county grand jury is weighing whether to indict Ferguson officer Darren Wilson in Brown’s shooting.

The Justice Department, which is investigating whether Brown’s civil rights were violated, is conducting a broader probe into Ferguson police. On Friday, it urged Jackson to ban his officers from wearing bracelets supporting Wilson while on duty and from covering up their name plates with black tape.

Ferguson residents complained about the bracelets, which are black with “I am Darren Wilson” in white lettering, at a meeting with federal officials this week.

Brown’s shooting has also focused attention on the lack of diversity in many police departments across the country. In Ferguson, of 53 officers in a community that is two-thirds black, only three are African-American.

Also early Sunday, not far from Ferguson, an off-duty St. Louis city police officer was injured on Interstate 70 when three suspects fired shots into his personal vehicle, a police spokeswoman said.

Schron Jackson said the officer, who has nearly 20 years of experience, was being treated at a hospital for a minor injury to his arm from broken glass. She said there is no reason to believe the two shootings were related.

Now that I’ve let my New York Times subscription lapse, I get most of my news online. When I logged on this morning, this headline caught my eye:

“Woman Gets Third Boob Implanted, Wants to Be “Unattractive To Men.”

Apparently, one Jasmine Tridevil, a massage therapist from Tampa, Florida, was claiming to have just spent $20,000 to get a third breast implanted between the two she already had. Why? She was fed up with dating, and did it so that guys would find her unattractive.

The good news? She had to contact 50 docs before she found a surgeon willing to give her that extra boob. (Medical ethics! Alive and well! Who knew?)

But she ultimately did find a doc to do the deed.

Then she covered up, went home and quietly lived happily ever after? Not a chance! Instead, she publicized what she’d done, complete with a photo of herself in a low-cut top that all 3 boobs are spilling out of.

Yeah, that’s exactly how to become uninteresting to guys. Flood the internet with revealing photos that are all about your breasts!

As a mild-mannered 60-year old librarian I could have given Tridevil some advice about getting men to ignore you. Stop leading with your cleavage! Dress modestly. Highlight your mind, not your body. (You will instantly become invisible to all but the best kind of guy.)

My favorite part of stories like this? The reader comments:

She thinks she has a hard time finding bras that fit now? Just wait!

Too bad she didn’t shop for a brain implant.

Someone should have told her that less is more.

She did this to become unattractive to men? She obviously knows very little about men.

She’d rather be attractive to freaks?

If tits were brains she’d be Einstein. But they’re not.

Why not put one on your nose? That would be novel.

If God had wanted women to have three breasts, he would have made men with three hands.

Um, yeah. What? No.

She wants to be unattractive? Mission accomplished!

Well you’ve had your 5 minutes of fame. Now what, hon?

So glad you asked, commenter. Tridevil revealed in a radio interview that her “biggest dream” is to have an MTV reality show.

Is her family on board? “My mom won’t talk to me,” she says. “She won’t let my sister talk to me. My dad…. is kind of ashamed of me…”

Terrific! A freaked out family who doesn’t talk to you plays much better on reality TV than a sane, supportive and loving one.

I, of course, was busy brainstorming a show this dimwit could star in. “Who Wants To Be In Therapy?”

Start with the three-breasted lady. Add a couple of Kardashians, and those NFL players who keep getting away with beating their loved ones. Include a surgeon who’ll do anything for a buck. Top it off with a few rabidly-anti- gay politicians caught cruising local bathrooms for gay sex. Then throw in a top notch psychotherapist. I might even watch that.

Did the whole thing turn out to be a big fat hoax? Of course it did!

Snopes, the myth-busting website got on the case and soon revealed that “Jasmine Tridevil” appeared to be a domain name owned by one Alisha Jasmine Hessler, a Florida massage therapist whose website proclaimed her to be a “Provider of Internet Hoaxes since 2014.” Not only that, but Hessler recently filed a stolen baggage claim at Tampa International Airport that listed a “3 breast prosthesis” among the items lost.” (Nor, when questioned, could she produce a doctor to back up her story.)

Busted!

Tridevil, it seems, isn’t a 3-breasted lady after all — only a two-breasted liar who wants her own TV show.

The sad thing is that she’ll probably get it.

As for me? I’m re-subscribing to the Times.

(This humor piece first ran on Womens Voices For Change.)

“Bendgate” may be a bit overblown.

Consumer Reports ran lab tests on the two new iPhone models, and found that it is difficult to bend the devices under pressure. Apple said on Thursday that only nine customers’ iPhones have bent.

To test the strength of the hardware, the consumer watchdog placed the phone on two wooden points, then applied force on top with a high-precision compression machine. While the iPhone 6 and the larger iPhone 6 Plus bent under less pressure than did the iPhone 5, the Apple phones were not the weakest: The HTC One deformed and separated from its case under less pressure than the other phones tested.

“Impressively, despite some serious damage from our Instron machine, some of the phone continued to work,” Consumer Reports wrote in a post on Friday. “Several of the screens illuminated and were functional to the touch; we even completed a call from one phone to another.”

Apple this week scrambled to rebut the fallout of a video that went viral showing a bent iPhone 6. On Thursday, the infamously tight-lipped company sent an unusually long statement to The Huffington Post explaining that the bend is “extremely rare.”

Still, coupled with the botched rollout of a glitchy update to the iOS 8 operating system, Apple had a rough week. The company’s stock rebounded on Friday after taking a hit from the dual snafus.

Watch Consumer Reports’ video explaining their experiment here:

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Welcome to Season 40 of “Saturday Night Live.” Here is Chris Pratt singing a country song about being on the show and having sex with Anna Faris — his real-life wife, who was there in the audience to support and laugh at him talking about that one time “a baby popped out.” Watch him bravely giggle through his nervousness in the video below.

SPRINGVILLE, Utah (AP) — Two parents and three of their children were found dead in a home near Provo, and authorities said early Sunday they were trying to determine the cause of the deaths.

The bodies were reported to officers in Springville about 8 p.m. MDT Saturday, police spokesman Lt. Dave Caron said. “Police secured the scene and checked to make sure it was safe to continue the investigation inside,” he said.

“There were no obvious signs of trauma or foul play,” Caron said in a telephone interview early Sunday. “We didn’t see that when we first got there and we still don’t.”

The spokesman also said that police don’t believe that there is any danger to the community.

The residence was a duplex and the people in the other half of the building were unharmed.

The bodies were found by an older son and his two grandparents. No names were released but police gave the ages of the parents as mid-30s; a 14-year-old boy, a 12-year-old girl and an 11 year-old boy.

Caron said that firefighters tested the air and did not find any carbon monoxide, but added that the gas could have ventilated before the test.

“When police arrived doors were open,” apparently left that way by relatives who found the bodies, he said.

“The actual cause of death is probably going to be determined by the medical examiner” he said.

Springville borders on Provo’s southern boundary.