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A video capturing an altercation between a child, a man and a woman in front of a California Target has gone viral.
“I showed it to friends and family, not intending it to go viral at all and I guess people just started sharing it and sharing it,” Andy Lizarraga, who captured the video and posted to her Facebook last week told KCBS. Continue reading “Child gets scolded by shopper for selling candy outside Target until good Samaritan steps in”
General Mills is recalling four types of Nature Valley bars as part of a larger recall over listeria in sunflower seeds.
The company said it would call back Protein Chewy Bars and Simple Nuts Bars in four flavor combinations: honey, peanut and almond with pumpkin seeds; peanut, almond and dark chocolate; roasted peanut and honey; and almond, cashew and sea salt. Continue reading “General Mills Launches Nationwide Recall of Nature Valley Bars”
New York Post – by Kevin Sheehan and Philip Messing
It was “The Good, The Bad and the Crazy” on Staten Island Monday.
An elderly man on a horse turned a city bridge into the Pecos Trail when he rode his mount across the busy span in the middle of the day and brought traffic to a halt.
Motorists looked on in amazement as they were forced to make way for Tod “Doc” Mishler, 80, who rode his steed, Charity 2, over the Outerbridge Crossing at 11 a.m. Continue reading “Horseback rider causes major traffic jam on bridge”
A slot at the Republican National Convention used to be a career-maker — a chance to make your name on the big stage and to catch the eye of the Republican donors and activists who make or break campaigns.
In the year of Trump: Not so much. Continue reading “Hardly anybody wants to speak at Trump’s convention”
A New York Police Department vehicle has gotten a rainbow-themed makeover before the city’s 2016 LGBT Pride March this Sunday.
The NYPD badge on the SUV’s hood is in rainbow colors, as are the words “pride,” “equality” and “peace” on the vehicle’s side. The car also reads “NYC pride 2016” on a heart-shaped rainbow and “Our [heart] goes out to Orlando.” Continue reading “NYPD Unveils Rainbow-Themed Vehicle Before City’s Gay Pride March”
Officials said at least 20 people have died in West Virginia after heavy rains flooded several towns, and states of emergency have been declared in both Virginia and West Virginia due to the devastating event that has been described as “complete chaos.”
“Roads destroyed, bridges out, homes burned down, washed off foundations,” said Greenbrier County Sheriff Jan Cahill. “Multiple sections of highway just missing. Pavement just peeled off like a banana. I’ve never seen anything like that.” Continue reading “West Virginia Flooding Kills 20; Emergencies Declared in Two States”
The Tennessean – by Julie Thanki
Bluegrass legend Dr. Ralph Stanley died Thursday night after a battle with skin cancer, according to a Facebook post by his grandson, Nathan Stanley.
Dr. Stanley was 89 years old and a member of the Grand Ole Opry and the Bluegrass Hall of Fame. After receiving an honorary Doctorate of Music from Lincoln Memorial University in 1976 (and another from Yale in 2014), he was known to fans worldwide as “Doctor Ralph.” Continue reading “Ralph Stanley, bluegrass legend, dead at 89”
Atlas Obscura – by Sarah Laskow
The exact moment when one of the world’s most dangerous mosquitoes arrived in the Americas is unknown. It’s clear that they came from Africa, and they may have crossed the Atlantic as early as 1495, on some of the first European ships to reach Hispanola. By 1648, when yellow fever broke out on the Yucatan peninsula, Aedes aegypti had definitely arrived.
Their behavior upon arrival, though, was unusual. Most of the world’s 3,500-plus mosquito species are innocent of lust for human blood but on these long journeys across the sea, the mosquitoes that survived were the ones willing to bite humans. Female mosquitos females need blood to lay eggs. En route to America, A. aegypti learned to love ours. Continue reading “While Brazil Was Eradicating Zika Mosquitoes, America Made Them Into Weapons”
At least two people are dead as significant flooding inundated several West Virginia counties Thursday night. In addition, a state of emergency was expanded to 44 of those counties impacted.
Eight-year-old Emanual Williams died at a West Virginia hospital Thursday after he slipped into a creek and was swept away by raging waters, The Intelligencer reported. Continue reading “At Least 2 Dead, State of Emergency Expanded to 44 Counties As Flooding Encroaches West Virginia”
Four gun policy measures failed to pass the 60-vote threshold to move forward in the Senate on Monday, following impassioned debate from both sides of the aisle.
The votes came just over a week after a deadly shooting spree in a gay nightclub in Orlando — the nation’s worst mass shooting in modern history — and a subsequent 15-hour filibuster by Senate Democrats who demanded action on gun control. Continue reading “Senate Votes Down 4 Gun Control Measures After Fiery Debate”
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Tensions between Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner reportedly were behind Lewandowski’s departure announced Monday by the campaign.
On the same day, Lewandowski said separately that he stood by Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
Continue reading “Jared Kushner tensions reportedly behind ouster of Trump campaign manager”
Brooklyn Daily Eagle – by Mary Frost
Someday soon, that folding knife you’ve carried around in your pocket for years might actually become legal.
Unbeknownst to many New Yorkers, common pocket knives of the type sold in Wal-Mart and in hardware stores are often classified by police as gravity knives, leading to the arrest of their hapless owners. Continue reading “Common folding knives could soon be legal in NY”
Next time you use a public bathroom, you may want to take a closer look around.
Authorities in Florida were notified recently after several “hidden cameras” were spotted in public facilities disguised as coat hooks.
The innocent-looking household items were found in three different locations in the Florida Keys, mounted to the walls in locations facing the toilet areas. Continue reading “Cops find creepy ‘coat hook’ hidden cameras in public bathrooms”
An argument between a driver and bike messengers in Manhattan yesterday almost became deadly when the driver pulled out a gun. Reports of a gunman spread, and a local elementary school was even put on lockdown, but thankfully police and firefighters arrived before anyone was shot.
Then an unarmed bicyclist was arrested, and not the angry man with the gun, because the angry man with a gun was also an off-duty cop. Continue reading “Crazed Greenwich Village Gunman Also Off-Duty NYPD Officer”
FORT HOOD, Texas — Officials at Fort Hood have confirmed they’ve found the bodies of four missing soldiers, bringing the total dead to nine after a Light Medium Tactical Vehicle overturned in flood waters Thursday morning.
“Our focus now is on notifying next of kin and caring for our soldiers who have lost one of their teammates ,” said Maj. Gen. John Uberti during a news conference early Friday night. Continue reading “Bodies of missing Fort Hood soldiers found; 9 dead”
New York Post – by Kaja Whitehouse
The feds have collected months of wiretaps and as many as 30,000 e-mails in the case against a restaurant owner who was pals with high-ranking NYPD officers facing a corruption probe.
“The discovery is fairly voluminous,” Manhattan Assistant US Attorney Russell Capone said Friday at Hamlet Peralta’s arraignment in an alleged Ponzi scheme. Continue reading “Feds have trove of evidence from restaurant owner popular with NYPD bosses”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Two teenage girls were charged with assault late Friday, after a 78-year-old woman was beaten at a subway station in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn a day earlier.
Jazmine Watson, 16, of Brooklyn, was charged as an adult with second-degree assault, police said. Another girl, 15, was also charged with assault, but her name was not released, police said. Continue reading “NYPD: 2 Charged After 78-Year-Old Woman Beaten At Brooklyn Subway Station”