Man accused of killing wife for changing TV channel from a football game
CARLISLE, Ark. — Investigators say a central Arkansas man fatally stabbed his wife after she changed the TV channel from a football game he was watching while he went outside to smoke.
Tony Thomas, 58, of Carlisle, was charged Monday with capital murder. Investigators said he admitted killing his wife, Elke, during an argument after she switched the TV channel in November. He’s been jailed since the incident.
“He went outside to smoke and upon returning, he discovered that Elke had changed the channel. He asked about the score and she began yelling at him and got in his face,” Lonoke County Sheriff’s Detective Anthony Counts wrote in an affidavit.
Thomas said he blacked out and came to while standing over the woman with a knife in his hands, according to the affidavit. Court records show his bond is set at $1 million.
Deputies were already responding to the scene because a woman who had been at the home flagged down someone passing by to report the stabbing. A man who identified himself as “Tony” later called the sheriff’s office and “asked the dispatcher for a ‘meat wagon and police’ because he’d killed his wife,” Counts wrote.
The affidavit says the stabbing occurred Nov. 19 in the home’s living room, where blood was found on the floor, the walls, a table and the TV. Counts wrote that it appeared the woman’s body was dragged through the dining room to the back yard, where it was found beneath a blanket and a tarp.
Court records don’t list an attorney for Thomas. The local public defender’s office didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment about the case Tuesday. A court hearing in the case is scheduled for Jan. 22.
Carlisle is about 35 miles (56 kilometers) east of Little Rock.
Youtube Finally Acts On Logan Paul
The Paul Brothers have been criticized time and time again. This year, Logan Paul ushered in the new year by posting a video of him in the Aokigahara Forest (the Suicide Forest) filming a dead body, watch Lovelyti’s video on that here. Logan Paul’s video stayed up for about two days and even landed on the trending page, after major backlash he finally decided to delete it.
Now YouTube announced it was dropping Paul from the YouTube Red comedy, “Foursome.”
The smoking gun though came from Google Preferred (the top 5% of most-viewed YouTube content) which says it will no longer aggregate Paul’s multimillion-subscriber channels for advertisers. That basically means he’s cut off from his main source of YouTube income.
Despite all of this, Paul’s father says his son will be returning to vlogging soon.
Article via: http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/10/logan-paul-youtube-cuts-ties-foursome-suicide-forest-video/
Man allegedly took out $45G fraudulent loan to pay Texas dental office for new teeth
Authorities are on the hunt for a man who allegedly took out a $45,000 fraudulent loan to pay for dental work in Texas.
The man — whose name wasn’t released — showed up for a consultation at Smile Texas where he scheduled to have surgery for new expensive dentures on Nov. 30, KHOU reported.
The molds were made, and workers were scheduled — duties that cost $9,800 — for the surgery the suspect never showed up for, the dental office said.
After trying to reach the suspect by phone, another man called the office and informed a staff member his information was used to open a fraudulent line of credit, according to KHOU.
Smile Texas also provided the Sugar Land Police Department with a photo taken of the suspect during his first consultation.
The man faces charges of fraudulent use of identifying information and tampering with a government document.
Teen allegedly broke into neighbor’s barn, molested horse
A young man was caught sexually molesting a horse in Alabama last week — and the owner of the animal has reason to believe this wasn’t their first rendezvous.
“I would say seven, maybe 10 times,” owner Francince Janes told NBC 15, in reference to the number of times she found evidence that her barn had been tampered with last month.
“Toilet paper had been left. The hay stacks had been removed. Items had been turned over. And that’s as far as I want to go.”
Daniel Bennett, 18, of Irvington, is currently awaiting trial after being arrested last Thursday night by officers from the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office.
He reportedly confessed to attempting to molest the horse — a 20-year-old steed named Polly — inside Janes’ barn and was charged with possession of burglar’s tools, criminal trespassing and bestiality, which is a misdemeanor.
According to AL.com, the official warrant for Bennett’s arrest says he “engaged in or submitted to any sexual contact with an animal, to-wit: a horse.”
Janes told NBC 15 that her husband was the one who caught the young man after their dogs woke them up barking. He reportedly held Bennett at gunpoint and spoke with him briefly before police arrived.
Describing what Bennett told her husband, Janes said: “He likes horses. He wanted to pet the horse.”
Asked what the young man told investigators, she replied: “That he molested the horse.”
Whether it was a spur of the moment decision or not, Polly’s owner hopes Bennett will eventually seek treatment for bestiality.
“I sincerely hope the judge mandates that he goes for psychiatric help,” Janes said. “But just not a slap on the wrist.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/teen-allegedly-broke-into-neighbors-barn-molested-horse/
Man caught trying to dump girlfriend daughter’s body near crocodile farm
A man who was acting suspiciously near the woods in Malaysia was chased down by police who reportedly found the body of a 13-year-old girl in the trunk of his car.
The suspect was standing by some bushes outside his vehicle near a crocodile farm on Tuesday when cops drove up and witnessed him slam the trunk of his car and drive away, according to the Singapore Strait Times.
After a brief police chase, cops cornered the man near the waterfront in the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
“The patrol team instructed the man to open the car boot, where they found the body of teenage girl,” Sarawak Criminal Investigation Department chief Datuk Dev Kumar said in a statement.
“In attempt to hide the murderous act, the man wanted to dump the body of the victim in the bushes, but his attempt was foiled by the patrol team.”
Police said the suspect had an argument with the girl — who was the daughter of his girlfriend — and eventually strangled her.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/man-caught-trying-to-dump-teen-girls-body-near-crocodile-farm/
Usher’s Herpes Accuser’s Medical Information Leaked
Usher’s Herpes Accuser: “Insurance Companies Outed My Medical Info”
One of the the women who sued Usher for allegedly giving her herpes, is now suing insurance companies … claiming they outed her medical records.
Laura Helm is going after the insurers because she says her application for insurance ended up in a blog post which revealed her “private sensitive health information.” According to the suit, Laura filed her application with an insurance broker — representing 3 companies — on July 31, 2017.
In the suit, Laura says the broker took screenshots of her application and gave them to the blog. She’s suing the 3 companies … United Heathcare, Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Louisiana and Golden Rule Insurance Company — as well as the blog.
Laura also claims the blog defamed her by saying she committed insurance fraud.
Helm initially sued Usher anonymously in July. The blog posts with her medical info were published in August — and she only revealed her name in docs subsequently filed in September.
As TMZ first reported, Helm dismissed the lawsuit against Usher.
Article via: http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/09/usher-herpes-accuser-laura-helm-sues-insurance-company/
Ex-teacher claims she was fired for calling cops after student sexually assaulted her
A former Westchester County schoolteacher claims she was fired for calling the cops on a student who sexually assaulted her, according to a federal lawsuit.
Judy Sugar is suing the Greenburgh Eleven school district and Elton Thompson, the principal of Mary McLeod Bethune Junior and Senior High School in Dobbs Ferry, where she worked until her dismissal in 2015.
On May 14, 2015, she claims a student “accosted” her, touching her legs and backside with his exposed penis as she bent over a microscope, according to the complaint filed Thursday in US District Court in White Plains.
Sugar said she immediately reported the incident to Thompson but claims he did nothing.
She also said she had complained previously about the student but her concerns were ignored.
The head teacher at the school reportedly told Sugar that if she wanted to file a report, she could stop by Dobbs Ferry police headquarters on her way home instead of calling officers to the school.
But Sugar said she was worried about the safety of other students and of other teachers, particularly the recently hired “young, attractive” music instructor with whom the student was in class.
So she called the cops who said they would respond to the school immediately.
Upon hearing this, the complaint states, Thompson reportedly said, “You called the police?”
Almost immediately after that, Thompson allegedly told the teacher to leave school grounds and that insinuated job was in jeopardy.
Later that day, Sugar reported the assault to cops, who told her they had been turned away from the school earlier in the day.
The student was arrested the next day and an order of protection was issued barring him from having any contact with his former teacher.
Four days later, Sugar said she was summoned to the principal’s office and fired.
The school district claimed she’d violated their policy barring teachers from calling the police to report a crime on school grounds, but Sugar said she was unaware of any such policy.
The former teacher is asking for her job back, along with back pay, bonuses and benefits and for the school district to pay her legal fees.
Schools Superintendent Anthony Gyetua-Danquah said Tuesday that he was not made aware of any lawsuit and therefore could not comment.
Thompson could not be reached Tuesday.
Eric Garner’s mom barred from granddaughter’s funeral
Eric Garner’s mom was barred from her own granddaughter’s funeral on Monday, sparking an ugly shoving match outside a Harlem church.
Gwen Carr wasn’t allowed inside the First Corinthian Baptist Church, where mourners honored Erica Garner, the 27-year-old daughter of Eric Garner — whose death at the hands of the NYPD touched off national protests in 2014.
Erica Garner died from a heart attack on Dec. 30.
Carr blamed Monday’s fiasco on her daughter-in-law, Erica’s mother, Esaw “Pinky” Garner.
“She didn’t want none of our family in there, on my side — the Garners,” said Carr, explaining that the family rift has been building for years.
“Pinky” Garner could not be immediately reached for comment.
“We would not disrespect Gwen,” Sharpton said. “We don’t take sides with that.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/01/09/eric-garners-mom-barred-from-granddaughters-funeral/
LI woman who suffocated newborn, stuffed body in bag sentenced to 8 years
MINEOLA, N.Y. — A Long Island college student who admitted to smothering her newborn daughter after a hidden pregnancy has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Sharon Seudat was sentenced Monday in court in Mineola, crying while she voiced her regret for her actions.
The 22-year-old could have faced 25 years to life in prison if she were convicted of murder at trial, Newsday reports. She instead pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter.
Seudat previously admitted that in March 2016 she wrapped the newborn in sheets and blankets, placed her hand over the baby’s mouth and then put her body in a garbage bag.
Officers that day responded to woman’s home on Walnut Street in Glen Head to find her bleeding profusely. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors determined she had just given childbirth.
Detective Capt. John Azzata said Seudat, who hid the pregnancy from her parents, initially denied giving birth.
Investigators returned to the home to find the baby’s lifeless body in a black plastic bag on the back deck. Azzata said the child was born alive and was suffocated.
Seudat faces five years of post-release supervision after her prison sentence.
Firing, discriminating against women breastfeeding at work in NJ now illegal
TRENTON, N.J. — Firing or discriminating against women who breastfeed at work is now prohibited under a state law enacted by Republican Gov. Chris Christie on Monday.
Christie signed the legislation along with dozens of other measures, including two related bills, in the waning days of his two-term administration. Democrat Phil Murphy will take over as governor on Jan. 16.
In a statement, Christie rebuked the New Jersey Business and Industry Association, a business lobbying group, for what he called its “illogical opposition” to the legislation.
“During my term, I have done all I could do to support a welcoming environment to working mothers in New Jersey workplaces. It is deeply disturbing that a major business lobbying group does not share that sentiment,” Christie said.
The business group did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Employers would be in violation of the new law, which serves as an update to the state’s civil rights law, for firing or discriminating against a woman over breastfeeding. Businesses must now also provide break time and a suitable location for breastfeeding women to express milk in private.
New Jersey and 48 other states, along with Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Virgin Islands, already have laws allowing women to breastfeed in public and private locations, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Christie cast the new law, which passed unanimously in the Democrat-led Legislature, as an extension of a 2014 measure that expanded civil rights protections to pregnant women and required pregnancy-related accommodations.
“My hope is that this bill will close the gap left by the 2014 legislation and will provide on-going protections to breastfeeding mothers,” Christie said.
The bill’s sponsors welcomed the new law as a way to help breastfeeding women balance work and motherhood.
“No woman should ever be shamed for, or prevented from feeding her child the best food possible,” said Democratic Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle. “This allows working women to breastfeed or pump at work without fear of repercussions.”
Christie also signed into law a bill requiring human milk banks to be registered and another measure that exempts breast pumps from the sales tax.