Terrorists Attack Ataturk Airport, Istanbul, Turkey 28-50 Reported Dead, Scores Injured

[From article]
-- At least 28 people have been killed and 60 wounded in a terror attack on Istanbul Ataturk Airport in Turkey, Istanbul Gov. Vasip Sahin said early Wednesday. Three bombers were also killed, the governor said. Another report, from semi-official news agency Anadolu, said six of the wounded are in critical condition. A total of 49 ambulances were sent to the site.
-- There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.
-- Traveler Joe Durand told CNN from the airport that "Police are not letting anyone in ... Hundreds of people are flooding away from airport... People are trying to get away. They're not saying much -- just the look on their face is enough, shock, some of them bleeding..."
"People are walking away bleeding, with bandages on their head."
[. . .]
Turkey's Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag earlier said one terrorist "first opened fire with a Kalashnikov then detonated himself" at the airport entrance.
-- In total three bombs exploded, the governor said.
-- One of them was located just outside a terminal on the pavement, while the other was at the security gate at the entrance to the airport, Bozdag told CNN.
-- A video posted to Twitter shows a view from a camera inside an airport terminal. A few dozen people are walking around when a bright flash and fireball erupt in the background.
-- A Turkish official told CNN that police fired shots at suspects near the international terminal in an effort to neutralize them.
-- Videos posted on social media show travelers sitting on the airport floor. A man shouts, "Get down! Get down!" Someone cries as a gunshot rings out.
[. . .]
Ataturk Airport is "one of the most secure airports in the world," CNN senior law enforcement analyst Tom Fuentes says. But the airport has been "very overwhelmed for several decades with terrorism from PKK."
-- The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has put in place a ground stop for any U.S. flights that were scheduled to fly to Istanbul and any flights leaving Istanbul for the United States, CNN's Rene Marsh reports.
-- The Ataturk airport is closed until Wednesday at 8 p.m. local time (noon ET), according to airport spokesman Erhan Ustundag. Incoming flights were diverted to Izmir, Ankara and other cities.
-- The U.S. embassy in Ankara is sending consular officers to the airport to account for any potential U.S. victims. But there are no indications of any American casualties at this point, a senior State Department official told CNN's Elise Labott.
-- The attacks happened on a warm summer night at the airport, east of Istanbul, that is the 11th busiest in the world in terms of passenger traffic. CNN's Ali Veshi says it is a modern, sophisticated airport. "There are all of the major European and American boutiques there," said Velshi, who has traveled through Turkey many times. "... You see people of all shapes and colors, in all sorts of dress. If you want to target the cosmopolitan nature of Istanbul, this is possibly the most cosmopolitan, heavily populated part. You can target tourist areas, but this is the part where the world comes together."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/28/europe/turkey-istanbul-airport-attacks/index.html

Istanbul airport explosions: 28 dead, 60 injured, Turkish official says
By Gul Tuysuz, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Steve Almasy, CNN
Updated 6:29 PM ET, Tue June 28, 2016

Updated: Cambridge Woman Bicyclist, 27, Dies After Accident in Inman Square

Posted June 23, 2016 9:37 PM ET; Last updated June 27, 2016 8:22 PM ET

Amanda Phillips, 27, died June 23 after her bike collided with a landscaping truck on Cambridge Street in Inman Square. 
Courtesy photo/Diesel Cafe

[Updated June 27, 2016 8:22 PM ET]
[From article]
Amanda Phillips, an employee of Diesel Café in Somerville and a nursing student at MGH Institute of Health Professions, rode her bike off the sidewalk onto Cambridge Street near Antrim Street around 12:17 p.m. June 23, when she was struck by an open door of a Jeep and pushed into the travel lane where she collided with a moving dump truck, investigators said.
She was transported to Mass. General Hospital, where she was pronounced dead later that evening, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan.
“Yesterday a tragic bicycle accident claimed an irreplaceable part of our collective hearts, as well as a person that was as genuine and kind as they come,” read a Diesel Café post on June 24. “It is with unbearably heavy hearts that we say goodbye to our dear friend and co-worker Amanda, who left this world too soon.”
Describing the tragedy as one of the “saddest times Diesel has ever experienced,” the café posted a photo of Phillips, thanking the community for the outpouring of love.
Several customers and friends reacted to Phillips’ death in the comment section, calling her a sweet, thoughtful and intelligent woman.
“I have been a daily customer for eight years, and she has been among the kindest people I've been lucky enough to see every day,” wrote Peter Wannemacher. “I am so sad and so sorry for her Diesel family and her loved ones. We will all miss her very much.”
[. . .]
Linda Sands, who lived in the same house as Phillips, said she will miss hearing Phillips walk down the stairs in the morning to walk her dog, “Scutchie.”
“Amanda always has that beautiful smile, always offering to help me with anything I may need,” wrote Sands. “I feel like she was just too good for this earth as this just can't have happened to such a beautiful young girl. My brother and his family and my husband and I are deeply crushed about her loss.”
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20160627/too-good-for-this-earth-memorial-grows-for-cambridge-woman-killed-on-bicycle

'Too good for this earth:' Memorial grows for Cambridge woman killed on bicycle
By Amy Saltzman
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted Jun. 27, 2016 at 11:07 AM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

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Scene of fatal bicycle accident near Inman Square, Cambridge, MA

[Posted June 23, 2016 9:37 PM ET] 

[From article]
A bicyclist who was struck by a vehicle in Cambridge’s Inman Square Thursday afternoon has died.
The cyclist, 27-year-old Amanda Phillips, was struck by a landscaping truck at the intersection of Hampshire and Cambridge Street at about 12:15 p.m. She was taken to Mass. General Hospital where she was later pronounced dead.
Witnesses said the woman on the bike either swerved to avoid the door of an SUV or was hit by it, and was then knocked into the path of the truck.
One man said the intersection has long been a problem.
“It was a problem intersection for decades. Now we have all these bicyclists in it and it’s worse,” a man told WBZ-TV’s Christina Hager.
Cambridge’s Traffic, Parking & Transportation Department held a public meeting Wednesday night to discuss safety at the Inman Square intersection. According to a presentation given at that meeting, there were 69 crashes in that intersection during a five-year period from 2008 to 2012, including 15 bicycle-involved crashes.
The meeting outlined some suggestions for changing traffic patterns to address the issues. But long-time resident Jack Walsh is not convinced they can solve the problem.
“The plans they have won’t do much,” Walsh told WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Lana Jones Thursday. “It’s too many cars, too many bicycles, too many people trying to cross the street.”
Cambridge Street was closed from the square to Fayette Street Thursday afternoon, as a Massachusetts State Police accident reconstruction team investigated the crash.
The intersection reopened around 5 p.m.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/06/23/cambridge-cyclist-crash-inman-square/

Bicyclist Dies After Being Struck By Truck In Cambridge

June 23, 2016 8:35 PM
CBS News Boston MA

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http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/news/20160623/bicyclist-critically-injured-in-inman-square-crash-in-cambridge

Bicyclist critically injured in Inman Square crash in Cambridge
By Amy Saltzman
Cambridge (at) wickedlocal.com
Posted Jun. 23, 2016 at 2:01 PM
Updated at 5:22 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

Former Miss North Dakota, 37, Found Dead At Home

Pictutred (sic) here when she won the competition in 2002. A heavily-redacted police report indicates the Miss Edwards was found dead, a sergeant was notified, and the medical examiner took custody of the body.

[From article]

A former winner of the Miss North Dakota beauty pageant was found dead on Tuesday in a Minneapolis home.
Investigators are waiting for the medical examiner to determine what the cause of Samantha M. Edwards' death was.
Edwards, 37, who was known as 'Sami' by her friends, was crowned Miss North Dakota USA in 2003.
A heavily-redacted police report indicates the woman was found dead, a sergeant was notified, and the medical examiner took custody of the body. The cause and manner of death remain under investigation.
On her Facebook page, Edwards said she had studied at the University of North Dakota and the Aveda Institute, Minneapolis.
The Miss USA Facebook page shared a message on Facebook, saying they're 'saddened' to hear about the death of 'one of the most vibrant, energetic, and full-loving titleholders' they've had.
'A conversation with her could either leave you full of adrenaline or utterly exhausted. She was a spitfire and with Sami you never knew what she'd throw your way -- but you ALWAYS knew she would be there for you. She was awesome like that,' wrote Jessica Dereschuk on a GoFundMe page set up to cover funeral expenses.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3643985/Former-Miss-North-Dakota-dead-Minneapolis-home.html

Former Miss North Dakota, 37, is found dead in her Minneapolis home
Medical Examiner's Office confirmed it is investigating the cause of death for Samantha Edwards
Edwards, originally from Fargo, was crowned Miss North Dakota in 2002
By DAILYMAIL.COM REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 20:24 EST, 15 June 2016 | UPDATED: 06:49 EST, 16 June 2016

Unhappy Taunton, MA Gentleman Stabs Many At Private Home Then at Mall. Policeman Shoots Suspect Dead

Photo Credit: Stuart Cahill
SCARY SCENE: State and Taunton police stand guard outside the Silver City Galleria after a knife-wielding man was shot dead by police yesterday.

[From article]
A knife-wielding man who killed two people in a stabbing rampage in Taunton was shot dead by an off-duty law enforcement officer after he crashed his car into a crowded shopping mall and emerged to attack more people, officials say.
The suspect, who was not identified by police last night, stabbed two people inside a home on Myricks Street yesterday, then drove four miles before crashing his dark-colored Honda sedan into the front entrance of a Macy’s department store at the Silver City Galleria, where he got out and stabbed two other people, state police say.
All four stabbing victims were rushed by ambulance to area hospitals, where a state police spokesman said two later died from their injuries.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/05/mall_rampage_suspect_killed_by_off_duty_cop

Mall rampage
suspect killed by off-duty cop
Two others slain in stab spree
O’Ryan Johnson

Boston Herald

Wednesday, May 11, 2016



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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/05/11/three-killed-including-suspect-four-injured-in-mass-stabbing-spree.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Three killed, including suspect, four injured in Mass. stabbing spree
Published May 11, 2016

FoxNews.com

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Arthur DaRosa, 28 (pictured in a Facebook shot) stabbed two people at a home in Taunton, Massachusetts on Tuesday evening before driving to a mall and stabbing two more people inside.

One of his victims (right) has been identified as 80-year-old Patricia Slavin.
[From article]
Two people are dead after a suspect went on a stabbing rampage in Taunton, Massachusetts.
Arthur DaRosa, 28, of Taunton, stabbed two people at a home on Tuesday evening before driving to a mall and stabbing two more people inside, authorities said.
DaRosa went inside a home in Myricks Street and stabbed two women just after 7pm, District Attorney Thomas Quinn said.
One of them, who was 80 years old, died of her injuries. The other was taken to the hospital.
Sources told WHDH the 80-year-old was named Patricia Slavin and that the other woman was her daughter.
A neighbor interviewed by the network described Slavin and her family as 'very nice people', adding: 'I couldn't ask for better neighbors all around.'
[. . .]
DaRosa then went to the Silver City Galleria Mall, about three miles away, and crashed his car into a Macy's store.
He went inside and assaulted three people inside Macy's.
DaRosa then made his way to Bertucci, an Italian restaurant at the mall, where he stabbed two more people.
One of them, a 56-year-old man from Taunton, has died.
An off-duty sheriff shot DaRosa once inside the mall. DaRosa was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The six stabbing victims included a pregnant woman, a witness told WBZ. They were all taken to the hospital after the attack.
[. . .]
DaRosa fled in a stolen black car and drove to the mall.
Witnesses said chaos erupted when DaRosa stormed the Macy's store.
'I came out and I heard girls running and people screaming, 'There's a guy,'' Reshma Noorani, who was in a fitting room at the time, told WCVB. 'We're used to guys entering the store, so we thought he must have had a gun. I ran with them. I was scared.'
DaRosa then went inside Bertucci's.
'I saw him just start stabbing people,' witness Emaly Higgings told the network. 'And there was someone with a chair trying to throw it at (the suspect). There was an off-duty police officer there, and he actually shot him and kept him down.'
Several ambulances responded to the scene and the mall was evacuated on Tuesday night.
'I heard shots and saw cops loading AR-15s and I ran for my life,' a witness told WBZ.
DaRosa was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, malicious damage to a motor vehicle, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct in 2009, according to a report published by the Taunton Gazette at the time.
His father and sister said he suffered from psychiatric issues, and had been hospitalized for suicidal thoughts on Monday, CBS Boston reports. He was hospitalized at Morton Hospital on Monday and then released Tuesday morning.
[. . .]
Doctors have prescribed him with medication for his mental health issues, but he had refused to take them in the past. He leaves behind two children.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3583937/Several-people-stabbed-Massachusetts-mall.html

Two are killed after man, 28, crashes his car into a Macy's and goes on a stabbing rampage in Massachusetts mall restaurant before being shot dead by an off-duty police officer
Arthur DaRosa, 28, of Taunton, stabbed two people inside a home on Tuesday evening
Crashed his car into a Macy's store at Silver City Galleria mall around 7pm
Stabbed two more at an Italian restaurant inside, the district attorney said
An 80-year-old woman and a 56-year-old man died of their injuries
An off-duty police officer shot DeRosa at the mall; he has now died
Family sources claimed he had gone to hospital to be treated for suicidal thoughts before being released shortly before spree
By CLEMENCE MICHALLON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 18:49 EST, 10 May 2016 | UPDATED: 06:30 EST, 11 May 2016

Early Deaths For White Americans Are On Steep Increase

[From article]
During an era of headline-grabbing advances in medicine, the United States is experiencing a health cataclysm. The latest straw in the wind is last week’s report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showing that life expectancy for white women declined slightly from 2013 to 2014.
Other studies indicate rising death rates for a white working class that is in a slow-motion economic and social meltdown. Self-destructive behaviors are outpacing medical advances against killers like heart disease and cancer. Hopelessness may not be a condition studied by epidemiologists, but it is cutting a swath through a segment of white America.
A paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences late last year highlighted the bleak American exceptionalism of this crisis. It focused on middle-aged whites. In the 20 years prior to 1998, their mortality rate fell about 2 percent a year, in keeping with the trend toward lower mortality in other advanced countries. Then the rates diverged. Rates kept declining in countries like France and Britain. They began increasing for middle-aged whites in the United States.
The slide in the wrong direction was driven by drug and alcohol poisoning, chronic liver diseases, and suicide. In 1999, middle-aged blacks had higher rates of poisoning than whites; by 2013, rates were higher for whites. Overall, mortality rates for middle-aged blacks and Hispanics have declined since 1999, as they have increased for whites. The trend among whites breaks down neatly by levels of education. The mortality rate for middle-aged whites with a high-school degree or less has jumped since 1999; the rate for middle-aged whites with some college but not a degree stayed roughly flat; the rate for middle-aged whites with a college degree or more dropped. If there is such a thing as white privilege, no one has told less-educated whites.
The most direct indicator of rising distress is that the suicide rate in the United States is at a roughly 30-year high, according to new figures from the National Center for Health Statistics. The rate increased for white middle-aged women by 80 percent from 1999–2014. Although the data wasn’t analyzed by education level, researchers believe it tracks with other findings about increased working-class mortality.
[. . .]
The white working class is dying from the effects of a long-running alienation from the mainstream of American life. As one researcher told the Times, “they are not in stable relationships, they don’t have jobs, they have children they can’t feed and clothe, and they have no support network.” It is a formula for loneliness, stress, and despair.
[. . .]
The authors of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper say middle-aged whites may be a “lost generation.” That is depressing enough, but there is no guarantee only one generation will be lost.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434544/white-working-class-mortality-rates-are-increasing

The Working-Class Meltdown
by RICH LOWRY

April 26, 2016 12:00 AM

@RICHLOWRY

Pop Icon Singer Prince Dead at 57

[From article]
Prince was treated for a drug overdose 6 days before his death ... multiple sources tell TMZ.
We broke the story ... Prince's private jet made an emergency landing in Moline, Illinois last Friday, hours after he performed in Atlanta. At the time his reps said he was battling the flu ... something we questioned because his plane was only 48 minutes from home before the unscheduled landing.
Multiple sources in Moline tell us, Prince was rushed to a hospital and doctors gave him a "save shot" ... typically administered to counteract the effects of an opiate.
Our sources further say doctors advised Prince to stay in the hospital for 24 hours. His people demanded a private room, and when they were told that wasn't possible ... Prince and co. decided to bail. The singer was released 3 hours after arriving and flew home.
We're told when Prince left he "was not doing well."
We know authorities in Minnesota are trying to get the hospital records from Moline to help determine cause of death.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/04/21/prince-treated-drug-overdose-dead/

PRINCE TREATED FOR DRUG OVERDOSE DAYS BEFORE DEATH
4/21/2016 4:51 PM PDT
BY TMZ STAFF

Death Toll Reaches 413 in Ecuador Earthquake

Residents look at a rift in the highway created by a 7.8-magnitude earthquake, in Chacras, Ecuador 

Photo AP

[From article]

Touring a city ravaged by the earthquake that killed at least 413 people, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa on Monday said rebuilding would cost billions of dollars and may inflict a "huge" toll on the fragile OPEC nation's economy.
Two days after the magnitude 7.8 quake, traumatized survivors begged Correa for water in the city of Portoviejo, while a soccer stadium in the beach town of Pedernales served as a makeshift relief centre and morgue.
Afraid of staying indoors, or with no home to go back to, families huddled in the streets, while police and soldiers patrolled in a bid to control looting.
Seeing the devastation first hand, a visibly moved and grim-faced Correa warned that Ecuador's biggest disaster in decades would put a big toll on the poor Andean country of 16 million people.
Relief workers were confronted with swathes of flattened homes, roads and bridges as they surveyed the destruction wrought by Saturday night's quake, and the death toll was expected to rise.
"Reconstruction will cost billions of dollars," said Correa in Portoviejo, where survivors swarmed him asking for aid. The economic impact "could be huge," he added later.
Plunging income from oil, Ecuador's biggest earner, had already consigned economic growth forecasts to near zero this year. and exports of bananas, flowers, cocoa beans and fish could be slowed by ruined roads and port delays.
The energy industry, fortunately, escaped any serious damage and the main refinery of Esmeraldas was due to start up again on Monday night and reach full capacity in a week.
[. . .]
Shaken Ecuadoreans lined up for food and blankets, slept in the rubble of their destroyed homes or congregated in the street after the most destructive quake since a 1979 magnitude 7.7 quake killed at least 600 people and injured 20,000, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
Fears of looting spread as in Portoviejo people stole clothes and shoes from wrecked buildings and police tried to control crowds. A former social security building was ransacked for aluminum window frames and cables by people hoping to sell the materials.
"I have to take some advantage from this horrible tragedy. I need money to buy food. There's no water, no light, and my house was destroyed," said Jorge Espinel, 40, who works in the recycling business.
Elsewhere, armed men robbed two trucks carrying water, clothes and other basics to quake-hit beach locality Pedernales.
There, survivors curled up on mattresses or plastic chairs next to flattened homes. Soldiers and police patrolled streets while rescuers searched for any survivors.
Tents sprang up in the town's football stadium, where relief workers treated the injured, distribute water, food and blankets, and stacked coffins.
Numbed by their trauma, bruised and bandaged survivors wandered around, while the more seriously injured were evacuated to hospitals.
[. . .]
Nearly 400 rescue workers flew in from various Latin American neighbors, along with 83 specialists from Switzerland and Spain. The United States said it would dispatch a team of disaster experts while Cuba was sending a team of doctors.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3545855/Shaken-Ecuador-hunts-survivors-massive-earthquake.html

Ecuador quake toll climbs over 400, damage put at billions of dollars
By REUTERS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 22:05 EST, 18 April 2016 | UPDATED: 22:05 EST, 18 April 2016

Two Earthquakes in Japan Leave 48 Dead, 100,000 Homeless

A girl carries a bag of water collected from a water tank truck in Kumamoto, Japan Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Many residents were still recovering from the shock of the destruction by earthquakes, while struggling to bring their lives, and spirit, together. 

(Yu Nakajima/Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT
[From article]
Searchers found a man's body Wednesday in a landslide-hit area in southern Japan, bringing the death toll to 48 from two powerful earthquakes last week. Three people remain missing.
Kumamoto prefecture said another 11 people have died from illnesses believed to be related to the physical stress of evacuation.
More than 100,000 people are homeless or have fled their homes as aftershocks continue to shake the area. Many are living in cramped conditions in shelters or even their cars, with limited food and water.
A magnitude-6.5 earthquake on Thursday night followed by a 7.3 quake early Saturday morning caused widespread damage in parts of Kumamoto city and surrounding communities on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan's four main islands.
The body was found in the mountain village of Minamiaso, where the second quake triggered landslides that slammed into buildings and across roads. Soldiers and other rescue workers used backhoes and shovels to search through dirt and debris for the missing.
Rain is forecast for Thursday, raising fears of more landslides.
In all, 14 victims have been found in Minamiaso. The hardest-hit town appears to be Mashiko, where 20 people died. Kumamoto prefecture has tallied 1,454 homes destroyed so far, of which 1,026 are in Mashiko.
Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it would restart most assembly lines next week after they were halted because of earthquake-related parts shortages.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3549159/Death-toll-reaches-48-Japan-earthquakes.html

Death toll reaches 48 from Japan earthquakes; 3 more missing
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 05:34 EST, 20 April 2016 | UPDATED: 05:34 EST, 20 April 2016

Toddler Leads Police To Mother's Body, Father Suspected in Grafton, MA

[From article]
A 5-year-old girl who was found walking along a Grafton road in her pajamas early yesterday led police to her home, where they found her mother dead and her father alive — with a knife in his neck, prosecutors say.
Michael E. Sugarman, 42, who was taken to an area hospital, is expected to be charged in connection with the death of his 36-year-old wife, Kelly L. Sugarman, according to Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr.
“We do anticipate charges against him,” Early said. “It appears to be murder at this point.”
Officer Thomas Michniewicz was driving along Worcester Street shortly after 6 a.m., when he spotted the couple’s daughter walking alone in her pajamas, Early said.
“It appears she was walking to her preschool,” he said.
The girl led Michniewicz and Sgt. James Crosby about a block down the road to her home on Worcester Street, where the officers, finding the front door locked, forced their way in through a garage door, Early said.
On the second floor, they found Michael Sugarman in the kitchen, holding a knife that was protruding from his neck, and Kelly Sugarman dead on the bedroom floor, he said. An autopsy will determine the cause and manner of her death, Early said.
“We don’t know at this point what the girl did see or did not see,” he said. “She did say to the police officers in the vehicle that, ‘Mommy is sleeping, mommy is sick.’ ”
The girl was taken to an area hospital and released to the custody of the Department of Children and Families, Early said. Two cats were found uninjured in the house and were taken away by animal control, he said.
The Sugarmans had lived in the Grafton area for about nine years, Early said. Officers had never been called to their home in that time, said Grafton police Chief Normand A. Crepeau Jr.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/04/girl_leads_cops_to_grisly_crime_scene_in_grafton

Girl leads cops to grisly crime scene in Grafton
Police: Mom dead, charges likely vs. dad
Marie Szaniszlo

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Boston Herald

New Jersey Suspected Murder-Suicide Couple Found Dead By Son.

Prosecutors have identified the couple who died in an apparent murder-suicide at their New Jersey home on Saturday as 36-year-old Annette Torres (above) and 41-year-old Mark Morris (below).


[From article]

The parents of an 11-year-old boy have been identified after he found them dead at their New Jersey home in apparent-murder suicide.
However, prosecutors still have not said what may have sparked the incident involving 36-year-old Annette Torres and 41-year-old Mark Morris.
Police responded to the Bergenfield home around 10.20am on Saturday after the couple's son told a neighbor, who alerted authorities, that his parents were not breathing.
Torres, who would have turned 37 next weekend, was found dead in an upstairs bedroom while Morris was found in the basement.
Authorities said it appears that Morris killed his partner, Torres, then shot himself in the head.
Authorities have not released details on how Torres was killed.
Acting county Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal said on Sunday that the deaths were being investigated as a 'domestic violence-based murder-suicide' and declined to further comment.
On Sunday, a small makeshift memorial with a teddy bear and flowers could be seen on the steps outside the couple's home, according to NorthJersey.com.
Their son, who has not been named, is in the custody of New Jersey child welfare authorities.
The couple, who it is not clear if they were married, reportedly had four children and a history of domestic issues, according to the Bergenfield Daily Voice.

[. . .]

Acting county Prosecutor Gurbir Grewal (pictured) said the deaths were being investigated as a 'domestic violence-based murder-suicide' and declined to further comment.

Torres had worked at a local Dollar Tree store and some of her co-workers went to her house late Saturday afternoon after she did not report to work and did not respond to their calls.
After speaking briefly with police, the coworkers were seen sobbing at the scene.
One of the coworkers described Torres as 'wonderful person and good friend,' according to NorthJersey.com.
Another colleague, 21-year-old Jennifer, who worked with Torres about four years ago, called her an 'amazing lady', a 'good mother to her children' and as having a 'very chill' demeanor.

[. . .]
A neighbor described the couple as 'friendly' and reportedly never noticed any signs of trouble in the home.
'Yeah, they are usually quiet, they hadn't any bad thing (sic), I didn't see anything outside, but they are living goodly, friendly, everything,' a Bergenfield resident told WABC.
Another neighbor, who was only identified as Suja, told NJ.com that she had left her home that morning around 9.30am and did not notice any disturbances at the home or hear gunshots.
'They are so nice and quiet,' the neighbor said of the couple.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3502058/Couple-dead-11-year-old-son-apparent-murder-suicide-New-Jersey-home.html

Pictured: Couple found dead by their 11-year-old son in apparent murder-suicide at their New Jersey home
Prosecutors identified couple as Annette Torres, 36, and Mark Morris, 41
Police found Morris in basement and partner Torres upstairs on Saturday
The case is being treated as a domestic violence-based murder-suicide
Prosecutors said Morris died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head
Meanwhile they have not released details on how Torres died but said it appearshe killed her then shot himself
By MYRIAH TOWNER and CLEMENCE MICHALLON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
PUBLISHED: 21:36 EST, 20 March 2016 | UPDATED: 07:57 EST, 21 March 2016

Body Found Near Revere Beach, MA

[From article]

The body of a 54-year-old man was found at about 3 p.m. at the Point of Pines area, a small body of water on the left side of the bridge on North Shore Road just before the Revere/Lynn town line, Revere police said.
Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office, said a preliminary examination of the body revealed no immediate signs of violent trauma or criminal conduct. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner is expected to conduct an autopsy to determine the man’s cause of death, Wark said. The man’s identity was not immediately released.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/03/body_recovered_from_water_near_revere_beach

Body recovered from water near Revere Beach
Matt Ingersoll

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Boston Herald

Wealthy Widower Found Strangled in Upper East Side Apartment

Christopher Cooley (inset) 29 East 64th Street, New York City

Photo: NBC News New York

[From article]
It’s a Manhattan murder mystery — a dashing, wealthy 78-year-old widower found strangled and decomposing in his Upper East Side apartment.
A necktie was looped twice around Christopher Cooley’s neck. Two weeks worth of newspapers had accumulated in a pile outside his door when he was found.
Workers at his East 64th Street building assumed, when they didn’t see him, that he’d taken one of his periodic trips to Europe.
“We thought he was on vacation,” one worker said Friday as coroners deemed the death a homicide.
“He would always go out [on vacation] without telling anybody,” the worker said, “He went to Italy, France, you name it.”
Cooley was found on March 16 after his worried sister called the super’s office from her home in Connecticut, asking that someone look in on him.
He was sitting up on the couch in his living room, a small throw pillow over his head and the shards of a broken table lamp scattered over his body.
[. . .]
“He was from Hartford and ­educated at Yale,” one longtime friend told The Post of the urbane Cooley, speaking on condition of anonymity given the violent nature of his death.
A lover of Renaissance art and opera, Cooley was a “trust fund kid,” she said, “tall and handsome, and he was just an absolutely grand man.”
Cooley’s wife, Mary, had contracted multiple sclerosis just one year into their marriage, yet Cooley stayed home and cared for her for 26 years, the friend said.
Six years ago, he survived a kidney transplant, she said. “I heard Sunday night,” the friend said of his death. “I was in pieces.”

http://nypost.com/2016/03/25/victim-in-locked-from-the-inside-mystery-was-strangled/

Rich widower found strangled to death in apartment
By Jamie Schram, Kevin Fasick and Laura Italiano
New York Post
March 25, 2016 | 9:50am | Updated

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[From article]
Christopher Cooley, 78, was seated on the couch in his living room with a necktie wrapped twice around his neck when the building's super came in through a back door.
Cooley had congealed blood in his hair and a pillow over his head, the New York Times reported There was a shattered lamp at his feet.
Coroners said on Friday that Cooley had been strangled to death.
'The cause of death is ligature strangulation, and the manner of death, homicide,' Dr Barbara Sampson, the city's chief medical examiner, said.
Cooley, who lived on East 64th Street in New York, had $192 worth of cash in his pockets according to the New York Post.
Police found no sign of a break-in or robbery and the deadbolt was locked.
When Cooley was found on March 16, newspapers dating back to March 5 had piled up at the door.
His disappearance went unnoticed for a while because he took frequent trips to Europe without telling anyone in the building beforehand, a doorman told the New York Times.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3510699/Christopher-Cooley-strangled-death-Upper-East-apartment.html

'Murder' mystery of the wealthy widower whose strangled, decomposing body was found in his locked Upper East Side home with two weeks worth of deliveries piled up
Christopher Cooley, 78, was found on a couch with his necktie looped around his neck and a pillow on his face
The deadbolt was locked and police didn't find any sign of a break-in when they went in on March 16
There was a pile of newspapers dating back to March 5 at his door
Coroners said the death was the result of a homicide on Friday
Cooley's disappearance went unnoticed because he took frequent trips to Europe without prior warning
By CLEMENCE MICHALLON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:31 EST, 26 March 2016 | UPDATED: 18:46 EST, 26 March 2016

New Jersey Police Detective Found Dead

Sayreville, NJ Police Detective Matt Kurtz
[From article]

An off-duty New Jersey police officer was found shot to death inside his personal car Monday, which was parked at an abandoned movie theater complex, officials said.
The officer, a member of the Sayreville Police Department, was discovered dead around 7:15 a.m. after authorities found his vehicle near the Amboy Cinema just off the Garden State Parkway, which has been out of business for a decade.
The officer was not on duty at the time, but may have been investigating a report of a suspicious person when he was ambushed, NBC New York reported, citing unnamed sources. The Star-Ledger/NJ.com reported it was unclear why he was at the complex.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/21/nj-cop-shot-to-death-in-his-car/

NJ cop shot to death in his car
By Daniel Prendergast
New York Post
March 21, 2016 | 12:26pm

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[From article]
The Sayreville police officer who was found dead outside of Amboy Cinemas Monday was a highly decorated nine-year veteran of the force who was recently promoted to detective, sources said.
Detective Matt Kurtz, 34, was found dead outside the Route 9 cinema, according to multiple Middlesex County law enforcement sources. The Sayreville Police Department and the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office could not be reached for comment about the identity of the officer who was killed.
Kurtz was transferred to the Investigation Division in November 2015, according to the Sayreville Police Department's website.
Last year, Kurtz was honored for his help saving an 83-year-old man from a burning house, according to the Home News Tribune. In December 2014, Kurtz and another officer charged into the blaze and pulled Max Klitzke to safety.

[. . .]

Prosecutor Andrew Carey said police responded to the scene after reports of a body being found in the area. The officer, who was off-duty at the time, was found dead at the scene, Carey said.
The cause of the officer's death is not yet known, Carey said, but he suffered one or more gunshot wounds. Police would not say if they are seeking a suspect.

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.ssf/2016/03/sayreville_officer_shot.html

Sayreville Detective Matt Kurtz, found shot to death, was decorated officer
By Brian Amaral and Tom Haydon | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on March 21, 2016 at 6:00 PM, updated March 21, 2016 at 8:42 PM

One Dead After Ammonia Leak At Boston, MA Seafoods Company

Stavis Seafoods, Boston, MA

[From article]
The Seaport seafood company where a worker died amid a massive ammonia leak Wednesday has been cited in the past for safety violations, some involving its refrigeration system.
In 2009, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited Stavis Seafoods for safety violations related to its refrigeration system. The company was also fined by OSHA in 2000.
“OSHA’s inspection found the initial evaluation of hazards associated with the refrigeration system had not been conducted; standard operating procedures had not been developed for all system activities or were incomplete,” OSHA’s 2009 statement read.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/03/plant_where_man_died_was_fined_before

Plant where man died was fined before
Matt Ingersoll

Friday, March 25, 2016

Boston Herald

One Dead After Dozens of Georgia Teens Brawl

[Still image, video below]

[From article]

Authorities say nine people have been charged with murder and another is being sought after a teenager was stabbed to death in a massive, chaotic brawl that involved baseball bats, pipes, knives and other weapons near Augusta.
Richmond County Sheriff Richard Roundtree says the killing of 18-year-old Demajhey Bell on March 18 was “the epitome of a senseless murder.” Bell died Sunday at a hospital.
A woman told sheriff’s deputies that between 30 and 50 teens armed with baseball bats, pipes, knives and other weapons showed up to fight her 15-year-old daughter.
The Augusta Chronicle posted video recorded from bystanders that shows girls fighting, boys attacking people with bats, and an out-of-control Dodge Charger that nearly runs over people.
Authorities said one man’s arm was shattered with a baseball bat.

http://www.wdef.com/2016/03/24/112612/

A DEADLY FIGHT INVOLVING UP TO 50 TEENS STARTED WITH ONE 15 YEAR OLD GIRL

By: Collins Parker
Submitted: 03/24/2016 - 9:06am


https://youtu.be/dkDyM7nKvH4

Four New Deaths From Ebola In Africa

A mother and her children make palm oil in Meliandou, a village in southeast Guinea believed to be the location of the first known case of Ebola in the West Africa Ebola outbreak. Picture taken February 4, 2015. 

Photo: REUTERS/Misha Hussain

[From article]

A fourth person has died of Ebola in Guinea in the latest flare up of an epidemic that has killed more than 11,300 people in that country, Sierra Leone and Liberia since 2013 but now claims few victims.
"The young girl who was hospitalized at the Ebola treatment centre in Nzerekore is dead," said Fode Tass Sylla, spokesman for the centre that coordinates Guinea's fight against the virus.
Three others have died of the virus since Feb. 29. Health workers on Saturday also stepped up efforts to trace anyone who could have come into contact with the family.
The world's worst recorded Ebola epidemic is believed to have started in Guinea and killed about 2,500 people there by December last year, at which point the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO) said it was no longer actively transmitted.

http://news.trust.org/item/20160319232244-ogqjg

Fourth person dies of Ebola in latest flare up in Guinea
Source: Reuters

Sat, 19 Mar 2016 23:20 GMT
Reporting by Saliou Samb; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by David Gregorio)

Wi-Fi Based Computer Health Devices, Cars, Can Be Hacked To Cause Death

[From article]
Researcher Marie Moe woke up after emergency surgery in 2011 with a new pacemaker to correct a heart condition. What she didn't realize at the time was that the lifesaving device in her chest exposed her to a completely different kind of threat.
The pacemaker keeping her alive has wireless connectivity capabilities — a detail her doctors didn't tell her — meaning it could be hacked.
Moe was understandably disturbed that it never occurred to her doctors to tell her that her device had wireless capability, and they had not considered the security implications.
"They really had not thought about the pacemaker security at all," she said.
Vulnerabilities like Moe's are moving quickly from the rare to the extremely common.
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Frustrated with her doctors and the manufacturer of her pacemaker, Moe has turned her life's work into finding out more on behalf of all patients.
She has testified in front of the FDA and worked with grassroots organization I Am The Cavalry to develop a Hippocratic Oath for Connected Devices. Her goal is to force transparency into an industry where doctors are uninformed, code is proprietary and third-party access limited.
[. . .]
"It's about time hospitals started worrying about computer viruses, not just ordinary germs," said Moe.
"That's what we have to look at today, to invest in the area to make sure we are solving those problems today, not four years from now when the problem is too heavy to be solved," said Google vice president, security and privacy Gerhard Eschelbeck at the RSA Conference on Tuesday.
[. . .]
Of course, it's not just medical devices that pose a threat. Well-publicized car hacks by researchers have shown just how easy it is for hackers to take remote control of certain car models.
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The average GM car has 30 computers, all built by different partners and suppliers. (For example, a car stereo system may be integrated with Apple CarPlay or Android Auto.)
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Of course, when weighing the adoption of connected devices, it's important to take into account the risks and potential rewards, said John Stewart, senior vice president, chief security and trust officer at Cisco.
"For the most part, all of this is going to be beneficial more than it's going to be endangering and risky," said Stewart. "This security conference has a tendency to think the whole world's going to melt down by tomorrow. [But] We're still here 20 years after we thought it was going to meltdown 20 years ago."

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/04/how-the-internet-of-things-could-be-fatal.html

How the 'Internet of Things' could be fatal
Harriet Taylor | @Harri8t
March 4, 2016

New York City Detectives Question Lack of Autopsy of Justice Scalia in Texas

US Marshals Bypassed The Medical Examiner To Declare a Non Suspicious Death of the Supreme Court Justice Scalia 

Could this case be a motive for the remarkable determination, contrary to law, by a US Marshal, that Scalia's death was not suspicious (See Washington Post), and thus did not require an autopsy? Texas law provides for a medical examiner to make the determination, and few marshals are trained as MEs. See also,
Detectives question lack of autopsy in Scalia death
By Jamie Schram and Bob Fredericks
New York Post
February 15, 2016 | 11:07pm
Then again since Justice Scalia was an unimportant man, his death did not create any benefit to anyone. And in any case the current administration is so strictly lawful that it is irrational to even think such a thought. Nothing to see here folks. Move along. This way. To your left.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/2/17/scalia-affirmative-action-harvard/

Scalia’s Death Could Affect Affirmative Action Lawsuits
By AIDAN F. LANGSTON

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
February 17, 2016

Sloppy Police Work After Death Of Supreme Court Justice Scalia In Texas

Antonin Scalia

Remarkable how easily police, US marshals make decisions over which they do not have jurisdiction. In this case as in many, law enforcement officers make determinations usually left for the medical examiner. Is that called usurping? But it was only a Justice of the Supreme Court of The United States, not an important person. And under this White House there is never any reason to suspect lawlessness. Ahhh-hem!

[From article]
[Judge] Guevara told the station that she planned to drive to the ranch but changed her mind when a U.S. marshal told her by phone: “It’s not necessary for you to come, judge. If you’re asking for an autopsy, that’s what we need to clarify.”
Guevara said she asked the Marshals whether there were “any signs of foul play. And they said, ‘Absolutely not,’ ” she told the station. After talking with Scalia’s personal physician, she said, she pronounced him dead and declined to order an inquest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/texas-tv-station-scalia-died-of-a-heart-attack/2016/02/14/938e2170-d332-11e5-9823-02b905009f99_story.html

The death of Antonin Scalia: Chaos, confusion and conflicting reports
By Lana Straub, Eva Ruth Moravec, Sari Horwitz and Jerry Markon

February 14, 2016 at 3:46 PM

Three Dead On Pennsylvania Highway Due To Weather

Police told the Chicago Tribune that three people died in the crash and pictures from the scene showed injured people at the scene.

[From article]
At least three people have died after 'total whiteout' conditions and severe winds caused a huge 50-car pile-up on a highway in Pennsylvania.
The I-78 outside Harrisburg, in Lebanon County, was a scene of carnage this afternoon, with tankers, lorries and regular cars all involved in the massive crash.
Police told the Chicago Tribune that three people died in the crash and pictures from the scene showed bloodied people being stretchered towards air ambulances.
The smash came after snowstorm alerts were issued for the Philadelphia area, as well as swathes of the north east of the United States.
[. . .]
Dozens of vehicles collided as 30mph winds battered the road, which has since been shut down on both sides after the horror crash.
As well as the three dead, ore than 70 people had been taken to hospitals and another 70 were taken to a shelter set up at a fire station. At least three are in a critical condition.
The pile-up on Saturday morning came amid poor visibility, with roads packed with families getting away for the long weekend.
Ashley Fisher was driving on the I-78 with her two daughters when she was turned around by police.
'The snow just started and it was a total whiteout. The car in front of us just disappeared,' she told NBC News.
[. . .]
'We were able to stop, but a couple cars slid and hit the shoulder.'
She added that the whole westbound side of the highway was 'just a mess'.
'It just turned real white,' Raul Jardine told the Tribune.
He slowed down when visibility became so poor that he could only see brake lights ahead of him, causing his car to be rear-ended
The mayhem came as the north east was hit by an arctic blast freezing temperatures and biting windchill struck.
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Temperatures plummeted to below zero in New York state as windchill made it feel as cold as -24F.
New York City itself was 19F as people woke this morning, but it felt more like 4F as a polar vortex began to sweep across the east of the United States.
Windchill will make it feel like it is -19F in Manhattan later on Saturday and Valentine's Day could be just as cold.
Mayor Bill be Blasio warned New Yorkers to take 'extreme precautions' today and on Sunday, which could see the coldest temperatures in a decade for much of the Northeast as forecasters warned of 'life-threatening' subzero conditions.
In Buffalo it was -1F, with a mammoth windchill making it feel 21 degrees colder. That temperatures was expected to drop another couple of degree this morning as flurries of snow came down.
A wind chill advisory was in effect for New York City beginning Saturday afternoon and continuing to noon Sunday, with the forecast predicting temperatures of 2F.
Wind chills are expected to drop 18F to 24F below across the region and wind gusts may reach 45mph.
But the Big Apple will have it easy compared to the likes Boston, with a low at 2 degrees below zero, and temperatures in Worcester, Massachusetts to drop as low as -11F.
[. . .]
Weather Channel Forecaster Michael Palmer said anyone who dares step outside Sunday morning will feel like they're 'walking into a freezer'.
'This will be the coldest air for more than a decade,' he told NBC News.
The National Weather Service warned that residents take precautions to protect themselves from frostbite or hypothermia conditions.
De Blasio told New York residents to heed cold-weather warnings, adding that city workers would also bring people living on the street to shelters or hospitals.
The anticipated temperatures were so cold the Central Park Conservancy decided to cancel the annual Central Park Ice Festival, meant to be held on Saturday.
It was the second time the weather dampened fun in Central Park.
Last month a free winter sports day called Winter Jam was canceled because of Storm Jonas.
Lighter winds and sunshine will greet the city on Sunday, but temperatures are still expected to be in the single digits, according to AccuWeather.
Meanwhile, a midwinter heat wave is smashing records in California.
Temperatures on the southern west coast rocketed into the 90s for the second consecutive day on Tuesday even as the warming Santa Ana winds that came in on Saturday began to fade.
Forecasters said strong high pressure will continue through the week, keeping afternoon temperatures well above normal until at least Valentine's Day on Sunday.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3445811/Total-whiteout-causes-fatal-FIFTY-vehicle-pile-Pennsylvania-highway-polar-vortex-sweeps-north-east-New-York-braces-windchill-22F.html

Three dead as 'total whiteout' causes fatal FIFTY-car pile-up on Pennsylvania highway and polar vortex sweeps across the north east, bringing record-breaking low temperatures
More than 50 cars were involved in a fatal crash on Pennsylvania's I-78, with at least 70 people taken to hospital
Police said three people died in the horror smash which came amid a 'total whiteout' on Saturday morning
Polar vortex is sweeping its away across the north east of the United States, with temperatures plummeting
Biting wind chill meant it felt like an icy 4F in Manhattan, while in Buffalo it was -1F, with wind chill making it feel up to 23 degrees colder
Wind chills are expected to drop 20 to 40 degrees below across region that will feel like 'walking in a freezer'
For more New York news and weather visit www.dailymail.co.uk/nyc
By OLLIE GILLMAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 14:24 EST, 13 February 2016 | UPDATED: 16:53 EST, 13 February 2016