Six Relatives Shot Dead At Pittsburgh Party

Chanetta Powell (below) and Brittany Powell (above) are two of the five people who were killed Wednesday in a shooting at a Pittsburgh cookout. The two women were sisters.








Victims Jerry Shelton (above), Chanetta Powell and Brittany Powell were siblings. Jerry Shelton and Tina Shelton (below) were cousins.





Above, the fifth victim Shana Mahone. Four of the victims were killed on the back porch and another died at the hospital.


[From article]
Five people have been killed in an ambush-style shooting during a backyard party in suburban Pittsburgh and at least two gunmen are at large, police said.
Four women and a man were killed late on Wednesday during the party in the Borough of Wilkinsburg. Allegheny County police said people scrambled toward the house as bullets began flying. Three other people are hospitalized; two of them are in critical condition.
Four of the victims were found dead on the back porch. The other one died at a hospital.
The alleged gunmen have not been caught, according to KDKA.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3485169/Four-dead-eight-injured-mass-shooting-Pennsylvania.html

Death of unborn boy in Pittsburgh cookout shooting is ruled a homicide - bringing death toll to six as hunt for two gunmen continues
Police are searching for at least two gunmen who opened fire at a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania cookout late Wednesday night
Siblings Jerry Shelton, 35; Brittany Powell, 27; and Chanetta Powell, 25; were shot dead at a cookout at Brittany's home
Shada Mahone, 26, and Tina Shelton, 37, were also killed
Chanetta Powell was pregnant and due to give birth in May; the death of her child has been ruled a homicide
Two men remain in critical condition and a 41-year-old was treated and released for her injuries
The reason for the shooting is not known - but police say they haven't ruled out drugs as a motivating factor
'The murders were planned. They were calculated, brutal,' District Attorney Stephen Zappala said
Authorities say they have someone they would like to speak with in connection to the shooting
By Alexandra Klausner For Dailymail.com and Associated Press and Ashley Collman For Dailymail.com
Published: 00:56 EST, 10 March 2016 | Updated: 17:54 EST, 10 March 2016

Long Island, NY Greedy Cousins Murder Uncle. Police Incompetenece, or Intentional Negligence

John Frankowski Jr. and Kim Delaney (left) claim their cousin Jonathan Roman (top right) killed their father, John S. Frankowski Sr. (bottom right), at the request of their aunts.Photo: Edmund J. Coppa ; AP

[From article]
A middle-aged momma’s boy who was sentenced to 18 years to life behind bars Monday for murdering his uncle was actually the puppet of a greedy family “cabal,” a Long Island lawsuit charges.
The children of victim John S. Frankowski, Sr. claim in the civil suit that their cousin, convicted killer Jonathan Roman, 44, was acting at the direction of his mom Sandra Roman and aunt Annmarie Porter.
The sisters wanted their brother Frankowski dead to land another $100,000 apiece on top of the $200,000 each they were already getting from their late mother’s estate, according to the documents.
[. . .]
Frankowski’s son, John Jr., added of his relatives, “Clearly they’re a bunch of bumbling buffoons.
“But obviously, had it not been for [our investigation], I truly believe that Jonathan and the rest of family, in their mind, thought they were going to get away with murder.”
Jonathan Roman was slapped with the hefty prison term Monday after reading a statement in a Nassau County court in which he said he was sorry for his crime.
“I was using cocaine and smoking pot, I definitely wasn’t thinking clearly that day. I was speaking to my uncle for a while, I brought up an issue with the house and my uncle, and I began to argue. My uncle started to fight with me. Next thing I know, my uncle is dead,” the killer said.
Judge David Sullivan said, “This obviously is a cowardly and heinous act.”
Meanwhile, the victim’s son,w ho traveled from Florida for the sentencing, lamented, ”My dad will only be stories to my children.
“I lost myself after my father was murdered,” he said.
[. . .]
After John Sr. went missing in early 2014, Sandra Roman left his son a voice mail asking him to call her. In the background of the March 2 call, her son Jonathan Roman can be heard saying “the f–king eyeballs are out” — an unsettling reference to the medical examiner’s testimony during Roman’s trial that the 71-year-old’s eyeballs bulged out when the killer choked him to death, court documents state.
That same night, surveillance video from across the street showed Roman lugging a body out of his uncle’s house in a tarp and stuffing it into the trunk of his mom’s car, the suit says.
The elderly man’s mangled corpse was found buried in a 6x6x4 shallow grave in the woods behind Sandra Roman’s house five days later.
The paper also charge retired Naussau County Detective Ronald Dandrea with helping to try cover up the murder, telling Sandra’s other son, Stanley, that “police would not look for John S. Frankowski Sr. because he was ‘old and white.’ ”
[. . .]
After John Sr. went missing in early 2014, Sandra Roman left his son a voice mail asking him to call her. In the background of the March 2 call, her son Jonathan Roman can be heard saying “the f–king eyeballs are out” — an unsettling reference to the medical examiner’s testimony during Roman’s trial that the 71-year-old’s eyeballs bulged out when the killer choked him to death, court documents state.
That same night, surveillance video from across the street showed Roman lugging a body out of his uncle’s house in a tarp and stuffing it into the trunk of his mom’s car, the suit says.
The elderly man’s mangled corpse was found buried in a 6x6x4 shallow grave in the woods behind Sandra Roman’s house five days later.
The paper also charge retired Naussau County Detective Ronald Dandrea with helping to try cover up the murder, telling Sandra’s other son, Stanley, that “police would not look for John S. Frankowski Sr. because he was ‘old and white.’ ”

http://nypost.com/2016/02/29/sisters-had-their-brother-killed-for-200k-inheritance-family/

Sisters had their brother killed for $200K inheritance: family
By Julia Marsh, Reuven Fenton and Emily Saul
New York Post
February 29, 2016 | 12:05am

Harvard University Placemats Explain To Students How To Discuss Politics With Parents

Adapted from a similar guide published by an activist group called Showing Up for Racial Justice, the placemats address controversial topics including student activism about race at Yale and other colleges and the debate over whether the U.S. should welcome Syrian refugees.
Photo: Katherine L Borrazzo

The United States is nearing completion of the White House program to transform, to totally dumb down the academic community. Yale University students enthusiastically sign petitions to repeal the First Amendment. Harvard University students are provided guidelines for speaking with their relatives during Christmas vacation, now called who knows what. In Colorado a member of the ACLU board of directors urged voters to kill supporters of Donald Trump. Cambridge, MA city councilors are unable to discuss a terror bombing by two young city residents granted asylum, but they are quick to condemn any skepticism about Muslim terrorists in the nation. Useful idiots rule by emotion and transform the country into the Idiocracy. Showing Up For Racial Justice is related to Black Lives Matter, which condemns racial profiling and white privilege. Perplexed that they oppose racial profiling of black people, but enthusiastcially encourage profiling white people.

[From article]
At the close of a semester that saw a surge in racial tensions on college campuses nationwide, Harvard outfitted a number of dining halls with laminated guides printed with what purports to be advice for students discussing issues related to race and diversity with family members, but that some undergraduates decried as telling them what to think politically.
Adapted from a similar guide published by an activist group called Showing Up for Racial Justice, the placemats address controversial topics including student activism about race at Yale and other colleges, the debate over whether the U.S. should welcome Syrian refugees, and Harvard’s recent decision to change the title of its “House master” position.
[. . .]
Dubbed “Holiday Placemat for Social Justice” and described as “a placemat guide for holiday discussions on race and justice with loved ones,” the placemats pose hypothetical statements on those topics and offer a “response” to each of those in a question and answer format. For example, under a section entitled “Yale/Student Activism,” the placemat poses the question, “Why are Black students complaining? Shouldn’t they be happy to be in college?” and suggests that students respond by saying, “When I hear students expressing their experiences on campus I don’t hear complaining.”
In the center of the placemat are what it calls “tips for talking to families,” with recommendations such as “Listen mindfully before formulating a thoughtful response” and “Breathe.”
[. . .]
The placemats are endorsed by Harvard administrators. The product of a collaboration between the College’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and the Freshman Dean’s Office, the placemats first appeared in Annenberg last week. Jasmine M. Waddell, the freshman resident dean for Elm Yard, described the placemats’ goal as giving freshmen strategies for discussing those issues with their families over winter break

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/12/16/placements-race-discussions-released/

College-Distributed Advice on Race Discussions Divides Students
Some students criticize College materials on discussing race and diversity issues as telling them what to think
By DAPHNE C. THOMPSON,

Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
December 15, 2015

Economic Elder Abuse Increasing

[From article]

Elderly people are robbed of cash and assets worth more than £78m each year, and in most cases the culprits are members of their own family, according to new research by Action on Elder Abuse (AEA).
The money is obtained through theft, threats or trickery, and the scale of the problem warrants the creation of a new crime of “elder abuse”, campaigners say.
There has been a fourfold increase in calls to the AEA’s helpline over the past two years, from 5,722 in 2012-13 to 21,267 in 2014-15.
While thousands of people report cases of neglect and verbal, physical and psychological attacks, the single biggest type of abuse reported is financial. These cases involve the theft of money or assets, or elderly people being persuaded to part with money and in some cases their homes.
Reports of financial abuse logged by AEA have rocketed more than tenfold, 

[. . .]

Tactics used by relatives range from simple bullying and coercion to persuading victims to give them Power of Attorney to handle their affairs – and thereby gaining control of their money.
The majority of victims are women over 80. They have often outlived their partners and come from a generation not used to dealing with their own finances, according to the AEA.
The majority of perpetrators are sons and daughters or other relatives. Rising house prices have left some older people asset-rich, acting as a temptation to relatives, campaigners say.

[. . .]

“The real issue at the heart of elder abuse is that it’s families and friends hurting old people, and that’s the intolerable message the Government doesn’t want to deal with.”
The surge in cases where people had suffered financial loss was partly a reflection of an ageing society with a greater number of people who were vulnerable, Mr Fitzgerald said. Another problem was that of grooming, where perpetrators befriend an elderly person before going on to steal from them.
Recent years have seen “a greater tolerance of the abuse of older people before statutory agencies will intervene” due to reduced resources, he said.
“There needs to be a criminal charge of elder abuse. That does not exist at the moment.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/elderly-being-robbed-of-millions-each-year-by-their-own-families-says-new-research-10498387.html

Elderly being robbed of millions each year by their own families, says new research
JONATHAN OWEN
Saturday 12 September 2015

Relatives of Citizens Murdered By Illegal Aliens Testify Before Congress

Laura Wilkerson, Mother of Josh, 18, Killed By Illegal Alien

[From article]

Apparently neither Mr. Todd nor his research staff ever thought to look up the government’s own 2011 report on criminal alien activity, published by the Government Accountability Office.
[. . .]
The 2011 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report documents crimes committed by foreign alien nationals inside the United States. It counts as an alien any immigrant who has not been “naturalized” – that is, any alien who has applied for and been conferred with citizenship after being brought into the United States from their home country. Therefore, even this report would not include the criminal offenses of the millions of immigrants inside the U.S. who have converted their green cards into citizenship papers, about 19.3 million. So, for instance, the elder Boston Bomber, the recent Chattanooga Shooter, and other immigrant terrorists naturalized by the federal government would be counted by the government as citizen crimes, not alien crimes.
The report tallies approximately 3 million arrest offenses attached to the incarcerated criminal alien population. Of these offenses, half a million were drug related, 70,000 were sexual offenses, 213,000 were for assault, 125,000 were for larceny/theft, and 25,000 were for homicides. Based on the GAO’s sample of criminal aliens, they estimated that their study population of 249,000 criminal aliens was arrested about 1.7 million times, averaging about 7 arrests per criminal alien.
By definition, not one one of these crimes would have occurred absent the immigrant who committed it

[. . .]
In 2008, Heather Mac Donald wrote:
California, with one-quarter of the nation’s immigrants and its greatest concentration of Mexicans and Central Americans, is the bellwether state for all things relating to unbridled Hispanic immigration, including crime. The Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study, conducted by sociologists Alejandro Portes of Princeton and Rubén G. Rumbaut of the University of California, Irvine, followed the children of immigrants in San Diego and Miami from 1992 to 2003. A whopping 28 percent of Mexican-American males between the ages of 18 and 24 reported having been arrested since 1995, and 20 percent reported having been incarcerated—a rate twice that of other immigrant groups. Anyone who speaks to Hispanic students in immigrant-saturated schools in Southern California will invariably hear the estimate that 50 percent of a student’s peers have ended up in gangs or other criminal activities.
[. . .]
A 2006 article from the LA Times, which cites LAPD chief William Bratton, reported:
The numbers reveal a wide racial divide regarding violent crime.
Blacks make up about 11% of the city’s population but account for 38% of all homicide victims and 29% of suspects, according to the statistics. By contrast, whites make up 30% of the population but account for just 6% of homicide victims and 2% of suspects. Latinos make up 47% of the population and constitute 50% of homicide victims and 66% of suspects.
Ann Coulter has repeatedly made a broader point not addressed by Mr. Todd on his program — that the proper number of crimes we should be satisfied with immigrants committing is zero yet, instead, we bring in millions of immigrants “from countries with far worse crime rates than our own.”

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/20/no-comment-nbc-covers-up-evidence-of-immigration-crime-wave/

‘NO COMMENT': NBC COVERS UP EVIDENCE OF IMMIGRATION CRIME WAVE
by JULIA HAHN

20 Jul 2015Washington D.C.

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[From article]

“This was our family’s 9/11 terrorist attack by a foreign invader,” she said at the most pivotal point in her testimony. “It is going to take another life lost by a Senator, a Congressman, the President, even another of today’s heroes, someone from Hollywood before someone in a position moves on this.”
“My son’s name was Joshua Wilkerson,” she began. “On November 16, 2010, he was beaten, strangled, tortured until he died. He was tied up, thrown in a field, and set on fire. His killer, Hermilo Moralez, was brought here illegally by his illegal parents when he was ten years old, so he fit the ‘DREAM’ kid description. He was sentenced to life in prison, which means it will be 30 years before he’s up for parole. He’ll be a 49-year-old man, who I don’t expect to be deported. And I just hope he doesn’t come to live in your city.”
Ms. Wilkerson’s son was murder by an illegal immigrant who, because he came to the country as a minor, would have qualified for Obama’s 2012 executive amnesty granted to illegal immigrant minors — or so-called DREAMers, whom Obama insists “belong here.”
[. . .]
“This was our family’s 9/11 terrorist attack by a foreign invader, whether you want to recognize it or whether you do not,” Wilkerson said. “This government continues to fail or even recognize that we have an issue. Americans are dying daily at the hands of criminals that we don’t even know are here.”
“You’re officially notified today there’s a problem when this happens. You can’t deny it any longer. You cannot you cannot stand by and ignore our families — our American families. You’re elected by Americans, not any other country. You should be for Americans,” she emphasized. “If you want to sit quietly on the sidelines, you’ve thrown your hat into the ring already. Your silence speaks volumes. You’re either for Americans, or you’re not.
“I will not give up another one of my children so that a foreign person can have a nicer life. I’m not going to do it. You don’t understand the pain. It’s so deep in the soul — in the place you don’t even recognize you have. There aren’t words to describe the pain to someone who has not gone through it. I’m not giving up another kid,” she said.
Wilkerson then issued a blistering attack on sanctuary city policies that provide safe harbor and anonymity for dangerous, criminal aliens who are living illegally in the United States. She said:
Sanctuary city policies scream to the criminal element of illegals in this country: ‘Come to our town USA, we’ll protect you from our terrible policemen. We’ll protect you from these tough American laws, that you — because you had a hard life — are not able to go through the same motion that an American is.’ It is going to take another life lost by a Senator, a Congressman, the President, even another of today’s heroes, someone from Hollywood before someone in a position moves on this. I urge you: you are in a position to do something about this for Americans.
“I thank you, Mr. Trump for getting a message out about the nation in two minutes… that countless families like my own have been trying to say for five to six years. It feels good to be heard whether you love him, or whether you don’t, I felt heard.”

[. . .]

Illegal aliens aren’t living in the shadows, she added; they boldly break our laws and demand taxpayer freebies. She went on:
They’re not scared to come here. We’re inviting them. Sanctuary cities says, ‘Come on down.’ Sympathy has never trumped the law in this country. Ever. Everyone of them here threaten national security because we don’t know who they are. They make a decision to come here. They’re not scared, and they’re invited by sanctuary city policies. They aren’t scared to wait in line for a hand-out that every American citizen has paid into the system for our children if need be. They mistrust police because they come from countries that mistrust police. They’re not scared here.
I want you to know that our family is broken, forever. We are forever broken. I don’t want the sympathy. I want you to do something about it.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/07/21/mother-of-son-murdered-by-illegal-alien-slams-sanctuary-cities-politicians-your-silence-speaks-volumes/


MOTHER OF SON MURDERED BY ILLEGAL ALIEN SLAMS SANCTUARY CITIES, POLITICIANS: ‘YOUR SILENCE SPEAKS VOLUMES'
by JULIA HAHN AND KATIE MCHUGH

21 Jul 2015Washington, DC

Testimony of Laura Wilkerson, Mother Of 18 Year-Old Killed By Illegal Immigrant

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Her husband, Sacramento County sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver, was killed last October

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article28039849.html#storylink=cpy

[From article]
Danny Oliver, 47, was killed Oct. 24, 2014, at a Motel 6 parking lot near Arden Way. Authorities say Luis Enriquez Monroy Bracamontes, who was in the U.S. illegally, killed Oliver at the start of a regionwide crime spree in which he also killed Placer County sheriff’s Detective Michael Davis Jr. and wounded several others. Bracamontes faces the death penalty.
Susan Oliver said her husband, a father of two and 15-year department veteran, loved his job working in the problem-oriented policing program, known as POP.
“The last thing my husband attempted to do as a POP officer was to ask the man inside the car how his day was going,” Oliver said. “But he never made it to the driver’s window.”

http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article28039849.html

VIDEO: Widow of slain Sacramento deputy tells Congress of husband’s loss
BY JIM MILLER
jmiller (at) sacbee.com


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Photo by: Molly Riley
Liz Sullivan, mother of Kathryn Steinle, is consoled by Sabine Durden as she cries during the testimony of Kathryn's father Jim Steinle during a Senate Judiciary hearing in Washington on Tuesday. The family told Congress they support changing the laws that allowed her alleged killer to remain in the United States despite being deported several times. 

(Associated Press)

[From article]
Don Rosenberg, whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant in a drunken driving incident, but who was not on the witness panel, stepped forward and scolded sanctuary city defenders.
“How dare you!” he said in remarks that appeared to be addressed to the Rev. Gabriel Salguero, pastor of Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene in New York City, who defended sanctuary policies.
[. . .]
The hearing highlighted a shift in the immigration debate. Over the last few years, immigrant rights advocates have essentially won the public debate, focusing on sympathetic illegal immigrants, and so-called Dreamers in particular, who have made good on their chances of a better life in the U.S.
But enforcement supporters had argued that gave a one-sided portrayal of the issue and insisted illegal immigration wasn’t a victimless crime. Tuesday’s hearing put an exclamation point on those claims.
“I want you to be angry that America’s borders are wide open. America does not know who is in this country. It is time to put Americans first,” Ms. Wilkerson said. “Close the borders, figure out who is really here. Keep statistics. Realize that we are at war right here in this country.”
[. . .]
Mr. Grassley also prodded Mr. Rodriguez over Mr. Obama’s 2012 tentative deportation amnesty, and one case in particular, where an illegal immigrant granted amnesty was later accused of four murders in North Carolina. Mr. Rodriguez has admitted the man had gang ties that should have prevented him from being approved for the amnesty.
But when Mr. Grassley demanded to know who had been fired over the incident, Mr. Rodriguez said nobody had been cut loose. Instead, he said, employees had been “counseled” on how to apply the amnesty so gang members don’t get approved. He also said his agency had rechecked hundreds of thousands of amnesty recipients to weed out other gang members.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/21/illegal-immigrant-victims-mother-we-are-at-war/

Illegal immigrant victim’s mother: ‘We are at war right here in this country’
By Stephen Dinan
The Washington Times
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

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Sheikh Mohamed Kariye, in a file photo, leaves the U.S. Court of Appeals in Portland after oral arguments on the ACLU no-fly list lawsuit. 

(AP file photo)
[From article]
The FBI acknowledged Monday that a joint investigation by its agents and those of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement prompted the government's move on Monday to revoke the citizenship of the imam of Portland's biggest mosque.
"The U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing Mr. (Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman) Kariye'sdenaturalization based on his illegal procurement of naturalization; specifically, Mr. Kariye obtained his U.S. citizenship by providing false information and willful misrepresentation and concealment of material facts including his criminal history and failed to establish that he was a person of good moral character during the requisite statutory period," the FBI wrote in a news statement. "Due to the ongoing legal proceedings, no further information is available at this time."
[. . .]
The Associated Press broke the story, based on a 34-page civil petition, which accuses Kariye of failing to tell immigration officials that he raised money, recruited fighters and provided training for insurgents battling the Soviet military in its 1980s war in Afghanistan.
The U.S. backed those mujahideen fighters in a proxy war against the Soviet Union, helping to topple the financially crippled superpower and end the Cold War.
Monday's petition suggests that Kariye for a time had direct dealings with Osama bin Laden, who later came to head al-Qaida, along with a precursor terrorist organization known as Maktab Al-Khidamat. The government alleges that Kariye did not list those affiliations in his application for citizenship.
An associate of Kariye, reached at a post-Ramadan celebration, said the imam had not yet read the government's petition.
Kariye, whose father was one of Somalia's most popular imams, is leader of Masjed As-Saber in Southwest Portland.

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2015/07/fbi_and_ice_investigation_prom.html

FBI-ICE investigation prompted U.S. to attempt to revoke citizenship of imam who heads Portland's biggest mosque
By Bryan Denson
The Oregonian/OregonLive
July 20, 2015 at 10:07 PM, updated July 20, 2015 at 10:08 PM

Aunt Of Marathon Bombers Refuses to Believe They Did It

Anzor Tsarnaev, who said he is the father of the bombing suspects, gave an interview in his home in Makhachkala, Russia. Reuters TV


Maret Tsarnaeva, an aunt of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, holds a reporter's smart phone which displays a scene from the bomb site

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/just_do_not_believe_our_boys_would_YHdjJB6tPGhcrdNHn3zZwL

'I just do not believe our boys would do that': aunt
From ASSOCIATED PRESS
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:47 PM, April 19, 2013
Posted: 3:16 PM, April 19, 2013

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Blasts Politicians. Huh?

Michael Bloomberg, Billionaire and New York City Mayor

[From article]
Mayor Bloomberg unloaded big time on Albany today, charging that many legislators are party hacks who could never get real jobs in private industry.
"The average legislator who has to make policy on things that influence our lives, our kids' lives, our future, would they ever get a job in the private sector making policy on big things? No, not a chance," the mayor said.
[How many elected officials ever had a real job before they were elected? Once they get elected they never leave.] 
[. . .]
Bloomberg went off on political family dynasties that hold power in Albany and elsewhere.
[Ya think this is a problem in Massachusetts? Duh. Ya Think?]

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bloomberg_blasts_albany_corruption_97PcEmNaNYz7MnWcOag6zH

Bloomberg blasts Albany corruption, said most pols would never get hired in private sector
By DAVID SEIFMAN
New York Post
Last Updated: 10:31 AM, April 5, 2013
Posted: 10:29 AM, April 5, 2013

Man Kills Sisters-in Law Over Care For Wife

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120110/D9S6CG300.html

Kin: Ohio killer of 3 was stressed about sick wife
Jan 10, 6:21 PM (ET)
By KANTELE FRANKO
AP