Author: Angel - NYC

NBC 4 New York

An aircraft skidded on the runway at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence as a blinding wintry mix coated the region Thursday morning, Port Authority officials and sources familiar with the situation tell NBC 4 New York.

It wasn’t clear how many people were on the Delta plane when it slid off the runway around 11 a.m., nor was it known if it was landing or taking off. There was no immediate word on injuries.   Continue reading “Plane Skids Off Runway at LaGuardia Airport”

NBC New York

Two auxiliary police officers robbed a food deliveryman inside an East Harlem apartment building last week, handcuffing him as they stole his cash, wallet and iPhone, police say.

The 48-year-old deliveryman was bringing food to an apartment inside a building on East 102nd Street after midnight last Wednesday, Feb. 25 when he was met by two men who showed police shields and accompanied him into the elevator and to the 14th floor, according to the NYPD.

When the delivery worker went to the listed apartment, the resident said they never ordered any food, police said. The worker walked back to the elevator where the two men were waiting, and assaulted.    Continue reading “NYPD Auxiliary Officers Handcuff, Rob Food Deliveryman: Police”

The Washington Post- by Radley Balko

At a news conference Monday, New York Police Department commissioner Bill Bratton blamed a slight uptick in violence in the city (45 homicides at this point last year, versus 54 this year) on marijuana.“The seemingly innocent drug that’s been legalized around the country. In this city, people are killing each other over marijuana more so than anything that we had to deal with [in the] 80s and 90s with heroin and cocaine . . . In some instances, it’s a causal factor. But it’s an influence in almost everything that we do here.” Continue reading “NYPD commissioner blames legal marijuana in Colorado for increase in New York shootings”

Washington Post – by Anna Fifield

TOKYO — The U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert, was attacked by an armed assailant while he was heading to give a lecture in central Seoul Thursday morning.

Television reports from Seoul showed Lippert, a former assistant secretary of defense and adviser to President Obama, bleeding from his head and hand at the Sejong cultural center, across the road from the American embassy. Police said he was attacked with a 25-cm-long fruit knife. According to reports, the attacker yelled, “No war! The two Koreas should be unified.”   Continue reading “U.S. ambassador to Seoul wounded by assailant”

CBS News

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) — A Long Island driver has been barraged with red-light camera violations, even though his car was not involved and he has proof.

As CBS2’s Jennifer McLogan reported, the wrong man may now lose his license.

“I’ve had many a sleepless night because of this ridiculous situation,” said Domenic Maffetone of North Lindenhurst.   Continue reading “Long Island Man Gets Repeated Red Light Tickets For Car That’s Not His”

Wall Street Journal – by Miriam Jordan

LOS ANGELES—Federal agents Tuesday executed search warrants at several Southern California sites they say are connected to three multimillion-dollar birth-tourism businesses that enabled thousands of Chinese women to travel here and return home with infants born as U.S. citizens.

The investigations are likely to culminate in the biggest federal criminal case ever against the booming “anchor baby” industry, according to U.S. authorities. The search warrants cite suspected visa fraud, tax evasion and harboring illegal immigrants, among other charges.   Continue reading “Federal Agents Raid Alleged ‘Maternity Tourism’ Businesses Catering to Chinese”

Bethesda-Chevy Chase – by Deb Belt

The Silver Spring parents at the center of a national debate on parenting styles — for letting their 10- and 6-year-old children walk home from a park without mom and dad – have been found responsible for child neglect by county investigators.

Montgomery County Child Protective Services sent a letter Feb. 20 to Danielle and Alexander Meitiv telling the parents they are responsible for child neglect, reports Montgomery Community Media. The couple has a right to appeal the finding.   Continue reading “Parents Who Let Kids Walk Home Alone Found Responsible for Neglect”

Star Tribune – by Kevin Freking

WASHINGTON — Former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is returning to Capitol Hill on Wednesday to help kick-start a longshot campaign to expand criminal background checks to all commercial firearms sales.

Similar legislation that sought to expand background checks failed to get a hearing in the House last session. With the GOP expanding its majority and winning control of the Senate, prospects for the bill may be even more unlikely this session.   Continue reading “Giffords joining with former colleagues to try anew for legislation expanding gun checks”

Land O’Lakes Patch – by Sherri Lonon

Health officials in Florida’s Volusia County have been battling a rare disease many people believe long eradicated.

Three people over the last five months have been confirmed to have leprosy, CBS news is reporting. In two of those cases, health officials believe the disease was contracted through contact with nine-banded armadillos.

The small, cat-sized creatures are not native to Florida, but are commonly found across most of the state, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reports. The creatures are aptly named after the nine breaks found in the leather-like armor that covers their bodies.   Continue reading “3 Leprosy Cases Confirmed in Florida”

Huffington Post – by AIDA CERKEZ

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Medical experts warned Friday the anti-vaccination lobby is growing in Bosnia, using scientifically discredited arguments to stoke parental fears in the worst-affected country in Europe’s measles outbreak.

This trend — combined with a generation that could not be immunized because of lack of vaccines during Bosnia’s 1992-95 war — has led to 5,340 measles cases in Bosnia, according to the World Health Organization.   Continue reading “Anti-Vaccination Activists To Blame For Bosnia’s Measles Outbreak, Say Experts”

Dallas News – by Jennifer Emily

Experimental drugs and special care helped make Nina Pham Ebola free. But today she fears she may never escape the deadly disease.

The 26-year-old nurse says she has nightmares, body aches and insomnia as a result of contracting the disease from a patient she cared for last fall at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

She says the hospital and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed her and her colleagues who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola.   Continue reading “Nurse Nina Pham to file lawsuit against Presby parent, worries about continued health woes”

AOL

(Reuters) – Thousands of stunned Russians laid flowers and lit candles on Saturday on the bridge where opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was shot dead near the Kremlin, a murder that showed the risks of speaking out against President Vladimir Putin.

Nemtsov, 55, was shot four times in the back by killers in a white car late on Friday as he walked across the bridge over the Moskva River in central Moscow with a Ukrainian woman, who was unhurt, police said.   Continue reading “Russian opposition mourns murdered leader Nemtsov”

The News Leader – by Harrison Keegan

The man authorities say was behind Thursday night’s mass shooting may have broken the law before he even pulled the trigger.

Gun law experts say Joseph Jesse Aldridge, 36, had likely been prohibited from purchasing or possessing a firearm years before the shooting spree in Tyrone.

The prohibition stemmed from Aldridge’s 2008 guilty plea to a federal gun charge.   Continue reading “Suspect in mass shooting had previous, federal gun conviction”

Well and Good

It’s that time of year, again. (Sorry, we’re not talking about the end of winter.)

The Environmental Working Group just released its 2015 update to the annual Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which includes the latest version of its popular “Dirty Dozen” list, the 12 fruits and vegetables that were found to contain the most pesticide residues. (Not to be confused with the beauty world’s “Dirty Dozen” list of ingredients to avoid in skin-care products.)   Continue reading “2015′s Dirty Dozen: Your guide to the produce with the most (and least) pesticides”

If they think so much of dogs, how can they ruthlessly shoot ours?

NJ.com – by Jason Laday

WEST DEPTFORD TWP. — With more than 20 West Deptford police officers looking on, joined by at least 70 others representing departments from across South Jersey, Cpl. Michael Franks on Friday took his last walk with his partner and beloved pet, retired K-9 Judge, into St. Francis Veterinary Center.

After watching his former partner battle Cushings Disease for months, experiencing symptoms like vomiting, bleeding and hair loss — and witnessing the former K-9 officer struggle to even move over the past few days — Franks and his family made the heartbreaking decision to put Judge down.    Continue reading “N.J. police pay last respects as retired K-9 put down”

DNA Info – by Carla Zanoni

MANHATTAN —  Dominican New Yorkers are getting ready to party like it’s 1844 — as they plan a week’s worth of festivities marking the Dominican Republic’s 168th anniversary of its independence from Haitian rule.

With many Dominican New Yorkers focused on the possibility of a Dominican Congressional District, this year’s anniversary has taken on more meaning for some.    Continue reading “Dominican Independence Day Celebrated by New Yorkers”

St. Louis Today – by Kevin McDermott

ST. LOUIS • Tom Schweich, Missouri’s Republican state auditor and a leading contender for the governor’s office in next year’s election, died Thursday after apparently shooting himself in his Clayton home.

“What we know at this point suggests an apparent suicide,” Clayton Police Chief Kevin Murphy told reporters in a news conference Thursday afternoon. He said there is “nothing to support anything other than that at this point,” and said Schweich died from a single gunshot wound.   Continue reading “Tom Schweich, Missouri auditor and candidate for governor, dies in apparent suicide”