Teen stabs grandmother while she slept, steals $23
ALBION, N.Y. — Police say a 17-year-old western New York boy broke into his grandmother’s house and stabbed her while she was sleeping.
The Orleans County Sheriff’s Office says Albion resident Brandon Foster went into his grandmother’s house through a window just before midnight Sunday. Police say Foster then went into her bedroom and stabbed her while she slept.
She fought him off and was able to get away. Officials say Foster stole $23 and his grandmother’s phone before fleeing. He was found at about 6 a.m. Monday and charged with attempted murder and first-degree assault.
The grandmother is recovering at a hospital.
Authorities say mental health issues and a previous confrontation between the two may have played a role in the attack.
The teen is being held in the county jail. The name of his lawyer wasn’t immediately available.
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These Two Doctors Are Behind The First Black-Owned Water Company To Have Products Sold At Walmart
The water sold out within one month!
A black-owned alkaline water company has made it onto Walmart’s shelves.
Live Alkaline Water is sourced from a spring in North Carolina that has been in Dr. Robert McCray’s family for over a century. He told First Coast News his aunt took him to the spring and told him his “ancestors are crying out” to him, calling on him to be a responsible steward for the water.
To put his family’s water to good use, McCray partnered with Dr. Shayla Creer to start a bottled water company.
At first things didn’t seem to be going anywhere; however, eventually, Creer and McCray had a stroke of luck.
“I called … many Walmarts, and finally we got a hold of one who allowed us to do a presentation,” Creer told the station.
Unbeknownst to them, a regional manager was present and liked their idea.
“It was hard to keep our composure,” said McCray. “Because it’s the product that was [our] baby.”
Alkaline water is thought by many to have extraordinary health benefits, including the management of acid reflux disease. Once it was in stores, McCray and Creer’s water sold out within a month of being on sale.
The water is now sold in three Walmart locations and several privately-owned businesses in North Florida. It can also be purchased online.
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Haiti unrest leaves US missionaries stranded
CNN- A number of US missionary groups are stranded in Haiti after protesters took to the streets following a fuel price hike ordered by the government.
A Texas police officer pulled his gun on a group of kids. Now, he’s doing desk duty
First, he told the children to “back up.” Then he pointed his gun at them.
A gun comes out and it’s captured on camera
Instagram Model Accidentally Kills Herself During Filming Of Viral Video
A 35 year old Russian Instagram Super Model dies after getting into an accident while filming a video story.
The video shows the woman, who’s only wearing bikini bottoms hanging out of the window in a moving car when she’s struck by a road sign.
The incident took place while she was on vacation in the Dominican Republic.
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N.J. braces for dangerous rip currents as Tropical Storm Chris is set to strengthen into a hurricane
Tropical Storm Chris is expected to become Hurricane Chris later Tuesday as it continues to spin far off the coast of North Carolina.
Forecasters from the National Hurricane Center said Chris — which should become the second hurricane of the relatively slow 2018 Atlantic hurricane season — made very little movement during the past 24 hours but is expected to track north and east Tuesday into early Wednesday.
Once the storm begins to travel farther north, it will create rough surf as far north as the Jersey Shore, forecasters said.
“Swells generated by Chris are expected to increase and affect portions of the coasts of North Carolina and the Mid-Atlantic states during the next few days,” the hurricane center said in its storm advisory Tuesday morning. “These swells could cause life-threatening surf and rip current conditions.”
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Ethiopia and Eritrea Declare an End to Their War
Ethiopia and Eritrea on Monday formally declared an end to their “state of war,” a two-decade-long standoff that followed a brutal war over their shared border.
The official end of hostilities is expected to bring some stability to a part of the world better known for its enduring conflicts, and to a region that abuts one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world even as war rages on in Yemen, just across the Red Sea.
The announcement came after Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, visited Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, on Sunday, where he embraced President Isaias Afwerki on an airport tarmac. The leaders said the countries would resume trade, economic and diplomatic ties, including reopening embassies and restarting flights.
“The state of war between Ethiopia and Eritrea has come to an end,” the leaders said in a joint declaration. “A new era of peace and friendship has been opened.”
More than 80,000 people had died in the war.
Later on Monday, Ethiopia asked the visiting secretary general of the United Nations, António Guterres, to lift sanctions against Eritrea, Mr. Abiy’s chief of staff said in a message on Twitter. The United Nations had imposed an arms embargo and a partial travel ban on Eritrea, citing its disputes with neighboring countries.
Mr. Guterres told reporters on Monday that the sanctions might “become obsolete.”
Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in the early 1990s but has not recorded the same growth as its neighbor, sinking into economic and social isolation. Ethiopia, landlocked since the secession, has a strategic interest in a critical Eritrean port, Assab.
A border war broke out between the countries in the late 1990s, and since then, they have been locked in an unyielding animus.
Eritrean dissidents have accused the government of using the war to justify endless military service that has been behind the exodus of young Eritreans in recent years. Eritreans were among the largest group of people landing on Mediterranean shores during the height of Europe’s migration crisis.
1-year-old baby appears in immigration court, cries hysterically
A year-old baby boy in federal custody appeared in immigration court without his parents in Phoenix, briefly played with a ball, drank from a bottle, then “cried hysterically” as he was about to leave the courtroom, according to the Associated Press.
But he was eventually granted a voluntary departure order so the government can fly him to Honduras, where his father has already been sent.
The little boy, identified in court only as Johan, was one of the children who appeared in the Arizona court Friday without parents. One boy held up five fingers when the judge asked him his age.
Judge John Richardson said he was “embarrassed to ask” if Johan understood the proceedings, said AP. “I don’t know who you would explain it to, unless you think that a 1-year-old could learn immigration law,” he told Johan’s attorney.
Immigration advocates have complained about children in court, calling it stressful and frightening. There are no physical accommodations for children, many of whom can’t even see over defense tables without booster seats.
“There are no booster seats … no teddy bears. It’s a cold immigration court, and these kids are sitting in chairs that are too big for them; their feet don’t even touch the floor,” immigration attorney Lindsay Toczlowski explained last month on CNN.
Johan, who was separated at the U.S. border from his dad under Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy, is one of the more fortunate children because he at least has a court-appointed attorney. Not all of the children separated from their parents do.
Trump countermanded his own separation policy with an executive order he signed June 20. But now his administration is under court order to reunite children with families.
Some 3,000 migrant children remain in government custody after being separated from their parents, and 100 of them are under the age of 5, according to HHS. The New York Times has reported that some records on the separated families have been lost or even destroyed, raising the possibility that some children may never be reunited with their families. In addition, the U.S. has already deported at least 19 parents of children under the age of 5 and in federal custody.
A federal judge in San Diego ordered the Trump administration to reunite children with their parents within 14 days for children under the age of 5, and within 30 days for older children. The first deadline is July 10.
Lawyers for HHS asked for an extension last week — and argued that federal officials shouldn’t be required to reunite children with parents who have already been deported. Judge Dana Sabraw, who set the deadlines, will hold a hearing Monday on the extension request, but only in specific cases where the government can demonstrate that it’s necessary. She said Friday that the government must reunite children with their parents, even if the parents have already been deported.
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Shark attacks California Instagram model in Bahamas
“I am so fortunate that I still have my arm and my life.”
Katarina Zarutskie was floating calmly in the ocean off the Bahamas’ Staniel Cay when she suddenly felt her arm being yanked down.
Zarutskie, a 19-year-old nursing student and Instagram model from Laguna Beach, California, had been swimming with nurse sharks when one bit her arm and started to drag her under the water last month. Her boyfriend’s father took several photos throughout the attack, capturing the exact moment that Zarutskie came in contact with the 5-foot-long shark.
“He had my wrist in his mouth and I could feel his teeth sinking into my arm,” Zarutskie told NBC News on Monday. “I was pulled underwater for a few seconds and then ripped my wrist out of the shark’s mouth as fast as I could.”
When she got free of the shark’s bite, she swam to some steps — holding her bleeding arm out of the water to not tempt more sharks — and got out of the ocean.
Zarutskie, who attends the University of Miami, had been on vacation with her boyfriend and his family and had heard from locals that swimming with nurse sharks was a fun and safe activity. She did not swim with the sharks through a tour company or any organization that required payment, but, having grown up as a surfer in Southern California, she said she was not afraid to jump in the water near a marina.
“My boyfriend’s family was freaking out when I went to swim with the sharks and I was like, ‘it’s fine,'” she said.
According to David Hocher, who owns Staniel Cay marina, people do get bitten from time to time while around the sharks.
“These animals are considered quite docile but can and do bite on occasion,” Hocher wrote in an email. “Normally when they mistake a hand or fingers for a piece of food.”
Hocher sent NBC News a picture of a sign at the marina that warns guests that nurse sharks “can and do bite” and that visitors must “swim with the sharks at your own risk” — but Zarutskie said she did not see the sign.
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Drake Beats The Beatles’ Record For Most Simultaneous Songs In The Top 10
Nicki broke Aretha’s record, now Drake dominates the Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated 7/14) in record-breaking fashion, as his new LP Scorpion launches at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with the biggest week of consumption for an album in 2018. Atop the Hot 100, the set’s “Nice for What” rebounds from No. 6 to No. 1 for an eighth total week at the summit.
Among Drake’s record feats on the Hot 100, he boasts seven songs in the top 10 simultaneously, besting the Beatles’ record of five that had stood since 1964. (The Beatles remain the only act to monopolize the Hot 100’s entire top five in a week.) Drake adds five new Hot 100 top 10s, upping his career count to 31, passing Michael Jackson for the most among male soloists; one of those new top 10s, “Don’t Matter to Me,” features Jackson, who earns his 30th top 10.
Beyond the top 10, Drake charts 27 songs overall on the July 14-dated Hot 100, breaking his own record for the most simultaneously charted titles. All 25 tracks from Scorpion, released on Young Money/Cash Money/Republic Records, appear on the chart.
Let’s run down Drake’s numerous achievements and the top 10 on the newest Hot 100, which blends all-genre streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data. All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (July 10).
Record-breaking seven simultaneous top 10s: Here’s a look at all seven of Drake’s songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 on the July 14-dated chart, five of which reach the region for the first time:
Rank this week, Title (Rank last week)
No. 1, “Nice for What” (No. 6; eighth week at No. 1)
No. 2, “Nonstop” (debut this week)
No. 4, “God’s Plan” (No. 9; previously spent 11 weeks at No. 1)
No. 6, “In My Feelings” (debut this week)
No. 7, “I’m Upset” (No. 26; previously reached No. 15)
No. 8, “Emotionless” (debut this week)
No. 9, “Don’t Matter to Me,” featuring Michael Jackson (debut this week)
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