Listen To 911 Call Of 63-Year-Old Woman Being Attacked By Bear

                  

Story out of Frederick, Maryland:

A 63-year-old Maryland woman survived an attack by a black bear by punching it, and when that didn't work, she played dead, her husband said Thursday at the hospital where she's recovering.

"She said she punched him in the face a couple times," Ronald Osborne said. "She's a tough babe."

She was listed in good condition with a broken left arm and bite wounds on her head and torso that required more than 70 stitches, her husband said. He said she was in a lot of pain and didn't want to be interviewed.

Maryland Department of Natural Resources wildlife specialists tracked and euthanized the 200-pound female bear under a policy mandating death for bears that attack people, said Candy Thomson, a Natural Resources Police spokeswoman. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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Woman Shocked To Find Holocaust Jacket At Tag Sale, Buys It For $2

Story out of New York City, New York:

The blue and grey stripes struck Jillian Eisman like a lightning bolt.

She was rummaging through a packed closet during a Long Island tag sale when she immediately recognized the symbol of horror and hate: A jacket worn by a prisoner at the Nazi Dachau concentration camp during The Second World War.

"I knew exactly what it was, even before I saw the numbers (84679 on the chest)," said Eisman, who purchased the jacket for $2 at the sale last year and donated it to the Kupferberg Holocaust Center in New York City.

Curators there not only put the jacket on display but also unearthed the story of the person who wore it: a teenager forced to make munitions for the German war effort, spent four years in a relocation camp and then came to America, never telling his children much about Dachau or that he kept the jacket.

The story of Benzion Peresecki - who later became Ben Peres - is told in extraordinary detail, thanks largely to the serial number and careful records he kept and that his daughter found long after he died.

"It was known to us that my father and grandmother had both been in the Holocaust," said Lorrie Zullo, who was 13 when her father died of a stroke in 1978. "We knew he had a brother who had been killed. But he did not talk about it much."

Holocaust historians say jackets such as the one saved by Peres are fairly rare, since most of the clothing worn by concentration camp prisoners was burned because of lice and other potential diseases. Also, most freed prisoners didn't want to keep reminders of their horrifying ordeal. Cont.

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Running Of The Bull - Bull Escapes Trade Show, Disrupts Traffic In Regina, Saskatchewan

Story out of Regina, Saskatchewan:

Regina had its own running of the bull on Tuesday morning — right on a busy street during rush hour.

Pat McGillicky shot video of the wandering bull at the corner of Dewdney Avenue and Lewvan Drive.

That's close to Evraz Place where the Agribition agricultural trade show is currently underway.

Just after 8 a.m., before the sun came up, the bull was seen trotting in front of cars at the corner.

Police were on the scene controlling traffic while officials tried to catch the animal. Cont.

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Agribition must be in town #yqr pic.twitter.com/wraE3qkN5r

— Pat McGillicky (@PatMcGillicky) November 22, 2016

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder Says Children's Literacy NOT A Fundamental Right

Detroit school children have no fundamental right to literacy, according to Gov. Rick Snyder’s attorneys, in the midst of a suit claiming the poor reading skills of Detroit students at five schools, deplorable building conditions, and lack of basic classroom necessities are the fault of the state.

A California public interest law firm is representing seven Detroit public school students who believe the education they are getting is substandard and essentially want the courts to rule that literacy is a fundamental constitutional right reports WWJ legal analyst Charlie Langton.

The lawsuit says the schools are in “slum-like conditions” and “functionally incapable of delivering access to literacy.” The case, filed in federal court, directly accuses Gov. Rick Snyder, the state school board and others of violating the civil rights of low-income students. Cont.

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5 Children Die After School Bus Crashes

Story out of Chattanooga, Tennessee:

At least five children have been killed and more than 20 were injured in a school bus crash in Chattanooga, Tennessee Monday afternoon, according to officials.

Twenty three of the 35 students on-board the bus were transported to area hospitals, according to Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher. The immediate cause of the crash was unknown.

Fletcher described accident as a "single-driver incident." The Chattanooga Fire Department tweeted photos of the accident that appeared to show that the bus flipped over after it struck a tree.

A criminal investigation has been launched into the accident, according to NBC affiliate WRCB, and the school bus driver is said to be cooperating with police. Cont.

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Update - Mother who had three children on the bus, one of whom died says moments before crash driver asked 'are you all ready to die?'

"Fake Love Scam" - Scam Artist Tricks 92-Year-Old Man Out Of Life Savings

Story out of Cook County, Illinois:

It’s called the “Fake Love Scam,” and it’s heartbreaking.

Younger people woo and even marry elderly victims and then strip them of everything they have.

The public guardian’s office alleged in court filings that Sophie Miller got Aloysius Mack, 92, to pay $80,000 for a now-shuttered laundromat business. Mack also bought her a $40,000 van and put her on his bank accounts totaling about $335,000.  And she got him to change his will so she would inherit Mack’s Schaumburg home valued at $260,000.

“She scammed me,” Mack says. “And the worst thing of all she stole my hard-earned life savings.”

Mack’s great-niece was appointed his guardian this week and a protection order was entered prohibiting Sophie Miller from contacting him. The Public Guardian’s Office was able to get back $40,000 of the $80,000 he paid for the laundromat.

Now attorneys are trying to get the marriage annulled so they can undo all the legal documents Mack signed tying his finances to her. Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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"We Should Never Have Taken Your Breast Off'" - Woman's Breast Removed After She Was Misdiagnosed With Cancer

Story out of Darwin, Australia:

Two women had their breasts removed unnecessarily after being misdiagnosed with cancer at the Royal Darwin Hospital.

One of the women, Rachel (not her real name), shared her story with 7.30 in the hope of helping others avoid the nightmare she endured.

In July 2013, after getting a routine mammogram, she had a biopsy tested at the Royal Darwin Hospital and a senior surgeon brought her the devastating news that she had breast cancer and her whole left breast would need to be removed "urgently".

"And it was performed rather quickly, within two weeks," she said.

Just weeks later, Rachel was called in to see her surgeon at the hospital.

"And that's when he said to me: 'I've got good news and bad news to tell you: the good news is you don't have breast cancer. The bad news is you never did have breast cancer and we should never have taken your breast off'."

Slowly Rachel began to realise the full magnitude of the error.

"I lost faith in the medical system in Darwin. In fact, after it happened to me, all the colleagues I worked with said, 'Oh, don't you know? You live in Darwin. The saying is: you feel the pain, book a plane. And this information came to me after, a little bit late." Cont.

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Woman Kills Half-Sister With Chicken Shaped Casserole Dish While Wearing Fake Goatee, Wig

Story out of Hertfordshire, England:

A 53-year-old woman disguised herself with a goatee beard, wig, heavy framed glasses and a hi-vis jacket before killing her half-sister, a court heard today.

Yvonne Caylor had allegedly made herself look like a man before she walked to Nikki Collingbourne's flat and launched the attack with a chicken-shaped ceramic pot.

Ms Collingbourne, 26, was found dead in her underwear lying in a pool of blood at her flat in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, by members of her family.

John Price QC, prosecuting, said today: 'There is no issue Nikki Collingbourne was unlawfully killed by someone. The issue you will have to decide is by whom?'

Caylor, from Hitchin, denies murder on May 23. The trial at Luton Crown Court heard Ms Collingbourne was found dead the day after - next to a shattered pot.

Caylor is alleged to have carried out the killing after being charged with burgling her half sister's flat and attempting to pervert the course of justice. Cont.

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Paralyzed 4-Year-Old Girl Found By Towing Company Hours After Car Wreck

Story out of Ector County, Texas:

A family member of Daniela Flores, 4, says the child is paralyzed after a crash on Monday afternoon in Ector County. Flores was overlooked in the car and found later by a towing company.

Flores was in the care of a friend of her mother. The family member says her mother was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The friend left the child with a male, who was a driver in the crash. The family member says the driver was taking Flores to eat before the crash.

A spokesperson for the City of Odessa says that the occupants of the three cars involved in the crash were all alert and exited their vehicles while waiting for authorities to arrive.

The driver told officials multiple times there were no other passengers inside of his car.

Flores was found three hours later in the floorboard of the backseat. Officials say she was unconscious, but breathing. Cont.

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Father Drowns 4-Year-Old In Baptismal Pool

Story out of Healdsburg, California:

A father is suspected of drowning his 4-year-old daughter in a baptismal pool at a Catholic church, Healdsburg Police Chief Kevin Burke said Monday afternoon.

Gerardo Mendoza Ordaz, 42, was found by Healdsburg police naked and screaming for help in a back parking lot of the police station on Center Street around 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Burke said.

His daughter, who was clothed, and his partially-clothed 9-year-old son were with him, Burke said. The girl was unresponsive and after attempts to resuscitate her, she was rushed to Healdsburg District Hospital where she was pronounced dead 90 minutes later. An autopsy was conducted Monday, but Burke said he did not know the results.

The water in the baptismal pool is about a foot deep, Burke said.

Ordaz was arrested for homicide and is being held under no bail in the Sonoma County jail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Sonoma County Superior Court. Cont.

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'It Was Getting Out Of Control' - Trumpanzees Target Wrong Hamilton On Twitter

Story out of Hamilton, Ontario:

After Donald Trump launched a Twitter broadside against the Broadway show "Hamilton," many of his supporters went on the offensive, too.

But some of them targeted the wrong Hamilton.

Their misdirected anger caused quite a surprise for Riane Leonard, who runs the Twitter account for Hamilton Theatre Inc., a small musical theater company in the Canadian province of Ontario.

When she noticed notifications popping up in the theater's Twitter account over the weekend, she initially thought it was people who had seen the company's current show, "The Toxic Avenger," on Friday night.

The real reason for the Trump supporters' ire was the message delivered by a cast member of "Hamilton" to Vice President-elect Mike Pence who attended the Broadway production Friday night. Actor Brandon Dixon told Pence that the cast hoped "this show has inspired you to uphold our American values and to work on behalf of all of us."

Leonard said that as she read through Twitter, she gradually pieced together the source of the confusion.

"These angry Americans had tagged us by mistake," she said. "But by this point, some of them were liking and retweeting. There was really no way of stopping them or correcting them. It was getting a little bit out of control."

The notifications clogging the Canadian theater's Twitter feed eventually turned from negative to positive after Canadian news organization CBC picked up the story. Suddenly, a new crowd of Twitter users were speaking out in favor of the little theater company.

"We've just gotten a massive outpouring of support from people -- not just in Hamilton, in America," Leonard said. "It's been so overwhelming." Cont.

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20 Dead In Libya After Monkey Pulls Off Muslim Girl's Head Scarf

Story out of Sabha, Libya:

At least 20 people are dead after a pet monkey was let loose on a young girl by a group of three men.

The girl’s family sought revenge after the girl was bit and scratched last week and all three men were killed along with the monkey.

But then chaos descended on the city of Sabha, Libya, and many more were killed when it resulted in tribal clashes.

Bader al-Daheli, a civil activist, said that the two main tribes, Awlad Suleiman and Gadhadhfa, are each backed by armed groups. Abdel-Rahman Areish, the head of Sabha hospital, said 20 people have been killed and 50 wounded.

The monkey pulled off one of the girls’ head scarf, leading men from the Awlad Suleiman tribe to retaliate by killing three people from the Gaddadfa tribe as well as the monkey, according to a resident who spoke to Reuters.

During the latest clashes, which took place in the city center, initial attempts by tribal leaders to calm the fighting and arrange a ceasefire so that bodies could be recovered had failed, residents said.

Libya slid into chaos after the 2011 ouster and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi. Much of the country is effectively ruled by a patchwork of local or tribal militias. Cont.

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Israeli Activists Put Up Rainbow Flags In Front Of Rabbi's Office After He Calls For The Deaths Of LGBT

Story out of Jerusalem, Israel:

Activists hoisted the LGBT movement’s rainbow flag outside the Jerusalem Sephardi chief rabbi’s office Saturday night after the rabbi’s derogatory comments on gay people over the weekend.

Meretz posted a photograph Sunday morning of its activists at the scene, which also included a chalk drawing of the LGBT colors on the sidewalk outside of Rabbi Shlomo Amar’s office.

In an interview with Israel Hayom published Friday, Amar called men and women from the LGBT community “a cult of abomination” and said they are liable to the death penalty according to Jewish law.

Amar’s comments created a fierce political backlash from members of the Knesset and the Jerusalem City Council who helped get the rabbi, who was Sephardi chief rabbi of Israel from 2003 to 2013, elected to his current post.

As Amar’s comments circulated Thursday in a preview of the article, at least two complaints of incitement were filed against him to police.

In the interview, Amar said he related to Reform Jews through the prism of the biblical injunction against Korah and his followers in Numbers 16 to “turn away from the tents of evil people.”

Asked about his attitude toward the LGBT community, the rabbi said: “This is a cult of abomination, this is clear. This is an abomination. The Torah requires a death sentence for this. This is in the first row of the most severe transgressions.” Cont.

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15-Year-Old Grandson Of Congressman Shot Dead Over Argument About Shoes

Story out of Chicago, Illinois:

The 15-year-old grandson of Congressman Danny Davis was shot to death in his Englewood home Friday evening.

Javon Wilson, 14, was inside his home when two people broke in, started arguing with the boy and then shot him in the head, according to a statement from the congressman.

According to Davis, the two people who broke in were a 17-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy who pulled a gun.

Police have identified a person of interest in the shooting, according to a tweet posted by CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi Saturday morning. He said the shooting was not random and was not the result of a home invasion, but that it stemmed from a dispute between teenagers about gym shoes.

Davis later sent out a tweet on Saturday with a statement on his grandson’s death. “Thanks to all that have contacted my family and staff. Please note the following and I appreciate your prayers during this difficult time.” Cont. (Video/Autoplay)

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Senator Freaks Out Over Birthday Cake Featuring Boobs, Purple Unicorn

But why smash the cake. Cake still cake. Sad face.

Story out of Louisiana:

When Louisiana state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson saw her colleague's birthday cake, she decided to take care of the offending dessert herself.

The senator walked into an area used as a break room at the Louisiana State Capitol in Baton Rouge before a budget hearing Friday morning and saw a birthday cake for state Rep. Mark Abraham. On the box was a sign reading, "Happy Birthday Mark Abraham. He likes his cake and eats it too!!!!"

She told Mashable in a phone call Friday evening that she immediately noticed the bikini-shaped cake with candles coming out of the breasts and a purple unicorn tattoo above the panty line.

Carter said she approached Abraham about the dessert and traced back the cake as a gift from state Rep. Jack McFarland and his wife. She then told the birthday boy, "It's rather offensive," and continued to chew him out. "I said some language I’m not proud of using," the senator admitted. She said she apologized later for using harsh language.

The state senator said he told her to cover up the cake if she was uncomfortable with it, so Peterson went one step further and smashed the sign into the cake and then threw it away. She said that was when she went on a "Twitter storm" and posted about the misogynistic cake. Cont.

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Thousands Protest After Turkish Government Tries To Legalize Child Rape

Story out of Istanbul, Turkey:

The government insists the legislation is aimed at dealing with the widespread custom of child marriage, but critics say that it will legitimise child rape.

Protesters clapped and chanted: "We will not shut up. We will not obey. Withdraw the bill immediately!"

There were demonstrations in other cities including Izmir and Trabzon.

The law would allow the release of men who assaulted a minor without "force, threat, or any other restriction on consent" and married the victim.

About 3,000 protesters gathered in Istanbul's Kadikoy square, according to reports.

Some waved banners with slogans such as "Rape cannot be legitimised" and "AKP, take your hands off my body" - referring to the AKP party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which introduced the bill.

The bill follows a previous controversy after Turkey's constitutional court in July annulled part of the criminal code which classified all sexual acts with children under 15 as sexual abuse. Cont.

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Mall Santa Removed After Telling Child Hillary Clinton Was On "Naughty" List

Et tu, Santa.

Story out of Sanford, Florida:

A Santa was removed from a mall for telling a girl who is on his “naughty” list.

It happened at the Seminole Towne Center in Sanford. A mother says when her 10-year-old daughter told Santa what she wanted for Christmas, Santa told her she was on his “nice” list.

She said, he then asked, “Do you know who is on my naughty list? Hillary Clinton.” Santa then, reportedly, laughed.

The girl’s mother called mall management. The Santa was replaced, and he was sent to HR counseling. Cont.

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'Satan Made Me Do It' - Man Confesses To Brutally Killing Grandmother, Drowning Aunt

Story out of Nottingham, England:

Christopher Whelan, 21, allegedly armed himself with an axe and a pen knife before going on a rampage, killing Julie Hill, 51, and Rose Hill, 75.

A court heard Whelan had confessed to police two days after the killings, telling authorities he had “done something really bad."

Prosecutor Mike Evans QC told Nottingham Crown Court that the man forced a sock into his grandmother’s mouth during the violent rampage at a Derbyshire home in February.

The alleged killer, charged with the murder of both women, struggled with an “irresistible impulse to kill others."

Presiding High Court judge Justice Carr heard that in a post-mortem it was found that Rose had been strangled.

The examination further revealed Julie had been punched in the face,with her teeth knocked out, before she was drowned, the Derby Telegraph reported.

Evans said the man, a Christian, had also written a note saying he was doing it for “my God."

One of two psychiatrists who gave evidence in the case, David Baird, said the accused had told him “He (Satan) said ‘do it – this is the way forward’." Cont.

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Trump Demands Equal Time After Throwing Twitter Tantrum Over SNL

President elect Donald Trump can’t seem to let the booing of his running mate Mike Pence at a performance of ‘Hamilton’ go. Sunday morning he was up bright and early to tweet at the cast members of the sold-out play before turning on Saturday Night Live’s portrayal of him again.

According to Trump, the Tony award winning “Hamilton” is “highly overrated” and Saturday Night Live owes him “equal time” for mocking him.

I watched parts of @nbcsnl Saturday Night Live last night. It is a totally one-sided, biased show - nothing funny at all. Equal time for us?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 20, 2016

Actor Alec Baldwin, who has portrayed Trump on SNL, was quick to respond to the president-elect’s odd demand for “equal time”:

...@realDonaldTrump
Equal time?
Election is over. There is no more equal time. Now u try 2 b Pres + ppl respond. That's pretty much it.

— ABFoundation (@ABFalecbaldwin) November 20, 2016

Cont.

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104 Dead, 150 Injured After Train Derails In India

Story out of Kanpur Dehat, Uttar Pradesh:

At least 104 people were killed when 14 coaches of an overnight passenger train rolled off the track in northern India early Sunday, with rescue workers using cutting torches to try to pull out survivors, police said.

Daljeet Chaudhary, a director general of police, said the death toll was likely to rise because rescue workers had yet to gain access to one of the worst-damaged coaches. About 150 people were injured, he said.

The train derailed at around 3:10 a.m., jolting awake passengers who had settled in for the long trip. The bodies were retrieved from mangled coaches that had fallen on their side.

Rescue workers, soldiers and members of India’s disaster management force pulled 104 bodies from the wreckage, said Chaudhary, inspector-general of police in Uttar Pradesh state.

Rescuers used cutting torches to open the derailed train cars to try to reach those trapped inside, while cranes were deployed to lift the coaches from the tracks. However, they were moving cautiously because some of the coaches were precariously tilted, and there was a danger of the coach toppling over, possibly injuring those trapped inside.

In 2012, an Indian government report said about 15,000 people are killed every year in train accidents, caused mainly by outdated equipment and overstretched staff. Cont.

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