Dog starts house fire by switching on microwave
ESSEX COUNTY, England — Every now and again incredible stories emerge of heroic dogs saving their owners from house fires.
This isn’t one of those stories.
A husky has become the unlikely cause of a house fire after turning on a microwave with food inside it, according to fire services in England.
The fire began on Monday afternoon at a home in Stanford-Le-Hope, around 25 miles east of London, when a dog inadvertently switched on the kitchen appliance, which had a packet of bread rolls inside, according to Essex County Fire and Rescue Service .
The owner, who was out of the property at the time, saw smoke coming from the kitchen through a camera feed on his mobile phone, the fire service said in a statement.
Geoff Wheal, watch manager at Corringham Fire Station, warned that the “very strange incident” could have been “more serious.”
He said that he and his colleagues arrived to find the kitchen full of smoke.
Wheal warned against storing food in the microwave when the machine is not in use.
“Our advice is to always keep your microwave clean and free of clutter or food and any packaging,” he said. “Animals or children can turn them on more easily than you might think, so please don’t run the risk.”
The dog was not hurt in the incident, the statement said.
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2 teens, their mom’s boyfriend dead in apparent murder-suicide after argument over smoking
Police say two teenager siblings and their mother’s boyfriend are dead in what appears to be a murder-suicide that started with an argument over smoking in a Connecticut home.
Officers responded to the Watertown home at about 10 p.m. Tuesday after a woman called 911 to report the shooting.
Police say 16-year-old Sterling Jette and 15-year-old Della Jette were taken to Waterbury Hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Police also found 42-year-old Paul Ferguson dead at the scene of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The mother was not injured.
Police say the girl was upset over Ferguson smoking in the house.
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Man drove stolen SUV to bail out brother — who was busted for stealing an SUV
This crime runs in the family.
A Kansas man was busted for driving a stolen Chevy SUV to a local jail to bail out his brother — who was being held for driving a stolen Chevy SUV, according to authorities.
The sibling already in the pokey, Eric Dean McCracken, 36, had been arrested in Topeka early Friday for allegedly driving a stolen 2007 Trailblazer with a suspended license, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
A few hours later, his younger brother, Keith Ray McCracken, 32, was also arrested after a short chase with cops tracking the GPS of a stolen 2015 Silverado, the department said.
“It is believed that the younger McCracken was en route to the Jackson County Jail to post bail on his older brother in a stolen vehicle,” Sheriff Tim Morse said in the release.
Keith’s arrest led to a family reunion — with both brothers ending up in Jackson County Jail awaiting bond, the release said.
Eric McCracken was booked for driving with a suspended license and possession of stolen property. His brother was held for fleeing and eluding a law-enforcement officer, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license and possession of stolen property, the statement said.
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Florida teacher accused of having sex with teen ‘several hundred times’
A Florida special education teacher was arrested Monday after allegedly having sex with her son’s 15-year-old friend “several hundred times” beginning last year, a report said.
Susan Weddle, 40, and the teen allegedly kicked off their relationship at the woman’s Cantonment home after the two attended her son’s football game and started drinking, according to the Pensacola News Journal, citing an arrest report.
The teen said once he was drunk, he convinced Weddle to have sex with him — even though she told him she knew it was wrong, the report said.
From there, the pair then allegedly had a sexual relationship that lasted more than a year with dalliances at her house, his home, in her car and at the beach.
“Weddle was his first and only sexual partner, and he believed himself to be in love with her,” the arrest report said.
Weddle on Monday resigned from the J.E. Hall Center, where she helped train other teachers as a learning resource specialist, Escambia County School District Superintendent Malcolm Thomas told the paper.
She worked there for 11 months. Before that position, she was a teacher at L.D. McArthur Elementary School, the report said.
Several witnesses came forward to report the pair’s relationship, and in November a high school guidance counselor tipped off the Department of Children and Families.
That witness alerted the counselor about discovering damning text messages between the teen and Weddle.
Another witness, who was hired to pressure wash Weddle’s home in April, alerted the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office that he saw the two kissing.
The witnesses also told authorities the teen showed him nude photos of Weddle on his phone, according to the arrest report.
Weddle allegedly gifted the teen with an iPhone, necklace, bracelet and other gifts during the relationship.
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Florida man left son at side of highway because he might be gay
A Florida father left his juvenile son on the side of the road because he thinks his son might be gay, according to police.
Evenaud Julmeus, 30, of Haines City, Fla., dropped the boy off in front of a closed police department, according to an affidavit, which stated that the child had a small duffel bag with several articles of clothing in it but did not have any food, water or money. The boy also did not have a phone with him, police said.
Julmeus told his son, whose age was redacted in the affidavit, to pack a duffel bag after he allegedly found male pornography videos on his cellphone, according to what the affidavit said the victim told police. Court records said Julmeus “became very upset” after he found the videos.
Haines City police told Fox News the boy is a pre-teen.
A bystander who witnessed the event called police. An officer dispatched to the location said the victim was very upset and crying, according to court records.
The victim told police that his father told him to pack a bag and that he was taking him to the police department where they would find him a new home, court records said.
Julmeus made his son get out of the vehicle while sitting in a turn lane on a Florida highway and then drove off, according to court records, which added that his father did not try to contact law enforcement to tell them he had dropped off his son.
After learning about what had happened, the boy’s mother went to go look for him at the police station, leaving her other two young children with Julmeus, the affidavit said.
Julmeus had fled the home before police arrived, leaving the two children alone, according to court records.
Julmeus left his juvenile son at “a closed police department with no one around, failing or omitting to provide the victim with care, supervision and services necessary to maintain physical or mental health while also failing to make a reasonable effort to protect the victim from abuse, neglect or exploitation of others,” the affidavit said.
He also allegedly neglected his two other children by leaving them alone at their home with no adult supervision or care, court records added.
Julmeus has been charged with three counts of negligent child abuse without bodily harm and turned himself in, police said, adding that he is still in custody.
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Manhattan couple turned on by the sights, sounds and smells of New York’s least romantic locale had sex in two subway stations on the same day
The pair turned Grand Central into glans central during the climax of the evening rush around 6:40 p.m. Nov. 22 — mere hours after a similar incident at the line’s Bowling Green station, sources said.
A graphic 38-second video, shot from inside a train at the bustling Midtown Manhattan station, opens with the rail-riding Romeo locked in a passionate embrace with his lover on the grimy 4/5/6-train platform.
An apparently stunned silence fills the car during the video, broken only by a pre-recorded “Stand clear of the closing doors” announcement — right as the man appears to perform oral sex on his partner.
The couple was spotted performing sex acts on each other along the Lower Manhattan platform around 9:30 a.m., according to police.
Investigators released a photo of the man in that incident, though the woman wasn’t caught on camera.
Authorities are looking to catch up to the randy duo.
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Kamala Harris ends Democratic presidential campaign
NEW YORK — Kamala Harris is ending her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020.
She told supporters in an email Tuesday that she “simply doesn’t have the financial resources we need to continue. Harris launched her campaign in front of 20,000 people at a chilly, outdoor campaign launch in January.
The first woman and first black attorney general and U.S. senator in California’s history, she was widely viewed as a candidate poised to excite the same segment of voters that sent Barack Obama to the White House.
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Brother of man killed by cop gets award for hugging her
PLANO, Texas — The brother of a man killed by a Dallas police officer has accepted an award from a law enforcement organization for hugging the officer after she was convicted of murder.
The Institute for Law Enforcement Administration gave 18-year-old Brandt Jean the award Tuesday for his “display of empathy and forgiveness” toward Amber Guyger.
In October, Brandt embraced Guyger in court after she was sentenced to a decade in prison for shooting Botham Jean in his apartment last year. Guyger, 31, said she mistook Jean’s home for her own and thought the 26-year-old was an intruder.
Gregory Smith, director of the Dallas-area institute, said Brandt’s actions helped the community heal.
Brandt said at the ceremony that it was hard to accept an award from a police training group because he believes a lack of training lead to his brother’s death.
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Woman Slashes Shopper’s Neck With Box Cutter at San Diego Walgreens
A woman armed with a box cutter slashed the neck of a shopper at a Walgreens in San Diego on Saturday, leaving the victim with a life-threatening injury, police said.
The attack occurred about 9:15 a.m. as the victim was browsing the cosmetics aisle at the drugstore on Camino Ruiz north of Mira Mesa Boulevard, said San Diego police Officer Tony Martinez.
The alleged assailant, a 55-year-old woman, first threatened to hurt the victim, Martinez said. She then grabbed the customer by her hair, pulled her head back and sliced her neck, he said.
Employees and customers inside the store witnessed the attack and disarmed the assailant, detaining her for officers. The woman was arrested on an attempted murder charge. Her name was not immediately released.
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Woman Stabs 2 in Head and Face With Scissors, Attacks 3rd Victim at Fontana-Area Church
A woman who was cleaning a Fontana area church stabbed two people who tried to stop her after she started attacking another woman Friday, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.
Destinee Watson, 23, was at the kitchen area of Pentecostal Church of God in Bloomington when she felt “disrespected by one of the church employees,” grabbed a woman and started repeatedly punching her in the head, authorities said Monday.
A person then ran in and tried to get Watson off the woman.
Watson let go of the first victim and allegedly punched the person who came to help. She pulled her second victim to the ground and started repeatedly stabbing her in the head with a pair of scissors, the Sheriff’s Department said.
Another person then approached and pulled Watson away from the victim. Watson then stabbed that person in the face, according to officials.
The third victim managed to run to safety and wait for deputies to arrive.
Deputies detained Watson without incident and arrested her on suspicion of attempted murder, authorities said.
The conditions of the three victims were unknown Monday.
Anyone with information was asked to call 909-356-6767 or 24 hour dispatch at 909-387-8313. Those who wish to remain anonymous were asked to call the We-Tip Hotline at 1-800-78-27463.
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