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Authorities have released preliminary autopsy results of the twin babies who were found last Friday, abandoned in a purple suitcase in an Arkansas ditch.

According to the Cross County Sheriff’s Office, the babies were not born full term. The preliminary autopsy results show that they were “32 to 34” weeks along. The Sheriff did not release any information about the race of the babies, but did say that at one of the babies is female.

Authorities hope that further testing will shed light on when and how the babies died.

The babies were discovered on Friday afternoon when a rabbit hunter...

A rabbit hunter was traveling along a country road in northeast Arkansas on Friday afternoon when made a grisly discovery: a small purple suitcase containing the dead bodies of two newborn infants.

The suitcase, found in a roadside ditch, had no identification. It was unclear how long the suitcase had been in the ditch, or who had put it there.

That macabre find has sparked a mystery in Cross County, Arkansas as authorities try to piece together who would have left the babies in a roadside ditch. The infants are believed to be twins, but the Sheriff’s office has...

This year’s holiday season is full to bursting with new movies, from the expected awards contenders to a number of festival favorites and some true-blue feel-good offerings to round out the pack, and we’re pleased to offer up 22 of the coming weeks’ best bets for film fans of all stripes. Whether you’re looking to beef up on your Oscar contenders, take the whole family to see something they all can enjoy or you just want to lose yourself in the magic of the movies, the rest of 2016 has something for you.

Take our advice, there’s no better place to spend the season than at the movie theater, so start here.

“Allied” (November 23)

Robert Zemeckis has had an interesting relationship with on-screen history. “Forrest Gump” reimagined decades worth of Americana and “The Walk” turned a grace note of New York history and crafted a spectacle. “Allied” finds him in historical thriller mode,...

Fearing that the golden age of television will make the public overlook cinema’s charms, studios and their filmmakers are desperate to find ways to lure audiences into the theater. Much of their arsenal relies on technology, including immersive 3D, eye-popping visual effects, bone-shattering immersive sound — and now, 3D delivered at a super-high frame rate via Ang Lee’s “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.”

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In banking on Lee, new Sony chairman Tom Rothman believed lightning could strike twice. In 2012, as the chairman of 20th Century Fox, he introduced Lee’s 3D spectacle “Life of Pi” as a potential Oscar contender and game-changer. At CinemaCon 2016, Rothman launched Sony’s presentation with Lee’s true-life drama about an Iraq War vet (Joe Alwyn) who is celebrated as a hero. There was palpable excitement over the prospect...