Lubs Americans lose millions of dollars each year to wire transfer fraud scams. Could banks do more to stop it The skeletal remains of a child, and three surviving siblings who appear to have been abandoned, were found inside an apartment in the Houston area, a sheriff said. One of the children, a 15-year-old, called the Harris County Sheriff s Offic e on Sunday afternoon and told authorities his 9-year-old brother had been dead for a year and the body was inside the apartment, the office said in a statement. Depu ties responded and found the teen and two other siblings ages 10 and 7 living alone in the apartment, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters. The other child s skeletal remains were also located. It appears that the remains had been there for an extended period of time. And I emphasize extended, Gonzalez said. Deputies said the remains appeared consistent with the age provided by the 15-year-old, reports CBS Houston affiliate KHOU-TV.The teen told deputies his parents hadn t been living in the apartment with him and his two younger siblings for several months, KHOU said. The sheriff said it also appeared that the surviving children were fending for each other, with the oldest sibling caring for the younger two. It was unclear whether any of the kids were attending school. The younger children appeared to be malnourished and had physical injuries, he said. All three siblings were taken t o a hospital to be assessed and treated. In our experience, it s always best to not speculate and just let the investigatio Zeja Some congressional Republicans speak out against Trumpcare Washington mdash; Approximately 1.4 million U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico will lose a substantial amount of their food benefits or lose them completely if congressional leaders and the White House do not approve more funding for the island s nutritional program, according to a studyreleased Tuesday.The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities CBPP , a Washington D.C.-based think tank, analyzed statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA to find that Puerto Ricans enrolled in theN utrition Assist ance for Puerto Rico NAP mdash; the island s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program SNAP mdash; will begin to face deep food aid cuts in March unless the program receives more funding. According to the analysis, the maximum food assistance for a family of four could decline from $649 a month to $410. This isn t money that Puerto Rico is using for some vanity project. It s not like a shiny new terminal at an airport. It s literally money for the most basic of needs mdash; which in this case is food, Javier Balmaceda, a senior policy analyst at the CBPP and the analysis author, told CBS News. The popularmulti-billion dollarprogram operated by the USDA provides supplemental income to hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans so they can meet their nutritional needs. Unlike SNAP, funding for NAP can t expan d to meet increased demand. Instead, it is funded through an annual federal block grant of about $2 billion.In O
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Sdpk Bobcat kittens adorably steal golf balls from a Colorado course in these must-see photos CASTLE PINES, Colo. 鈥?Cats are diverse creatures. Theirlooks and personalities are as varied as the names humans give them. I ve got Marco. I ve got Polo, Jet and Quinn. Ive had several Sassys, Midnights and Oreos, said Jayma Wessling, one of the founders of Front Range Freedom Rescue.Wessling says she has been bringing stray cats home since she was a little girl, so it j ust made sense to start a cat-focused rescue with some friends she met at another organization. Since 2019, theyve rescued nearly 4,000 cats from Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma and Illinois. They have also recruited about 40 families to help foster the cats until they are ready to go to their forever homes. I foster because it s great for our family s mental health, said foster mom Jen Iversen. It s kind of hard to be mad when you come home and you sit on the floor and start playing with kittens. While herding thousands of cats has been a group effort, everyone involved says when it comes to pure dedication to the cause, Wessling is the one who goes the extra mile more often than not. I would say of the of the three of us, Jayma is definitely the heart of the organization, said fellow FRFR founder Carol Kuzdek. Jayma will be the first one to drive to Pueblo, wherever she needs to go to pick up kitties. Iversen and Kuzdek also say Wessling is also known for taking in cats they refer to as fospice kitties. [Those are] kitties that are fosters, but they re in hospice, adds Kuzdek. And she Fxeq California mom gets national attention talking about postpartum depression NEW YORK AP 鈥?A blocked sewer main flooded basements Saturday with brown filth and left residents in the neighborhood near New York Citys Kennedy Airport feeling sickened by the stench.A water condition caused the backup, pushing human waste into about 300 homes in Jamaica, Queens, officials said.Cynthia McKenzie said she woke up around 3 a.m. to an odor she thought was a gas leak, only to realize that sewage water was rushing into her basement.As the water level rose, McKenzie said she raced to move furniture and other belongings 鈥?but some electronics couldnt be saved. After a few hours, she said, her whole neighborhood was awash in fetid flui d. Its messy, said McKenzie, who posted photos showing murky water covering the floor of a basement bedroom and the bottom of a staircase. When you open it, it just smells, she said. It makes you want to vomit. We have to pack up all the clothes. Mayor Bill de Blasio said crews were making repairs and bringing in pumping equipment to clear up the mess.The citys water agency says drinking water is safe and unaffected, but de Blasio advised residents to reduce usage to cut down on water going into the blocked main.McKenzie said she bought two pumps from Home Depot and ran extension cords and a hose to try and clear water from her basement, but the rig hardly kept up. Theres still some at knee level, she said. The odor is just unbelievable. McKenzie said sh e called 911 and the citys 311 help line soon after discovering the sewage.
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Nloj Florida deputy dies in traffic crash, cause under investigation TAMPA, Fla. 鈥?The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutio nal right to abortion. The ruling is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states. In anticipation of the decision, several states led by Democrats have taken steps to protect abortion access.The decision also sets up the potentia l for legal fights between the states over whether pr oviders and those who help women obtain abortions can be sued or prosecuted. Here is an overview of abortion legislation and the expected impact of the court s decision in every state.PHOTOS: Reactions to the overturning of Roe v. WadeIn Florida, Republicans control both chambers of the Legislature and this year passed a ban on abortions after 15 weeks, which was signed into law by Governor Ron DeSantis.The law, which goes into effect on July 1, bans abortions except to save the mother s life, prevent serious injury or if the fetus has a fatal abnormality. It does not allow for exemptions in cases where pregnancies were caused by rape or incest. Gov. Ron DeSantis called the legislation the most significant protections for life that have been enacted in this state in a generation. RECOMMENDED: Florida lawmakers, organizations react to Supreme Court s decision to overturn Roe v. WadeDeSantis issued the following statement on the Supreme Court decision. The prayers of millions have been answered. For nearly fifty years, the U.S. Supreme Court has prohibited virt Qcsv King of the Coop ready to expand into Westchase CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. 鈥?Democratic challenger Ghazala Hashmi upset Republican incumbent Glen Sturtevant to win the race for Virginia s 10th Senate District.Hashmis victory over Sturtevant was a huge win for Democrats who will now hold the majority in both the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate for the first time in nearly 25 years. We did it Virginia. We did it, Hashmi said. Im so very pleased and so very humbled to accept this tremendous honor and this tremendous, remarkable responsibility of serving as your state senator. This victory is not mine alone. It belongs to all of you who believed that we need to make progressive change here in Virginia, she added.With the win, Hashmi will be the first Muslim-American woman to serve in the Virginia State Senate.Hashmi has spent the last 25 years as an educator in Virginias college and university system. She now serves at Reynolds Community College as the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teachin g and Learning.Her family moved to A merica as a child and she moved to Richmond in 1991.Hashmi says she chose to run for state Senate because marginalized communities are unheard, unseen, and unrepresented 鈥攕omething she wanted to change. She has several Democratic priorities, like preventing gun violence and climate change, among her top issues.The state s 10th Senate District includes portions of Chesterfiel
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Jqsh Video shows unruly Southwest Airlines passenger pinned to floor Alabama put an inmate to death Thursday evening for the 2004 slayings of three police officers who were shot by another man at a suspected drug house. Nathaniel Woods received a lethal injection at the state prison in Atmore, Alabama, state Attorney General Steve Marshall confirmed in a statement.Woods execution comes after the nation s highest court refused to block the execution plan, according to local affiliate CBS42.The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday night denied a request to halt the execution after a temporary delay to consider a last-minute appeal. Governor Kay Ivey told Woods attorney that she has also denied a request for clemency.Ivey issued a statement Thursday evening abut Woods execution, stating that after thorough and careful consideration of the facts surrounding this case, the initial jury s decision, the many legal challenges and review... the state of Alabama should carry out Mr. Woods lawfully imposed sentence. .@GovernorKayIveyrsquo Statement on Execution of Nathaniel Woods: pic.twitter/IW2pUZwwiemdash; Reshad Hudson @ReshadHudson March 6, 2020 Woods was c onvicted in the deaths of three Birmingham police officers and the wounding of a fourth in 2004, but he did not pull the trigger. He was convicted as an accomplice of the gunman, Kerry Spencer. Both were convicted of capital murder and sentenced to die. According to Spencer, the violence began when police burst into the Birmingham apartment where he Rlex Chief, officer charged for putting inmate on one-way bus A baby deer and its mother wandered into a back yard in Augusta, Kansas, on Wednesday and the baby quickly found itself in trouble. When the young deer fell int o the family s swimming pool, the mother ran away. But homeowner Walter Burress ran to the rescue.Burress wife, Diana, caught the whole rescue on video. I had been outside about five minutes before and [the deer] wasn t in there, she told CBS News. And then when I went o ut to water my plants I heard splashing. She turned around to see the baby deer flailing in the water, trying to stay afloat.The video shows her husband running around the pool, quickly lying down on his stomach and reaching into the water to pull the struggling animal out. He swiftly plopped the deer on the pavement. Luckily, Walter was there and was very quick to react. He s helped birth a lot of calves so it was natural instinct I think, Diana Burress said. Her husband has worked on the Burress family farm his whole life and is used to being around animals.After the rescue, her husband is seen walking the deer over to the edge of the yard. He set the deer down so it could run in the same direction its mother went. Burress says her husband estimates the baby deer was just a day or two old at the most. The video of the rescue has gone viral online. It s pretty cool, if you have the sound on the video you can hear a weird whistling noise in the background, that s the mama calling to her baby. She was
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Peaz Former pastor, 83, charged with murder in 1975 death of 8-year-old girl Educators and law enforcement officials say they haven t seen credible threats of increased violence at schools, but some have increased security following reports of warnings in TikTok videos. The apparent social media threats had many educators on edge since they were circulating in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Michigan, which has been followed by numerous copycat threats to schools elsewhere.Some school districts stepped up patrols and alerted parents. School districts increase security after alleged TikTok videos; officials says threats not credible 02:02 We are writing to inform you and not alarm you, Oak Park and River Forest, Illinois, school administrators said in an email to parents. We have been made aware of a nationwide viral TikTok trend about school shooti ng and bomb threats for every school in the USA even elementary on Friday, December 17. The administrators said local police departments would increase their presence around schools out of an abundance of caution. School officials in numerous states, including Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Montana, New York and Pennsylvania, said Thursday there would be an increased police presence because of the threats. In Florida, Broward and Miami-Dade County Publi Yans 2020 Daily Trail Markers: The state of play in South Carolina, 100 days out from the primary Retired Yankees catcher Jorge Posada played his entire career with the New York Yankees during one of the most successful eras in the team s history. Now, Posada has quite a story to tell - about his family, big-league baseball and the Steroid Era that tainted the game, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann Posada said he never took steroids or any performance enhancing drugs, nor was he tempted. There was times that you thought about it, but there was a lot of things that made me stay away, he said. Jorge Posada: A-Rod being in Hall of Fame would not be fair 02:39 I never had a guy that told me This is gonna help you. Thank God, you know I don t know what I would ve done. But I stayed away, Posada said. Posada belonged to the Yankees Core Four. They won five World Series titles. His career lasted from 1995 to 2011, during the height of baseball s Steroid Era. Many players who shattered records were later linked to performance-enhancing drugs, including teammates Roger Clemens and Alex Rodriguez, who was suspended last season for using PEDs and lying about it. He doesn t think players who were known to have used steroids should be in the Hall of Fame. I don t think it s fair for the guys that have been in the Hall of Fame tha
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Mnxq The 2nd half of 2024 might be a good time to buy a car MONTGOMERY, Ala. AP 鈥?In the murky waters of an Alabama river, diver Kamau Sadiki said he had to pause before entering the last known slave ship to the United States, where 110 people were confined in hellish conditions. You feel the reverberation, the pain and suffering, and the screams and the hollering, said Sadiki, a diver who works with the Smithsonian Slave Wrecks Project. We do this work to unde rstand the science and archeology and collect all the data we can to help tell the story. But there s another whole dimension here that we need to connect with. The documentary Descendant retells this once-submerged history, intertwining the 2019 discovery of the ship Clotilda with the stories of the descendants of the 110 people aboard. Along the way, it raises questions about the legacy of slavery and what justice would look like 162 years after the ship s voyage.In 1860 鈥?decades after the United States had banned the importation of slaves 鈥?the Clotilda illegally transported 110 people from what is now the west African nation of Benin to Mobile, Alabama. With Southern plantation owners demanding slaves for their cotton fields, Alabama plantation owner Timothy Meaher made a b et that he could bring a shipload of Africans across the Atlantic. The ship was later scuttled to conceal evidence of the the crime.Slavery ended five years after the arrival of the Clotilda captives. They saved money to start an community that came to be called Africatown. Some of their descendants Hflp Report: 25% of children in New York City are living in poverty Robert Mueller is done.After a 22-month investigation, charges against 37 defendants, seven guilty pleas and one conviction at trial, the Justice Department announced Friday that the special counsel s office has wrapped up its probe into Russian election interference, possible Trump campaign collusion with Moscow and obstruction of justice.There will be no further indictments from the special counsel, a senior Justice Depar tment official said.The Justice Department informed Congress in a brief letter that Mueller has submitted a confidential report to Attorney General William Barr detailing the decisions his team made to prosecute or not prosecute those who were investigated.Barr said he may provide Congress with the special counsel s principal conclusions as soon as this weekend. A Justice Department official described the report as comprehensive and said those principal conclusions ar e expected to be made public. White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the White Hou se has not seen Mueller s findings. The next steps are up to Attorney General Barr, and we look forward to the process taking its course. The White House has not received or been briefed on the Special Counsel s report, Sanders said in a statement .The completion of the special counsel s investigation marks the end of one of the most dramatic chapters in Donald Trump s presidency, one that led to numerous criminal charges against and guilty pleas by s
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Vcbk Video shows elderly man hitting his head on the ground after being shoved by police in Buffalo Actress Hilarie Burton claims she walked away from a Hallmark Channel movie earlier this year after she made inclusivity requests that were ignored. A company spokesperson told CBS News on Tuesday that Burton was not an employee of Crown Media Family Networks. The statement was in response to Burton s tweets over the weekend. In midst of negotiations with the Hallmark Channel, the One Tree Hill star tweeted the she was let go from an acting role after insisting on having a more diverse cast to executives. Just going through some old emails from a Hallmark job I was let go fro m back in January, she wrote. I had insisted on a LGBTQ character, an interracial couple and diverse casting. I was polite, direct and professional. But after the execs gave their notes on the script and NONE of my Requests were honored, I was told take it or leave it . I left it. And the paycheck. Just going through some old emails from a Hallmark job I was let go from back in January. I had insisted on a LGBTQ character, an interracial coup le and diverse casting. I was polite, di rect and professional. But after the execs gave their notes on the script and NONE of mymdash; Hilarie Burton Morgan @HilarieBurton December 15, 2019 Id walk away again in a heartbeat, she added. The bigotry comes from the top and permeates the whole deal over there. Burton has starred in multiple Hallmark Channel movies, Summer Villa, Surprised b Xxqs Younger generations are lonelier and social media doesn t help, survey finds WEST HOLLYWOOD -- Authorities say se veral pedestrians were mowed down by a car in West Hollywood near the LGBTQ festival Sunday night, reports CBS Los Angeles.Officials say they don t believe the driver targeted the pedestrians.It was unclear if alcohol was involved. The Sheriff s Department said three people were transported to a hospital. All were expected to be OK.The driver was taken into custody. It was the first arrest related to the festival all weekend, authorities say. A passenger in the car told CBS Los Angeles, We were exiting the parking lot and he [the driver] basically hit a pedestr ian. He just lost control. It just happened very fast, she said. Everybody was just listening to music. Everything was happening very fast. At Least 3 Pedestrians Run Over By Vehicle Near Pride Festival pic.twitter/CyfBz2rUXWmdash; CBS Los Angeles @CBSLA June 12, 2017 The passenger said, The driverhellip;everybody was doing a little drinking. If his drinking was a possible factor, she said, It could [have been]. More from CBS News 2 more Russian disinformation videos are circulating online, sources say
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Tiqf Lawmakers fail to act on findings of lead-tainted water in Florida schools A government opposition leader in Venezuela who formerly served as a lawmaker in the country s government has been sentenced to 8 years in prison after he was convicted of being involved in an alleged assassination attempt on President Nicolas Maduro using drones containing explosives. Juan Requesens is accused of allegedly being involved in a plot to assassinate Maduro after two drones exploded over a 2018 event attended by Maduro, according to Requesens lawyer who announced the sentence on Thursday, Reuters repo rted. Requesens was o ne of 17 people sentenced over the incident. According to the BBC, he was arrested three days after the 2018 explosions when the explosive devices attached to the drones were detonated over a military parade attended by Maduro on Aug. 4 of that year in Caracas. President Maduro was not hurt. Requesens, an outspoken critic of Maduro and his regime, denies any involvement in the incident. Requesens is a former student protest leader who became widely known after organizing anti-government protests in 2014, giving compelling speeches where he promised to try and remove Maduro from the presidency. Video purporting to show the drones exploding in the alleged attack was shared worldwide as they were shared on social media. The authenticity of the videos could not be verified. Images on Venezuelan state media showed troops in the parade running. En este video de @CESGUAR se ve el momento de la explosi贸n de uno de los dr ones, hecho ocurrido Zacg Unemployment benefits extension confirmed as COVID-19 relief package is signed into law As the 2020 election approaches, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said the social media networks are giving users an opportunity to limit most political advertisements.The announcement was paired with several measures Zuckerberg said Facebook and Instagram are launching as part of its response to the upcoming election.In order to limi t the advertisements on Facebook, go to the Facebook mobile app, click on settings, ad preferences, and ad topics. The video below shows how it works:For Instagram users, click on settings, ads, and ad topic preferences. The video below shows how it works:Zuckerberg said in an op-ed to USA Today, For those of you who ve alrea dy made up your minds and just want the election to be over, we hear you 鈥?so we re also introducing the ability to turn off seeing political ads. We ll still remind you to vote.
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Whvh Local leaders tour Manatee County train derailment site A bacteria that causes a rare and serious disease was found in Mississippi s Gulf Coast region for the first time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC .The agency says the bacteria, B. pseudomallei, was found in samples of water and soil from the area. Experts don t know how long the bact eria has been in the environment or where else it could be found in the U.S. However, they say other G ulf Coast states have similar environmental conditions that would allow the bacteria to thrive. The CDC says the bacteria can lead to melioidosis, which causes a wide range of symptoms including fever, cough and joint pain. The agency says the disease is fatal in up to 50% of cases worldwide.The CDC is alerting clinicians throughout the country about its findings and reminding them to be alert about the symptoms of melioidosis. However, the agency believes the overall risk of contracting the disease is very low.People can protect themselves from the bacteria by wearing waterproof gloves and boots while working directly with soil, th e CDC says. .Page-below > .RichTextModule display:none; .Page-below .Link font-size: 12px; padding: 5px 10px;border: 1px solid 005687;border-radius: 4px;font-family: proxima-nova , sans-serif; Report a typo Ohwk Family to honor Renee Dermott, give back to schools with pumpkin patch TAMPA, Fla. 鈥?ABC Action News has everything you need to know about getting back on the bus and starting school this year. That includes what you will likely see at your bus stop this week.On the first day of schools for most Tampa Bay area districts, many counties experienced slight to significant busing delays.Sarasota tells ABC Action News it experienced several bus delays Monday morning, attributing delays to students and staff figuring out their schedule as well as numerous traffic accidents on the roadways.Hillsborough County also sent a text home to parents warning their childs bus would be about 60 to 90 minutes late Monday.ABC Action News counted at least 10 0 routes delayed in Polk County, following up from recent years when the district has struggled with severe bus schedule delays and driver shortages. MORE BACK TO SCHOOL STORIESAccording to a Polk County Schools spokesperson, the delays were not as severe as last year due to heavy recruiting and hiring guideline changes implemented last year.Still, the district says delays are expected for the first two weeks of schools as students and drivers learn their new routes. Right now Polk County Transportation is looking to hire 25 bus drivers.A spokesperson released the following statement: In general, were seeing fewer delays c ompared to last year, and the delays we are experiencing are less severe. The average delay this morning was about 30 minutes, whereas last year, we saw delays up to two hours. Less than 10 p
