Denise Huskins woman who was reportedly abducted found safe

A missing San Francisco Bay Area woman reported kidnapped earlier this week turned up safe on Wednesday in Southern California, and authorities were still investigating the circumstances of her disappearance, the FBI said.Denise Huskins, 30, was reported to have been forcibly taken from her boyfriend's home in the East Bay city of Vallejo on Monday, and her boyfriend told authorities there had been a demand for ransom, police said on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Huskins turned up in the Orange County coastal town of Huntington Beach, about 35 miles south of Los Angeles, but the circumstances of her reappearance remained murky, said Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Los Angeles.
"She was found and appears to be safe, and the FBI and other departments in Orange County are assisting police in Vallejo with their continuing investigation," Eimiller told Reuters.
Broadcaster KTVU reported that Huskins' uncle said the woman had called her father earlier on Wednesday and said she was OK and had been dropped off in Huntington Beach, her hometown.
Huskins' family could not immediately be reached for comment, nor could Vallejo or Huntington Beach police.
Police said in a statement that divers were sent to Mare Island along the Vallejo coastline on Tuesday after search teams had "some indication that a mass consistent in size to an adult human might have been submerged," but they found nothing of significance.
Searchers also checked a wooded area near the boyfriend's home for clues, which police said on Tuesday was standard protocol in such a case.
According to Vallejo police on Tuesday, the boyfriend told investigators that Huskins was abducted early on Monday morning, but he waited until Monday afternoon, hours later, to report her missing. Police said then that he was not being treated as a suspect.
Huskins had recently moved to Vallejo from Southern California and was working as a physical therapist at a hospital, according to her Facebook account.
Neighbors told the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper that she had been living at the home with her boyfriend, who was not publicly identified by authorities.

Man who shot & killed San Jose California officer found dead

A man who shot and killed a Northern California police officer responding to a call that he was threatening to commit suicide was found dead on his apartment balcony.
San Jose police spokesman Albert Morales says 57-year-old Scott Dunham killed San Jose police Officer Michael Johnson, a 14-year veteran, on Tuesday night.
Johnson and other officers were met with gunfire as they approached Dunham's San Jose apartment building.
© Josie Lepe/San Jose Mercury News/AP Photo Law enforcement officers have an area blocked off as they search for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a San Jose, Calif., police officer, March 24, 2015. Dunham was found dead at 3:20 a.m. Wednesday on his balcony with at least one gunshot wound. It was unclear if he killed himself or died when officers returned fire.
After Johnson was shot, officers searched the area for the gunman and evacuated nearby homes.

Detroit mother of 4 arrested after 2 kids found dead in freezer (UPDATED)

 A Detroit mother was arrested Tuesday after the frozen bodies of a boy and girl were found in a deep freezer in the family's home, police said.
Court officers found the children's bodies while carrying out an eviction order at the 3-bedroom home in the apartment complex just east of downtown. An autopsy will determine how they died.
Police initially reported a woman's body was found in the freezer, but later said it was actually the bodies of the two children in a plastic bag.
The boy was about 11 and the girl was 14, said police Chief James Craig who called it a "terrible find."
The woman, identified as 35-year-old Mitchelle Blair, had not been charged by prosecutors as of Tuesday evening in connection with the deaths of her children, a boy about 11 years old and a girl about 14. She was also not in the apartment when the court officers or police arrived. "One of the community members here ... approached our officers and advised that they knew where the parent was located," Craig said.
The children's mother was found in a nearby apartment and questioned. She was arrested later
Two of the woman's other children, ages 11 and 17, were found at a neighbor's home and placed in protective custody.
Neighbor and friend Tori Childs said she hadn't seen the two dead children in about a year.
"I haven't seen them since they were playing with my step-kids," Childs said.
Childs' mother, Carrie McDonald, also lives in the low-income housing complex. McDonald said she spoke by phone Tuesday morning with the 36-year-old woman.
"She told me this morning, 'Ms. Carrie, if you don't never see me again just know that I love you,'" McDonald said. "I love her. The mother is a beautiful person. She was just going through some things."
The woman's four children were not in Detroit schools. Friends said she was home-schooling them.
"She took her kids out of school because she thought something was going to happen to them," McDonald said.
The woman has lived in the complex at least 10 years. She was unemployed, was having money troubles and had gotten behind on her rent. Friends knew about the impending eviction.
"She was really behind, but she didn't have it," Childs said, referring to money to pay the rent.
Court records show a judgment filed last month against the woman for $2,206 owed to the complex.
Blair's Facebook profile declared: "Loyal to my babies." One recent post was of the words: "There is no greater blessing than being called Mom."
"This is so tragic," said neighbor Tori Childs. "They were the nicest kids, so respectable."
It was not immediately known if the two surviving children, ages 11 and 17, were aware the bodies of their sister and brother were in the home. They were being questioned by police and social workers Tuesday, police said, and are in protective custody.
The children's frozen bodies were found around 11:30 a.m. Tuesday inside a townhouse at the Martin Luther King homes on the 800 block of St. Aubin by a crew from 36th District Court charged with evicting Blair for non-payment of rent. The bailiffs, whose job is to clear furniture out of the townhouse, first discovered the female child and dialed 911, police said. The boy's body was found later in the freezer, according to police.
Terrance West, a member of the eviction crew, said the freezer was next to the front door.
"Unfortunately, we see a lot of bad things on this job," he said.
Neighbor Shanetria Lanier, 21, said people in the apartment complex wondered what happened to the two children, who suddenly dropped out of sight about a year ago.
"When people asked her where her other two kids are, she said they were at their aunt's house," Lanier said. "Or sometimes she'd tell people they stayed inside because they didn't like to be around people."
Lanier added that Blair home-schooled her kids. "That's why no schools were wondering where they were," she said. An official with Detroit Public Schools said there was no record of the children attending classes in the district.
Childs said she saw the children's bodies inside the home Tuesday shortly after police arrived.
"When we walked past, we saw two bodies on the floor," said Childs, 33. "It was a little girl and a little boy. The little girl had on a pink jacket."
Childs said Blair told her, "I'm sorry" before police took her away in handcuffs.
Marlon Blair, Mitchelle's brother, said he was still processing the news.
"It's too early to even say what this could be, or to make any judgments," said Marlon Blair, who lives in California. "She didn't have any emotional problems from what I'm aware of. I don't know what to say about this."
After finding the bodies, officers quickly took the mother into custody as a person of interest, after another resident of the complex told police she was with a relative also living there, Police Chief James Caig said.
Craig confirmed Blair had two other children who lived in the home.
It is unclear where the surviving children were at the time of the eviction, he said.
Lanier said her sister received a call around 6 a.m. Tuesday from Blair.
"She said she was getting evicted and the Dumpsters were out front," Lanier said.
Lanier said the woman asked to stay at Lanier's sister's home with two of her children Tuesday, and was there when her children's bodies were found.
Craig said no weapons were found in the home.
A police source familiar with the investigation said Blair was cooperating with detectives.
Blair was sued by Martin Luther King Apartments for non-payment of rent six times going back to 2004. An eviction order was filed Feb. 11, and signed by District Judge Beatrice Pennie. On March 9, a judgment by consent was entered for the $2,354.50 she owed the complex.
In 1999, Blair filed a paternity suit in Wayne Circuit Court. The father was ordered to pay child support. She filed a second paternity suit against a different man in 2007, which also resulted in an order to pay child support
She had an outstanding arrest warrant from a December 2006 case in which she was driving an unregistered vehicle without insurance, court records show. After failing to pay the ticket, a warrant was issued in January 2007. The warrant was rescinded Tuesday.

Wisconsin trooper killed in shootout was new academy grad

A Wisconsin State Patrol trooper just three months out of the academy died in a shootout with a bank robbery suspect also believed to have killed another motorist.
The robbery suspect also died in the shooting Tuesday evening in Fond du Lac, in eastern Wisconsin.
Authorities did not immediately identify the suspect or the motorist who was killed, but a patrol bulletin sent to law enforcement agencies identified the trooper as 21-year-old Trevor Casper. The bulletin said Casper, of Kiel, joined the patrol in July from a class of recruits who completed training in December.
The man Casper confronted was suspected of robbing the State Bank of Florence in Wausaukee, about 130 miles to the north, around 2 p.m., Marinette County Sheriff Jerry Sauve said in a statement.
The man fired his handgun inside the bank and robbed it of an unspecified amount of cash, then fled in a bank employee's vehicle, Sauve said.
Less than an hour later, a man believed to be in his 60s was found fatally shot on a road east of Wausaukee, alongside a still-running pickup truck, according to the sheriff. Deputies searched the area and found the bank employee's stolen vehicle. Investigators believe the suspect shot the man then fled in yet another vehicle.
The trooper spotted the suspect driving in Fond du Lac about 5:30 p.m. and followed him, Fond du Lac Police Chief William Lamb said. The shootout happened shortly thereafter.
Lamb said no other suspects were being sought.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is working with law enforcement from Marinette County, the city of Fond du Lac, the FBI and the Wisconsin State Patrol, on the investigation.

Fugitive busted after posting hiding place on Snapchat

Why not just call 911 and shout "Come get me!"?
A Maine man wanted by the cops took to Snapchat to announce he was going back to his home in Fairfield.
Which prompted a round of calls to the Somerset County Sheriff's office telling authorities about the social media notes from fugitive Christopher Wallace.
Deputies then surrounded the house, which prompted a second text from Wallace, saying he was hiding in a cabinet.
Case solved.
Wallace, arrested in the cabinet on Monday, was wanted in connection with a January theft of a propane cook stove and a cast iron wood stove.
The Sheriff's office also used social media in connection with the case - to poke fun at Wallace's stupidity.
"A search of the kitchen cabinets turned up some food, some pots and pans, and also a pair of feet," said a post on the department's Facebook page.
"The pair of feet just so happened to be attached to a person, and that person was Christopher Wallace," the statement said.
"He was removed from the cabinet, and placed under arrest. All of that brings me to the moral of the story. Always remain humble, my friends," the post said.
Also arrested at the home was Erika Hall, 20, who repeatedly told deputies Wallace was not there.
"When the police ask you multiple times if someone is in the house, and you answer repeatedly that they are not in the house, and that you have not seen said person in 'weeks, you're just going to get arrested. That's how it happens," the department's site said.

California woman killed by gravel dumped on her car in driveway

A San Francisco-area woman was crushed to death in her driveway by a load of gravel that spilled accidentally from a dump truck onto her car as she was about to move the vehicle at the request of construction workers, authorities said.
The tragedy occurred on Monday afternoon while sidewalk construction was under way along a half-mile stretch of the woman's street in the East Bay town of Martinez, according to an initial report gathered by workplace safety inspectors.
“Someone knocked on her door, the lady came out, then actually the chain of events that happened from there are under investigation as to how the gravel load came down onto the woman’s car, pinning her and killing her inside,” said Julia Bernstein, a spokeswoman for California's Occupational Safety and Health Division.
“It was not expected, and it was absolutely an accident,” she said.
The Contra Costa County coroner's office identified the victim as Lindsey Combs, 32, who according to her Facebook profile was a hairdresser and the mother of a 4-year-old girl.
Martinez police were not immediately available for comment.
State safety inspectors have six months to investigate and report on the incident, including any citations or fines that might be issued should workplace infractions be found.
Bernstein said the general contractor for the project was cited in 2009 and 2010 for such regulatory violations as failing to post proper signs.

Police search for Denise Huskins a Vallejo California woman said kidnapped for ransom

 Vallejo California authorities and FBI agents were searching on Tuesday for a 30-year-old woman whose boyfriend said she had been kidnapped from his Northern California home by suspects who had demanded a ransom.
According to her boyfriend, Denise Huskins was "forcibly taken" from the home in the East Bay city of Vallejo early on Monday morning, Lieutenant Kenny Park of the Vallejo Police Department told a news conference.
Huskins' boyfriend, whose name has not been released by authorities, called police on Monday afternoon to report the crime and told investigators that there had been a demand for ransom.
"As of this moment Ms. Huskins' whereabouts are unknown and we are treating this matter as a kidnapping for ransom," Park said. He later added: "The public should get involved because we're worried about Ms. Huskins' welfare and we don't know where she's at."
Police have said that a white 2000 Toyota Camry was also taken from the home but was found several hours later elsewhere in Vallejo, a community of more than 100,000 people northeast of San Francisco.
Park said the FBI, U.S. Department of Justice and Solano County Office of Emergency Services had joined the hunt for Huskins, who was described as 5 foot, 7 inches tall, weighing about 150 pounds with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Searchers were combing a wooded area near her boyfriend's home for clues in the case, which Park described as standard protocol in such a case.
Park declined to say why the boyfriend waited until Monday afternoon to report Huskins missing but said that the man was not being treated as a suspect in her disappearance. Huskins is from Southern California.
"At this point he was the one who brought this matter to our attention and we're currently working with him to piece this puzzle together," Park said. ark also said he had no reason to believe Huskins' alleged abduction was connected to recent reports of a peeping tom in the neighborhood.
A massive search is underway in the area, with police seen scouring a nearby marshland and abandoned warehouses, according to Fox affiliate KTVU. 
According to her Facebook page, Huskins is employed as a physical therapist at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vallejo and previously worked at a Southern California orthopedic institute.
Huskins is described as 5-foot-7, weighing 150 pounds, with blonde hair and blues eyes. 
Anyone with information on her whereabouts it urged to call the Vallejo Police Department at 707-648-4524.

Shooting At Lil Waynes House???

 Police are rushing to Lil Wayne's Miami Beach mansion after someone called the cops and said they intended to start a firefight with officers. The person claimed 4 people had already been shot.
Miami PD raced to the home on ritzy La Gorce Island ... and have set up a perimeter.
The bizarre report comes 11 days after police raced to the home to check on a report of a suspicious person lurking outside the home. Cops let the guy go because when they arrived he was on public property.
As for today's incident ... we're told Wayne is in Miami but is not at home.
Police now believe this might be a case of "swatting" ... where someone places a prank emergency call in order to prompt a full force response from cops.
But the concern was real after police received reports about shots being fired and multiple victims.
Police spokesman Officer Ernesto Rodriguez told USA TODAY that Miami Beach Police received a call at 12:45 p.m. Wednesday on its non-emergency line reporting shots fired at 94 La Gorce Circle, on an island off Miami Beach.
"At this point, our officers are on the scene with an established perimeter. Our officers have not located any victims," Rodriguez said.
It's being said that the individual who reported the shooting stated that he had shot four people inside the home.
The 15,100-square-foot waterfront home with nine bedrooms and nine baths fronting Miami Beach's Indian Creek has a two-story master suite accessible by a glass elevator and was offered for sale by Sotheby's for $12.9 million in 2010.
The house was purchased on Sept. 16, 2011 for $11.6 million, property records show.

Shameful racism is alive at The University of Oklahoma (raw video)

A video that is making its way around the internet appears to.... NO IT SHOWS show a university singing a racist chant.
In the video, you can hear the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity cheering their racist chant in complete glee. Sad that they think this is productive.
According to Unheard, the students chanting in the video are from the University of Oklahoma.
However, university officials have not confirmed these are OU students.
It was allegedly filmed Saturday on the way to a date party for the fraternity’s founder’s day.
OU President David Boren released a statement via Twitter saying, “if the video is indeed of OU students, this behavior will not be tolerated and is contrary to all of our values”

SAE says they are aware of the video and are investigating the details.

The SAE national president stated on Twitter that the OU chapter  “has immediately been placed on a cease & desist.”

SAE says they are aware of the video and are investigating the details.

The SAE national president stated on Twitter (https://twitter.com/President_Boren) that the OU chapter  “has immediately been placed on a cease & desist.”