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The new patient is 12-year-old Zachary Reyna, his family told CNN affiliate WBBH. A spokesperson for the Hendry-Glades Health Department in LaBelle, Florida, said that the department wouldn't release the age or name of the infected person for privacy reasons. Reyna's family told WBBH that Reyna was kneeboarding with friends in a water filled ditch by his house on August 3. He slept the entire next day. His family told WBBH that Reyna was an active and healthy seventh grader, so sleeping that much was unusual. His mother took him to the hospital immediately. He underwent brain surgery and doctors...

An Elko County sheriff’s deputy is recovering from an injury he suffered while accidentally shooting himself in the wrist while cleaning his department-issued weapon.

A Connecticut man was stabbed to death in the Bronx early Saturday after he stepped into the middle of a vicious fight between two women, police and neighbors said. Ronis Garcia, 28, was winding down an all-night rager at his friend’s sixth-floor Bryant Ave. apartment in Hunts Point when one woman, believed to be Garcia’s ex-wife, began brawling with another woman, neighbors said.

RIVERSIDE (CBSLA.com) — A Riverside woman was in serious condition after two pit bulls attacked her Monday. The attack was reported around 10:50 a.m. while the victim was walking her dog along a sidewalk in the 4000 block of 6th Street in downtown Riverside, according to Riverside County Department of Animal Services. The dogs reportedly leaped a fence and attacked her, leaving her with bite marks on the right side of her face and also had a gaping wound on her right arm. A relative to the pit bull owner rushed from the property to pull the older and bigger...

August 12th, 2013, 6:22 am Plane lands in Wawa parking lot near Shannon Airport Photo by Dave Ellis UPDATE: Police have identified the pilot in Monday morning’s crash landing at Shannon Airport as Jerome Matthew Orlando, a 33-year-old from Broadway, Va., the same area of the company that owns the plane, according to records. Virginia State Police Sgt. Les Tyler said Orlando flew out of Tampa, Fla., and was headed to Charlottesville, but was diverted because of the weather. There was a thick fog in the area this morning, even where the crash happened. The plane was supposed to go...

NEWPORT, Tenn. — A Cocke County judge has ordered the parents of a 7-month-old boy to change his first name from "Messiah."

Maggots found in Atlanta airport sandwich, food inspections enhanced ATLANTA — Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport officials tell Channel 2 Action News they are enhancing the way they inspect restaurants inside the airport after a man showed Channel 2 Action News a sandwich he purchased from an airport vendor had maggots. The passenger told Channel 2's Amy Napier Viteri he bought a sandwich at an airport restaurant Wednesday morning. When he opened it he said he was stunned to find maggots on it. Joel Woloshuk says he got out his phone and recorded video of the bugs crawling on his focaccia...

INDIANAPOLIS - A bizarre scene played out Tuesday night at the State Fair when police found a man trying to carry five guns into the fairgrounds. State Police found the man with five guns on the midway, but say, despite the number of weapons, there was no immediate threat. Troopers say the man had a gun permit and was allowed to take his guns with him after police unloaded the ammunition near the fair's Midway. It is not the first time people with gun permits have entered the fairgrounds with a weapon, police say. For safety reasons, State Police asks...

TRIPLETT, N.C. (AP) -- The way Eustace Conway sees it, there's the natural world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there's the "plastic, imitation" one that most other humans inhabit. But the border between the two has always been a porous one. When he bought his first 107 acres in 1987, Conway's vision for Turtle Island was as "a tiny bowl in the earth, intact and natural, surrounded by pavement and highways." People peering inside from nearby ridges would see "a pristine and green example of what the whole world once looked...

SEATTLE — Officers believe a man may have swallowed another man’s ear following a fight late Thursday night. Seattle police received calls of an assault around 10 p.m. in the 100 block of 10th Avenue East. Once they arrived, a bleeding, 23-year-old victim told police a man walked into his yard and began to urinate. The victim told the 21-year-old suspect and his girlfriend to get out of the yard and the suspect — allegedly upset he was told to leave — assaulted his own girlfriend. The victim grew alarmed at the fight and stepped in and tried to stop...

FULL TITLE: Mystery of girl, 15, who was only reported missing by her brother - and not her parents - TWO YEARS after she was last seen Police in North Carolina say the adoptive parents of a 15-year-old girl missing since 2011 did not report her disappearance for two years - and now they are refusing to cooperate with the investigation. Erica Lynn Parsons was reported missing by her 19-year-old brother last week after she was last seen leaving the Salisbury home of her parents in November 2011. An attorney hired by Erica's adoptive parents, Casey and Sandy Parsons, claimed...

There has certainly been a lot of speculation that no matter what happens with the current NCAA investigation, 2013 will be Johnny Manziel's last season with Texas A&M. And the news that Manziel's parents are selling their College Station home certainly won't quiet that speculation. According to Realtor.com the home that Manziel's parents bought in June 2011 in order to be closer to their son while he was at Texas A&M is currently on the market. The house is just 15 minutes away from the Texas A&M campus. The house was originally listed on April 28 for $405,000 and is...

Across the country, laws that pertain to the use of deadly force have come under scrutiny in the wake of the George Zimmerman trial, but not all the laws are the same. That is why Indiana’s law likely won’t be changing any time soon. Indiana does have legislation in the Indiana Code that would be considered “Stand Your Ground.” It means that a person in Indiana does not have a “duty to retreat” and is allowed to use deadly force in certain scenarios. Indiana’s legislation is different than Florida’s in a few key areas, but it also shares a lot...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Police can keep nearly 50 guns they seized from a man after he was found watching a Bloomington bar where an Indiana University student partied the night she went missing more than a year earlier, a state court ruled Tuesday. The 2-1 ruling by the Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a local judge's ruling allowing Bloomington police to keep 48 weapons they confiscated from Robert Redington's Indianapolis home in August 2012, including more than a dozen tucked under the sheets and pillows of his bed.

Police say woman's body found after man went to police station and admitted to shooting herSouth Miami Police are investigating after a man showed up at a police station and said he shot and killed his wife Thursday. Police said they discovered the woman inside a townhouse in the 5500 block of Southwest 67th Avenue after 31-year-old Derek Medina showed up at the station and said he killed his wife during an argument. A child was also found unharmed at the scene. Medina posted a photo of his wife after the shooting on a Facebook page belonging to him. The...

Police say woman's body found after man went to police station and admitted to shooting herSouth Miami Police are investigating after a man showed up at a police station and said he shot and killed his wife Thursday. Police said they discovered the woman inside a townhouse in the 5500 block of Southwest 67th Avenue after 31-year-old Derek Medina showed up at the station and said he killed his wife during an argument. A child was also found unharmed at the scene. Medina posted a photo of his wife after the shooting on a Facebook page belonging to him. The...

... The New London Fire Chief said Lentz was pinned in between the steering wheel and the seat. As rescuers tried to cut her out, a medical team monitored her vitals and after 45 minutes, determined she was ‘failing and fast.’ After about an hour, Lentz asked rescue workers to pray out loud. That’s when they say a priest suddenly appeared. “He came up and approached the patient, and offered a prayer,” Chief Raymond Reed told KHQA-TV. “It was a Catholic priest who had anointing oil with him. A sense of calmness came over her, and it did us as...

Just watched one of the liberal Miami tv news outlets (which is all of them).....they just reported, and this is a quote, that Obama has "MAJOR SUPPORT" from Republicans after canceling the Putin summit.

A Michigan family has 12 boys after welcoming another baby over the weekend — a dozen sons. Ranging in age from 19 months to 21 years, Jay and Kateri Schwandt's brood of boys now have a new addition: Tucker Ray Schwandt joins Ty, Zach, Drew, Brandon, Tommy, Vinny, Calvin, Gabe, Wes, Charlie, and Luke. "I never imagined I would be sitting here with my 12th child," Kateri Schwandt, who goes by the nickname Teri, told NBC News. "We didn't know what he would be when he was first born. We don't find out. It's always a boy, but it's always...

Angler nabs ‘vegetarian’ piranha SEATTLE — Angler John Denton was surprised to catch what he believes to be a pacu, a relative of the piranha at Lake Ki over the weekend. According to The Everett Herald, Denton was fishing for perch and bluegill on Sunday when he cast his line into the lake near his home and came up with the unusual catch. One of his neighbors identified the fish as a pacu, a native South American freshwater fish that are related to the piranha. “Bang, there it was,” Denton told the Herald. “It’s a pretty big fish, a big...

Residents in a speck of a rural farm town in northern Michigan want to recall a school board member and fire several teachers who showed support for a local middle school teacher convicted of having sexual relations with an eighth-grade student. The teacher, Neal Erickson, had been a science and computer-education teacher at Rose City Middle School. He was convicted of having sex with an eighth-grade student on multiple occasions, reports The Detroit News. The criminal case against Erickson began when a seven-year-old photograph of a 14-year-old boy was sent anonymously to the school board and superintendent. Details about what...

From down the hallway, it sounded like a locker door slamming. But the noise was something far more menacing. The sound was a gunshot. A man wearing a red hoodie and dark sunglasses walked down the hallways of Northwestern High School, trying door handles. He found one door open and fired a bullet into the classroom. The deafening blast ricocheted through the building. A teacher came out to see what was happening. The man shot him in the chest, and the teacher crumpled to the ground. “It’s been a minute since that man first fired that gun,” yelled Indiana State...

The Italian American Social Club, once frequented by Chicago and New York crime families, is looking for new blood — as patrons, not targets.It was a Thursday night and the place was packed: the Italian American Social Club was saying goodbye to one of its own. Singer Mark Giovi was leaving town, and the dress-for-success crowd sipped martinis and watched him work the room with the verve of a Rat Pack member. Just like the old days. Over more than five decades, the venerable social club and restaurant on Sahara Avenue, a few miles east of The Strip, has seen...

a buzzer rings in an apartment of a three-story building in the Mission. A school-age boy with bedhead gets up from the living room couch to prop open the door.A minute later, Omar Mey, 32, who is from Ticul, Yucatan, walks in from the street. He passes the boy, who's back on the couch immersed in a Spanish soap opera, and sits at the kitchen table, where two other men are busy slurping soup and rolling tortillas. Dona Carmen (not her real name), a short, thin woman wearing a black apron, turns towards Mey. "What do you want to eat?"...

An Indonesian passenger plane has skidded off a runway into a field after crashing into a cow. The Lion Air plane, with at least 110 passengers on board, hit the cow as it came into land at Jalaluddin airport on the island of Sulawesi. No-one has been reported injured, but the cow was crushed to death under a plane wheel. The pilot, Iwan Permadi, told the national news agency Antara that he could smell "burning meat". He said he initially thought there were dogs in front of the plane, "but it turned out there were three cows wandering in the...

Graham and Sheryl Anley and their Jack Russell terrier Rosie ran aground off one of South Africa’s most dangerous stretches of ocean, at Cebe on the Transkei coast. They battled waves of up to seven metres and were swept onto a reef. National Sea Rescue Institute North London station commander Georff McGregor said all three were wearing life jackets. The dog Rosie was wearing a specially tailored dog life-jacket with an emergency strobe light. "As the incident happened Graham sent a Mayday radio distress call and activated the EPIRB (Global Positioning Distress beacon) but they were immediately forced to abandon...

CLEVELAND With several swipes from the arm of an excavator and a smattering of applause from spectators, the Cleveland house where three women were held captive and raped over a decade was demolished Wednesday morning. The house was torn down as part of a deal that spared Ariel Castro a possible death sentence. He was sentenced last week to life in prison plus 1,000 years. As the last part of the house fell to the ground, a church on the corner rang its bells marking the demolition, CBS Cleveland affiliate WOIO-TV reports. But the question remains: How could the crimes...

.....Cop 'Upset' By Speeding Woman's Dying Dad Lie, Arrests Her By GEETIKA RUDRA | Good Morning America – 21 hours ago .... ....Email 0Share 1489Tweet0Share0Print......A New Hampshire cop was so miffed when he discovered an "emotional" woman had lied to him about speeding in her car to get to her dying father that he later went to the woman's house and arrested her for driving with a suspended registration. "I'm pretty used to people trying to bend the truth to get out of speeding citations, but this woman preyed on my emotions as a human being," Christopher J. Cummings, the...

uckwild cast member, Joseph "Joey" Patrick Mulcahy, was arrested in Kanawha County Tuesday evening and charged with driving under the influence, reckless driving, and failure to report an accident, according to court documents. It happened Tuesday evening. He was arranged just before 11 p.m. According to court documents, West Virginia State Police Troopers were dispatched to the 5300 block of Sissonville Drive to investigate a roll-over style accident. Sissonville firefighters told the arriving Trooper that the driver of the vehicle was taken home by Joe Mulcahy, the defendant's father. Authorities advised Mulcahy Sr. to go get his son. He did,...

Sara Petersen was not even halfway into her 14-hour double shift... The two men were in their 30s. They were fairly low-key. Their order - some beers and a sandwich and the raspberry chicken - was simple. The 22-year-old gave brisk, good service but otherwise hardly gave it a thought until the men got up to leave. What happened then made her smile, then cry, then smile again. Later, Sara would tell me she wished she would have said thank you. A few more times. Because in a long tradition of wait staff, she makes the exact same paltry $2.13...

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. (CBSNewYork) – There has been a strange sighting of a strange creature in a suburban New Jersey town – and pictures of it have residents asking “What the heck is that?” CBS 2’s John Slattery was working the day watch out of Manhattan, when his boss gave him this juicy assignment. He took a vehicle out of Midtown. The sighting happened on Friday. He and his cameraman headed for the leafy community of Ridgewood, which was apparently being terrorized by an odd creature that lurks in and out of storm drains. Slattery obtained video of the creature from...

China's Heat Wave Brings 'Dead' Man Back to Life BEIJING — Having the dead guy jump up for a drink probably wasn't part of the script. A staged protest claiming that city officials had beaten a sidewalk vendor to death in central China went awry when the man playing dead under a white sheet was overcome by the region's heat wave and sprang up to quaff a bottle of water, state media reported Monday. "It's too hot. I can't bear it anymore," the man was quoted as saying by state-run Xinhua News Agency. More than 10 men had gathered Saturday...

UNION, SC (WYFF) - A 34-year-old Upstate man was arrested after a neighbor accused him of smearing buttered toast on her SUV, according to a police report.        Christopher Brannon of Union was arrested Saturday and charged with malicious damage to property. Union police were called to an apartment on Rice Avenue Extension about damage to a vehicle.

Autopsies will be performed Tuesday on two young boys who were strangled in their sleep by a python that escaped from a pet store in Canada and slithered through a ventilation system into an upstairs apartment.

Freepers driving on Rt. 1 through DE this morning will get a nice surprise on the way to work/beach. Show em some love!

So - has anyone in So California heard ANYTHING more about the hit and run driver who drove along Venice Beach? No names released, no age, no color of skin - no nothing. Why does that make me think it was a jihadi end-of-Ramadan 'celebration of death.'???

An interesting side note. An employer friend of mine offered healthcare to his employees, all but one of whom are Mexican Hispanics, and they all refused. The employer was going to pay 80% of the healthcare and had to have 80% participation to be able to effect it, but the employees all turned it down. The reason? They have access to CHIP in Texas for their children for free and will not have any money coming out of their paychecks for adult healthcare. Services are available for an inexpensive amount or free through other sources. Additionally, other sources tell me...

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Christine Swidorsky walked slowly toward her bridegroom, carrying the couple's precious best man. She struggled to hold back tears as she held 2-year-old Logan, his medical equipment and a bouquet of orange and yellow flowers... On July 26, doctors told his parents that Logan has a few weeks to live.

A man in Georgia decided to call 9-1-1 after not receiving everything he ordered during a recent trip to his local McDonald’s. His plan backfired, however, when he was the one who ended up behind bars. The customer tells WALB-TV that he’d placed a sizable order at the Golden Arches — 7 McDoubles, 1 McChicken, and 1 order of fries. “I left out the store without checking it, but when I got to my truck and I got ready to leave I looked in my bag and come to find out I had six McDoubles,” he recalls. When he went...

Was made, by the USA closing 22 Embassies in Muslim countries. That action has shown that we can easily be intimidated by nothing more than,"Chatter," by radical extremist Muslim's. If a host Muslim country is either unwilling or incapable of protecting our Embassy, the Embassy should then be closed forever.

Amsterdam’s famous  red-light district under threat, economic crisis on the one hand and lawmakers are proposing changes to the sex-for-hire industry following a recognition in the freewheeling Netherlands The economic crisis is forcing prostitutes to lower their prices and to accept dubious sexual practices, according to sector organisation Geisha.‘The trend is apparent in the main cities, with some prostitutes unable to pay the rent on their rooms’, Ilonka Stakelborough from Geisha told Algemeen Dagblad.Until recently, the minimum price was €50, but this has now dropped as low as €20 in cities such as Amsterdam and The Hague.Geisha is to set up a project...

A bee removal expert took care of the thousands of bees that had been busy building a huge hive in a Cypress woman’s front yard. One beekeeper told Cheryl Best that 100,000 bees were living in the hive. That all changed Friday with the help of bee expert Anthony Samilo. “We call this a tree hugger, bees that build on the sides of trees,” he said. “The bees are going to get plenty aggressive when I get up there, and they are probably going to attack anybody on the ground.” When the bees started to swarm, curious neighbors who were...

<p>A Christian children's entertainer who allegedly plotted to kidnap, cook and eat a child has been jailed for 20 years.</p> <p>Ronald William Brown, from Largo, Florida, was handed the sentence for possession of child pornography.</p> <p>This was despite him regularly warning children about the sin of pornography on his long-running Christian Television Network show.</p>

A Bruce Lee wannabe was arrested earlier this week after he allegedly refused to stop swinging his nunchaku, a popular ninja weapon that's illegal to possess here. We came across the intriguing story in the Ex this morning which reported that the man was seen whirling his weapon on Tuesday at about 4 p.m. on the first block of Cashmere Street in an area where children were hanging out, police said. When officers arrived, they witnessed the man swinging his nunchaku around in front of a group of adults and children. When the cops approached them, the curious crowd dispersed....

The deputy allegedly sprayed the pizza without the teen's knowledgeAn Orange County Sheriff’s deputy is facing jail time after being accused of pepper spraying a teen's pizza without his knowledge during a traffic stop last year, prosecutors said. Juan Tavera, a six-year veteran of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department at the time of the alleged crime, faces one year in jail if convicted of spraying the pizza and ultimately sickening five people who ate it, according to a release by the Orange County District Attorney's Office. Tavera, 30, allegedly pulled over a 19-year-old named as John Doe for a traffic...

<p>Monster: Mexican national and illegal alien Separino Ponce-Nava attempted to sell his own 14-year old daughter to a 'frend' - reportedly allowing him to "try" her first.</p>

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A Colorado black bear with a taste for German food came up empty on its third night visit to a Colorado Springs restaurant. Surveillance video taken at the back of the Edelweiss Restaurant showed the bear pulling a dumpster full of restaurant garbage away from restaurant. In the second foraging incident, the bear deftly maneuvered the dumpster around another dumpster and out of the view of the camera. The bear rolls the dumpster away from the restaurant then tips it over, foraging for scraps. The dumpster weighs about 500 pounds. Edelweiss manager Dieter Schnakenberg said it...

Three teenagers have been charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a 4-year-old girl as she rode her scooter near her grandmother's home early this week, authorities said. Laquan Waters, 18, Tyrese Pearson, 17, and Roosevelt Stevens, 15, have been charged with attempted murder in the shooting about 4:55 p.m. Monday of Khalise Weatherspoon, said Cook Count state's attorney's spokeswoman Tandra Simonton. Khalise was the fourth child age 7 or younger to be shot and wounded in Chicago in July.

A U.S. business owner was killed in Thailand after going onstage to sing with a band. What was supposed to be a fun vacation in Bangkok turned into a nightmare for one family. Bobby Ray Carter, 51, of Texas, his wife Kelly, and their 18-month-old daughter Sadie, traveled to Thailand to celebrate Mr. Carter’s birthday. The Carters were meeting up with several other couples including Carter's adult son. The group went out to the Longhorn Saloon bar at the Ao Nang beach in Krabi province in Thailand.