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Alex Smalley's mom is garnering a ton of attention as her son grabs surprise lead at the PGA Championship
Alex Smalley will begin Sunday's final round of the PGA Championship in entirely unfamiliar territory as the 54-hole leader at Aronimink Golf Club. There will, however, be one certainty for the day, that being his "momager" following and tracking his every move.
Smalley's mom, Maria, has been at Aronimink every step of the way to witness her son grab a two-shot lead heading into Sunday's action, and hasn't missed a step since the now 29-year-old's high school playing days.
According to The Athletic, Maria has been tracking his tournament statistics since his senior year of high school and hasn't stopped since. It continued through his college career at Duke and from when he turned professional in 2019 all the way up to what could be a life-changing afternoon at the PGA Championship.
"I do his business stuff, I do his stats. That’s what I do when I’m texting all the time on the course," Maria said during the 2023 John Deere Classic, where Smalley finished tied for second. "It helps to keep me focused so my head’s not racing and I’m not just going crazy. Gives me something to do."
As for the stats she tracks throughout his round, they aren't basic; they're as detailed as notes players themselves typically take.
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Maria does not miss an event and does not miss a shot. She takes note of her son's distance to the pin, what club he hit on the shot, as well as the wind direction he's facing. Oh, and there are videos, too, thousands in fact, from years past.
"Luckily, I got a new phone back in December," she told The Athletic. "Because my other one, I was constantly backing up and deleting stuff. Sometimes I go back and delete certain ones, but it’s funny, because his coach asked me, ‘Do you have anything from like, 5 years ago?’ and I’m like, yes, I do!"
In 140 starts on the PGA Tour, Smalley has made 85 cuts while earning 15 Top 10 finishes, including three runner-ups.
Sunday at Aronimink, however, will be an entirely different beast. This week's PGA Championship marks just the fifth major championship start of his career, with his best finish coming at the 2023 PGA, where he finished in a tie for 23rd.
The story for Smalley throughout the week has been his red-hot putter as he leads the PGA Championship field by a wide margin in strokes gained: putting through 54 holes, and he'll need the flatstick to continue to be his best friend if he wants to find the winner's circle on Sunday.
NATO ally Poland warns Russia, Belarus pushing illegal migrants toward alliance — and the US
This is part two of a series examining the challenges confronting the NATO alliance.
POLAND-BELARUS BORDER — Riding in a military convoy escorted by armored vehicles from Poland’s 18th "Iron Division" along the country’s 521-kilometer border with Belarus, soldiers pointed toward dense forests where they say Europe’s newest form of warfare is unfolding.
Polish officials warn illegal migrants weaponized by Russia and Belarus to destabilize NATO's eastern flank are also making their way to the United States — part of what Warsaw calls an ongoing war against the Western alliance that has direct implications for American security.
The border was once guarded mainly by Poland’s Border Guard and police. But after years of mounting pressure from illegal crossings, Polish officials say the army was deployed because the situation became too large and too dangerous to handle as a conventional immigration challenge.
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Now, the frontier is guarded in layers: soldiers, border guards and rapid-response forces. A temporary barrier built in 2021 has become an electronic fence backed by surveillance systems and military patrols. Polish officials say migrants trying to cross have come from countries including Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan and India.
They describe the crisis as "artificial migration," saying the illegals are flown into Belarus from the Middle East, Africa and Asia and then transported toward the Polish border by Belarusian authorities in an effort to pressure and destabilize NATO countries.
Military officials at the border said the peak was in 2021, when there were 39,697 illegal crossing attempts. By 2025, it was 29,869, slightly fewer than in 2024. So far in 2026, they have seen a major drop, they say.
For Warsaw, the numbers tell only part of the story.
Polish officials say the border pressure is not spontaneous illegal migration, but a Russian-backed Belarusian operation designed to destabilize NATO from within.
"We are at war," Ambassador Krzysztof Olendzki of Poland’s Foreign Ministry told Fox News Digital after the border visit.
"Not only Poland, but also all the countries of the eastern flank of NATO, we are in war," Olendzki said. "We cannot see it as a classical war with soldiers, with tanks and so on, but the war is exercised by our adversaries, by Belarus and Russia, who are using practically migrants as an asymmetric weapon against NATO countries."
The crisis dates back to 2021, when Poland, Lithuania and Latvia accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko’s regime of encouraging migrants from the Middle East, Africa and elsewhere to travel to Belarus and cross illegally into the European Union. Belarus has denied orchestrating the flows, but Poland and the EU have described the campaign as hybrid warfare.
Olendzki said the goal is not only to push people across the border, but to create chaos inside Western societies.
The border visit underscored how far Poland has gone to harden what it views as one of NATO’s most vulnerable frontiers.
Capt. Angelika Korkosz of Poland’s 18th Division described the day-to-day strain on soldiers stationed there.
"Many times soldiers were faced with aggression from illegal groups of immigrants, and they have to act appropriately and calmly in accordance with the law and procedures while protecting themselves," Korkosz told Fox News Digital.
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Polish officials said migrants have used Molotov cocktails in at least two incidents, sparking fires near the border. Soldiers also spoke of a Polish serviceman who died after being stabbed by an illegal migrant at the frontier.
Korkosz said the challenge is not only violence, but exhaustion.
"A few months ago, we had minus-20-degree winters, so 12-hour duty during these conditions is really demanding," she said. "Many soldiers are here for a long time, and it is getting more and more difficult, this long separation from their relatives."
Still, she said the troops are prepared.
"The training includes decision-making under pressure in an ambiguous operational environment," Korkosz said. "That’s why when we are here at the border, we are really well-prepared for performing our duties."
Poland says the border defenses are working. Amb. Olendzki said the lower number of crossings this year reflects the physical barrier, the increased effectiveness of the Border Guard and the military presence. But he warned the threat has not disappeared, only shifted.
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"Seeing the fact that the Polish-Belarusian border is quite well guarded, our adversaries are just pushing migrants through the borders of our neighboring countries," he said. "So it hasn’t ended, but it’s changed the direction. The threat still exists, and we must be vigilant."
That matters to NATO because Poland’s border with Belarus is not only Warsaw's border. It is also the eastern edge of the European Union and NATO territory.
Belarus is Russia’s closest ally and allowed its territory to be used for Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned Russia may be trying to pull Belarus deeper into the war and could use Belarusian territory to threaten Ukraine or even a NATO country.
That fear is central to Poland’s security posture.
During a meeting with reporters in Warsaw, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski told Fox News Digital Russia’s war against Ukraine is, for Poland, "a matter of national safety and existence."
But Sikorski said the threat to NATO countries is already wider than the battlefield in Ukraine.
"We had on NATO countries’ territories assassinations, numerous drone attacks on airports, on critical infrastructure," Sikorski said. "We had very serious cyberattacks."
Sikorski said Poland faced a Russian-instigated cyberattack last December on critical energy infrastructure that Warsaw believes was intended "to black out part of Poland."
The warning fits a broader pattern of concerns across NATO’s eastern flank. The Associated Press reported earlier this year that balloons from Belarus had crossed into Polish airspace for a third consecutive night, with Polish forces describing the incidents as attempts to test air defense responses.
For Poland, illegal migration, cyberattacks, drones, sabotage and disinformation are not separate problems. They are different pieces of one Russian and Belarusian pressure campaign against NATO.
Olendzki said Poland’s role is to stop the pressure before it moves deeper into Europe or beyond.
"Standing on guard on the eastern flank of NATO, we are providing security not only to Poland, to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, but to entire NATO, also to the United States," he said.
That U.S. connection is a central part of Poland’s message to Washington: The eastern flank is not a distant European problem, but a front line in a broader confrontation with Russia and its allies.
Poland now spends nearly 5% of its GDP on defense, the highest rate in NATO, if based on GPD. Sikorski said Warsaw has long taken defense spending seriously.
"We never went below 2% defense spending," Sikorski said. "Now we are spending almost 5%. This is real military spending."
He said the eastern flank has become more influential inside NATO because countries closest to Russia were proven right.
"The eastern flank is much more powerful than even five years ago," Sikorski said. "We were right about the nature of Putin’s regime and Russia’s aggressive strategy."
That view has shaped Poland’s approach to the United States. Warsaw wants American troops to remain in Europe, but Polish officials also acknowledge that Europe must assume more of the defense burden as U.S. attention increasingly shifts toward China and the Indo-Pacific.
Sikorski said Poland understands that "Europe ceased to be angle number one for U.S. foreign policy," but wants any change in America’s role to be "gradual and well-designed."
He added that Poland wants the shift in trans-Atlantic security to be "not a divorce, but a new kind of relationship."
For now, that relationship is being tested along a cold, wooded border where Poland says NATO’s future wars may already be taking shape.
The Polish soldiers patrolling the frontier do not describe their mission in grand geopolitical terms. Korkosz said she joined the military because she wanted to do "something which matters."
But to Polish officials, the mission at the Belarus border is much bigger than immigration enforcement.
It is a warning to the rest of NATO that the alliance’s next war may not begin with tanks crossing a border, but with migrants pushed through forests, cyberattacks on power grids, drones near airports and disinformation campaigns designed to fracture societies from within.
Deion Sanders comes to son's defense over 'sandwich' remark toward NFL reporter
Deion Sanders responded to Shilo Sanders’ "sandwich" comment toward NFL reporter Mary Kay Cabot on Friday.
The Colorado Buffaloes head coach was on an episode of "The Barbershop" when he spoke about it.
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"We don’t talk about nobody," he said. "We don’t do nothing to nobody. I know Shilo had a little altercation that he spoke up for his brother. You’ve got to understand, man, that’s his brother.
"And God bless Mary Kay’s soul, that’s his brother. I mean, she said something, he said something, like media is different today. I know a lot of people don’t respect the old school. I do, because I grew up in that era that we didn’t have a say so. ... But Shilo spoke up for his brother, and he was ridiculed for that."
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Shilo Sanders, who was briefly on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ roster last year before he was cut, reacted to Cabot predicted that Deshaun Watson would enter training camp as the No. 1 quarterback on the Cleveland Browns’ depth chart over Shedeur Sanders.
He said, "Go make me a sandwich, Mary."
Shilo Sanders said he had an issue with Cabot giving her opinion over reporting facts.
"If you’re gonna be a reporter, then report facts. Whenever you have your opinion, and your opinion is always something hateful to Shedeur, then it seems like there’s something weird. Like there’s an agenda you have going on," he said in a livestream earlier this month.
Fox News’ Jon Root contributed to this report.
Fitness influencer says one simple habit can help anyone get back in shape
Fitness influencer and trainer Mark Langowski, known on social media as @bodybymark, hosted a pushup and plank competition in New York City this week, where he urged the public to get up and get moving.
On his platform of nearly two million Instagram followers, Langowski asks fit people to share their workout routines. He was able to meet more in-shape New Yorkers at his Washington Square Park meet-up, in partnership with Oikos yogurt on May 12.
A male and a female winner who achieved the most pushups or held a plank the longest were gifted $500 each.
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Besides the cash prize, the inspiration was to get more people moving, Langowski shared during an interview with Fox News Digital.
"[It’s] a way to encourage strength and overall fitness in New York City and all around the country," he said.
"We got together and we're doing a plank competition, pushup competition. We had a guy just do 111 pushups. We're just getting people moving."
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Langowski said the attributes of a great competitor include strength, humility and confidence.
"The people who ... did the most, they didn't say they were going to do the most," he said. "And there were other people who said they could do 150, and they did 70."
Having a bit of humility helps make a good competitor, the trainer added.
Pushups and planks mark a "good general baseline" for measuring fitness level, according to Langowski. Some other basics include pull-ups, squats and endurance challenges, like running a mile — the kind of basics included in an elementary school fitness assessment.
For those who haven't yet mastered these basics but want to get in better shape, Langowski shared some advice on how to get started.
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"Get with a trainer or someone who knows how to progress you," he advised. "A lot of people are like, 'I can't do a pushup, so I'm never going to do one.’ That's not the way."
Langowski recommends starting with pushups on your knees or against a wall, then gradually progressing to standard pushups by moving onto your toes and lowering yourself fully to the ground before pushing back up.
"You'll be surprised after you do that for a couple weeks, a couple months, a couple years – you're going to be able to do a lot," he said. "Nobody was born being able to do 111 pushups. They put in the work and they started somewhere."
The trainer noted that in addition to practicing, it's just as important to give the body rest and to support muscle growth with proper protein intake and an overall healthy diet.
But perhaps the most crucial step toward getting in shape, according to Langowski, is having the motivation to get started
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"I know that's easy for me to say – I've been in fitness and been relatively fit most of my life," he said. "And I know a lot of people are sitting on the couch and they either feel sorry for themselves or they're going through a tough time … You’ve just got to get out there."
The trainer suggested starting with a simple walk — even just around the block — with no gym equipment required.
"You don't need an expensive gym membership to get in good shape," he said. "Most of the people that I stop on the street, they don't have a gym membership at all. They do it in their living room."
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"And that's where you can do the exercises I mentioned – the squats, the lunges, the pushups," Langowski went on.
"So, I would encourage people just to start, but also to get some friends or get a trainer, someone to support you and do it safely."
‘Brady Bunch’ cast made nearly nothing from decades of reruns, Eve Plumb claims
Eve Plumb says America’s favorite TV family wasn’t cashing in behind the scenes.
Despite "The Brady Bunch" becoming a widely popular sitcom after its 1969 to 1974 run, Plumb revealed the cast saw little financial reward from the endless reruns that turned the show into a pop-culture institution.
"A lot of times when you’re an actor, you can see that people are looking at you like you have it all, and you have all the money in the world… I just wanted to set it straight that that’s not necessarily true. That the pay rate was different… the residuals were different and also actors are continually having to fight to be paid, in any way," Plumb exclusively told Fox News Digital.
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"And there's some sort of idea that we… should do this for free because it's fun. It's work… we're trained, and we spend a lot of time and money to do the work well. So, we should be paid."
The actress, best known for playing Jan Brady, debunked one of Hollywood’s biggest myths in her memoir, "Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond" — that classic TV stars automatically became rich from reruns.
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"People often think that the six Brady kids now coast through life on our residuals from the hundreds of thousands of times the five seasons of ‘The Brady Bunch’ have been in reruns since 1974," Plumb wrote in her book, out now. "If only it were so."
"The reality is that we each had a contract that would pay us residuals for the first 10 reruns of each episode only," she continued. "Obviously, it was never expected that the show would rerun more than three, maybe four, times. Needless to say, that faucet of residuals income ran dry before I even graduated from high school."
Plumb said the money stopped almost as quickly as the cameras did.
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"If I had a dime for every rerun episode, I’d pay off the national deficit," she quipped in the memoir’s introduction before delivering the punchline: "I don’t."
She later doubled down in an interview with "PauseRewind," saying, "We don’t make residuals."
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Former co-star Barry Williams has backed up Plumb’s claims for years.
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In his 1992 memoir, "Growing Up Brady: I Was a Teenage Greg," Williams revealed just how modest the cast’s paychecks really were during the show’s peak.
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"Salaries for sitcom actors have changed considerably since the ’70s," Williams wrote, according to Page Six. "In our fifth and final year, the highest salary among us kids was $1,100 a week."
The top-paid Brady kid earned just over $24,000 for the final 22-episode season — before taxes, agent fees and helping support family members.
"It was enough to indulge in toys, but hardly enough to carry you through the slow periods that inevitably followed," Williams wrote.
He also confirmed the cast’s rerun income evaporated fast.
"Payments for subsequent airings of the show dried up shortly after we finished filming," Williams wrote.
"Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond" is available now.
Eli Manning finally reveals why he wriggled his way out of playing for Chargers
Eli Manning famously worked his way out of a situation with the then-San Diego Chargers and found himself playing his entire NFL career with the New York Giants.
The move in 2004 changed the trajectory of both franchises. The Chargers traded Manning to the Giants for Philip Rivers. The Giants would go on to win two Super Bowl titles with Manning under center while the Chargers haven’t been to a Super Bowl since the 1994 season.
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Manning opened up about why he decided to wriggle his way out from the Chargers. He would have gone to a team coming off a 4-12 season under head coach Marty Schottenheimer. He likely would have sat behind Drew Brees and Doug Flutie instead of getting a chance to show what he had with the Giants as he was thrust into the QB1 role over Kurt Warner.
"I just didn’t feel like they were the most committed team to winning at the time," he said in an episode of "Bussin’ with the Boys." "Marty Schottenheimer was the head coach, who was awesome. Had great respect for him. But they came to work me out in New Orleans, went to dinner and there was just friction between the head coach, general manager (A.J. Smith), the owners (Spanos family). They are all yelling — kind of like fighting.
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"We are at a Marriott restaurant. Schottenheimer’s mad like, ‘We’re in New Orleans and we’re eating at a Marriott?’ He’s like pissed. They are kind of bickering. It just didn’t seem there was a lot of agreement on things and they were committed to building a great winning franchise at that moment."
Manning said his parents didn’t support the idea of trying to avoid being drafted by the Chargers, but allowed him to do what he wanted to do.
Manning was a four-time Pro Bowler and two-time Super Bowl MVP with the Giants. He led a takedown of the undefeated Tom Brady-led New England Patriots in one of the bigger Super Bowl shockers in NFL history.
He finished with 366 touchdown passes and 57,023 passing yards. He sits 11th all time in touchdown passes and passing yards. He’s still waiting to hear his name called for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Trump, Netanyahu to speak Sunday amid reports of potential revival of military action on Iran
President Donald Trump, fresh off his trek to meeting China's Xi Jinping face to face, is weighing restarting military action on Iran, and he will speak to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.
"Our eyes are also open regarding Iran," Netanyahu said Sunday morning, as translated from Hebrew. "I will speak today, as I do every few days, with our friend President Trump.
"I will certainly hear impressions from his trip to China, and perhaps other matters as well. There are certainly many possibilities, and we are prepared for every scenario."
Trump remains at the White House on Sunday, but no public or press appearances are on his schedule.
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The call with Netanyahu comes amid Fox News' reporting of regional intelligence assessments on Iran that restarting of military strikes might be coming because of Trump's frustration with Iran's tactics amid the closing of the Strait of Hormuz and the rejection of his demand to give up nuclear weapons aspirations.
"The prevailing assessment inside Iran is that President Trump may resort to restarting military action, and Tehran is now deliberately pursuing a strategy of 'deception and delay' with the hopes that buying time will complicate any potential return to war," two regional intelligence officials told Fox News.
Intelligence officials believe that the Iranian regime thinks it can delay developments and stretch the crisis out for at least two more weeks, so that the situation could become more difficult for Trump to restart the military campaign, both politically and operationally.
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These sources say Iranian officials are looking at the World Cup and America’s 250th anniversary as a backstop that could work in their favor.
Fox News has reached out to the White House for comment, but they did not immediately respond.
The impact of the U.S.-led blockade is becoming increasingly visible inside Iran, according to a senior Israeli official.
Early signs of a developing fuel crisis started emerging over the weekend, including long lines at gas stations and growing public discontent over fuel shortages, and distribution problems.
Prices continue to rise, unemployment is climbing and inflation is accelerating sharply.
"It’s getting exponentially worse," the official added.
Fox News' Trey Yingst and Yonat Friling contributed to this report.
Mets survive Carson Benge's brutal error against Yankees in Subway Series
New York Mets right fielder Carson Benge had a brutal error against the New York Yankees on Saturday night.
Yankees batter Cody Bellinger lofted a pitch off Mets reliever Brooks Raley. Bellinger knew he didn’t get all of it and put his head down as he jogged to first base. Benge came on to make a play when disaster struck.
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The ball careened off Benge’s glove and to his right. Aaron Judge scored from second base to cut the Yankees’ deficit to two runs. Raley was able to get two outs in the inning and Luke Weaver shut the Yankees’ door on any more potential scoring as he got out of a bases-loaded jam.
"That’s what great players do," Raley said of Weaver’s pitching prowess, via MLB.com. "Clutch stuff in a big spot. Obviously, we’re chasing some wins right now, and he’s built for that stage. He’s got a lot of poise and control and swag, I would say. So yeah, he was ready for that moment."
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The Mets won the game, 6-3.
Benge did help the Mets at the plate. He was 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Mark Vientos was 1-for-4 with a double and three RBI in the win.
Brett Baty was 1-for-4 with a double and an RBI.
The Yankees got nine hits off the Mets. Judge was 2-for-4 with a run scored. Paul Goldschmidt and Trent Grisham each had an RBI.
The Mets improved to 19-26 and the Yankees fell to 28-18.
Teen vanished from home decades ago – now feds hope new image and shifting loyalties reveal truth
Authorities are renewing their call for information in the decades-old disappearance of 14-year-old Laureen Rahn, who vanished from her New Hampshire home in April 1980.
Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Col. Mark B. Hall and Manchester Police Chief Peter A. Marr said Monday that investigators are actively pursuing new leads in the case, which remains unsolved 46 years later.
An age-progressed image of Laureen, provided by the FBI’s Boston Division, was also released alongside the appeal showing what she may look like today.
Laureen was last seen April 27, 1980, at her home on Merrimack Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. Investigators say she left behind all of her belongings — including clothing and money — and there were no signs of a struggle inside the apartment.
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Authorities believe she may have left voluntarily, possibly with someone she knew, intending to return.
According to the New Hampshire State Police, on Sunday, April 27, 1980, at 3:45 a.m., the Manchester Police responded to reports of the missing teen.
Laureen's mother told authorities that she had gone out of town with her friend and that Laureen asked to remain home in Manchester. Her mother also said that when she arrived home at about 1:15 a.m., she noticed the back door of their apartment was open, and the front door was unsecured.
Upon checking the apartment, she found Laureen's friend sleeping in Laureen's bed, and that Laureen was not in the apartment.
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Laureen's friend told the police that she and Laureen had been drinking and that Laureen had been in bed but left the bedroom, taking a pillow and blanket to sleep on the couch. Laureen may have left the apartment willingly with the intent of returning momentarily, as she did not take any clothing, money or personal items with her, police said.
Laureen has not been seen or heard from since.
Officials say the New Hampshire Cold Case Unit and Manchester police are now leveraging modern forensic tools unavailable at the time, including advanced DNA testing and new evidence analysis techniques.
"Laureen was just 14 years old, and her family has endured 46 years of unanswered questions," said Senior Assistant Attorney General R. Christopher Knowles, who leads the state’s Cold Case Unit. "Our commitment to bringing Laureen home remains steadfast."
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Knowles said investigators believe someone still has critical information.
"We know that relationships and loyalties change over four decades," he said. "We urge anyone who has been holding onto information to come forward."
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Authorities are particularly seeking information from:
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Cold Case Unit tip line at (603) 271-2663, email coldcaseunit@dos.nh.gov, or submit a tip online.
'Extremely rare' 2,000-year-old bread loaf unearthed at Roman legionary camp
Officials recently uncovered a charred 2,000-year-old Roman bread loaf — the first of its kind ever found in Switzerland.
The bread was found during an excavation in the Swiss town of Windisch, according to a translated release from the Canton of Aargau.
The excavation, which took place ahead of a large residential development, began last August, though officials did not announce the bread discovery until April.
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The artifact was found on the grounds of Vindonissa, a major Roman legionary camp.
Officials described the bread as a "charred, round object that attracted the attention of the excavation team during the uncovering work."
"The object was recovered as a block together with the surrounding earth and immediately brought to the restoration laboratory of the Cantonal Archaeology," officials said, as the release noted.
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"A first visual inspection by an archaeobotanist of the Integrative and Scientific Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Basel showed that it is, with great probability, a charred Roman bread."
The piece of bread measures 10 centimeters in diameter and about three centimeters thick. Further tests are planned at a laboratory in Vienna to determine what the bread was made of.
The release noted that Roman bread discoveries are "extremely rare," and described it as Switzerland's "first Roman bread."
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"They are only preserved if they are burned, as for example, breads in the bakery of Roman Pompeii," said the Canton of Aargau's statement.
"The discovery of the first Roman bread in Switzerland once again underlines how significant the Vindonissa site is for archaeological science."
Archaeologists also found evidence of an early fortification system — along with buildings, tools and metalworking evidence that could help determine when the site evolved into a permanent legionary base.
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"Elsewhere, there are indications of craft activity from the time of the younger legionary camp: a striking number of metal tools together with blacksmithing waste, but also spearheads and projectile points," the release stated.
"A large, carefully constructed clay oven lies directly within the walls of the older camp and shows that the zone directly behind the camp wall was probably already used for commercial activities in the early period of Vindonissa."
Though the find is extraordinary, it's not unheard of, prior research has indicated.
Last year, Turkish officials announced the discovery of a 5,000-year-old bread loaf, baked during Turkey's Bronze Age.
Some of the 5-inch-wide loaf appears to have been torn away before it was buried around 3,300 B.C.
Turkish archaeologists also found a 1,200-year-old loaf of burned bread bearing the image of Jesus Christ last year.
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The ancient loaf was found at the Topraktepe archaeological site, once the ancient city of Eirenopolis.