Author: Angel - NYC

The Weather Channel

Torrential rains have hit both Louisiana and southern Mississippi, flooding homes, forcing evacuations and water rescues, and sending area rivers rising quickly toward historic crests.

More than 17 inches of rain have fallen in Livingston, Louisiana, according to observations relayed to the National Weather Service, and Gov. John Bel Edwards declared a state of emergency for the entire state. The heavy rain will continue over Louisiana and Mississippi through at least Saturday morning, said weather.com meteorologist Tom Moore.   Continue reading “Man Drowns in Louisiana Flooding; Evacuations and Rescues Ongoing as Rivers Rise Toward Record Crests”

The Weather Channel

Each summer, millions of people around the world look to the night sky to watch thousands of “shooting stars” streak across the sky from the annual Perseid meteor shower. Aficionados of shooting stars are in for a treat this year because scientists predict that the 2016 show will be particularly spectacular.

Here are a few things you need to know about the shower:   Continue reading “Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Over the Next Few Nights: 10 Things to Know to Catch the Best View”

New York Post – by Lia Eustachewich

An elderly Bedford-Stuyvesant woman with heart problems says she was left “traumatized” after being roughed up by NYPD cops who ransacked her apartment last year without a warrant, according to a new lawsuit.

It was early morning on May 14 when Lydia Pruitt, 65, was accosted by four or five officers with guns drawn at the door of her first-floor apartment on Lexington Avenue, the Brooklyn federal court complaint says.   Continue reading “Elderly woman says she was ‘traumatized’ by rough cops”

CBS New York

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Imagine seeing yourself like never before. With groundbreaking technology, you can now get an intricately detailed look at your body from every angle — all in the comfort of your home.

“We can extract any measurement we want from your body. We can see how your chest is changing, arms are changing, quads are changing, calves are changing, waist is changing,” NAKED Mirror founder Farhad Farahbakhshian told CBS2’s Kristine Johnson.   Continue reading “Groundbreaking Technology Lets You See Your Body In A New Light”

Telegraph

An American woman in her 60s has been killed after being repeatedly stabbed in the back by a knifeman in a central London rampage as police rowed back on terrorism as a potential motive and said the attack was probably triggered by mental health issues.

The US citizen was knifed by the “large man” – who was reportedly wearing black shorts and a white t-shirt – as he silently and indiscriminately attacked pedestrians in Russell Square on Wednesday night.   Continue reading “Russell Square attack: American woman stabbed to death in London rampage by ‘mentally ill’ Norwegian-Somalian knifeman as police find no link to terrorism”

Charlotte Observer

A South Carolina resident has contracted an infection from the brain-eating amoeba, naegleria fowleri, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

The state epidemiologist Linda Bell said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed through lab tests the individual was exposed to the infectious amoeba. The exposure is thought to have occurred on July 24, when the individual was swimming near Martin’s Landing on the Edisto River in Charleston County, DHEC said.   Continue reading “New case of brain-eating amoeba reported in South Carolina”

Roll Call

In its push to convince Congress to take up a comprehensive immigration overhaul in 2017, the advocacy group founded by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NewsCorp chief executive Rupert Murdoch is betting on the old adage, “All politics is local.”

The Partnership for a New American Economy, which Bloomberg, Murdoch and others established in 2010, published 51 reports Wednesday — one for each state plus the District of Columbia — outlining the local economic effect of the immigrant community. The goal is to persuade Congress that fixing an immigration system widely seen as dysfunctional is a crucial step toward a flourishing economy.   Continue reading “Bloomberg, Murdoch-Led Immigration Group Has Eyes on 2017”

New York Post

Saving a bundle on car insurance wasn’t enough for one NYPD officer, who was busted by the feds for torching his Range Rover and two other cars to collect at least $34,000 in reimbursement checks from GEICO, federal authorities said Wednesday.

Carlos Becker promised to pay off two men if they helped him crash and burn his gray 2008 Range Rover Sport in September 2012, which law enforcement discovered with broken windows in Laurelton, Queens, court papers allege.   Continue reading “Cop busted for torching his cars for insurance payouts”

I found out something last Thursday and the more I think about it the more it disturbs and pisses me off.

After our PT sessions (my first, for my back) at the Manhattan New York Harbor VA Hospital, we sat down with our PT Therapists to schedule our next appointments.   Continue reading “Inside Information”

Patch – by Wendy Ann Mitchell

DANBURY, CT — A Danbury police officer was brutally attacked on Saturday shortly after 11 p.m. near Jimmy’s Market on Germantown Road, according to a report. Danbury Police Dispatch received a 911 phone call reporting that a man was viciously assaulting a Danbury police officer on Germantown Road. The man was later identified as Pierre Elhayek, age 20, of Danbury.

Officer Joe Pooler was parked in the lot of 38 Germantown Road at Jimmy’s Market in his clearly marked patrol cruiser when he said he observed Elhayek “pacing up and down Germantown Road two to three times” before he suddenly approached his cruiser and began banging and kicking the vehicle.   Continue reading “Danbury Police Officer Brutally Attacked Near Jimmy’s Market”

New York Times

PHILADELPHIA – Democrats arrived at their nominating convention on Sunday under a cloud of discord as Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of theDemocratic National Committee, abruptly said she was resigning after a trove of leaked emails showed party officials conspiring to sabotage the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont.

The revelation, along with sizable pro-Sanders protests here in the streets to greet arriving delegates, threatened to undermine the delicate healing process that followed the contentious fight between Mr. Sanders andHillary Clinton. And it raised the prospect that a convention that was intended to showcase the Democratic Party’s optimism and unity, in contrast to the Republicans, could be marred by dissension and disorder.   Continue reading “Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Resign D.N.C. Post”

NBC New York Stamm

Police in New Jersey warned residents not to approach endangered rattlesnakes turning up in the community.

Manchester Township police shared photos of timber rattlesnakes on Facebook after receiving several confirmed sightings in the Roosevelt City section of the Ocean County town of Whiting.   Continue reading “Rattlesnake Warning Issued in New Jersey”

US Treasury

The motto IN GOD WE TRUST was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. Secretary of the TreasurySalmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize the Deity on United States coins. From Treasury Department records, it appears that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861. It was written to Secretary Chase by Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania, and read:   Continue reading “History of ‘In God We Trust’”

New York Daily News – by Ryan Sit

A retired NYPD lieutenant was fatally shot by a SWAT team in New Jersey, the state attorney general and the man’s wife said on Monday.

Patrick Fennell, 57, was shot by the Ocean County Regional SWAT team after his wife Linda called police when she found him acting “strange” and drunkenly loading a revolver in the basement of their Sycamore Drive home in Little Egg Harbor Township around 6:20 p.m., according to a statement from Acting Attorney General Christopher Porrino’s office and Linda Fennell.   Continue reading “New Jersey SWAT team fatally shoots retired NYPD cop after call from wife; details of his last moments in woods unknown”

CBS News

BATON ROUGE, La. — The deceased suspect in the deadly shooting of Baton Rouge law enforcement officers appeared to have attacked police on his 29th birthday, CBS News has learned.

The suspect has been identified as a black male named Gavin Eugene Long of Kansas City, Missouri, sources tell CBS News. He was born on July 17, 1987.

According to a military source, Long left the Marines in 2010 with an honorable discharge. His final Marine rank was E-5 (sergeant).   Continue reading “Dead Baton Rouge shooter attacked police on his birthday”

New York Post

A man died and a woman is in critical condition with life-threatening injuries after a drunk off-duty NYPD cop drove his SUV onto a Brooklyn sidewalk early Saturday, police sources said.

Rookie officer Nicholas Batka slammed his gray Dodge Durango onto the sidewalk of a tree-lined residential section of Bedford Avenue near North 8th Street that residents say is usually crowded with people enjoying the neighborhood’s nightlife.   Continue reading “Man dies after ‘drunk’ off-duty cop slams into pedestrians”