Kentucky man has been arrested after he threw a ham at a woman during an argument over which day Christmas dinner should take place.
LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities say a Kentucky man has been arrested after he threw a ham at a woman during an argument over which day Christmas dinner should take place.
WAVE-TV reports that David Brannon was arrested Sunday after he tried to flee from police officers who reported to a home on a domestic dispute call.
The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said Brannon threw items at the woman, including the ham to be eaten for Christmas dinner.
Deputies say several items were found on the kitchen floor.
Brannon is being held in the Laurel County Correctional Center on charges of assault and fleeing or evading police. Online jail records do not show if he has a lawyer.
Mom Wants To Know How To Help Her ‘Racist Infant’ & People Are Getting Heated
Teaching your kids to be thoughtful about race is not just a good suggested parenting practice — it’s absolutely crucial. But for one mom, her overwhelming concern that her child is racist has caused the Internet to question her own thinking. That’s because the kid she’s worried about is only 4 months old. The mom wrote in to an advice column looking for ways to deal with her infant’s “issue,” but many are now pointing out that it most likely isn’t the baby who has a problem.In a letter written to Slate’s advice columnist, the mom known as She Didn’t Know Any Better! shared her concerns:
Dear Care and Feeding,
I’m a white parent with a white family, in a predominantly white area. When my kids get closer to school age, we’d like to move into a more diverse area, and for now I try to choose books and media with diverse characters. However, yesterday, at a company party, my 4-month-old met a black person (the significant other of a co-worker) for one of the first times. He had just finished telling me how much babies love him; then, my infant took one look at him and started crying. I gave a weak excuse about her being hungry, but it was pretty transparent.
I’m embarrassed and unsure if I should address the situation with my co-worker or pretend it didn’t happen. Any thoughts on how to handle my racist infant?
—She Didn’t Know Any Better!
In a recent edition of the Care and Feeding advice column, the new mom explained that despite ensuring that her kid is exposed to “books and media with diverse characters,” her daughter cried when she met someone who was African American for the first time.
“He had just finished telling me how much babies love him; then, my infant took one look at him and started crying,” she wrote. “I gave a weak excuse about her being hungry, but it was pretty transparent.”
Pretty … transparent?
Doctor tells parents their partially paralyzed 7-year-old was ‘faking her symptoms’ to get her parents attention because she was jealous of her new baby sister.
When 7-year-old Bailey Sheehan arrived at a hospital in Oregon partially paralyzed, a doctor said the girl was faking her symptoms to get her parents’ attention because she was jealous of her new baby sister.
But that doctor was proved wrong when an MRI showed that the girl had acute flaccid myelitis or AFM, a polio-like disease that’s struck hundreds of children since 2014.
Erin Olivera, mother of a child with AFM and founder of a private Facebook page for parents of 400 children with the disease, says Bailey’s experience is hardly unique. She estimates that based on postings by parents, as many as 1 in 10 children were told that the paralysis was all in their heads when they first sought medical care.
Experts who study the art and science of diagnosis say the problem goes beyond this one rare disease. They say that in general, when presented with a puzzling disease, physicians too often leap to a diagnosis of a psychiatric problem.
“Mental disorders become the default position to deal with medical uncertainty,” said Dr. Allen Frances, former chair of psychiatry at the Duke University School of Medicine. “It’s widespread, and it’s dangerous.”
Dr. Mark Graber, president emeritus of the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine, added, “It’s a tendency that physicians have when they can’t find a physical cause.
“It’s bad. It’s very bad.”
Bailey’s story
Bailey was a healthy little girl until October 28, 2014, when she suddenly couldn’t move her neck or her right shoulder or leg.
A rehabilitation expert at a children’s hospital said Bailey wasn’t really paralyzed, according to her mother, Mikell Sheehan.
The doctor said the paralysis was an emotional reaction to her sister’s birth four months earlier. He diagnosed Bailey with a mental condition called conversion disorder.
Sheehan told the doctor off.
“I said, ‘You’ve been with my child for 15 minutes, and you think it’s psychological? Get out of my face,’ ” she remembered.
Sheehan said the doctor hinted that she was unstable.
“He said, you know, ‘moms with new babies don’t get enough sleep,’ ” she said.
Bailey’s regular pediatrician, who’d known the girl since birth, disagreed with the diagnosis and pushed for further testing. That’s when the MRI showed that she had AFM.
Armed with the correct diagnosis, Bailey received treatment for AFM, including extensive physical therapy, and four years later is walking again.
“We were lucky that her pediatrician was such an advocate for us, but I don’t know if everyone’s that lucky,” Sheehan said.
Sheehan says she understands why doctors didn’t immediately think of AFM for her daughter, because the disease was not well-known four years ago. But there are several other causes of paralysis in children, and she wonders why her daughter didn’t get a full round of testing for those.
Dr. Benjamin Greenberg, a neurologist who’s seen cases of AFM across the country, said that even this year, when AFM has made headlines nationally, parents have told him that doctors have missed the disease and suggested that their children were faking their paralysis.
“The stories I can tell are maddening and saddening,” said Greenberg, associate professor of neurology at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Four years later, Sheehan says, she still feels the scars from her daughter’s misdiagnosis.
“You feel violated and wrongly accused,” she said.
The dangers of false certainty
Though there’s no data indicating how frequently doctors misdiagnose physical conditions as psychiatric ones, experts in the field of diagnosis say they see it all too often.
It typically starts when a patient has a perplexing illness and doctors feel a need to come up with a diagnosis.
“Doctors are uncomfortable with not having answers,” Frances said.
The consequences can be “catastrophic,” he said, because a misdiagnosis can lead to a patient receiving treatment for a disease they don’t have and missing out on treatment for the disease they do have.
“False certainty is much more dangerous than uncertainty,” he said.
The American Medical Association and the American College of Emergency Physicians declined requests for comment.
Graber, who is also professor emeritus of medicine at the Stony Brook University in New York, said part of the problem is that medical students are taught that physical symptoms sometimes have a psychological basis. That’s true, he said, but doctors need to thoroughly test for physical problems before defaulting to a psychiatric diagnosis.
“Physicians have an obligation to do a thorough workup before turning to a psychological explanation,” he said. “When a doctor can’t find a cause, that’s a great time to get a second opinion or consult with a specialist.”
Frances added that it’s OK for a doctor to simply say “I don’t know.”
“Doctors need to learn to embrace medical uncertainty,” he said.
Girl, 14, shot ‘point blank’ by mom after calling 911
A woman bound the ankles and wrists of her 14-year-old daughter with zip ties — then fatally shot the girl between her eyes at “near point-blank range’’ as the brave youngster was on the phone with 911 pleading for help, police said.
The horrific murder took place Tuesday in the Seattle, Wash., suburb of Renton.
Before the gun was fired, the dispatcher heard someone shout, “You called 911” and something that sounded like “blow your head off,” ABC News reported.
Authorities say the mom, 52-year-old Svetlana B. Laurel, who is separated from her husband, Michael Gulizia, went to his home on Tuesday, according to ABC.
He recently had been awarded custody of the girl, Natalie, and her 12-year-old brother. Laurel was told she could make only supervised visits.
Laurel arrived on her unsupervised visit while her daughter was upstairs and Gulizia and the boy were out, The Seattle Times reported.
Around that time, she called a friend in New York and spoke to him in Russian. The friend said the call was “strange,” noting Laurel told him she had amended her will to include him. The pal, fearing she’d commit suicide, called Renton cops and asked them to check on her. They didn’t get the chance.
When her husband and son arrived home, she allegedly tied up the boy, jammed a sock into his mouth and threatened to use a stun gun on him.
Laurel got the drop on her husband, used her zip ties to restrain him and zapped him with the stun gun, according to the Times.
When she heard the commotion downstairs, the daughter dialed 911 and was shot to death. Laurel then allegedly tried to kill Gulizia with her pistol — but it misfired, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
As Svetlana was struggling to clear the malfunction, Gulizia rammed her into the wall with his shoulder and was able to grab the weapon.
Officers arrived too late to save the daughter.
Laurel, who had no police record, was charged with numerous crimes and could be sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
Both Gulizia and his wife worked at Boeing.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/12/23/girl-14-shot-point-blank-by-mom-after-calling-911/
Cardi B Explains Jet Ski Photo With Offset: “I Just Had To Get F-cked”
It’s that simple…
Contrary to previous reports, Cardi B has asserted that her latest rendezvous with Offset in Puerto Rico was not the result of any reconciliation, but rather a transactional interaction when she and her ex were photographed on a jet ski in the Caribbean nation. On Saturday, Cardi took to Instagram to clear the air and give the backstory behind the photograph.
According to the “Money” rapper, the jet ski instructor tricked Cardi into letting him take her picture
“Let me tell you something about the jet ski n-gga, right?” she says in the video. “ The instructor or whatever the fuck he is — he was taking pictures of us on his phone like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna send you these pictures so you guys can have a memory and I’m going to delete it.’ I’m like, ‘Oh ok.’
“What type of professional shit is that,” she adds after revealing that the instructor is the one who sold the photo to the media.
She goes on to hold up a copy of the company’s brochure and warns those online to stay away from the company. Before the clip ends, someone seems to ask Cardi why she was with her estranged husband in the first place, and the answer is quite simple: “I just had to get fucked. That’s all,” she says before turning to look back at the camera.
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Two-year-old boy ‘castrated’ after doctors botched operation
A 2-year-old boy who was supposed to undergo a “minimal operation” was “castrated” when doctors accidentally operated on the wrong testicle, his family says.
The boy was treated for an undescended testicle at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children in the United Kingdom. But doctors told the family that they put a camera into “the wrong side” — the healthy gonad — rendering him infertile, BBC News reported on Friday.
“I was very distressed. It was an awful disaster for a simple operation. They destroyed everything and they ruined my son,” his father said. “They castrated him and now my son’s future life has dramatically changed.”
Undescended testicles are uncommon in babies but can be easily corrected with laparoscopic surgery by moving the testicle into the scrotum and stitching it in place, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The problem was detected during a routine checkup, the boy’s father said.
The family was told the operation would take about 30 minutes and had “minimal risk.”
“We were waiting and waiting,” said the dad, who was not named to protect his son’s identity. “After two and a half hours the manager, surgeons and consultants they came and I knew something was not right. Me and my wife started panicking, they called us into the office and told us things didn’t go right and the operation wasn’t a success.”
The boy’s mother said she’s so distraught, she has “no more tears” left to cry.
“They broke my heart and they basically destroyed his future,” she said.
University Hospitals Bristol issued a statement saying it was “deeply sorry” for the botched procedure and has launched an investigation.
“As soon as our staff members realized what had happened, they met with the family, told them what happened, and apologized again at that point,” a hospital spokesperson said. “I would like to reiterate that we take patient safety extremely seriously here and also the quality of our clinical care.”
The UK’s National Health System estimated that one in 25 boys are born with undescended testicles. The universal health care system said surgery to correct the condition was “relatively straightforward” with a good success rate.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/12/21/two-year-old-boy-castrated-after-doctors-botched-operation/
Louisiana Officer Faces 40 Charges After Recording Himself Having Sex With Animal
A police officer in Bossier City, Louisiana, has been arrested after allegedly filming himself having sex with an animal, authorities announced Thursday.
Terry Yetman, 38, was arrested on Dec. 19 and charged with 20 counts of sexual abuse of animals by performing sexual acts with an animal, and 20 counts of filming sexual acts with an animal, according to the Louisiana State Police.
Yetman, a Bossier City Police Officer, was the recipient of the 2018 Trey Hutchison Award, which is presented by the Bossier Domestic Task Force to officers who champion the rights of domestic violence victims and their families, according to KTLA sister station WGNO in New Orleans.
Detectives with the State Police Special Victim’s Unit began an investigation into Yetman’s activities in August, and that investigation resulted in a search warrant for Yetman’s residence.
Detectives found pornography involving sexual acts with an animal on electronic devices belonging to Yetman, according to police.
Authorities did not identify the type of animal involved.
Yetman turned himself in when he learned warrants had been issued for his arrest.
He is currently being held at the Bossier Max Correctional Center on a $350,000 bond.
The investigation is still open and may result in additional charges, police said.
via: https://ktla.com/2018/12/20/police-officer-allegedly-filmed-himself-having-sex-with-an-animal/
Chemistry major accused of poisoning roommate
Lehigh University student Juwal Royal thought he had a “cordial” relationship with Yukai Yang, his roommate of four years. But for months, prosecutors say, Yang was trying to kill him.
Yang, a chemistry major from China, faces charges including attempted murder and aggravated assault for allegedly putting the chemical thallium, which is used in rat poison, in his roommate’s food and drink, the Morning Call reports.
Yang, 22, was first arrested in April on charges including ethnic intimidation after allegedly scrawling racist graffiti, including “(N-word) GET OUT OF HERE” on his black roommate’s desk and trashing his TV and bed.
Royal, who graduated from the Pennsylvania university in the spring, became so ill on two occasions in March that police were called to the room twice. On one occasion, he was hospitalized after vomiting for 45 minutes.
Tests revealed dangerous amounts of thallium in his blood. Royal, who is still experiencing symptoms from the poisoning, “was as dumbfounded by this as anyone else,” says assistant DA Abraham Kassis.
Authorities say Yang admitted buying thallium and other chemicals online and putting them in food and drink in their shared fridge, but said he bought them to harm himself “if he did poorly on future exams.”
Yang has been kicked out of Lehigh and will also lose his student visa, WFMZreports. (This Hartford University student was arrested after a sickening campaign against her roommate.)
via: https://pix11.com/2018/12/22/chemistry-major-accused-of-poisoning-roommate/
Bank calls cops on black man for cashing his paycheck
A bank in Ohio called cops on a black man and had him arrested — because he was trying to cash his paycheck.
Paul McCowns stopped by the Huntington bank in Brooklyn on Dec. 1 to cash his very first paycheck for $1,082.24, Cleveland 19 reported.
He said he had just landed a job as at an electric company.
Because he didn’t have an account with Huntington, the bank teller asked McCowns for two forms of ID and his fingerprints.
But instead of finalizing the routine transaction, the teller tried calling McCowns’ new employer — to confirm he actually worked there, thinking the check was bogus.
“They tried to call my employer numerous times. He never picked up the phone,” McCowns recalled.
The tellers told him the check couldn’t be cashed — so he left. That’s when a squad car pulled up in front of him in the parking lot. Unbeknownst to McCowns, the bank had called 911 on him.
“I get in my truck and the squad car pull in front of me and he says get out the car,” he said. “It was highly embarrassing, highly embarrassing.”
The 911 call and police report obtained by the local TV network revealed that bank employees thought McCowns’ check was a fake.
“He’s trying to cash a check and the check is fraudulent. It does not match our records,” one of the tellers says on the call.
“Does he know you called 911?” the dispatcher asks.
“No,” the teller responds.
McCowns was handcuffed and placed in the back of the cop car before police confirmed the check was real and that he was, in fact, an employee at the electric company.
“My employer said, ‘Yes he works for me. He just started and yes, my payroll company does pay him that much,’” said McCowns, who wound up cashing his check the next day at another Huntington branch.
Now, he’s demanding an apology from the bank for racially profiling him.
A Huntington rep told Cleveland 19 that there had been nearly a dozen cases of fraud in the last few months and that tellers were just being vigilant.
“We sincerely apologize to Mr. McCowns for this extremely unfortunate event. We accept responsibility for contacting the police as well as our own interactions with Mr. McCowns,” a statement from the bank said.
“Anyone who walks into a Huntington branch should feel welcomed. Regrettably, that did not occur in this instance and we are very sorry. We hold ourselves accountable to the highest ethical standards in how we operate, hire and train colleagues, and interact with the communities we have the privilege of serving.”
The bank rep said they reached out to McCowns to apologize several times but he hasn’t returned their calls.
via: https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/bank-calls-cops-on-black-man-for-cashing-his-paycheck/
Florida deputy uses service revolver to kill family members, self
A Florida sheriff’s deputy murdered three of his family members — including his young granddaughter — and then radioed in their deaths before taking his own life Wednesday, according to officials.
“He [used] his service revolver to commit these acts of violence,” explained Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister during an afternoon press conference.
Deputy Terry Strawn fatally shot his 54-year-old wife Theresa, his 32-year-old daughter Courtney and 6-year-old granddaughter Londyn sometime before 6:42 a.m. and then turned the gun on himself.
Before committing suicide, he went over the main channel of the sheriff’s office radio and told his co-workers about what he did — saying he “caused harm” to his family and had to go be with them, Chronister said.
Strawn had just returned to the sheriff’s department after retiring in 2017, and was excited to get started back as a school security officer.
“The deputy had no indicators or behavioral issues,” Chronister said, calling him an “exemplary employee.”
“He had just learned that we were gonna keep him,” the sheriff added. “He was extremely grateful. Indicated that ‘Christmas came early.’”
But something apparently changed in the 58-year-old and caused him to snap Wednesday.
“During his radio transmission, [Strawn] wanted to make sure that we all took care of each other, that we knew that depression was real, alluded to the fact that he was struggling with some health and financial issues…indicated that he was losing everything…and at one point said that he had to go,” recalled Chronister. “He appreciated all the help, but he had to go…He had to go be with his family.”
Hired in 1991, Strawn only had two minor infractions throughout his entire career.
“That’s it,” Chronister said. “Again, no indications. No behavior issues. Nothing that would lead any of us to believe that this employee was struggling.”
Strawn murdered his wife and granddaughter at the home that they shared, and his daughter at her residence, according to Chronister.
He then went to a nearby high school and shot himself in front of deputies after informing them of his whereabouts.
“Same thing with a lot of murder-suicides, there [were] no indicators,” Chronister said. “None at all.”
Strawn is the second Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office employee to take his own life in recent months after killing a member of their family. Deputy Kirk Keithley fatally shot his 33-year-old wife Samantha inside their home while their four children were inside.
“I hate that the fact that society believes that only violence or suicide is an option to whatever they’re struggling with,” Chronister said. “It’s incumbent upon all of us to change the culture of society — that it’s OK to ask for help. You don’t have to resort to violence or suicide.”
via: https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/florida-deputy-uses-service-revolver-kill-family-members-self/