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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — It’s even worse than Lyme disease. Ticks in our area have been found to carry a rare, potentially life-threatening, virus.
As CBS2’s Tracee Carrasco reported, doctors have warned that the Powassan virus, a rare, tick borne illness could be serious. It doesn’t have a treatment or a cure. Continue reading “Powassan Virus Facts: Things You Should Know”
Hollywood Reporter – by Mike Barnes, Duane Byrge
Richard Dysart, the Emmy-winning actor who portrayed the cranky senior partner Leland McKenzie in the slick, long-running NBC drama L.A. Law, has died. He was 86.
Dysart, who also played Coach in the original 1972 Broadway production of Jason Miller’s Pulitzer Prize-winning That Championship Season, died Sunday at home in Santa Monica after a long illness, his wife, artist Kathryn Jacobi, told The Hollywood Reporter. Continue reading “Richard Dysart, the Patriarchal Senior Partner of ‘L.A. Law,’ Dies at 86”
SPRINGDALE, Wash. (AP) – Authorities say a log cabin that a family reported stolen off its foundation has been found in rural northeast Washington.
Stevens County Sheriff Kendle Allen says deputies following a tip found the cabin Thursday morning about 10 miles from its original location. He says the structure had been placed on stilts and was sitting at the end of a private road east of Springdale. Continue reading “Washington deputies find cabin that family reported stolen”
Huffington Post – by Nick Wing
You’re lying to me,” the man said. Carlos Toro took a gulp of wine and tried to maintain his composure. For years, he had dreaded hearing those words.
It was February 2011, and Toro, who was then 61, had come to this upscale steakhouse in Madrid expecting a casual meal between two friends with business to discuss. His companion was a South American diplomat and high-level cocaine trafficker eager to break into the European drug market, where a kilo purchased for less than $1,000 wholesale back home could sell for more than $40,000 on the street. Toro was a onetime top official in the Colombia-based Medellín cartel, which dominated the global cocaine market in the 1970s and ’80s. Continue reading “Devil’s Bargain: A Former Medellin Cartel Official Has Been A DEA Informant For 27 Years. Now He Wants Out.”
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT (WABC) — It was an NYPD raid to crack down on the illegal selling of untaxed cigarettes, but the manager of a Brooklyn deli says the day after police raided his store, he discovered that he had been robbed.
Now, he’s accusing one of the detectives, and he has surveillance video as proof: Continue reading “Brooklyn Deli Manager Says Surveillance Shows NYPD Detective Stealing Cash During Raid”
A multi-day severe weather outbreak, including tornadoesm will continue through Thursday in parts of the South and Midwest.
Some severe weather may continue into Friday along the East Coast and South. This is the most widespread severe weather event so far this spring. Continue reading “Severe Thunderstorms, Tornadoes Expected in Midwest, South Thursday”
Who knew that large wild cats were expert shark fishermen?
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission posted a picture to its Facebook page: It’s an image of a bobcat coming out of the water at Sebastian Inlet State Park in Florida, casually dragging its catch of the day behind it: a shark that doesn’t look a whole lot smaller than the bobcat! Continue reading “Photo captures bobcat hauling a large shark out of the ocean”
Huffington Post – by Matt Ferner
The Drug Enforcement Administration on Wednesday recommended that the federal government produce almost 900 pounds of marijuana for research in 2015, more than triple the amount it had estimated it would need.
The proposal, signed by DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, seeks to increase the government’s pot production from its projected need of 125 kilograms (276 pounds) to 400 kilograms (882 pounds). The government needs more marijuana because of “unanticipated medical, scientific, research, and industrial needs of the United States,” the DEA said in a notice published in the Federal Register. Continue reading “DEA Wants To Triple Production Of Government Marijuana For Research”
SADDLE RIVER, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — Officials have confirmed the coyote who attacked a man in Saddle River earlier this week tested positive for rabies.
Saddle River Acting Mayor Dr. Al Kurpis, police Chief Timothy McWilliams and other local officials called an emergency meeting Wednesday to address the development and issue guidelines to residents. Continue reading “Officials: Coyote In Attack On Saddle River Man Tests Positive For Rabies”
KTLA 5 News – by TRACY BLOOM AND MARK MESTER
A Northern California woman with cancer said she and her family were kicked off an Alaska Airlines flight shortly before takeoff on Monday because she didn’t have a doctor’s note to fly.
Elizabeth Sedway, her husband and two sons were on a return flight from Hawaii to San Jose when a representative from the airline boarded the plane and informed her she could not be on the flight without a clearance note from her doctor, the 51-year-old woman wrote on her Facebook page. Continue reading “California Woman Says She Was Kicked Off Alaska Airlines Flight Because She Has Cancer”
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Nearly a year after North Dakota college student Andrew Sadek’s body was found in a river with a bullet in the head, his mother still struggles with how her shy son who liked to bowl and belonged to a club of electricity enthusiasts got mixed up in the dangerous world of illegal drugs.
Tammy Sadek believes the answer is that Andrew signed his own death warrant when he agreed to become a confidential informant for police after they caught him selling marijuana. Authorities say he knew what he was getting into and agreed to help them of his own free will. Continue reading “Student’s mystery death raises doubts on drug informer use”
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — A number of New York City parents are upset that there are fewer opportunities to enroll their kids in half-day prekindergarten programs.
The expansion of prekindergarten is a key component of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. His team expanded the allotment of free full-day pre-K seats to more than 50,000 last fall, and the aim is to increase it to more than 70,000 students this September. Continue reading “Some NYC Parents Upset As Half-Day Pre-K Programs Disappear”
Wyandotte Patch – by Beth Dalby
At 115, Jeralean Talley, of Inkster, still thinks there’s not much better than going trout fishing near Dexter, an annual trip she plans to make again this year, God willing.
That’s more than a euphemism.
Talley, the world’s oldest living person, says her long life is a result of God’s grace. Continue reading “World’s Oldest Living Person Credits Long Life to Living by Golden Rule”
Daily Finance – by Mitch Lipka
The growing problem of phony government websites run by crooks outperforming real government websites in search engine results led the FBI on Tuesday to issue a warning to consumers to avoid being victimized.
The pretend government sites are set up to both collect “fraudulent fees” and personal information from victims that can be used for identity theft and a host of other crimes, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. Continue reading “FBI Warns of Thieving Phony Government Websites”
NEW MILFORD — The off-duty borough police officer who allegedly had crack cocaine and a hypodermic needle on him when he was arrested in Elmwood Park last Friday has resigned, according to officials.
Detective Sgt. Brian Long, of the New Milford Police Department, confirmed that patrolman Daniel DeMarco resigned effective April 1. He said the department otherwise had no comment on the 28-year-old officer’s arrest or any potential disciplinary proceedings. Continue reading “N.J. cop charged with possessing crack cocaine resigns from force”
Post and Currier – by Andrew Knapp
A white North Charleston police officer was arrested on a murder charge and the FBI opened a civil rights investigation Tuesday after video surfaced of the lawman shooting eight times at a 50-year-old black man as he ran away.
Walter L. Scott died Saturday after Patrolman 1st Class Michael T. Slager, 33, shot him in the back. Continue reading “North Charleston officer faces murder charge after video shows him shooting man in back”
Mother Jones – by Gabrielle Canon
Last week, lovers of rice rejoiced when the Washington Post reported on a simple trick to improve the nutritional value of the food. According to researchers in Sri Lanka, all you have to do is add a fat (they used coconut oil) to the cooking water, cool your rice over night, and voilà!—up to to 50 percent of the calories (a cup of rice contains about 200 when cooked conventionally) are gone.
It works by converting the white rice—which made mostly of digestible starch—into one that is indigestible, or “resistant,” meaning that it’s eventually excreted instead of metabolized by our bodies. The researchers found that adding fat and then allowing the rice to cool changed the composition even after the rice was reheated. Continue reading “Why Leftover Pasta Might Be Healthier Than Fresh”
A former New York City mayor is reportedly being persuaded to run next year in the London mayoral election by prominent government officials across the Atlantic.
The Sunday Times of London, citing the former mayor’s friends, reports that Michael Bloomberg is “considering” running as the Tory candidate in next year’s election in London. The city will elect Boris Johnson’s successor in May 2016. Continue reading “Michael Bloomberg reportedly ‘considering’ running for mayor of London”
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