6-year-old Brooklyn boy left alone on school bus for hours
BROWNSVILLE, Brooklyn — A six-year old boy was left on a school bus for hours Wednesday morning.
“My heart dropped. I was scared, I didn’t know what to do,” said Ceira Funn, the boy’s mother.
Funn told PIX11 she put her son Noah on the school bus around 7 a.m. and hours later she got a call from faculty at PS156 in Brownsville saying he wasn’t there.
“I’m like ‘why wouldn’t he be in school if I put him on a school bus with other kids and they got off fine? Why is he not in school? Where is he?'” she recounted.
She was told a supervisor found him asleep on the bus at a depot in Queens. He was eventually driven to the Brooklyn school, but because he has a speech delay and asthma, Funn took him to a doctor to get checked out.
According to the Department of Education, the incident was reported for investigation and the driver has been suspended.
Funn, who ironically works for the Department of Education as a paraprofessional, says she’s not putting Noah back on a bus again and she wants bus drivers to get better training.
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Toni Harris, who starred in Super Bowl ad, nabs college football scholarship to play on men’s team
Toni Harris is an undersized defensive back with huge dreams. The free safety wants to be the first woman to play in the NFL.
While that may be a long-shot wish, she is going to be the first woman — other than a kicker — who will attend college on a full football scholarship. Harris, 22, signed a letter of intent this week with Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri, to play at the NAIA school.
“I always try to push myself every single day and keep my faith in God to let me go as far as I want to go,” she said earlier this month before Toyota aired an advertisement about her during the Super Bowl.
The ad focused on how people underestimate her as a player.
“I’ve never been a big fan of assumptions,” she says in the spot.
According to CNN affiliate KCBS/KCAL, Harris was diagnosed with ovarian cancer when she was 18.
“I had a tumor inside of my stomach,” she said in 2017. She beat cancer, the station reported.
She said people try all the time to talk her out of playing football and one said she couldn’t move from high school football to college.
“I had a coach tell me before that I would never get to the next level because I was a lot smaller and not as fast as the other guys, so that moment taught me to never give up,” she told CNN. “From that moment then I told myself no one’s ever going to decide what I am going to do with my life. That’s my decision.”
Last year, Harris, who is 5-foot-5 and 135 pounds, played three games as a sophomore for East Los Angeles College, and had three tackles and one pass breakup, according to the football team’s website. Her team went 4-6.
Central Methodist also went 4-6.
“As a coach giving someone the opportunity to go to college and assist them in getting a degree, that’s what it’s all about,” head coach David Calloway said of Harris, who the school lists at 5-foot-7.
ESPN reported that kicker Rebecca Longo is a scholarship player at Adams State University, an NCAA Division II school in Colorado.
Man without gun license accidentally shoots himself in genitals
MARION, Ind. – An Indiana man accidentally shot himself in his genitalia, according to the Marion Police Department.
Deputy Chief Stephen Dorsey said officers came in contact with the 46-year-old man in the emergency room of Marion General Hospital shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday, according to WXIN.
There, the man told officers he was on a walkway near a Girl Scout cabin when the Hi Point 9mm handgun on his waist began to slip. The man said he reached down to adjust the gun, accidentally causing it to discharge.
Police said the bullet entered just above the man’s penis and exited his scrotum.
According to police, the man doesn’t have an Indiana handgun license and the case will be sent to the Grant County Prosecutor’s Office for review.
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Video shows daycare teacher throwing child against cabinet; worker told parents child fell down
ST. LOUIS — A three-year-old was taken to a Missouri hospital via ambulance after she was apparently thrown against a cabinet by a daycare teacher, according to KTVI.
Surveillance video at Brighter Day Care and Preschool shows the incident. In the video, the girl appears calm while standing by a chair for two minutes before a teacher walks across the room towards her. The teacher grabs the child’s arm, drags her and throws her against a cabinet.
The child was taken to a local hospital where she received seven stitches and was released.
After the child was injured, the teacher reportedly sent a note home to parents saying “she fall.”
“In no world did this family have any idea that what was called a fall was actually an assault until they came to see that video,” said attorney Jennifer Hansen.
The family hired Hansen for representation and asked to remain anonymous.
“One of the more egregious aspects of this case is that the daycare director told the family that she did not watch the surveillance tape until the family was with her,” Hansen said.
Hansen said it was five days after the incident when the child’s relative used a cell phone to record the surveillance video. You can hear her shock in the relative’s voice when she sees it wasn’t an accident as reported.
“The daycare could’ve reviewed that footage at any time,” Hansen said. “They didn’t and they allowed the daycare worker who assaulted this little girl to continue to work at the facility for five additional days.”
The director fired the teacher after seeing the video. Police are investigating along with state child care inspectors.
KTVI found those inspectors also reported past cases of kids getting hurt at that location. In May 2018, inspectors noted a second teacher “slam a child down on the cot” and a third teacher “holding a child by his wrist, dragging him across the room.”
In June 2016, inspectors said, “staff did not have a preventative plan in place” when “(one child was) repeatedly hitting and choking another child.”
And in March 2016, inspectors wrote that a “child fell out of the chair and sustained a left femoral fracture.”
Daycare director Sharon Williams told KTVI she could not comment because of the ongoing investigation. Her attorney then sent a statement, saying: “All teachers and staff are properly trained and extremely qualified. Providing a quality education in a safe environment is of the utmost importance to our teachers and staff. It has always been our policy to notify the proper authorities and to fully comply with any investigation. We have and will continue to follow said policy.”
New report finds predominantly white school districts get $23 billion more in funding than nonwhite ones
Predominantly white school districts in the US get $23 billion a year more than districts that educate mostly non-white children, an education advocacy group says.
A report from EdBuild, which promotes equity in public schools, found that the average white school district got $13,908 for every student in 2016, compared to $11,682 per student in districts that mostly serve people of color.
The country has about 13,000 traditional public school systems, averaging 3,500 students each, the report says. The report defines “white” or “non-white” districts as “racially concentrated” districts — attended by more than half of US students — in which the population is either three-quarters white or three-quarters non-white.
The money gap — a difference of roughly $2,226 per student — originates in the way Americans pay for education, with locally run schools being tied to local control of taxes.
“We need to take a different approach,” EdBuild CEO Rebecca Sibilia told CNN, suggesting that local governments reconsider how school districts are drawn.
White communities tend to have more money to spend on schools. And white school districts tend to be much smaller than non-white school districts, the EdBuild says.
“Small districts can have the effect of concentrating resources and amplifying political power,” the report says. “Because schools rely heavily on local taxes, drawing borders around small, wealthy communities benefits the few at the detriment of the many.”
The report also found that white districts enroll just over 1,500 students — half the size of the national average — while non-white districts serve over 10,000 students, about three times more than that average.
The report says 27% of students are in mostly non-white districts and 26% are in mostly white.
The biggest funding gap between the districts was in Arizona, where students in non-white districts received an average of $7,613 less each.
This inequity in Arizona is a “real problem” and a “chief concern” of the state’s newly elected Superintendent of Public Instruction Kathy Hoffman, said public information officer Stefan Swiat of the Arizona Department of Education.
“This harkens back to an Arizona of the past that still exists today and we need to eradicate in the future,” Swiat said.
Sibilia called the disparity a vestige of America’s segregationist past.
“Where people live matters in terms of how well-funded their schools are,” she said.
The study considered local and state funding, the main income sources for schools. Federal money was not included since it is intended chiefly to “fill in the gaps,” Sibilia said.
Man accused of sexually assaulting girl with special needs
Mableton, GA (CBS46) — A man is behind bars after he allegedly sexually assaulted a girl with special needs at his Mableton home.
William Turner, 50, was arrested on February 20 and is charged with sexual battery, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and obscene material.
The incident allegedly took place on January 18.
According to a police report, the girl was dropped off by an Uber driver in front of the H.A.V.E.N. Academy. After noticing puppies in Turner’s yard, she went over to play with them.
Turner then invited the girl into his home. Once inside, Turner allegedly showed her pornography, touched her thigh and kissed her cheek.
A Cobb County school district spokesperson released this statement regarding the incident:
“We are aware of a student who was dropped off by Uber in the community near Haven. The student did not enter our building until after we had notified her parents and authorities that she had not arrived at school. We are supporting the student through this difficult time and in accordance with our policy, immediately informed Crimes Against Children and the Cobb County Police Department.“
Woman charged with assaulting man in MAGA hat now faces deportation
(Meredith) – A woman accused of attacking a man earlier this month for wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat was detained Tuesday for being in the U.S. illegally, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Rosiane Santos, 41, was charged with assault, battery and disorderly conduct after she confronted 23-year-old Bryton Turner at the Casa Vallarta Mexican Restaurant in Falmouth, Massachusetts, on Feb. 15.
Turner said he was minding his own business when Santos knocked off his MAGA hat and pushed his head down. He posted video of the altercation to Facebook and said he initially “wasn’t going to press charges,” but changed his mind when she did it again.
“It’s just a hat at the end of the day,” Turner told WBZ after the incident. “I don’t really understand why people can’t just express themselves anymore, everybody has to get mad.”
In a statement to the Boston Globe, ICE spokesman John Mohan said Santos is an “unlawfully present citizen of Brazil.”
“She has since been released from ICE custody after being entered into removal proceedings in the federal immigration courts and provided a Notice to Appear at a future date before an immigration judge,” Mohan said.
Her lawyer, Katarina Kozakova, told the newspaper that Santos has a pending green card application and is married to a U.S. citizen.
Man faces felony charge after allegedly dipping testicles in customer’s salsa
MARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man was jailed on felony charges after appearing to dip his testicles into a container of salsa that a customer had ordered online.
The delivery driver allegedly recorded it and posted a video online, saying “This is what you get when you give an 89 cents tip for an almost 30-minute drive.”
News outlets report that the passenger, 31-year-old Howard Matthew Webb, was arrested last week and charged with adulteration of food.
Dinner Delivered said the food service has fired the driver and forwarded information about her to authorities as well.
Webb remains behind bars pending a March 12 hearing.
His arrest warrant says they picked up the food for delivery from a local Mexican restaurant. The company issued a refund for the tainted food.
2 arrested in buffet brawl over crab legs
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama police say a dispute over crab legs at a dinner buffet ended in a brawl that left two people facing misdemeanor charges.
Huntsville police officer Gerald Johnson says he was eating at the Meteor Buffet restaurant when a fight broke out.
Johnson tells WHNT-TV that diners were using service tongs like fencing swords and plates were shattering, and a woman was beating a man. Johnson says diners had been waiting in line for crab legs for more than 10 minutes, and they lost their tempers once the food came out.
The station reports Chequita Jenkins is charged with assaulting John Chapman, who suffered a cut on his head. Chapman is charged with disorderly conduct