Deadly Cancer Mistaken For Pulled Muscle

A young newlywed died of aggressive skin cancer after mistaking a melanoma for a pulled muscle.
Clare Daly of Kirby, England died this past December from advanced melanoma that she had mistaken for a pulled muscle for months. The tragic story reminds us that although melanoma is one of the most treatable forms of cancer when caught early, if left to progress, it can be deadly.
Not long after her wedding last summer, Daly, a beauty manager for Clarins, a French luxury cosmetics company, began to complain of a pain in her shoulder, it was reported. Daly believed a pulled muscle was at the root of her discomfort, but despite seeing a physical therapist, the soreness grew. Eventually, the 29-year-old was diagnosed with a very aggressive melanoma linked to a mole she had removed years earlier.
According to the Skin Cancer Foundation, a melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer, and grows when un-repaired DNA damage to skin cells, most often caused by the sun or tanning beds, triggers mutations that cause skin cells to multiply rapidly. These types of tumors often resemble moles and are nearly always curable when recognized and treated early. Unfortunately, when left untreated for too long, the cancer can advance and spread, and in some cases even become fatal.
According to Daly’s friends and family, the naturally fair-skinned blonde was by no means a sun-worshiper and would even don long sleeves and a hat when visiting the beach. The signs of her cancer were hard to find, and she went months without realizing the severity of her shoulder pain. Daly and her new husband, Paul Daly, opted to try dual therapy to help fight the aggressive cancer, but found it difficult to cover the costs for the fairly new treatment.
“We thought dual therapy was the best chance of prolonging Clare’s life, of keeping the cancer at bay for as long as possible in the hope of them finding another new treatment,” Clare’s brother Michael McNally said. “It isn’t funded by the NHS [National Health Services] so we started to fundraise, but it was just too late.”
More than 800 people attended Daly’s funeral, remembering the newlywed as a beautiful and happy-go-lucky woman. In her memory, Daly’s friends and family started to help raise awareness about the dangers of sun- and tanning-bed exposure and inspire others to get tested.
“Melanoma is the fifth biggest killer of young women and it’s so easy to protect against if you understand when the UVAs are most harmful,” Stefanie McCartney-Washington, Daly’s childhood friend, said. “It’s not about preaching and saying ‘don’t go in the sun,’ it’s about making everyone aware and more careful.”
Moles are usually harmless, but in some cases, such as Daly’s, they can be deadly. Some of the biggest warning signs of melanoma are inconsistencies in mole appearance. Individuals who find their moles have become asymmetric, developed an uneven border, or changed in color, and overall shape and size are advised to seek a professional opinion immediately.

NFL to investigate Rob Gronkowski cruise...

The NFL is investigating whether Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski’s party cruise violated the league’s gambling policy.

The potential violation was brought up by attorneys representing Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo in his lawsuit against the NFL, in which he claims the league unfairly applied the league gambling policy when it shut down Romo’s National Fantasy Football Convention last July.
A Texas judge ruled against Romo on Monday, but after the ruling was announced, an NFL attorney confirmed that the league was still investigating whether Gronkowski’s event committed a similar violation.
Romo’s attorneys used Gronkowski’s cruise as an example of the league selectively applying its gambling policy in a petition filed in a Texas court last week.

“NFL player Rob Gronkowski hosted a party cruise from Miami to the Bahamas on February 19-22, 2016. The four-day party took place on Norwegian Cruise Line, where Gronkowski’s fans and attendees can take full advantage of Norweigan’s famed ‘Casinos at Sea.’ Photos from the booze-cruise show fans gambling at the on-board casino. The NFL specifically knew about the party cruise and its ties to gambling for more than seven months leading up to the event; yet the NFL took no action to either discipline Rob Gronkowski or prevent the event from taking place.”

The NFL has argued that Romo’s event would have stood in violation of its gambling policy because it was to be held at a casino.
Romo is seeking more than $1 million in damages and will appeal Monday’s ruling.

Chinese court sentences christian pastor to 14 years in prison

A Chinese court has sentenced a Christian pastor to 14 years in jail for embezzlement and other charges, a court official confirmed on Monday, after the preacher opposed the forced removal of crosses from churches.
A court in the eastern province of Zhejiang sentenced Bao Guohua for embezzlement, disturbing public order, illegal business operations and concealing information about business accounts, local media have reported.
His wife Xing Wenxiang was jailed for 12 years, they said. The two were also fined and their assets seized for appropriating cash and a house which belonged to the church, reports added.
An official at a court in Jinhua city, where the sentencing took place on Thursday, confirmed the sentences to AFP but declined further comment.
The court jailed 10 other people in connection with the case, the Zhejiang Daily newspaper and local television said, but did not give the lengths of their sentences.
Bao and Xing were detained in July last year after they spoke out against forced cross removals in Zhejiang.
Earlier, the province announced rules requiring crosses for Catholic and Protestant churches to be attached to the front of the building, rather than on the roof, and be no more than a tenth of the building's height.
China's officially atheist Communist authorities are wary of any organised movements outside their control, including religious ones, and analysts say controls over such groups have tightened under President Xi Jinping.
In 2014, Wenzhou city in Zhejiang demolished the large Sanjiang Church, following government declarations it was an illegal structure.
The state-linked China Christian Council estimates the country has around 20 million Christians -- excluding Catholics -- in official churches supervised by the authorities.
But the true number of worshippers could be higher, at least 40 million to 60 million, according to some estimates, as some pray at "underground" or "house" churches which seek to exist outside government control.
US-based religious rights group China Aid said authorities forced Bao and Xing to dismiss their lawyers before the trial.

Missing Girl Found

A missing 4-year-old girl was found Sunday on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana, just a few miles from where she was reportedly abducted while playing in a park.
Roosevelt County spokesman Lee Allmer said the girl was undergoing a medical exam to make sure she was not harmed.
The girl was found by Undersheriff Corey Reum a few miles north of Wolf Point, the town where witnesses say she was taken by a young man about 9:30 p.m. Friday.
A suspect, John Lieba, was apprehended in Wolf Point while driving around after several witnesses at the park identified him, Allmer said. Lieba, who is about 20 years old, and the girl are not "blood relatives," he said. Both are Native Americans.
"She was found apparently in good health, " Allmer said. "We're not divulging the location. The investigation is still active."
Early Sunday, an Amber Alert for the girl was allowed to expire, but a missing child alert was issued and signs posted asking people to keep an eye out for her.
The FBI is in charge of the investigation.

Pentagon worker is suspect in murder... PART2

An Army sergeant killed his wife following a day-long domestic dispute and then fatally shot a responding police officer working her first shift on the job, police said Sunday.
Sgt. Ronald Hamilton, 32, faced two counts of murder, two counts of assault and weapons offenses after the shooting spree Saturday that also left two other officers wounded.
Officer Ashley Guindon, 28, had joined the force in ceremonies Friday, Prince William County Police Chief Steve Hudson said. He said the officers were responding to a 911 call from Hamilton's wife, Crystal, when they approached the front door.
"The subject opened fire," Hudson said. He said all three sustained critical wounds and that Hamilton surrendered to additional officers that responded.
The second wave of officers also provided emergency treatment to the wounded officers until emergency medical responders arrived. Guindon died later Saturday, Hudson said. The wounded officers are Guindon's field training officer, David McKeown, 33, and Jesse Hempen, 31. They received non-life-threatening injuries, Hudson said.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and loved ones after this sad and senseless death," Hudson said.
  The body of Crystal Hamilton, 29, was found inside the home, along with the couple's uninjured 11-year-old son. The boy was being cared for by relatives, Hudson said.
Guindon had briefly been a county police officer a short time ago but left for personal reasons during training, Hudson said. She reapplied and was rehired.
"She clearly had a passion to serve others," Hudson said.
Guindon had a master's degree in forensic science and once served as an intern for the police department, Hudson said. She held a degree in forensic science.
Neighbors say they heard gunshots, and one person said they heard an officer yell "come out with your hands up." A woman who said she was visiting a neighbor in the area of the shooting said she heard loud sounds but couldn't believe it was a shooting.
“We never thought it could be shots,” Maritza Gutierrez told the Post, adding that she heard "boom, boom, boom, something like that ... very quick."
The police department announced the arrival of two new officers to the force in a tweet Friday: "Welcome Officers Steven Kendall & Ashley Guindon who were sworn in today & begin their shifts this weekend. Be safe!"

The baked baker... Top chef caught at border w/ drugs

Timothy Maslow, whose tantalizing take on Italian food earned his Brookline restaurant Ribelle a rare four-star review from the Boston Globe, is out on bail after being arrested at the Canadian border with more than 20 pounds of marijuana edibles.
According to Corporal George Rodriguez of the Vermont State Police, the 31-year-old chef who lives in Waltham was stopped at 4:44 a.m. Friday at the Highgate Port of Entry by border authorities. He was driving into the United States from Canada. Agents searched the car in which Maslow was traveling with four other people and discovered 22.5 pounds of THC edibles, a controlled substance, and a pipe.
Rodriguez said Maslow was charged with felony possession of marijuana and possession of a depressant, stimulant and narcotic, and taken to the Franklin County Courthouse in St. Albans, Vt. Maslow pleaded not guilty and was released on $5,000 bail.
“He claimed it was all his,” Rodriguez said Sunday. “He was very cooperative.”
A man answering Maslow’s cellphone promptly hung up when contacted Sunday.

Death by poppy seed tea...

Late last Saturday night, 21-year-old Steven "Austin" Underhill drank tea his fraternity brothers at James Madison University brewed with the ancient opiate poppy seed. The junior engineering student was found dead the next day in what police believe to be a direct result of the "poppy" brew.
"We know based on the research we’ve done that it does have lethal effects and that the victim consumed it," Harrisonburg Lt. of Special Operations Chris Rush said. "This is the first case we’ve had around here. There’s nothing to indicate there was any kind of initiation."
Poppy seeds contain various concentrations of morphine and codeine, both of which are opiates and controlled substances with addictive properties. Overdosing on morphine can cause death by filling up the lungs with fluid passed from the bloodstream, known as pulmonary edema — this is consistent with lethal doses of opiates. Because the concentration of morphine in poppy seeds can vary greatly, it makes it difficult to predict the type of high or level of danger a person consuming the tea is possibly subjecting themselves to.
According to a study published in the Journal of Forensic Sciences, morphine content can be anywhere from two to 251 times in strength depending upon the exact seed type, harvesting time, how well seeds were washed, among other factors. It’s not the poppy seeds itself that contain opiates, but rather it's residual pollen passed onto the seeds from the pods it grows in during the harvesting process.
What's more, poppy seeds sold in bulk in the supermarket are not regulated in relation to the amount of opiates they contain because they are intended for baking purposes. The poppy seeds in Underhill's case were reportedly purchased at a local Harrisonburg store near the university. Since then, many drug and grocery stores in the area have decided to take poppy seeds off of their shelves in fear of contributing to someone’s death or addiction. One shop has decided to require a proof-of-business license in order to purchase the seeds.
The process of brewing poppy seeds to achieve a morephine-like can take 15 to 20 minutes, and the effect can last roughly 24 hours; the residue creates a hallucinogenic high when brewed in high quantities. But the tea is known to have a very bitter and foul taste, which may be why it hasn't reached a height of popularity.
Underhill's exact cause of death is still unknown. A pending toxicology report, urine and blood samples will reveal the concentrated presence of both morphine and codeine if the tea was the student's cause of death. Investigators plan to test the poppy seed tea consumed the night of his death and compare it to samples found in the report.

An man from India kills 14 family members then commits suicide

A man in India killed 14 members of his family, including seven children, with a butcher's knife before committing suicide near the city of Mumbai.
The massacre happened after family members gathered late on Saturday at one of their homes in Thane, about 32km from Mumbai, for a family function, police said.
"The attacker, Hasnin Anwar Warekar, hung himself after slitting the throats of all other family members, including his parents," police spokesman Gajanan Laxman Kabdule told the AFP news agency.
The sole survivor of the attack - Warekar's sister - was taken to hospital when neighbours heard her screaming for help after midnight and alerted police.
"We still haven't been able to speak with the attacker's 21-year-old sister, the lone survivor of the attack, who is in deep trauma at a city hospital," Kabdule said.
Warekar, 35, attacked his family after apparently lacing their food with a sedative, according to local media reports.
But the Indian Express newspaper said the assailant stabbed his victims after they went to bed.
"Prima facie evidence suggests that the accused bolted all the doors of the house and murdered his family while they were asleep with a knife that we found near his body," Ashutosh Dumbre, joint commissioner of Thane police, was quoted as saying.

Pentagon worker is suspect in murder... PART1

An Army staff sergeant assigned to the Pentagon was arrested on murder and other charges in the death of a police officer and another person, authorities said Sunday.
Ronald Williams Hamilton, 32, is being held without bond in the Prince William County Adult Detention Center on charges that include murder of a law enforcement officer. He is accused of shooting and killing Officer Ashley Guindon after she answered a domestic violence call at the Hamilton home Saturday evening. Two other officers were hospitalized with injuries.
Hamilton is an active duty Army staff sergeant assigned to the Joint Staff Support Center at the Pentagon, according to Cindy Your, a Defense Information Systems Agency spokeswoman based at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Guindon, 28, had gone through training with the department last year before leaving for personal reasons. She rejoined the department this year and Saturday was her first day on patrol, according to Police Chief Stephan Hudson.
"We were struck by her passion to do this job," Hudson said at a news conference Sunday. "She did share with us when we rehired her that she felt like she wanted to do this job. She couldn't get it out of her blood. She clearly had a passion to serve others in a way that went beyond herself."
Guindon was a former Marine Corps reservist and had a master's degree in forensic science, according to Hudson. She held a bachelor's degree in aeronautics with minors in psychology, homeland security and aviation safety from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, the school said.
A picture of Guindon was posted to the department's Twitter page on Friday with a tweet that read, "Welcome Officers Steven Kendall & Ashley Guindon who were sworn in today & begin their shifts this weekend. Be Safe!"
The shooting occurred Saturday evening at Hamilton's home in Woodbridge. Hudson said Hamilton and his wife, Crystal, were arguing and she called 911.
Crystal Hamilton, 29, was fatally shot by her husband before police arrived, Hudson said. The officers were shot shortly after their arrival, and when additional officers arrived, Hamilton surrendered and came out the front door of the house.
Police said their 11-year-old son was at home at the time of the shootings. He is now being cared for by relatives. Police recovered two guns from the scene: a handgun and a rifle.
The injured officers were identified as Jesse Hempen, 31, an eight-year veteran of department; and David McKeown, 33, a 10-year veteran. They are expected to recover, Hudson said. Details about their injuries were not released.
The death of Guindon was just the latest tragedy to strike the family. Her father, David, committed suicide the day after he returned home from Iraq, where he served with the New Hampshire Air National Guard. He was buried with full military honors on Aug. 26, 2004.
"He came home and took his own life," said Dorothy Guindon, Ashley's grandmother.
Ashley was his only child.
She was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. The family later moved to Merrimack, New Hampshire, according to her grandmother.
"This is really a shock to us," Dorothy Guindon said. "Ashley was such a nice person."
A 2005 graduate of Merrimack High School, Ashley was remembered in a letter to the school board and staff by the school principal, Kenneth Johnson.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with her family at this time. We will have a moment of silence for her on Monday, and we will remember her on graduation day as well," he wrote.
Officer Brandon Carpenter at the county's adult detention center says Hamilton is being held without bond at the jail on charges that include murder of a law enforcement officer, first-degree murder charge, two counts of malicious assault and two counts of use of a firearm during a felony.
Hamilton is scheduled to be arraigned Monday morning.
At Inova Fairfax Hospital, where the three officers were flown by helicopter after the shooting, more than 100 patrol cars lined the roads outside early Sunday morning to stand vigil and escort Guindon's body to the medical examiner.
The shooting occurred in the Lake Ridge neighborhood, on a curving street with $500,000 suburban houses with brick and siding exteriors, manicured lawns and two-car garages about a five-minute drive from the county office building.

Man with 'broom handle" shot by police... was it that dangerous?

A male who authorities say was wielding a broomstick was shot and critically injured by Salt Lake City officers Saturday night, touching off several hours of unrest downtown as officers donned riot gear and blocked streets and bystanders threw rocks and bottles.
The male shot by two Salt Lake City Police officers was in critical condition at a local hospital Sunday morning after being struck twice in the torso, according to Det. Ken Hansen with the Unified Police Department, which is investigating the shooting. Hansen did not have details about the male's identity or age, but a bystander told The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News that the male was a teenager.
Hansen said the shooting occurred when two Salt Lake City officers were called around 8 p.m. to break up a fight near a downtown homeless shelter that sits next to a shopping mall and movie theater.
When the officers arrived, they found the male in the street, hitting another person with the broomstick, Hansen said. Officers tried to break up the fight, but the male with the broomstick tried to attack an officer, he said.
One or both of the police officers then shot the male, hitting him in the upper and lower torso, Hansen said.
He did not have details about the identity of the other person involved in the fight, what prompted the dispute or whether anyone else was injured.
"There's still a lot to go through," Hansen said.
Police are not releasing the identity of the officers, he said.
Bystander Selam Mohammad told The Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News that his teenage friend was shot by police.
Mohammad told the newspapers that his friend was holding the broomstick at his side when officers arrived and that police shot him as he turned around.
"He barely even turned around, then boom, boom, boom — and he just dropped," Mohammad told the Deseret News.
When asked about that account, Hansen said he did not have details to confirm or deny that information. Hansen had no information about how many shots were fired or how far away the male with the broomstick was from police when they pulled their guns. He did not know the size of the broomstick or whether it was sharpened. He also did not know whether the male had a gun, knife or any other weapon on him at the time.
After the shooting, bystanders began yelling obscenities and throwing rocks and bottles at police, who called in about 100 officers to help.
Hansen said one officer was hit with a bottle, but he did not have details about whether that officer or any other was injured. He did not have details about any arrests and directed those questions to Salt Lake City Police.
Salt Lake City Police did not return messages Sunday morning. Det. Greg Wilking with Salt Lake City Police talked to reporters Saturday night but had few details about what prompted the fight or how the shooting unfolded.
"Our officers arriving on scene encountered a lot of hostile people upset about what had taken place," Wilking told The Deseret News.
Police, including officers wearing helmets and carrying riot shields, barricaded four surrounding city blocks. A light rail stop in the neighborhood was closed.
"We're locking down the area, barricading off streets and having a strong officer presence in the area," Wilking told the newspaper Saturday night.
He said some people were detained and witnesses were being interviewed at a police headquarters Saturday night.
"There were pockets of that disturbance for hours," Hansen said Sunday.
He said the protesters throwing rocks and bottles were people hanging out near the shelter. He didn't know if they were homeless, but he said they were not customers of the nearby shopping center. Hansen said the area was relatively busy, with people visiting the shopping center and restaurants and others hanging out near the shelter and homeless facilities.

Travis Barker and the greedy senseless b#@ch syndrome

Travis Barker is desperate to change his custody agreement with his ex, Shanna Moakler, because he says she's exposing their two children to drugs and guns.
In court documents filed in Los Angeles, Travis says Shanna is neglecting 12-year-old Landon and 10-year-old Alabama and misusing the child support money that she gets from him.
He's not overly specific about his guns and drugs allegations, or other issues he has, but he indicated that he wants to make changes to their agreement pronto.
Travis said in the court documents that he discovered that Landon was "roaming around" Calabasas during February with a 15-year-old girl without Shanna's knowledge, implying that she is unfit.
In other parts of the documents the Blink-182 drummer claims that she sends their children to school without lunches.
Along with the custody agreement, Travis is trying to pay less in regards to his child support. The court documents indicated that he pays $18,000 a month to Shanna. However, he wants to drastically cut that down, as low as $2,900 a month.
The reason: he thinks Shanna isn't using that money on the children, but rather on herself.
Travis, while acknowledging that he has tens of millions in assets, said he should be paying less because he's now making less. When the former couple initially struck their deal, Travis was pulling in $2 million annually, but last year he said he made a measly $600,000.
Travis is often seen with their kids at events. In fact, he brought them to the Grammy awards on Feb. 15.
His kids, he says, take after him musically, largely because he made it like that.
"When they were really young I had them both playing drums," Travis told E!. "I basically told them at any point if someone puts sticks in your hands because you're my kids you have to know what to do with them."
Both Landon and Alabama said they love playing the drums and flexing their musical muscles, but since growing up a little bit they've become a little more selective with their talents. Alabama, Travis said, "can still play [the drums] but she prefers piano and singing." Landon, like dad, still bangs away at the drums.

Kansas gunman kills and wounds over 14

A gunman armed with an "assault-style" weapon drove through a south-central Kansas town Thursday, taking shots at people, before storming the factory where he worked. Authorities said he killed three people and wounded 14 before being shot dead by an officer.
Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said all the dead were shot inside Excel Industries, a plant in Hesston that makes lawn mower products. He said of those hurt, 10 were critically wounded.
A law enforcement officer killed the gunman after he began shooting at police, Walton said.
Walton would not identify the suspect or discuss a motive but said there were "some things that triggered this individual."
The shootings began about 5 p.m. when the gunman was in a car and shot a man on the street, wounding him in the shoulder. A short time later, another person was shot in the leg at an intersection.
"The shooter proceeded north to Excel Industries in Hesston, where one person was shot in the parking lot before he opened fire inside the building," the department said in a release. "He was seen entering the building with an assault-style long gun."
A Hesston officer responding to the scene exchanged fire with the shooter, who was killed. The officer who killed the shooter was not injured.

Walton said about 150 people were likely in the plant at the time of the shooting, and that the law enforcement officer who killed the suspect "saved multiple, multiple lives." He said the gunman also had a pistol.
The officer who killed the man is "a hero as far as I'm concerned," Walton said.
Erin McDaniel, spokeswoman for the nearby city of Newton, said the suspect was known to local authorities. She wouldn't elaborate.
The shooting comes less than a week after authorities say a man opened fire at several locations in the Kalamazoo, Michigan, area leaving six people dead and two severely wounded.
Martin Espinoza, who works at Excel, was in the plant during the shooting. He heard people yelling to others to get out of the building, then heard popping, then saw the shooter, a co-worker he described as typically pretty calm.
Espinoza said the shooter pointed a gun at him and pulled the trigger, but the gun was empty. At that point, the gunman got a different gun and Espinoza ran.
"I took off running. He came outside after a few people, shot outside a few times, shot at the officers coming onto the scene at the moment and then reloaded in front of the company," Espinoza told The Associated Press. "After he reloaded he went inside the lobby in front of the building and that is the last I seen him."
A nearby college was briefly locked down.
Several law enforcement vehicles surrounded the suspect's home in a trailer park in Newton. The Harvey County Sheriff's Department initially said authorities believed the suspect's roommate could be inside. But McDaniel said the standoff ended later Thursday night and no one was inside the home.
Hesston is a community of about 3,700 residents about 35 miles north of Wichita.
Excel Industries was founded in Hesston in 1960. The company manufactures Hustler and Big Dog mowing equipment and was awarded the Governor's Exporter of the Year award in 2013 from the Kansas Department of Commerce.
Gov. Sam Brownback issued a statement late Thursday, calling the shootings "a tragedy that affects every member of the community."
Walton said the FBI and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation had been called in to assist. A spokeswoman for the Kansas City office of the FBI did not immediately return a call seeking comment Thursday night.
"This is just a horrible incident. ... There's going to be a lot of sad people before this is all over," Walton said.

LA takes homes from homeless

Escalating their battle to stamp out an unprecedented spread of street encampments, city officials have begun seizing tiny houses from homeless people in South Los Angeles.
Elvis Summers, who built and donated the structures, removed seven of the gaily painted wooden houses — which come with solar-powered lights and American flags — on Wednesday and Thursday ahead of a scheduled city sweep.
Summers, an L.A. resident who says he was once homeless, had placed them within encampments on overpasses along the 110 Freeway, for homeless people to use instead of tents.
But three structures impounded earlier this month remain in a city storage lot, a Bureau of Sanitation spokeswoman said, and the city notified occupants they would be “discarded.”
“These people are beaten down so hard, you give them any opportunity to be normal, it lifts them up,” Summers said.
Councilman Curren Price, who represents the neighborhood, said the houses pose serious health and safety risks.
“I’m getting complaints from constituents who have to walk into the streets to avoid them,” Price said.
Authorities destroyed needles, drug setups and a gun seized from one or more of the houses and tents during an earlier cleanup.
Some advocates for the homeless see the single-story structures — about the size of garden shed — as a cheap and safer alternative to having the homeless sleep on the sidewalks.
Neighbors and other opponents, however, say they provide cover for lawlessness and criminal activity.
“They are only homes for prostitution, shooting up, smoking up,” said June Ellen Richard, 54, who has lived all her life within blocks of one of the freeway overpasses where the tiny houses were parked.
Mayor Eric Garcetti’s spokeswoman, Connie Llanos, said he is committed to getting homeless people into permanent housing and services.
“Unfortunately, these structures can be hazardous to the individuals living in them and to the community at large,” Llanos said in a statement.
“When the city took the houses, they didn’t offer housing, they straight kicked them out,” Summers said.
The tiny house crackdown came as the city continues to struggle to balance enforcement with housing and other aid for the burgeoning homeless population.
The city passed a tough new sweeps ordinance that identified tiny houses as “bulky items” subject to immediate confiscation. More than 30,000 people sleep in city streets in Los Angeles County.
While the city also adopted a plan to end homelessness over the next decade, officials have not identified a source for money to tackle the $2 billion problem.
Summers said he has built and placed 37 tiny houses from Van Nuys to Inglewood, with help from volunteers and more than $100,000 in donations from people around the world drawn to his online video campaign.
“It’s not a permanent solution, but nobody is doing anything for shelter right now,” said Summers, who added that the houses should default to him rather than be destroyed. “They keep just saying we need permanent housing we’re, but it never happens.”
Price said there are alternatives including shelters but the tiny house people reject them.
Kenner Jackson, who lives in a tiny house with his wife, Becky, and terrier, Cowboy, said officials were “taking houses from people who need them right now. … Their plan isn’t anything.”
Jackson said the city hauled away homeless people’s possessions while leaving bulky items like mattresses and chairs that residents dump next to the freeway.
Johnny Horton, 60, whose heavily bandaged legs were scored with wounds from uncontrolled diabetes, wept silently Wednesday as he contemplated going back to sleeping in the street.
“Laying on that tent on the sidewalk it’s impossible to keep clean,” Horton said. He said the staff at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, which discharged him Tuesday, said they’d try to get him housing, but it would take one to three months.
“I grew up in this neighborhood,” Horton said.
Posted on Julia Briggs Cannon’s tiny house next to the city impound notice were several fliers seeking the whereabouts of her husband, Larry Joe Cannon.
Cannon, 58, said her husband, a Vietnam-era Marine veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder and memory loss, was hospitalized with a seizure Feb. 5, then disappeared.
Cannon turned up Friday, but the couple’s house was gone. As Summers drove off with her house on a flat-bed trailer, she sat on a thin bedroll on the ground and pointed to the concrete.
“I’m staying right here,” she said, her eyes filling with tears.

Colin Kaepernick 49ers trade request

Colin Kaepernick 49ers trade request rumors San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s agents have asked the team permission to seek a trade, said NFL.com’s Rand Getlin.

Kaepernick played in only nine games for the 49ers last season and lost his starting job to Blaine Gabbert. San Francisco hired Chip Kelly to replace Jim Tomsula as head coach after the season.
Kaepernick’s trade value is likely at its lowest two seasons after taking the 49ers to the NFC Championship Game. In 2015, he posted a career-low passer rating and completed only 59% of his passes with six touchdowns and five interceptions.
In 2014, the 49ers signed Kaepernick to a six-year contract extension worth up to $126 million, but Kaepernick is unlikely to see that amount. San Francisco can reportedly release the quarterback before April and save $9.36 million against the cap, and would only owe Kaepernick the rest of his prorated signing bonus.

"Rick, are you drunk?" Nurse in surgery intoxicated

When authorities showed up to interview Richard Pieri, a Pennsylvania nurse, they asked him if he knew why they were there.
“I guess it has something to do with me being drunk on call,” he responded, according to a probable-cause affidavit.
But Pieri was not only intoxicated while on call, authorities allege. They think he also was under the influence of alcohol when he participated in an emergency appendectomy at the Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center.
He now faces charges of recklessly endangering another person, driving under the influence and public drunkenness, according to court documents.
A message left for Pieri was not returned.
Security footage shows Pieri stumbling through the hospital parking lot late Feb. 4, on his way into surgery, according to the court documents. He walked with an “unsteady” gait and almost fell, the probable-cause affidavit states.
His behavior, a Department of Veterans Affairs police detective wrote, was “consistent with someone who is under the influence of a controlled substance or alcoholic beverages.”
Another nurse working that night told an investigator that Pieri was “definitely not himself,” according to the affidavit. He had trouble logging on to his computer, she said, and grew upset.
“Rick, are you drunk or something?” the woman said she asked Pieri.
A physician’s assistant also told an investigator that he smelled an alcohol in the operating room. He “concluded that the odor was likely emitted from one of the employees inside the room,” the documents state.
Pieri told investigators that he visited Mohegan Sun casino at Pocono Downs on Feb. 4 and drank four or five beers while playing slots. He said he went home but was paged about the emergency surgery about 11:30 that night.
“Pieri admitted that he knew he was not supposed to be a part of a surgery while he was intoxicated,” the affidavit says. But, the document states, he “claimed he had forgotten he was on call and did not want to have someone else come in.”
According to the affidavit, Pieri “was responsible for preparing the patient, retrieving the patient, preparing the materials inside the room, documenting the surgery, and monitoring the vitals of the patient throughout recovery.”
The operating room, the document notes, “is filled with complicated equipment that Pieri needs to operate and has several loose wires and cords that can be tripped on or disconnected by somebody with an inability to properly ambulate themselves.”
Medical staff at the hospital told investigators from the Department of Veterans Affairs Police Service that “taking part in a surgery with impaired cognitive ability can create a substantial risk to the safety of the patient.”
The affidavit does not name the patient, but it notes that this person was later readmitted to the hospital with stomach pains.
“To the best of my knowledge there’s been no harm as a result of the incident,” William Klaips, executive assistant to the VA Medical Center’s director, told The Washington Post.
The affidavit, however, notes that “Pieri’s actions were knowingly reckless and could have caused serious injury or death to the patient.”
Pieri remains employed by the hospital but has been “relieved his direct patient care duties,” Klaips said. An internal investigation is underway in addition to the criminal proceedings, he said.

Super Lice!?!?

Is your head itchy yet?
"Super lice" are infesting the nation and have appeared in half the country, according to an NBC affiliate in St. Louis, Missouri.
The insidious creatures are resistant to chemicals present in most over-the-counter treatments that reportedly could cure 100 percent of lice cases back in 2000.
But times have changed, according to KSDK. And while a more advanced, FDA-approved treatment to counter the super lice is available and is sometimes covered by insurance, it can cost nearly $200.

"Don't share hats, don't share hairbrushes," Claire Roberts, CEO of Lice Clinics of America, said. "Try to avoid the actual contact with hair or another head. That's how the lice are transferred."
If a case of lice does rear its ugly head in your house, here are a few things you can do. It's been recommend vacuuming thoroughly, throwing stuffed animals in a hot dryer for 20 to 30 minutes and washing bedding in hot water.
Also, get out the lice comb and pick those nits: The old-fashioned way still works.

15 year old white male kills sister and claims he thought she was a deer?!

When search crews found the body of 10-year-old Izabella Heffernan, she was clad in a white sundress and covered in towels.
Her older brother admitted to fatally shooting his sister after he was brought in for questioning, according to an arrest affidavit. But the 15-year-old said it was a mistake — that he thought he was shooting at a deer.
Then he changed his story.
Then he changed it again.
And now, authorities say, the teen is facing an open count of murder in the death of his little sister.
Izabella’s body was discovered Sunday afternoon, hours after her family reported her missing in Fountain, Fla., according to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office.
At a news conference Monday, Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen described the behavior of the older brother who was charged with her death, characterizing it as unusual for his age.
“This is not the typical 15-year-old kid you would see every day on the street,” McKeithen said. “This is a hardcore kid: He lied, he was deceitful, he screamed, he cursed. He was like talking to a 30-year-old murderer.”
During an interview with investigators, the 15-year-old admitted to shooting Izabella, although he said that he had mistakenly thought his sister was a deer when he fired, according to an arrest affidavit. He told the sheriff’s office that after he shot the girl with a .22 caliber rifle, striking her in the chest and face, he moved the body and hid the gun.
He later changed his story, according to the affidavit, instead telling authorities that he was trying to shoot someone who was attacking the 10-year-old. He said he had accidentally shot his sister instead.
Finally, the teen told police that he was teaching Izabella to shoot, which was why he had taken her outside early Sunday morning.
“While doing this he stated he accidentally shot her in the chest,” the affidavit reads. “He thought it hit her in the lungs and stated, ‘She started making gurgling noises, and I did not know exactly how to deal with that, so I shot her again.'”
The 15-year-old told investigators that he moved the body and put Izabella in a white dress, according to the documents.
He also told investigators where to find the gun that he used: in an abandoned home that was nearby.
“I heard a young man say that she was one of those students who, if you were having a bad day, she would come sit by you and talk to you,” Izabella’s elementary school principal, Chris Beard said. “She always had a smile. She was a very sweet little girl.”

5100+ year old dress (PIC)

While archaeologists have uncovered ceramic fragments and tools dating back tens of thousands of years, clothing is another story. Since most garments are made of delicate materials like linen and wool, ancient clothing finds are extremely rare—which is what makes the Tarkhan dress so unique.
According to recent radiocarbon dating tests, the Tarkhan dress is between 5100 and 5500 years old, making it the oldest dress ever found. The dress comes from the so-called Tarkhan excavations conducted in the early 1900s in Egypt about 30 miles south of Cairo. According to the study in Antiquity, the dress was buried in a tomb for thousands of years, and came quite close to never being discovered at all. While the main Tarkhan excavations occurred from 1912 to 1913, the dress was overlooked and lumped with a pile of rags. It was found more than six decades later, in 1977, when a bundle of miscellaneous textiles were sent to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for conservation.
The dress would have been worn by a member of the Egyptian upper class, and, although it came from an Egyptian tomb, it was originally created for the living, not the dead; it shows signs of wear.
It's not the only example of an ancient garment, but it is the only one to have been "cut, fitted, and tailored," the researchers write.
“A handful of garments of similar age have survived to the present day, but those were simply wrapped or draped around the body,” explains National Geographic. “The Tarkhan dress, on the other hand, is ancient haute couture.”

Peyton Manning and the endorsement culture of indifference to sexual assault

When will endorsement companies stop snoozing at athlete sexual assault allegations?

In the wake of Peyton Manning’s recent public relations nightmare, can anyone figure out how the industry has allowed the storied NFL quarterback to be the “endorsement king” for the past two decades? After reading Shaun King’s provocative New York Daily News article , can anyone make sense of the fact not a single endorsement company — not DirectTV, Gatorade, Nationwide or Papa John’s — has at least temporarily suspended its contracts with the once-untouchable quarterback who is well past the prime of his playing career?
You probably can’t.
In February 1996, Manning allegedly pulled down his pants and forcibly placed his genitals on University of Tennessee football trainer Jamie Naughright’s face while she was examining his foot in the locker room. Manning claimed he was mooning UT cross-country athlete Malcolm Saxon.
After reporting the alleged sexual assault to Knoxville’s Sexual Assault Crisis Center and UT authorities, Naughright found her position terminated. At the time of her discharge, Naughright had more than eight flawless years of employment at UT. Manning, on the other hand, continued his collegiate career relatively unscathed, and went on to make millions both on and off the NFL field — landing himself on Forbes’ “Highest Paid Athletes” list year after year. In 2015 alone, Manning topped the Forbes list with $15 million in endorsement earnings.
The Manning-Naughright legal saga has been in the public sphere for years, but it received little media traction.
But two days after the Broncos won Super Bowl 50, six women filed a federal lawsuit against the University of Tennessee, charging that the school enabled sexual assaults by student-athletes because of its alleged student culture and a legal system biased against the victims. In an effort to prove the “hostile sexual environment” created by UT, the plaintiffs’ complaint cited Naughright’s 20-year-old case against Manning.
Shortly thereafter, King obtained access to the entirety of Naughright’s two-decade-old complaint levied against Manning and UT, and new information emerged with respect to Naughright’s 2003 defamation lawsuit against Manning, his father and ghostwriter John Underwood for their 2001 book “Manning.”  In no time, the public and media had become fixated on Manning’s potential sexual indiscretions.
Of importance, it was revealed Malcom Saxon sent a personal letter to Manning in December 2002, and urged him to “admit to what happened.” Saxon’s letter also reveals that Saxon essentially lost his UT eligibility for telling the truth and confirming Naughright’s story.
Saxon’s letter has recently been made public — but endorsement companies have turned a blind eye.
To date, no company has invoked any morals clause contained in Manning's endorsement contracts.
Because of the huge financial losses that companies can face from being tied to an athlete’s sex scandal, criminal conviction or doping allegation, morals clauses have become quite prolific in endorsement deals. Morals clauses, also referred to as “public image clauses,” “good-conduct clauses,” or “morality clauses,” provide an endorsement company the right to terminate, suspend or otherwise punish an athlete for engaging in criminal or reprehensible behavior, or conduct that may negatively impact his public image and, by association, the public image of such company.
Given that a company may pay an athlete millions to be the spokesperson for its product, and may spend additional millions building its advertising and marketing campaign around the individual, morals clauses provide a company the needed flexibility to terminate or suspend any relationship if an athlete’s public scandal or criminal behavior spells financial disaster for its investment.
As the distraction of an alleged Manning sexual assault stays in the forefront, whether DirectTV, Gatorade, Nationwide or Papa John’s decides to terminate, or at least suspend, its existing relationship with Manning will be contingent upon the scope and breadth of the negotiated morality clause in his contracts. Athletes often try to negotiate narrow morals clauses that can only be triggered in limited circumstances (i.e., a criminal conviction, an arrest or criticizing a company’s product), whereas endorsement companies favor broad morals clauses that give them the flexibility to quickly exit a deal for any reason that can spell financial ruin.
When Manning entered into his endorsement contracts, he had exceptional leverage — his legacy was still secure as one of the NFL's greatest players as a multiple-MVP award winner. Despite his tremendous star power, it would have been poor judgment for a company like Gatorade not to force Manning to agree to a broad morals clause that would permit the sports drink giant to curtail its relationship for any action that could lead to public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule for Manning or for Gatorade. After all, it is not uncommon for an endorsement contract to contain both a narrow morals clause and a more broadly defined morals clause, to mitigate any enforceability challenges.
The question, then, is if a sexual assault scandal with damning evidence contained in now public court documents is not an action that “could lead to public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule,” then what is?
Manning provides just one example of the much larger issue — that endorsement companies often ignore marquee athletes and sexual assault allegations because the safety of women is irrelevant to profit margins.
If endorsement companies do not turn a blind eye to sexual assault, then why did Nike sign Jameis Winston to a lucrative endorsement deal in 2015, one day after Erica Kinsman filed a civil suit against the athlete? And despite Florida State reaching a $950,000 Title IX settlement with Kinsman in January, why has Nike not suspended, fined or terminated Winston by invoking a negotiated morals clause?
Even Kobe Bryant’s 2003 rape scandal did not definitively derail his endorsement career. While a few companies, like McDonalds, immediately invoked negotiated morals clauses and terminated their contracts with Bryant when he was initially charged with rape, endorsements with Sprite and Nike remained intact. Moreover, more than a decade after rape charges were dropped, even though Bryant ultimately entered into a settlement with the alleged victim, the “Black Mamba” still finds himself at the top of every endorsement earnings list, taking home over $23 million in endorsements in 2015 alone.
That none of the aforementioned athletes faced criminal convictions for sexual assault allegations should come as no surprise. A 1998 study by Jeffrey Benedict and Alan M. Klein revealed that athletes manage to avoid conviction more readily than any other men charged with sexual assault.
According to the Justice Department statistics, 32 percent of rapes reported to police in 1990 resulted in an arrest. More than 54 percent of these suspects were convicted.
For athletes, the numbers are almost reversed. Of the 217 felony rape complaints made to police involving athletes between 1986 and 1995, 79 percent resulted in arrests. But of those 172 arrests, only 31 percent resulted in convictions.
Popular athletes are always in the news, and often claim their fame leads to hoax accusations. But sham charges don’t entirely explain the staggeringly low sexual assault conviction rate.  Part of the explanation is that many prosecutors are reluctant to bring cases against athletes to trial; it is extremely difficult for the prosecution to prove an alleged sexual assault victim’s allegations beyond a reasonable doubt when often there are no corroborating witnesses. Another explanation is accused athletes have money, powerful lawyers, public relations specialists and other popular personalities to come to their defense.
Given the difficulty in successfully prosecuting sexual assault allegations, perhaps it is time for endorsement companies to look at allegations with a sharper eye. Companies can partially invoke morals clauses if they don’t want to completely sever ties with a prized athlete: While sexual assault investigations remain ongoing, companies can suspend an agreement but retain the services of the athlete for a later day, once more information becomes certain; companies can also impose a financial penalty for the "immoral" behavior but allow the endorsement to continue; or, companies can seek damages for breach of an agreement.
If this culture of apathy toward athlete sexual assault is ever going to change, customers will have to lead the charge.
Ultimately, the invocation of morals clauses turns on business considerations: Will the non-breaching party gain more (financially or otherwise) by suspending or severing ties with the athlete than by keeping the contractual relationship in place? If a product’s profits drop significantly following a sexual assault scandal, a decision to invoke a morals clause may follow suit.
Manning’s squeaky clean image may be forever tarnished. Perhaps it is time for some of his endorsement contracts to be temporarily suspended — at least, until more information about his alleged sexual assault comes to light.

Lack of Videos Hampers Inquiries Into Multiple Houston Police Shootings

If the police shooting of Omar Ventura on a February night five years ago had been captured on video, it would have been chilling to watch.
An off-duty Houston police officer would have been seen coming out of a bar at closing time after a night of heavy drinking. The video would have shown the officer, Jose Coronado Jr., firing his gun while trying to break up a brawl. Mr. Ventura, who was unarmed, would have been seen falling to the ground dead and his brother, also unarmed, writhing in pain from a bullet wound.
But there was no video of that shooting or of most of the dozens of other questionable shootings of unarmed people by Houston police officers during the past decade. None of them led to either the criminal prosecution of an officer or significant discipline by the department.
The police in Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, found themselves on the defensive after a series of articles by The Houston Chronicle two years ago detailed a pattern of questionable shootings. The numbers have remained grim, according to police and court records obtained through an open records law request and documents recently made available as part of lawsuits filed against the Police Department.
Since 2005, the police have shot 268 people, 111 of them fatally, records show. The rate of shootings by police officers was higher in Houston between 2010 and 2014 than in New York or Los Angeles, and the Houston police killed more people than the Los Angeles police despite having half as many officers, according to police data. (Officers in Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, killed civilians at a higher rate than the Houston police did over that period, records show.)
Despite the troubling statistics, the Houston police have largely avoided the intensive public scrutiny directed in recent months at other large departments, including those in Chicago, Baltimore and Philadelphia. The reason, critics say, has been the lack of videotapes capturing the most questionable shootings of unarmed civilians.
Without videotaped evidence to contradict police accounts, shootings are far less likely to galvanize the public and to result in disciplinary action against the officers involved, criminologists say.
The victims of police shootings in Houston include Brian Claunch, a double amputee in a wheelchair who was holding only a pen when an officer shot him in 2012, and Jordan Baker, an unarmed man fatally shot after the police stopped him while he was riding his bicycle in 2014, records show.
In the case of Mr. Baker, a surveillance camera video captured his initial interaction with a police officer but not the shooting itself, which the police said took place after the 26-year-old reached for his waistband. Janet Baker, Mr. Baker’s mother, said she believed the police had begun to follow her son because he was an African-American man wearing a hooded sweatshirt.
“He was guilty of the wrong garment choice,” she said. “The police were always looking for a way to exonerate the officer, and our family was left to pick up the pieces.”
Since 2005, the Houston police have shot at more than 460 people, and nearly one in five were unarmed, according to department records.
“Even when there is data on the number of police shootings, it’s not nearly as compelling as watching something happen on video,” said Seth W. Stoughton, a law professor at the University of South Carolina and former police officer. “From John Crawford to Tamir Rice to Eric Garner, it is the video that has kept public attention on policing.”
  Pat Sullivan/Associated Press Charles A. McClelland Jr., who is retiring as Houston’s police chief this week, said the lack of video evidence had not influenced his decisions. Charles A. McClelland Jr., who is retiring as Houston’s police chief this week, said the lack of video evidence in Houston had not influenced his decisions in clearing hundreds of officers in department shooting investigations.
“The law gives wide discretion to a law enforcement officer to use deadly force,” he said, adding that the F.B.I. had also investigated some of the shootings. “The person does not have to be armed, and that’s a difficult concept for the public to understand.”
Chief McClelland, who has spent six years as chief and 39 years with the department, said most officers would have body cameras within 18 months. Currently, only about 100 of the department’s 5,200 officers have cameras, and about 200 cars are equipped with dashboard cameras.
To reduce officer-involved shootings, Chief McClelland said, the department is contemplating ways to reorganize training to emphasize de-escalation, tactical retreating, and cover and concealment.
“Many times we know an incident might be lawful and justified, but we don’t want it to happen again,” he said.
On Thursday, Martha Montalvo, an executive assistant chief, was appointed interim chief while the department conducts a national search for Chief McClelland’s permanent replacement.
After about one in seven police shootings since 2005, Houston officers told supervisors that they had fired at someone who was unarmed because the person had “postured in a threatening manner,” according to police records. That explanation, according to the records, has become increasingly common in recent years — and without video evidence is nearly impossible to refute. The vast majority of unarmed shooting victims have been African-American or Latino.
Lawyers for the families of those who have been killed by the police say it is so routine for Houston officers to go unpunished after shooting unarmed individuals that some officers no longer take such shootings seriously.
The department denied that claim. But in one case, moments after a fatal police shooting in 2012, officers engaged in a conversation over the department’s text messaging system that suggested that some officers do take shootings lightly.
“Hey, bro, can you guys go at least two weeks without a shooting?” one officer asked a colleague, according to a transcript of the messages.
The response — referring to the southern area of the city where the shooting occurred — was: “That’s how we roll at South Central, bro. We too hard!”
The first officer replied, using the acronym for dead on arrival: “Ha, ha, ha. Right. Is he D.O.A.?”
Upon hearing that the victim had not yet died, the first officer playfully warned his colleague about the frequency of officer shootings. “Man, bro, you better be careful — the list is shortening of officers who haven’t gotten into a shooting yet.”
Officer Coronado was a five-year veteran of the department at the time he was drinking at Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub on Feb. 19, 2011.
After being asked at the bar’s 2 a.m. closing time to leave, Officer Coronado, who had consumed several drinks during the evening, tried to take his beer with him, according to court records. After the bouncer turned him away, the officer quickly downed nearly a triple shot of Jameson Irish whiskey and a beer.
The bouncer and the bartender told investigators that Officer Coronado had been clearly intoxicated, with slurred speech and glassy eyes, according to police and court documents.
The bartender said that when she offered Officer Coronado a glass of water, he “growled” at her that he did not want it, according to bar employees.
A fight was taking place in the parking lot when Officer Coronado left the bar, and he became involved in it. After he fatally shot Mr. Ventura, Officer Coronado said he had opened fire because Mr. Ventura had reached for his waistband as if he had a gun. But witnesses said that Mr. Ventura’s hands had been extended in a nonthreatening manner, and that Officer Coronado had not identified himself before shooting, according to department records.
After Officer Coronado killed Mr. Ventura and shot his brother, Rolando Ventura, in his left arm, the officer “was stumbling” as he walked away, Rolando Ventura said in a recent interview.
Officer Coronado was not disciplined for the shooting, but was suspended for 30 days for acting in an official capacity while drinking, and for using an unauthorized firearm. The Ventura family has sued the department.
Rolando Ventura, 32, who has a scar that runs along his forearm from the shooting, said neither he nor his brother had posed a threat to Officer Coronado.
“I know there’s good officers, but you just never know if there’s going to be a good police officer or not when you see one,” he said.
Officer Coronado wrote in a brief email just before the fifth anniversary of the shooting: “I am still haunted by it.”

This 12-Year-Old Girl Is Living With An Ant Colony Inside Her Head (PIC)

Normally when someone says they have an ant problem, they mean ants have infested their home, not their head. The latter is actually true in the case of Shreya Darji, 12.
Hundreds of ants continue to live inside the girl’s head, with about a dozen or so emerging from her ears every day. The Deesa, Gujarat girl complained of ear pain last August, and doctors discovered she had a colony inside her head. They have repeatedly pulled the creatures, dead and alive, from her ears, but the ants continue to reproduce and occupy their space in Darji’s head.
Doctors have tried flushing her ears with antiseptic to drown the ants, and have tried several times to locate and kill the queen ant with laparoscopic cameras. Darji has even seen witch doctors, but nothing seems to help — the ants keep reproducing, the Sun reported.
“The girl’s case is very challenging for me, as I have never seen such a case, nor found it in medical history,” Dr. Jawahar Talsania said. “The big ants must be biting her, but the girl did not feel pain inside her ears. Besides, there was no damage inside her ear.”
Darji is currently under video surveillance in an Ahmedabad medical unit.

'Mob Wives' Star Drita D'Avanzo Arrested After Alleged NYC Sidewalk Beating

Drita D'Avanzo, who has starred on the VH1's Mob Wives reality series since 2011, was arrested on Tuesday, NYPD confirms to ET. The Staten Islander allegedly got into a "verbal dispute" with an unidentified woman.
When things escalated, D'Avanzo "attacked" the woman, police say, reportedly punching her numerous times, and then fled the scene.
D'Avanzo was eventually arrested and taken to the precinct and processed. "She was released from the precinct with a desk appearance ticket with a charge of a misdemeanor assault," the NYPD said. "She must appear back in court on March 9."
The reality star has been vocal in the past about what would make her "f---in' punch" someone.
Since the arrest, D'Avanzo has only tweeted, "I will be holding an event at my store next Sat!!!! Posting details soon:)) #MakeupPartayyyyy"

Dallas police have video footage of Manziel incident

Dallas police offered a brief statement Saturday about the investigation into allegations that Johnny Manziel hit ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley at a Dallas hotel on Jan. 30.

The police said during the two-minute press conference only that they are still investigating the situation.
"There has been no determination as to what charge, if any, will be filed against Mr. Manziel," Maj. Midge Boyle said.
The altercation on Jan. 30 reportedly began at the Zaza Hotel in Dallas, where Manziel allegedly hit Crowley. According to the Dallas PD's full statement, (article continued below)
 

The Dallas Police Department has released an updated statement on Johnny Manziel

 the department has obtained video surveillance from the hotel but have not spoken to Manziel.
In Crowley's affidavit seeking a protection order, she stated that after an argument in Manziel's room at the hotel, he led her down a back stairway to the valet, who she told she was "scared for my life."
Dallas police also have the video of the encounter with the valet, an unidentified source told ESPN.
The argument reportedly continued during the drive back to Crowley's Fort Worth residence, with Manziel angrily shouting at her and allegedly striking her again.
Dallas police said on Friday that they hope to finish the investigation by the end of next week.
The Browns are expected to cut ties with Manziel in March.

Four-year-old sentenced to life in prison for murder in Egypt

An Egyptian court has sentenced a four-year-old boy to life in prison for “committing murder” when he was aged just one.

Ahmed Mansour Karmi was not in court on Tuesday when he was convicted of four counts of murder, eight of attempted murder, one vandalisation of property and another count of threatening soldiers and police officers - all before his second birthday.
Ahmed was one of 115 defendants who were all handed life sentences at the same time at the court in western Cairo for crimes allegedly committed in early 2014.
His defence attorney, Faisal al-Sayd, the child’s name had been added to the list by mistake but the court did not pass Ahmed’s birth certificate on to the judge to prove he was born in September 2012.
He said: "The child Ahmed Mansour Karni's birth certificate was presented after state security forces added his name to the list of accused, but then the case was transferred to the military court and the child was sentenced in absentia in an ensuing court hearing.
"This proves that the judge did not read the case".
Another lawyer said the case showed “there is no justice in Egypt”.
He said: “The Egyptian scales of justice are not reversible. There is no justice in Egypt. No reason. Logic committed suicide a while ago. Egypt went crazy. Egypt is ruled by a bunch of lunatics."
Egypt has been ruled by a military dictatorship under President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi since Mohammed Morsi's elected government was ousted in 2013.
Approximately 40,000 opposition supporters are currently in jail as the government cracks down on dissent.