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Omarosa taped call with Trump after she was fired
President Donald Trump appeared to be unaware that Omarosa Manigault Newman was fired by White House chief of staff John Kelly, according to an audio recording of a phone conversation aired on NBC’s “Today” Monday morning.
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Gun rights activists allowed to post plans for 3-D printed guns online
A judge’s ruling brought a victory for gun advocates on Friday.
People across the country will not only be able to own a gun, but they will have the ability to build it from scratch. All folks will need is a 3D printer.
Beginning Aug. 1 that will be the nation’s new reality.
“This is something we do not need in society right now. Not now, not ever,” said Rosalind Clark-Stewart, resident.
Anyone can simply go online, find a 3D plan for a gun and print it off on their 3D printer.
“To make a law that says you can’t make something or pass on how to make something, that would be hard to do,” said Glenn Duncan, owner of Duncan’s Outdoor Shop.
In 2013, a man named Cody Wilson posted plans for a 3D printed handgun online. The government ordered him to take it down. A court fight ensued and ultimately, they settled the case saying he could publish his plans online.
Duncan said it’s the same thing as a “how to” book.
“Same thing is that you can go to the library and buy a book at the library on how to build a gun, how to build anything. So are we gonna get rid of books,” Duncan said.
The printed guns will not have serial numbers and will be untraceable. Because they will be made out of plastic they could get through metal detectors as well.
“I think this is very frightening. I think this should not be permitted,” Clark-Stewart said.
Like many gun issues, the jury is still out on what’s right or wrong.
“Do we wanna give up rights? That’s gonna be a big battle,” Duncan said.
Man tried to kill wife with ant poison
A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged after police say he tried to kill his wife with ant poison.
Authorities said Eugene Richard Pittman, 52, of Hope Mills, N.C., has been charged with attempted first-degree murder.
According to the arrest warrant, Eugene’s wife noticed a funny taste in her meal. The woman said she woke up later to find that her hands and mouth were duct taped, and Eugene was holding her nose shut.
She said Eugene told her she had two choices: that she could leave or she could die.
Police said Pittman willfully “attempted to murder his wife by poisoning her food with Terro ant poison.”
via: http://abc7chicago.com/man-tried-to-kill-wife-with-ant-poison-police-say/3776226/
Daycare used Magic Eraser on kids’ faces, caused chemical burns
Parents in Denver are searching for answers after their children received chemical burns at a daycare.
The parents believe a teacher is responsible for the chemical burns caused by an incident involving a magic eraser in May.
“The two teachers came up to me when I picked him up and said, ‘your son and another boy got into a marker fight.’ And immediately my son said ‘Mommy my throat hurts,” parent Caitlin Sims said.
Sims was the first parent to be notified about her child’s injuries.
“The teacher said, ‘oh, I’m so sorry. I must have been scrubbing you too hard when I cleaned you,” Sims said.
Joel and Stacy Dant did not find out about what happened to their son until hours later.
“It just looked red, like just redness was all. And then the next day was whenever it like really started to show,” Stacey said.
Both sets of parents returned days later to review surveillance video.
“It was the toughest thing that my wife and I have ever seen,” parent Josh Sims said.
They say the scabs on both of the boys’ faces does not show the real trauma.
“Pushing her thumb into his neck, ripped him backwards and pulled him over backwards, to the extent that he buckled,” Josh said.
The Dants and Sims’ say they started getting different stories from the school about what happened and what could be done.
“Frankly, we expected the school to advocate a little bit more for us,” Josh said.
Online records showed the school is under probation, but does not show any injuries or complaints in the past three years.
Child protective services told the Sims’ it could be a few more weeks before a report is ready.
The lawsuit filed is against the school, its parent company, and the teacher involved.
A statement from the school’s company says it has taken the appropriate steps and will continue their investigation.
Man allegedly strangled wife to save her from going to jail over new car debt
A northeast Houston man told police he murdered his wife because he did not want her to go to jail if she could not pay for her new car.
Francisco Olazaran, 67, is charged with the murder of his wife, Maria Olazaran, 63. The medical examiner ruled she died from manual strangulation.
According to Houston police, on the morning of July 4, when the city was getting hammered by rain, Francisco walked into Sand Dollar Thrift Store on Harrisburg in east Houston and said his wife, who was sitting in the car, had just been choked and robbed by three men.
An employee called for help. Police say Francisco repeated that same story to them and then changed it.
According to court documents, he said his wife had just traded in an older car for a newer one. He didn’t have a job. Maria, he said, didn’t make much money working for Walmart, and he was worried she could not afford the car payments.
“The defendant stated that morning he killed the complainant because he did not want her to go to jail over the debt,” a prosecutor read from documents during Francisco’s first court appearance on July 5. “He stated that he did not want her to go to jail and that he preferred for her to die.”
An investigator told Eyewitness News the couple had been married for many years. The victim, a mother and grandmother, was pronounced dead at the hospital. Francisco’s charges were upgraded to murder on Saturday.
He is being held in jail on an $80,000 bond and, as a Mexican National who has lived in the United States for 15 years, must surrender his passport if he posts it.
Francisco is expected in court on Tuesday.
via: http://abc7chicago.com/man-allegedly-strangled-wife-to-save-her-from-going-to-jail/3738764/
Man says receipt told cook to spit in cheeseburger
A New York dad says his Father’s Day dinner did not make him feel special.
Curtis Mays says he was being treated by his daughter and granddaughter at the Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden in Queens. He ordered a burger.
Mays says the evening started off pleasant, but then his order got mixed up.
He asked his waitress for his receipt, and that is when he noticed it said “Please spit in it, too.” “I asked her, ‘Why would you do this?’ And she couldn’t explain it. She said she didn’t do it, so I was like, ‘Who prints out the receipt?’ So she said, ‘I take it up there and print it myself.’ I said, ‘So you did it? Why are you lying about it?’ She just walked off,” Mays said.
Mays said the manager fired the waitress immediately and he got a refund.
“He was saying, ‘How can we compensate you?’ I was like, ‘How can you compensate somebody for spitting on your food? I ate this already,” adds Mays.
The manager told our sister station WABC that he had never had a problem with this employee before. Food service, he says, is a stressful job, but it was unacceptable.
The manager added that is very unlikely a cook actually spat in the burger, but he understands why the customer is upset.
The Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden has an A rating from the Department of Health.
via: http://6abc.com/food/man-says-receipt-told-cook-to-spit-in-cheeseburger/3615883/
Woman who helped save boy from burning truck may face charges – this is why people don’t get involved and don’t help
An Idaho woman who helped rescue a child from a burning truck could face criminal charges.
Thirty-four-year-old Tequila Isaacson was driving through Snoqualmie Pass in Washington state on Sunday when she saw a pickup truck in flames at a rest area.
Isaacson said the boy’s parents were trying to get him out while another man called 911.
Isaacson broke the glass door of a coffee shop to get a fire extinguisher to help save the boy.
Isaacson said a trooper later told her she would need to pay to replace the glass door or could face burglary charges.
No charges have been filed yet.
via: http://abc7.com/woman-who-helped-save-boy-from-burning-truck-may-face-charges/2472689/
Transgender teen’s eyes gouged, genitals stabbed, authorities say
Some of Ally Lee Steinfeld’s burned remains were found in a bag in a rural southern Missouri chicken coop. Authorities say both of the transgender teen’s eyes had been gouged out and she had been stabbed in the genitals.
As questions swirl about why the quiet 17-year-old was killed in such a ghastly manner, authorities aren’t saying what led to the killing. But they dismiss the possibility the death was a hate crime.
Authorities identified the remains as those of Joseph Matthew Steinfeld Jr. – Ally Lee Steinfeld’s birth name. They were found last week in the town of Cabool, near the mobile home of one of the alleged killers, 24-year-old Briana Calderas, with whom Steinfeld was living.
Calderas and two 18-year-olds, Andrew Vrba and Isis Schauer, are charged with first-degree murder and other counts. A fourth suspect is charged with abandonment of a corpse and tampering with evidence.
Both Sheriff James Sigman and prosecutor Parke Stevens Jr. insist the crime was not motivated by Steinfeld’s gender identity.
“I would say murder in the first-degree is all that matters,” Stevens said. “That is a hate crime in itself.”
Yet the killing has drawn the attention of transgender advocates and others across the U.S. who believe Steinfeld was targeted for her gender identity, despite what the Texas County sheriff and prosecutor say.
“This violence, often motivated by hatred, must come to an end,” said Chris Sgro, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, who said Steinfeld was the 21st transgender person killed this year in the U.S. “We will continue to mourn Ally and fight back against transphobia and anti-trans violence.”
Steinfeld had been missing for weeks, and initial news reports referred to her as a male, in part because missing-person posters distributed by the family used Steinfeld’s birth name, as did police documents.
Steinfeld’s mother, Amber Steinfeld, still refers to her child as Joey, but said the teen identified as female to family and to friends on social media. She said her child was “loving and kind-hearted.”
Steinfeld was engaged to a woman until they broke up in August, Amber Steinfeld said, and soon after began dating Calderas. She said Steinfeld and the two 18-year-old suspects were all living at Calderas’ mobile home. She said Steinfeld was upbeat before she disappeared, telling relatives that she loved them and was happy.
Steinfeld grew up mostly in House Springs, Missouri, near St. Louis, Amber Steinfeld said. The family moved briefly to Florida, then to Texas County, an area of rugged hills in southern Missouri.
Steinfeld dropped out of high school upon turning 17, Amber Steinfeld said. At about the same time, the rest of the family moved back to House Springs, but Steinfeld stayed in Houston, Missouri, living with different friends.
In May, Steinfeld posted on Instagram that she was coming out and was “mtf,” or male-to-female. In a posting on June 13, Steinfeld referred to herself as “Trans male to female and I am mostly lesbian but pansexual.” In another that same day she wrote, “I am proud to be me I am proud to be trans I am beautiful I don’t care what people think.”
Vrba told investigators he initially tried to poison Steinfeld, then described how he stabbed Steinfeld in the living room of Calderas’ mobile home, Deputy Rowdy Douglas wrote in a probable cause statement. The female suspects said Vrba bragged to them about how he gouged Steinfeld’s eyes and stabbed Steinfeld in the genitals, Douglas wrote. The probable cause statement does not offer any motive.
Authorities say the three suspects burned Steinfeld’s body, placed some of the bones into a garbage bag and put the bag in the chicken coop. Calderas admitted helping burn the body and led authorities to the knife used in the killing, Douglas wrote.
An attorney for the three suspects, Michael Jacobs, said Tuesday that it was too early to comment.
Linda Camara, 61, a friend of Steinfeld’s family, was struck by the gruesome nature of the killing.
“People kill each other, which is bad, but to do it that way, that’s something you see in movies,” Camara said. “And the three people who did this, they were kids, too.”
via: http://abc7.com/officials-transgender-teens-eyes-gouged-genitals-stabbed/2468026/
Biracial 8-year-old boy nearly hanged by teens, family says
Teenagers in New Hampshire taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him, the boy’s family said.
The child was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in Claremont, the boy’s grandmother, Lorrie Slattery, told the Valley News. He has since been released and has returned to school in Claremont.
Slattery said the children were in a backyard when some of the teens got on the table and grabbed a rope that held a tire swing. It’s not clear how the rope got around her grandson’s neck, but Slattery said the teens pushed him off the table. No adults are believed to have witnessed the incident.
An expert on abuse who spoke to the boy at the hospital said he swung from his neck three times before being able to remove the rope, Slattery said. None of the teens came to his aid, she said.
“One boy said … ‘Let’s do this,’ and then pushed him off the picnic table and hung him,” Slattery said.
Claremont Police Chief Mark Chase told the newspaper his department is investigating an Aug. 28 incident involving several juveniles. He declined to provide details and refused to confirm the case involved the 8-year-old boy.
Chase did not respond Monday to calls and emails from The Associated Press.
via: http://abc7chicago.com/biracial-boy-8-nearly-hanged-by-teens-family-says/2408200/
5-year-old boy found dead after watching mom get beaten, thrown from cliff
A Kentucky man was charged Monday with the murder of a 5-year-old boy who watched helplessly as his mother was beaten, bound and pushed off a cliff over the weekend. The mother survived and was found by two hikers who alerted police, prompting a two-day search that ended earlier Monday when the boy’s body was discovered near where his mother was left for dead.
Police arrested Lonnie Belt, 41, and charged him with the murder of James Spoonamore. Belt also faces charges of assault, kidnapping and tampering with evidence. James’ mother, Jessica Durham, is recovering at a Lexington hospital.
Kentucky State Police Commissioner Rick Sanders said he did not know how the boy died. Results of an autopsy likely won’t be available for another two days.
It’s unclear if Belt has an attorney. Sanders said Durham and Belt are acquaintances and were not romantically involved.
Police offered few details of what happened. But a police report says Belt and Durham got into a fight over some money and “he hit her on the head, tied her up and took her to the cliff where he assaulted her again.” Sanders said two hikers discovered Durham Saturday morning at the bottom of an 80-foot embankment.
“James was with Jessica when he took her to the cliff and assaulted her,” the report states.
Sanders declined to answer questions about what happened. He said more than 200 people searched for the boy on Saturday and Sunday. The search involved police dogs, aircraft from the National Guard and lots of volunteers. Sanders said authorities found the boy at 9:31 a.m. about 180 feet off the road in Jackson County, about 65 miles (105 kilometers) southeast of Lexington.
The news was devastating for Durham and her family, which includes some relatives in Florida who were enduring Hurricane Irma while authorities were searching for the boy.
“Honestly, it’s been hell. That’s the only way to describe it,” said Mary Batson, Durham’s sister.
Cynthia Wallace, Durham’s mother and the boy’s grandmother, said she is still without power at her home near Winter Haven, Florida. She described James as a sweet boy who loved playing with cars and trucks and being in the water. He recently started kindergarten, and Wallace said she enjoyed looking at photos Durham sent her of the boy’s first day at school.
“He was so happy, he loved school and he even wanted to go on the weekends,” Wallace said. “It’s hard. It hurts. I just went through a hurricane and all of this here on top of me, I’m just hurt.”
via: http://abc7chicago.com/boy-found-dead-after-watching-mom-get-beaten-thrown-from-cliff/2407993/