NJ woman accused of stabbing her husband to death with a nail clipper
MILLVILLE, NJ — A woman accused of using a nail clipper to stab her husband has been charged with murder.
Kathleen Ayala also faces weapons charges stemming from the attack that occurred early Sunday at a mobile home complex in Millville, New Jersey.
Ayala and Axel Torres were arguing in their trailer when the dispute turned physical.
Torres left the trailer but his wife chased after him, repeatedly stabbing him, authorities said. Torres lost consciousness and was taken to a hospital but died there Monday.
According to court documents, the woman told police she only wanted to scare her husband, not harm him.
It’s not known if she’s retained an attorney.
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Teenagers facing charges after toddler seen vaping on Snapchat video, Pennsylvania police say
Child endangerment charges are pending against two teenagers after a video posted to Snapchat appears to show a 2-year-old child using a vaping device, Pennsylvania State Police say.
According to a news release from police, a 17-year-old female was babysitting the child in St. Clair Township, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, January 9, while another 18-year-old female was also present.
The 2-year-old boy took a vaping device from a nightstand and began to use it, authorities say. Neither of the teens tried to stop the child from inhaling from the device, police say, and instead took video and posted it to social media.
In the video, a child can be seen using the vape while people laugh in the background. The video appears to show the child coughing and crying.
The video, posted to Snapchat, was reported to police. Troopers notified the toddler’s parents three days later, WPXI reports. They had no idea what had happened.
The mother of the child, who didn’t want her face shown, was appalled to see the video, according to WPXI.
“I’m disgusted. I’m very upset,” the mother says. “I’m in disbelief they would even laugh or even have something like that in reach of a child’s possession.”
The vape contained 3% nicotine, but no THC, authorities say. Besides coughing, the child is doing fine. But his mom is livid.
“I’m not trusting anybody anymore to babysit my child. I’m done,” she says. “I don’t even want to put him in daycare. I can’t trust anybody anymore.”
The United School District of Armagh, Pennsylvania, told KDKA they believe two of their students were involved in the incident. The names of the two teenagers haven’t been released.
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19-Year Old Model Commits Suicide After Not Getting Enough Social Media Likes
A British teen reportedly ended her life after she didn’t receive enough likes on social media.
The Sun reports 19-year-old Chloe Davison hanged herself in her bedroom after her photos did not receive enough likes on social media. Davison’s sister, Jade, said she was an aspiring model who was obsessed with having an online presence and used the various platforms to feel good about herself.
Family friend Nick Coombs said Davidson would often delete her photos if it didn’t receive enough likes and had problems making friends at school while dealing with cyberbullying.
The teen’s mother blames social media for her daughter’s untimely death and believes something should be done about it.
“Social media took over Chloe’s life, whether that be Snapchat or Facebook. Chloe was beautiful, but she didn’t see that. She cared too much about how other people saw her.”
If you or a loved one are experiencing thoughts of suicide, please call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline 1-800-273-855. Your life is matters.
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60 people are treated after a plane dumped jet fuel, hitting six schools around Los Angeles
Sixty people were affected after a plane dumped jet fuel while returning to the Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday, hitting five elementary schools and one high school.
The incident happened just after noon Tuesday, inspector Sean Ferguson of the Los Angeles County Fire Department told CNN. The most heavily affected school was Park Avenue Elementary in Cudahy, where 20 children and 11 adults reported minor injuries. The school is about 19 miles east of the airport.
The other schools affected were San Gabriel Elementary, Graham Elementary, Tweedy Elementary, 93rd Street Elementary and Jordan High School.
Some people who were hit by the jet fuel were decontaminated with soap and water, but no one at any site needed to be taken to the hospital, Sgt. Rudy Perez with the Los Angeles School Police Department said. The schools briefly went through shelter-in-place procedures, but there were no evacuations.
The children were given gowns so they could change out of their clothes, fire department inspector Sky Cornell said, adding there were no reports of injuries from other people in the area.
Justin Guiti, a fifth grader at Park Avenue, was hit by the fuel. He told CNN it sprayed all over him and his friends, even getting into his eye.
“Drops of water were coming down. I thought it was a rainbow, and I looked up, and it was gasoline,” he said.
Miguel Cervantes, a sixth grader, was also hit. He said his skin was itchy afterward.
“I thought it was smoke,” he said. “But when it went down, I felt it and it smelled like gas.”
What happened
Delta Air Lines said the fuel came from Flight 89, which had just taken off from LAX bound for Shanghai, China, when it “experienced an engine issue requiring the aircraft to return quickly to LAX.”
“The aircraft landed safely after a release of fuel, which was required as part of normal procedure to reach a safe landing weight,” the airline said.
The aircraft is a Boeing 777-200, according to Delta’s website, with 288 passenger seats.
Delta said it is in touch with airport authorities and the LA County Fire Department, and it expressed concern for those who reported injuries.
Video posted on YouTube shows the plane overhead with white streaks coming from the tips of the wings. Alan De Leon, who shot the video, told CNN he heard a loud whistle, smelled jet fuel and felt irritation in his eyes.
The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating the incident.
Planes aren’t supposed to dump fuel over populated areas
David Soucie, an aviation safety analyst, told CNN there are maximum takeoff and landing weights for aircraft, so in order for a plane with full fuel tanks to land, it must dump the fuel to avoid potentially crashing upon landing.
“There are special fuel-dumping procedures for aircraft operating into and out of any major US airport,” the FAA said Tuesday. “These procedures call for fuel to be dumped over designated unpopulated areas, typically at higher altitudes so the fuel atomizes and disperses before it reaches the ground.”
The Los Angeles Unified School District said its health and safety inspectors were working to ensure the outside areas of the schools are safe for attendance.
CNN’s Chuck Johnston, Stephanie Elam, Julia Jones, David Williams, Jon Passantino and Jennifer Selva contributed to this report.
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Young Joc job-shamed by fans for driving for ride-sharing service
Fans are asking if Yung Joc is broke after the rapper and reality star was videotaped driving for a ridesharing service in downtown Atlanta late last week
The “Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta” star, who was born in Atlanta as Jasiel Amon Tucker Robinson, was job-shamed as fans rode in the backseat of his car. The video was posted on social media on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020.
When the two fans got into the backseat, one of them began filming as they recognized the “It’s Going Down” emcee.
“You sound like somebody I know,” one of the passengers said.
The other passenger, a female, then asked: “I just wanna ask a question. Are you Yung Joc?” Can you turn around?”
“I think y’all already put that part together,” Joc, 36, said, as he pulled back his hoodie to reveal his identity.
Suddenly, one of the passengers, named J’Koni, bluntly job-shames Joc: “Oh, so you must’ve fell off or something.”
Both passengers seemingly clown Joc for needing to drive in order to make ends meet.
Joc appears to take offense to being shamed but remains polite and even-tempered.
“I gotta fall off? I just felt like it was an easy way to get some easy money downtown. I meet people,” Joc said.
To be sure, Yung Joc has been known to pull some serious publicity stunts for clout in the past or to honor a bet. A few seasons ago, Joc wore a floor-length dinner gown to a major event.
Check out the video of the fan encounter as Yung Joc drives them around downtown as it was captured by The Shade Room.
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What’s Tacoma’s plan for tackling homelessness? There is none, judging from People’s Park
Within the last 6 to 7 months. I personally have seen People’s Park turn into a homeless camp. And guess what is across the street? AcHousing assistance Buliding. Tacoma Housing Athority. If THA doesn’t have the funds to help the homeless who will?
What is the plan?
When it comes to the city of Tacoma’s effort to respond to its declared homelessness crisis, I’m no longer convinced there is one.
I don’t see how anyone could be, at least after watching the events of the last week play out at People’s Park on Hilltop.
Fair or not, the park, which is currently being cleared of a large encampment months in the making, has become the epicenter of Tacoma’s homelessness crisis.
It also now serves as a clear representation of the city’s current ability to respond to chronic homelessness — which, at this juncture, seems to be limited to reactionary moves, stutter steps and sympathetic soundbites.
Put plainly, the city currently has no clear, cogent vision for what it’s trying to do or how it will actually get there.
You know what the really frustrating part is?
That wasn’t always the case.
Back in 2017, when Tacoma’s elected leaders first declared homelessness to be a crisis worthy of an emergency response, a much-touted three-phase approach was rolled out.
The first two phases have been accomplished, at least to varying degrees, because they were the (relatively) easy parts. A number of large unauthorized encampments have been mitigated, while the city’s Dome District stability site and now the new micro-shelter site on Hilltop have been created to provide a safer, healthier middle ground between living outdoors and the next step.
Both represent progress, but that next step — Phase 3 — is where the wheels fell off.
To date, appropriate housing for individuals to move into has failed to materialize, at least to any meaningful extent.
At the time, everyone knew housing would be the ultimate key to success. It’s the only thing that will allow people to actually flow through the system and not simply get warehoused and stuck in place.
Three years later, the lack of progress on this front comes at the continued detriment of anything else the city might try.
Worst of all, the goal of finding and creating appropriate housing for the chronically homeless seems like it’s been all but abandoned.
It’s hard. It takes a long time. It’s expensive, and it shouldn’t be Tacoma’s burden alone.
We’ve heard all the excuses, some of them valid.
So in the meantime?
Here we are, mired in the same pattern that led the city down this path in the first place, and no one’s coming to save us. We’ve figured out a more humane way to shuffle and displace those with the most significant barriers to housing, with better optics for a purportedly progressive council.
At the very best, we manage to scrounge up a shelter bed, but that’s about it, and we’ve spent millions of dollars to do it.
In 2017, Tacoma’s then homeless services manager Colin DeForrest described the city’s approach as “a twisted game of hide and go seek.”
So it’s fair to ask: How much has really changed?
Certainly not enough.
Aside from putting out fires and avoiding lawsuits, the city doesn’t appear to know what it’s doing.
Need further proof? Let’s visit People’s Park, one more time.
As we know, it was a highly contentious daytime ban on tents and tent-like structures in Tacoma parks that led to this week’s cacophony of press releases and temporary fences, including the lights and TV cameras stationed at the park.
You know what’s really wild?
Roughly a week before the hotly debated ban on tents finally took effect, a temporary ban on camping in public places — dating back to July 2017 — expired with little fanfare or public knowledge.
While most elements of the city’s emergency homelessness declaration were extended by the City Council in November of last year, the temporary public camping ban, which advocates said was a necessary part of the city’s response, wasn’t among them.
So one ban ends, while another begins.
What is going on here?
Does anyone know?
According to city spokesperson Megan Snow, the temporary ban was allowed to “sunset” while “staff assesses the impact and considers whether it should be re-implemented.” Tacoma police spokesperson Wendy Haddow separately confirmed this week that Tacoma’s ban on public camping was a thing of the past.
All of this came as a surprise to several current and former City Council members who spoke to The News Tribune this week, including former at-large representative Ryan Mello and current members Chris Beale and Robert Thoms.
Reached on Tuesday, Beale said he didn’t recall city staff discussing the matter with council members, while acknowledging he might have missed a memo.
For his part, Thoms — who in the past has strongly advocated for enforcement elements to be part of the city’s approach to homelessness — said he also was surprised, describing the situation as “unfortunate.“
Most council members, Thoms said, likely believed the public camping ban was being extended back in November with everything else.
That wasn’t the case, Thoms learned and verified after being contacted by The News Tribune.
“The tool should have been extended, and I can’t imagine a scenario where we address the issues in this realm without addressing public camping,” Thoms said when asked for his reaction.
Of course, you can debate the effectiveness and constitutionality of bans on public camping until you’re blue in the face. Personally, I believe they do more harm than good, and if that’s the path a city wants go down, at the very least it better have ample alternative options to provide.
There’s a large part of me that’s happy to see it go.
Still, given the confusion and apparent disconnect between council and staff, it’s practically impossible to feel confident that Tacoma is acting with purpose and direction in its response to homelessness, isn’t it?
Don’t answer that. It’s rhetorical.
Now, for the questions we do need to answer, and fast:
Do we really want to start addressing chronic homelessness in Tacoma?
Or are we satisfied with the status quo, which includes people forced to live outdoors?
The good news is, if we choose the former, we know what it will take to start making a real difference.
The answer is housing, particularly permanent supportive housing, just as it always has been.
Making progress is a matter of city priorities.
In Olympia, a city faced with many of the same homelessness-related issues, voters in 2018 authorized a permanent sales tax increase to fund housing projects and homeless services. It’s expected to generate about $2.3 million a year.
As one of its first applications, a sizable chunk of that funding will go toward the construction of 60 units of permanent supportive housing for people who are mentally ill or homeless, according to The Olympian.
It won’t solve every problem, but at least it’s a start.
Tacoma was also feeling generous in 2018.
Here, by a comfortable margin, voters also approved a sales tax increase, expected to generate some $6 million per year.
The difference?
Championed by local officials far and wide, the money is going to increase access to the arts.
Considering the current crisis, and taking nothing away from the arts, that decision alone should be enough to make us all look in the mirror and ask ourselves — and especially our city manager and elected officials — what, exactly, our priorities are?
In other words, when it comes to addressing homelessness, what is the plan?
Or is this it?
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After a 6-year-old finished chemotherapy, his classmates welcomed him back with a standing ovation
A 6-year-old boy who has been battling cancer got a surprise standing ovation from his classmates when he returned to school after finishing his last round of chemotherapy.
John Oliver Zippay has been in and out of school for three years after he was diagnosed at age 3 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in 2016, his father John Zippay told CNN.
On December 27, John Oliver got his last round of chemotherapy. To celebrate John Oliver’s return to school in Newbury, Ohio, his classmates welcomed him back with applause, smiles, high-fives and cheers, as seen on video posted on Facebook.
A three-year fight
It all started around Halloween of 2016, John and his wife, Megan said, when John Oliver fell and hit his head on the headboard of his bed. He face become discolored and he was lethargic, according to John. After taking their son to the doctor — and several blood tests later — their doctor called in the middle of the night urging them to get John Oliver to the emergency room.
“It was a real shock because that’s when the word cancer started getting thrown around,” John said.
All signs pointed toward a form of leukemia.
John said as soon as he and Megan heard that, “Everything just stopped right there and then.”
The couple, along with their older daughter, spent 18 days thereafter in the hospital with John Oliver while he had bone marrow biopsies, blood transfusions and several tests done.
After John Oliver was given his diagnosis, the next three years consisted of all different types of chemotherapy and procedures.
The side effects were very strong and that’s what made if difficult for John Oliver to do some of the normal things kids do at that age, let alone be at school on a consistent basis, according to his dad.
Even though the 6-year-old missed so much school he never fell behind academically, St. Helen Catholic School Principal Patrick Gannon told CNN affiliate WJW. “Him having to miss some of the time was tough, but the class was just so happy to see him come back,” Gannon said.
A support system like no other
Throughout John Oliver’s treatment, Megan documented the good days and the bad on a Facebook group for her son’s support system to follow along.
“We consider ourselves so lucky and so blessed,” John said. “We’ve had so much support from family, friends, community members, the school and hospital staff.”
On John Oliver’s last day of chemotherapy, the nurses, family and friends gathered around so that he could ring the bell that patients ring when they finish their last treatment.
“And that’s when I told him, ‘okay buddy, you gotta ring the bell. Ring it for all the kids who didn’t have the chance to ring it’ and it’s like everything went into slow motion for me,” John said. “He rang it so hard, he was so proud.”
John said he’s really looking forward to seeing his son do all the things that normal kids should be doing at that age now that he is in a healthier stage of life.
By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN
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Man who robbed a pharmacy gave clerk a note that said, ‘I’m sorry, I have a sick child
(CNN) — A man who allegedly robbed a pharmacy in Philadelphia flashed a demand note that said he needed the money for his sick child, police said.
In video released by Philadelphia police, the suspect, wearing a grey hoodie and dark gloves, entered a Rite Aid store January 3 and took an item to the register.
The store clerk can be seen scanning the item and putting it in a plastic bag. Then, according to a police statement on the screen before the video is played, the man handed a note to the employee that read in part, “Give me all the money. I’m sorry, I have a sick child. You have 15 seconds.”
The video shows the suspect reach into his pocket and lean over the counter before the clerk opened the register and put an undetermined amount of cash into the same plastic bag.
The suspect then stuffed the bag in his pockets and fled on foot, police said.
The man did not show a weapon to the clerk during the robbery, Philadelphia Police Officer Tanya Little told CNN.
Police haven’t identified the suspect. He’s described as a black man between 30 and 40 years old, under 6 feet tall, with facial hair.
Friday’s robbery is similar to an attempted robbery in the area that occurred months earlier.
In July, a man with a handgun started to rob a smoke shop because he said he needed to pay for his daughter’s kidney transplant, CNN affiliate KYW reported. After a clerk had given him several hundred dollars, he stopped, saying the robbery “probably wouldn’t help” his daughter’s operation.
He left moments later without the money and did not injure the employees, KYW reported.
Little said the two incidents are not related, and that the suspect in the July case was never identified.
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