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Illinois day care workers gave children melatonin in candy before their nap time

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Three employees of a day care facility in suburban Chicago were arrested Friday after they gave children gummy bears laced with sleep aid melatonin without parental consent, according to police.

The Des Plaines Police Department said Monday that officers were called to Kiddie Junction after management learned a teacher was giving children the gummies. A further investigation revealed that two other teachers were also involved.

Three workers - 25-year-old Ashley Helfenbein of Chicago, 19-year-old Jessica Heyse of Des Plaines and 32-year-old Kristen Lauletta of Niles - now face charges of endangering the life or health of a child and battery. They are all due in court April 4.

Police said the children were given the melatonin "in an effort to calm them down before nap time," and that parents hadn't given permission for their children to receive the melatonin.

"You can't distribute that without the parents being told," Des Plaines police Cmdr. Christopher Mierzwa told the Chicago Tribune. "(The teachers) didn't know if the child was allergic to melatonin."
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Police told FOX 32 Chicago they have footage showing the teachers giving the melatonin gummy bears on two occasions, and one of the teachers may have been doing this since November 2016.

Authorities contacted parents who had children at the facility, and said that no children were sickened.

"When the detective called me he didn't specify what classroom it happened and he called me and said I'm detective so and so with the Des Plaines Police Department and I'm here at the Kiddie Junction and my heart dropped," parent Edi Kulasic told FOX 32.
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Des Plaines Police said the management of the facility is cooperating in the investigation.

Kathy Wiley, whose grandson Mason goes to the day care, told FOX 32 he still has faith in the teachers at the facility.

"I feel terrible for the owners and the management and this is just some poor choices that these girls made," she told FOX 32.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Travis Fedschun is a reporter for FoxNews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travfed

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Illinois day care workers gave melatonin gummies to kids before naptime, police say

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Three employees of a day care facility in suburban Chicago were arrested Friday after they gave children gummy bears laced with sleep aid melatonin without parental consent, according to police. The Des Plaines Police Department said Monday that officers were called to Kiddie Junction after management learned a teacher was giving children the gummies.

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In Tarrant County, Tex., defendants are sometimes strapped with a stun belt around their legs. The devices are used to deliver a shock in the event the person gets violent or attempts to escape.

But in the case of Terry Lee Morris, the device was used as punishment for refusing to answer a judge's questions properly during his 2016 trial on charges of soliciting sexual performance from a 15-year-old girl, according to an appeals court. In fact, the judge shocked Morris three times, sending thousands of volts coursing through his body. It scared him so much that Morris never returned for the remainder of his trial and almost all of his sentencing hearing.

The action stunned the Texas Eighth Court of Appeals in El Paso, too. It has now thrown out Morris's conviction on the grounds that the shocks ordered by district judge George Gallagher, and Morris's subsequent removal from the courtroom, violated his constitutional rights. Since he was too scared to come back to the courtroom, the court held that the shocks effectively barred him from attending his own trial, in violation of the Constitution's Sixth Amendment, which guarantees a defendant's right to be present and confront witnesses during a trial.

The ruling, handed down Feb. 28, was reported Tuesday in the Texas Lawyer.

Judges are not allowed to shock defendants in their courtrooms just because they won't answer questions, the court said, or because they fail to follow the court's rules of decorum.

"While the trial court's frustration with an obstreperous defendant is understandable, the judge's disproportionate response is not. We do not believe that trial judges can use stun belts to enforce decorum," Justice Yvonne T. Rodriguez said of Gallagher's actions in the court's opinion. "A stun belt is a device meant to ensure physical safety; it is not an operant conditioning collar meant to punish a defendant until he obeys a judge's whim. This Court cannot sit idly by and say nothing when a judge turns a court of law into a Skinner Box, electrocuting a defendant until he provides the judge with behavior he likes."

The stun belt works in some ways like a shock collar used to train dogs. Activated by a button on a remote control, the stun belt delivers an eight-second, 50,000-volt shock to the person wearing it, which immobilizes him so that bailiffs can swiftly neutralize any security threats. When activated, the stun belt can cause the person to seize, suffer heart irregularities, urinate or defecate and suffer possibly crippling anxiety as a result of fear of the shocks.

The stun belt can also be very painful. When Montgomery County, Md., purchased three of the devices in 1998, a sheriff's sergeant who was jolted as part of his training described the feeling to The Washington Post like this: "If you had nine-inch nails and you tried to rip my sides out and then you put a heat lamp on me."

Most courts have found that the stun belts are constitutional as long as they are used on defendants posing legitimate security threats - but the Texas justices said there was no evidence of that here.

The discord between Morris and Gallagher arose after Gallagher asked Morris how he would plead: guilty or not guilty?

"Sir, before I say that, I have the right to make a defense," Morris responded.

He had recently filed a federal lawsuit against his defense attorney and against Gallagher, whom he wanted recused from the case. As Morris continued talking, Gallagher warned him to stop making "outbursts."

"Mr. Morris, I am giving you one warning," Gallagher said outside the presence of the jury, according to the appeals court. "You will not make any additional outbursts like that, because two things will happen. No. 1, I will either remove you from the courtroom or I will use the shock belt on you."

"All right, sir," Morris said.

The judge continued: "Now, are you going to follow the rules?"

"Sir, I've asked you to recuse yourself," said Morris.

Gallagher asked again: "Are you going to follow the rules?"

"I have a lawsuit pending against you," responded Morris.

"Hit him," Gallagher said to the bailiff.

The bailiff pressed the button that shocks Morris, and then Gallagher asked him again whether he is going to behave. Morris told Gallagher he had a history of mental illness.

"Hit him again," the judge ordered.

Morris protested that he was being "tortured" just for seeking the recusal.

Gallagher asked the bailiff, "Would you hit him again?"

Morris's trial defense attorney, Bill Ray, told Texas Lawyer he didn't object to use of stun belt during trial because his client was acting "like a loaded cannon ready to go off." He also claimed he did not believe Morris was really being shocked.

As the Texas justices note, case law on the use of stun belts on defendants in court is slim, if only because outrageous uses of stun belts in courts are rare.

In the several cases cited in the ruling, the stun belts' damaging effects on a person as well as their controversial history are well recognized. The stun belts were introduced in the early 1990s as a way to "control" prisoners. According to testimony in a stun belt case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, the devices "acted more as a deterrent rather than a means of actual punishment because of the tremendous amount of anxiety that results from wearing a belt that packs a 50,000-volt to 70,000-volt punch."

"Never before have we seen any behavior like this, nor do we hope to ever see such behavior again," Rodriguez wrote of Gallagher's actions. "As the circumstances of this case perfectly illustrate, the potential for abuse in the absence of an explicit prohibition on nonsecurity use of stun belts exists and must be deterred. We must speak out against it, lest we allow practices like these to affront the very dignity of the proceedings we seek to protect and lead our courts to drift from justice into barbarism."

The judge, contacted by The Post, declined to comment, citing judicial ethics.
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'Barbarism': Texas judge ordered electric shocks to silence man on trial. Conviction thrown out.

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The Washington Post 2 hrs ago Meagan Flynn In Tarrant County, Tex., defendants are sometimes strapped with a stun belt around their legs. The devices are used to deliver a shock in the event the person gets violent or attempts to escape.

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A Utah high school student was arrested on a suspicion of planting a homemade backpack bomb. The student was going to detonate it a lunch but his classmates saw smoke and contacted the school resource officer.The school was evacuated immediately evacuated.

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A Utah high school student, who had allegedly researched information on the Islamic State terrorist group, has been arrested on suspicion planting a homemade backpack bomb in his school cafeteria and attempting to detonate it at lunchtime, authorities said today.

Classmates of the suspect thwarted the alleged bombing attempt Monday at Pine View High School in St. George, Utah, when they spotted smoke coming from the backpack and alerted a school resource officer, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.

The school was immediately evacuated and the Washington County bomb squad was called to detonate the device, officials said.

"They confirmed this absolutely was an explosive device and had it detonated it could have caused severe injury, potentially death and damage," Officer Lona Trombley, spokeswoman for the St. George Police Department, told ABC News today.

The device was left in the cafeteria around lunchtime Monday and there were numerous students near it, she added.

"He had attempted to light the fuse so the bomb would explode," Trombley said of the suspect.

Investigators searched the suspect's house in Hurricane, Utah, and allegedly found materials consistent with manufacturing a homemade explosive, officials said. They also allegedly uncovered evidence that the juvenile male, whose name has not been released, had researched information about ISIS and expressed interest in promoting the terrorist group.

The teenager arrested in the incident is also suspected of vandalizing Hurricane High School Feb. 15, police in that nearby town said.

In the vandalism incident, a U.S. flag was taken down from a pole in front of the school and graffiti reading "ISIS is coming" was spray-painted on a school wall, police said.

Student Jack Whalen said he spotted the suspicious backpack, which was open and smoking. He said a friend immediately went to notify the school resource office.

"I came around the corner and I could smell smoke. As I walked by, I looked inside of it [the backpack] and I could see the matches inside of it," Whalen told the St. George News.

The school of around 1,100 students was evacuated to a football stadium where the suspect was arrested.

The suspect, who remained in custody today, was charged with the manufacture, possession, sale, use or attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, Thombley, the St. George Police Department spokeswoman, said. He was also charged with mischief stemming from the alleged vandalism at the school in Hurricane, she added.

The investigation, with the help of the FBI, is ongoing and officials said other charges could be filed against the suspect.

"It was really scary," Olivia Jones, a senior at the school, told ABC Salt Lake City affiliate KTVX-TV. "I saw cops coming from one side and then another side and grabbed this kid that was literally like five feet from her. They were kind of aggressive with him and brought him up to the top of the stadium and they were like patting him down and searching him and stuff, and he actually ended up being the suspect."

Jones said the suspect is in her seminary class and described him as "super quiet."

"My seminary teacher was saying that before they had been evacuated, he was like hysterically laughing, which is sort of like out of the usual for him," she added.

During a news conference at the school Monday, Steve Dunham, spokesman for the Washington County School District, credited the quick response from students and school resource officers in preventing anyone from being injured in the incident. He said that since the mass shooting Feb. 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, security has been boosted at all schools in the district.

"Since the incident that took place in Florida, our school resource officers have been very present," Dunham told reporters. "We've had additional officers throughout all of our schools. All of the police departments that we work with have had additional officers out and around our buildings."

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Utah student allegedly brought bomb to school in his backpack and tried to detonate it

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A Utah high school student, who had allegedly researched information on the Islamic State terrorist group, has been arrested on suspicion planting a homemade backpack bomb in his school cafeteria and attempting to detonate it at lunchtime, authorities said today. Classmates of the suspect thwarted the alleged bombing attempt Monday at Pine View High School in St.

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The worlds oldest message in a bottle washed up on a shore on a beach in Australia, about 132 years after the bottle was thrown over board a ship. Kym and Tonya illman of perth, Australia found the bottle in January on wedge island. When tonya took the bottle home she opened it there was a tightly rolled piece of paper and a message in German she said she could easily make out the date, june 12 but the year was a little bit harder. After the couple let the paper dry for almost a week however the condition of the letter was in perfect condition.

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A National Rifle Association of America ad stirred controversy online. One person that spoke out about it was, Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter, Jaime Guttenberg, in the Parkland school shooting. He told everyone that the NRA "is putting targets on your backs," and that the NRA' is telling people with a platform, actors, legislators, and athletes, that, "If you don't support the NRA, Your time is running out."

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Fred Guttenberg, who lost his daughter, Jaime Guttenberg, in the Parkland school shooting, speaks about the NRA's intimidation tactics during a Senate hearing on gun violence.

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Clinton police officer killed while on duty was sent to wrong house by traced 911 call

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CLINTON, Mo. - Authorities said Wednesday that Clinton police were actually sent to the wrong house Tuesday night when they were responding to a 911 call that led to three officers being shot, one of them fatally.

Missouri State Highway Patrol said Wednesday afternoon that Clinton officers were sent to 306 West Grandriver Street for a 911 call in which Henry County 911 operators could hear two women arguing in the background but no one was directly speaking to operators.

When officers arrived at the Clinton home, they came into contact with Tammy Widger, Sgt. Bill Lowe with the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Wednesday. Widger told officers there wasn't a problem, and no one else was in the home.

After confirming the address with dispatch, officers entered the home, which is where they encountered 37-year-old James E. Waters, who fired at the officers and killed Officer Christopher Ryan Morton.

Two other officers were injured in the shooting. Officer Nathan Bettencourt is in stable condition, recovering from gunshot wounds and surgery at a Kansas City-area hospital. Officer Nicholas Kasper was also treated for gunshot wounds and was released from the hospital earlier Wednesday.

Additional agencies were called to the Clinton home, including members of the Bates County Tactical Team and the MSHP Troop A SWAT Team, who entered the home to get to Morton. Lowe said it took 15 to 20 minutes from the first 'officer down' call to get inside to him.

"That's just a guess. It could have been longer than that," Lowe said.

Then, just after midnight, officers entered the home again to apprehend Waters, who was found dead from a gunshot wound in a bathroom, Lowe said.

Lowe said Wednesday that further investigation traced the phone number from the 911 call to a Windsor, Missouri, address - not the Clinton home that police were sent to. Windsor is approximately 15 miles from Clinton.

"We were later able to determine it was not from that residence in which they were responding to," he said. "We are still investigating on how it transpired as far as giving the residence that the officers were sent to, but that will be part of the continuing investigation."

Lowe said Waters was part of another investigation involving an alleged rape, so that part of the investigation will also be in conjunction with the investigation into the shooting, he said.
Watch the full update from MSHP Sgt. Bill Lowe in the video player above.
On Wednesday, 37-year-old Widger was charged in Henry County with possession of meth with the intent to deliver as well as public nuisance, Henry County Prosecutor Richard Shields said. The county court has issued a warrant and set her bond at $25,000, he said.

"At this time, there's no clear correlation," Shields said of the woman's charges. "We're just alleging that she, at that time, was in possession and that possession at that time was with the intent to deliver."

"Yes, it is a coincidence that they were called to that specific address, and it is tragic that that happened, but the fact is they were in the act of committing crimes within that house," Lowe said. "They were doing so to ensure that nobody else was hurt or there wasn't any other problems, and so when they were given the information that no one was in the house, they had to verify that. And that point in time that's when the tragedy occurred."

Authorities on Wednesday released a mug shot of Waters from a November 2017 arrest for unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance.

Morton, who goes by his middle name, Ryan, was just 30 years old when he was killed Tuesday night.

Morton worked as a full-time Clinton police officer from Feb. 12, 2015, to Jan. 10, 2017. He then worked as a reserve officer until Sept. 24, 2017, when he returned to the force full time.

He also served in the Army National Guard as a specialist. He returned home in May of 2014 from Afghanistan where he served as a bridge crew member, a radio communications manager and maintained all military bridges in multiple regional commands.

The 30-year-old is from Knob Noster, Missouri, approximately 70 miles or an hour and 15 minute drive east from the metro. He attended Knob Noster High School and later studied at University of Central Missouri.

This makes the second Clinton officer shot and killed in the line of duty in the past year.

It was seven months ago to the day that Officer Gary Michael was killed after he was shot during a traffic stop on August 6.

"It's just devastating," Henry County Sheriff Kent Oberkrom said. "Certainly when Officer Michael was killed on August 6 of last year it was just devastating to our community, and these things as we've said then and I'll say it again, they just don't happen in small towns like ours."

Now, once again, Clinton officers will face the horrible task of burying one of their own.

"It's just another tragic event for this community and especially this police department. They've endured a lot. They're going to endure more," Sgt. Lowe said.

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Clinton police officer killed in line of duty was sent to wrong house by traced 911 call

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CLINTON, Mo. -- Authorities said Wednesday that Clinton police were actually sent to the wrong house Tuesday night when they were responding to a 911 call that led to three officers being shot, one of them fatally.

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CLINTON, Mo. - Authorities said Wednesday that Clinton police were actually sent to the wrong house Tuesday night when they were responding to a 911 call that led to three officers being shot, one of them fatally.

Missouri State Highway Patrol said Wednesday afternoon that Clinton officers were sent to 306 West Grandriver Street for a 911 call in which Henry County 911 operators could hear two women arguing in the background but no one was directly speaking to operators.

When officers arrived at the Clinton home, they came into contact with Tammy Widger, Sgt. Bill Lowe with the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Wednesday. Widger told officers there wasn't a problem, and no one else was in the home.

After confirming the address with dispatch, officers entered the home, which is where they encountered 37-year-old James E. Waters, who fired at the officers and killed Officer Christopher Ryan Morton.

Two other officers were injured in the shooting. Officer Nathan Bettencourt is in stable condition, recovering from gunshot wounds and surgery at a Kansas City-area hospital. Officer Nicholas Kasper was also treated for gunshot wounds and was released from the hospital earlier Wednesday.

Additional agencies were called to the Clinton home, including members of the Bates County Tactical Team and the MSHP Troop A SWAT Team, who entered the home to get to Morton. Lowe said it took 15 to 20 minutes from the first 'officer down' call to get inside to him.

"That's just a guess. It could have been longer than that," Lowe said.

Then, just after midnight, officers entered the home again to apprehend Waters, who was found dead from a gunshot wound in a bathroom, Lowe said.

Lowe said Wednesday that further investigation traced the phone number from the 911 call to a Windsor, Missouri, address - not the Clinton home that police were sent to. Windsor is approximately 15 miles from Clinton.

"We were later able to determine it was not from that residence in which they were responding to," he said. "We are still investigating on how it transpired as far as giving the residence that the officers were sent to, but that will be part of the continuing investigation."

Lowe said Waters was part of another investigation involving an alleged rape, so that part of the investigation will also be in conjunction with the investigation into the shooting, he said.
Watch the full update from MSHP Sgt. Bill Lowe in the video player above.
On Wednesday, 37-year-old Widger was charged in Henry County with possession of meth with the intent to deliver as well as public nuisance, Henry County Prosecutor Richard Shields said. The county court has issued a warrant and set her bond at $25,000, he said.

"At this time, there's no clear correlation," Shields said of the woman's charges. "We're just alleging that she, at that time, was in possession and that possession at that time was with the intent to deliver."

"Yes, it is a coincidence that they were called to that specific address, and it is tragic that that happened, but the fact is they were in the act of committing crimes within that house," Lowe said. "They were doing so to ensure that nobody else was hurt or there wasn't any other problems, and so when they were given the information that no one was in the house, they had to verify that. And that point in time that's when the tragedy occurred."

Authorities on Wednesday released a mug shot of Waters from a November 2017 arrest for unlawful possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance.

Morton, who goes by his middle name, Ryan, was just 30 years old when he was killed Tuesday night.

Morton worked as a full-time Clinton police officer from Feb. 12, 2015, to Jan. 10, 2017. He then worked as a reserve officer until Sept. 24, 2017, when he returned to the force full time.

He also served in the Army National Guard as a specialist. He returned home in May of 2014 from Afghanistan where he served as a bridge crew member, a radio communications manager and maintained all military bridges in multiple regional commands.

The 30-year-old is from Knob Noster, Missouri, approximately 70 miles or an hour and 15 minute drive east from the metro. He attended Knob Noster High School and later studied at University of Central Missouri.

This makes the second Clinton officer shot and killed in the line of duty in the past year.

It was seven months ago to the day that Officer Gary Michael was killed after he was shot during a traffic stop on August 6.

"It's just devastating," Henry County Sheriff Kent Oberkrom said. "Certainly when Officer Michael was killed on August 6 of last year it was just devastating to our community, and these things as we've said then and I'll say it again, they just don't happen in small towns like ours."

Now, once again, Clinton officers will face the horrible task of burying one of their own.

"It's just another tragic event for this community and especially this police department. They've endured a lot. They're going to endure more," Sgt. Lowe said.

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Clinton police officer killed in line of duty was sent to wrong house by traced 911 call

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CLINTON, Mo. -- Authorities said Wednesday that Clinton police were actually sent to the wrong house Tuesday night when they were responding to a 911 call that led to three officers being shot, one of them fatally.

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The discovery of human remains in Collin County is casting new attention on the kidnapping and suspected murder of Christina Morris.

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- The discovery of human remains in Collin County is casting new attention on the kidnapping and suspected murder of Christina Morris.

Police are investigating the discovery of a body in an area where new homes are being built in Anna. Construction workers said they found the human remains Wednesday in an area near Black Willow Trail and Taylor Boulevard.

Andy Mitchell and his brother were part of the crew clearing brush from the swath of land when something got his attention.

"You could just see really up on the hillside over there up in a little opening, there was a skull laying there," he said.

Mitchell said the skull was near what appeared to be a woman's dress and undergarments.

"You hope the family has closure," Mitchell said. "My first instinct was to pray for the individual and hope that they are Christian and that they are home."

The remains were found in an area where authorities searched extensively for Morris after she disappeared on August 30, 2014. She was last seen with a one-time acquaintance, Enrique Arochi, leaving the Shops at Legacy in Plano.

Arochi is now serving a life sentence for her kidnapping. Prosecutors said her DNA was in the trunk of his car, but he has denied any wrongdoing.

During the trial, cell phone and tower data indicated Arochi was in and around the Anna area after Morris disappeared. The area was repeatedly searched.

Plano police confirmed Morris' parents were notified about the discovery just in case.

"Our family has been notified, but nothing has been confirmed. Please keep Christina and our family in your thoughts and prayers," her family said in a statement released on social media.

Lekita McMillan lives in the area where the remains were discovered. She remembers the search for Morris in 2014.

"Lots of helicopters, very strong state trooper presence," she recalled. "I feel heartbroken. I can't imagine what the family is going through."

Like so many in North Texas, McMillan has followed Morris' case.

"I feel their grief," she said. "So that's why I'm here trying to organize a candlelight vigil."

Investigators with the Collin County Sheriff's Office, Anna Police Department and Plano Police Department are expected to return to the scene Thursday to continue collecting evidence.

Lt. Nick Bristow with the sheriff's office said the remains were transferred to the Collin County Medical Examiner's Office for a positive identification.
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Workers possibly find Christina Morris' remains in Anna

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The discovery of human remains in Collin County is casting new attention on the kidnapping and suspected murder of Christina Morris. Police are investigating the discovery of a body in an area where new homes are being built in Anna. Construction workers said they found the human remains Wednesday in an area near Black Willow Trail and Taylor Boulevard.

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Heavy storm came to the East coast last night in New york, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

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The storm dumped snow in several areas Wednesday, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It shifted its focus to New England on Thursday, where it'll linger until Friday.

About 19 million people, from Connecticut to Maine, remained under winter storm warnings and watches Thursday, days after a deadly "bomb cyclone" hit the area.

Snow and rain are a concern along with the aftermath of fallen trees, knocked out power lines and slippery roads.

"New England will still be feeling the effects of the wind and residual snowfall (though light) through Friday," CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.

What states will be most affected?

The storm has mostly passed in most areas in the Northeast, and is expected to linger over northern New England on Thursday.

While this storm is not expected to be as strong as last week's as far as wind and waves, it will produce much more snow in some areas, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.

"Bands of heavy snow have moved east of the Hudson River and will continue to move ... into southern and central New England during the next few hours," the National Weather Service said early Thursday. "Rain is changing to snow across southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island."

How much snow?

When it comes to snowfall, New York should breathe a sigh of relief. While snow continued to fall there overnight Thursday, it should be "completely out of the region" by morning, according to the weather service.

But parts of New England will see heavy to moderate snow overnight into Thursday morning, forecasters said.

It will linger the longest over eastern New England, which will see manageable light snow as late as noon.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker urged residents to use caution and stay off the roads during the height of the storm.

The Boston area is forecast to receive 6 to 8 inches of snow by Thursday morning, and Mayor Marty Walsh announced public schools will be closed that day.

More blackouts

Winds and snow are bringing down more power lines, piling on to the crippling outages remaining from last weekend's storm.

By late Wednesday night, there were about 329,000 customers without power, from Virginia to New England.

The storm is expected to pack wind gusts of 30 mph to 50 mph. While a far cry from the 90-mph gusts recorded during theweekend, storm, they could impede efforts to restore power in the region.

The heavy, wet snow is not helping either, combining with the strong winds to heighten the risk of downed power lines and as a result, knock out power to more homes and businesses.

States affected

Philadelphia, New York and Boston are digging out from lots of snow.

Philadelphia was forecast to get between 6 to 8 inches Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a state of emergency for several counties.

In New York, the town of Sloatsburg topped the list of most snowfall Wednesday night, with 26 inches within 24 hours, according to the National Weather Service.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo deployed 400 National Guard troops to conduct wellness checks and assist with storm recovery.

Boston faces coastal flooding Thursday due to high tide, the National Weather Service said.

"Already observing an over 3-foot storm surge at Boston; obvious concern with onshore wind gusts upon a weakened, vulnerable shoreline," it tweeted, referring to last week's storm.

The snowstorm also brought a rare phenomenon in some parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, the weather service said. Known as "thundersnow," it's snow paired with lightning and resulting thunder.

How is it affecting travel?

More than 400 flights -- including at airports in New Jersey, New York, Boston and Philadelphia -- were canceled within, into or out of the United States on Thursday, according to FlightAware.

As for ground travel, New York City's Office of Emergency Management issued a hazardous travel advisory urging residents to "take mass transit if possible and allow for extra travel time."

Amtrak has also canceled some services in the affected areas.

CNN's Joe Sutton, Madison Park, Jason Hanna and Amir Vera contributed to this report.

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second nor'easter in a week intensifies as it moves up east coast - cnn

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The storm dumped snow in several areas Wednesday, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It shifted its focus to New England on Thursday, where it'll linger until Friday. About 19 million people, from Connecticut to Maine, remained under winter storm warnings and watches Thursday, days after a deadly "bomb cyclone" hit the area.

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Seattle Seahawks DE Michael Bennett was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles yesterday. They traded him for a fifth round pick and WR Marcus Johnson.

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After taking a hometown discount to stay in Seattle, defensive lineman Michael Bennett is headed to Philadelphia. The Eagles agreed to send a fifth-round pick and wide receiver Marcus Johnson to the Seahawks in exchange for Bennett and a seventh-round pick Wednesday.

ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the news.

Bennett reacted to the move on Twitter:

Michael Bennett @mosesbread72
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Bennett, 32, played the last five seasons in Seattle, where he emerged as one of football's best all-around defensive ends.

His departure from the Seahawks isn't much of a surprise. He recorded 40 tackles and 8.5 sacks in 2017, a bounce-back year from his injury-plagued 2016. The Seahawks also only owed him $1.65 million in base salary for next season but were on the hook for a $4 million roster bonus, per Spotrac.

Bennett saw the writing on the wall, telling the News Tribune's Gregg Bell in December that he did not expect to return.

"I probably won't be back next year," Bennett said. "Just seems like it's a young man's game. I can see them going younger, with younger players. That's part of the game."

Given his ability to move inside and play defensive tackle, Bennett was arguably one of the best values in football. That will likely change soon, as the Eagles may be tasked with giving him a new deal. Rather than his production being above cost, it'll now become the expectation going forward.

As it stands, the Super Bowl champs are getting one of the league's best defensive ends while forcing Seattle to incur a steep expense. The Seahawks will essentially be paying a $5.2 million dead-cap charge for a fifth-round pick and a one-time undrafted free agent with five career catches to his name.

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Report: Michael Bennett Traded to Eagles for Marcus Johnson, Draft Pick Upgrade

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NFL Tyler Conway Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports @jtylerconway Twitter Logo Featured Columnist After taking a hometown discount to stay in Seattle, defensive lineman Michael Bennett is headed to Philadelphia. The Eagles agreed to send a fifth-round pick and wide receiver Marcus Johnson to the Seahawks in exchange for Bennett and a seventh-round pick Wednesday.

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The nor'easter whipped New England with snow early Thursday, a day after it brought another round of blackouts, treacherous roads and canceled flights to the East Coast.The storm dumped snow in several states Wednesday, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It started winding down as it shifted its focus to New England overnight, where it'll linger for a day, unleashing a messy mix of rain and snow.

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The storm dumped snow in several areas Wednesday, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It shifted its focus to New England on Thursday, where it'll linger until Friday.

About 19 million people, from Connecticut to Maine, remained under winter storm warnings and watches Thursday, days after a deadly "bomb cyclone" hit the area.

Snow and rain are a concern along with the aftermath of fallen trees, knocked out power lines and slippery roads.

"New England will still be feeling the effects of the wind and residual snowfall (though light) through Friday," CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.

What states will be most affected?

The storm has mostly passed in most areas in the Northeast, and is expected to linger over northern New England on Thursday.

While this storm is not expected to be as strong as last week's as far as wind and waves, it will produce much more snow in some areas, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.

"Bands of heavy snow have moved east of the Hudson River and will continue to move ... into southern and central New England during the next few hours," the National Weather Service said early Thursday. "Rain is changing to snow across southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island."

How much snow?

When it comes to snowfall, New York should breathe a sigh of relief. While snow continued to fall there overnight Thursday, it should be "completely out of the region" by morning, according to the weather service.

But parts of New England will see heavy to moderate snow overnight into Thursday morning, forecasters said.

It will linger the longest over eastern New England, which will see manageable light snow as late as noon.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker urged residents to use caution and stay off the roads during the height of the storm.

The Boston area is forecast to receive 6 to 8 inches of snow by Thursday morning, and Mayor Marty Walsh announced public schools will be closed that day.

More blackouts

Winds and snow are bringing down more power lines, piling on to the crippling outages remaining from last weekend's storm.

By late Wednesday night, there were about 329,000 customers without power, from Virginia to New England.

The storm is expected to pack wind gusts of 30 mph to 50 mph. While a far cry from the 90-mph gusts recorded during theweekend, storm, they could impede efforts to restore power in the region.

The heavy, wet snow is not helping either, combining with the strong winds to heighten the risk of downed power lines and as a result, knock out power to more homes and businesses.

States affected

Philadelphia, New York and Boston are digging out from lots of snow.

Philadelphia was forecast to get between 6 to 8 inches Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a state of emergency for several counties.

In New York, the town of Sloatsburg topped the list of most snowfall Wednesday night, with 26 inches within 24 hours, according to the National Weather Service.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo deployed 400 National Guard troops to conduct wellness checks and assist with storm recovery.

Boston faces coastal flooding Thursday due to high tide, the National Weather Service said.

"Already observing an over 3-foot storm surge at Boston; obvious concern with onshore wind gusts upon a weakened, vulnerable shoreline," it tweeted, referring to last week's storm.

The snowstorm also brought a rare phenomenon in some parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, the weather service said. Known as "thundersnow," it's snow paired with lightning and resulting thunder.

How is it affecting travel?

More than 400 flights -- including at airports in New Jersey, New York, Boston and Philadelphia -- were canceled within, into or out of the United States on Thursday, according to FlightAware.

As for ground travel, New York City's Office of Emergency Management issued a hazardous travel advisory urging residents to "take mass transit if possible and allow for extra travel time."

Amtrak has also canceled some services in the affected areas.

CNN's Joe Sutton, Madison Park, Jason Hanna and Amir Vera contributed to this report.

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The storm dumped snow in several areas Wednesday, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It shifted its focus to New England on Thursday, where it'll linger until Friday. About 19 million people, from Connecticut to Maine, remained under winter storm warnings and watches Thursday, days after a deadly "bomb cyclone" hit the area.

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A special education teacher who detailed her experience administering a lock down drill in a now-viral Facebook post described to ABC News how nerve-wracking it was to practice the drill with a room full of elementary students with learning disabilities.

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A special education teacher who detailed her experience administering a lockdown drill in a now-viral Facebook post described to ABC News how nerve-wracking it was to practice the drill with a room full of elementary students with learning disabilities.

Dana Williams, who teaches at an elementary school in Pittsburgh's Hill District, described the experience as "scary," but also marveled at how well her young students handled the ordeal.

The drill -- the first of the school year -- was planned in advance, Williams said. Letters were sent to students and parents detailing the exact date and time of the drill, and a robocall was placed to all of the parents.

But even though "everyone knew this was happening," Williams said the drill wasn't "at the top" of her students' minds.

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Williams decided to teach right up until the 9:30 a.m. drill time. At the time, the students -- ranging in age from 7 to 10 years old -- were taking their district assessments. Williams and her teaching assistant were providing support.

Then, the principal's voice came over the intercom to announce the lockdown, and she and her students sprang into action.

The only fifth-grader in the room, a 10-year-old whom Williams has been teaching since kindergarten, "took a lead role" and immediately went over to the windows to pull down the blinds, she said. She locked the classroom door while her assistant pulled a table in front of it.

The assistant then pulled two students under her desk, located across the room. Several other students went underneath another table, located as far away from the door as possible, and the fifth-grader grabbed a second-grader and pulled him underneath as well, Williams said.

Once Williams turned off the lights, her normally rowdy students became "literally casket quiet," she said. Then, one of the iPads the students were working with went off, and a third-grader grabbed it and turned it off before she could get to it.

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Williams said it was obvious how "panicked" her students were when someone came to the classroom door, jiggling the handle and ordering them to "open up."

"You could see it in their faces," she said.

The youngest in the room, a first-grader wearing a birthday crown because he turned 7 that day, dashed to her, quietly whispering, "I'm scared." He asked "over and over again" when the drill would end.

She told him "soon" and held him while trying to keep his crown from stabbing her, she said, adding it felt as if his heart had "leaped out of his chest."

"It was dark. I couldn't see anything," she said. "I just saw eyes. One of my students was crying."

After the drill was over, Williams turned on the lights, announcing to her students, "Let's get back to work," considering all of the testing they had left to complete.

"I was greeted with blank faces ... petrified faces ... tear-stained faces ... confused faces ... elated faces ... and one 'b---- REALLY?' face," she wrote on Facebook.

Instead, the class partook in some mindfulness and restorative exercises to transition to the start of the rest of the day, she said.

Williams said she was "amazed" at how well she, her teaching assistant and her students adapted to the drill.

"It was kind of amazing to see kids that young robotically do and know what they were supposed to do, without even a discussion, nothing, Williams said.

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Williams, 38, said this has only been the third or fourth lockdown drill she's practiced in her 17-year teaching career. Despite how "scary and traumatizing" the most recent one was, she thinks they're necessary.

"With our current climate, there's so many shootings," she said. "It's all over the news. It's all that you see, and I'm a big proponent of being prepared. I'd rather be proactive than reactive."

Officials for the school district confirmed that the drill took place last week, adding that teachers are instructed to not unlock the door "for any purpose" once it is locked. Administrators were tasked with going from classroom door-to-door to ensure the door was locked, one official said.

Williams teaches in an urban, inner-city setting where shootings are a part of everyday life for a lot of her students, she said. She has had students who were shot at and students "who walk through gunfire to get to school," she said. Some students have even been shot themselves, and some have had parents who were shot and killed or severely injured, she said.

In addition, some students don't know where their next meal is coming from, and some as young as 10 are caring for younger siblings, she said.

She stressed the need for more counselors in schools "so students can sift and talk through these feelings."

"Unfortunately, most of the mental health is the teachers," she said.

The Facebook post Williams composed on the day of the drill garnered nearly 90,000 reactions and more than 80,000 shares as of Wednesday night.

She didn't expect her post to get so much attention, she said.

"This is my life as a teacher," she said. "Not only do I have to do active shooter drills, I do assessments. I need to calm students down, and I have to instruct them."

"There's a lot of things that teachers have to deal with," Williams concluded.

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Jennifer Lawrence is caught in a full blown fued with a reality TV star. Jennifer had publicly stated and said some unkind words and things directed towards this star, And now, her opponent (Lala Kentis striking back.

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Jennifer Lawrence had some unkind words for a reality TV star recently, and the object of her ridicule is striking back.

The Oscar-winner and noted fan of all things Bravo dragged Lala Kent of "Vanderpump Rules" on an episode of "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen." Lawrence called out Kent for changing her personality on a dime.

"I'm sorry, but in the season before, we see Lala trying so hard to be nice," Lawrence told Cohen. "And then she's like crying to her mom, and then she's like a total b****. And then she's trying like really, really hard to be nice, and then she comes back this season and she's like, 'Hi, honey. Hi, sweetie.'"

"I'm like, b****, you's a ***t,'" Lawrence added.

Kent understandably didn't appreciate one of the most famous women in the world knocking her for doing what you're supposed to do on reality TV ― cause turmoil. After Lawrence's comments, the 27-year-old fired off some now-deleted tweets slamming the actress for not being pro-women.

"Did Jennifer Lawrence really call me a '***t' on @bravowwhl? Annnnnd talk about my mama? B****, you better pray I don't see you in the streets," she wrote. "You're one of the highest paid actresses on the planet ... you claim you are pro-women and you call another woman a ***t? You're gross."

Kent later appeared on the SiriusXM show "Reality Checked" to further discuss the matter. She couldn't help but get another dig in at Lawrence, who's also 27.

"Congratulations on two bombed movies in a row," she cracked.

Kent is likely referring to Lawrence's films "Mother!" and "Red Sparrow," which both failed to make much of an impression at the box office.

She went on to reveal that her manager instructed her to take down her Twitter clapback, telling her "delete the tweet, or you delete my info for the next 24 hours, because I'm not trying to deal."

Though Kent is no stranger to drama on the spin-off of "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," which follows a group of servers at Lisa Vanderpump's restaurant, she admitted on the radio show that Lawrence hurt her feelings.

"The thing is, no one wants to be called the c-word, especially by an A-list celebrity on national television," Kent said. "I was such a huge fan of hers, and it bummed me out. I thought that she had a little more class than that. You know, let's leave the trash to people like me who do reality TV. Don't try to steal my thunder, girlfriend!"

Related slideshow: The biggest celebrity Twitter feuds (via Photo Services)

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Jennifer Lawrence had some unkind words for a reality TV star recently, and the object of her ridicule is striking back. The Oscar-winner and noted fan of all things Bravo dragged Lala Kent of "Vanderpump Rules" on an episode of "Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen."

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there are hundreds of cars that are stranded in New Jersey trying to get out of the nor'eastern winter storm. there have been a bunch of blackouts. so far only one person have died. Central park has seen about 2.1 inches, New jersey about 2, and Brooklyn saw about 4.1 inches. west orange has got about 13 inches bot other neighboring towns received more than 20

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Hundreds of drivers were stranded overnight on highways in northern New Jersey after a nor'easter dumped 2 feet of snow on the region.

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Route 280 in the area of West Orange, New Jersey, was among the worst backups, with over 500 vehicles stuck, according to New York ABC station WABC. The station reported authorities were going to the extreme of using snowmobiles to check on stranded drivers.

West Orange is about 20 miles west of Manhattan.

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While inland New Jersey received as much as 2 feet of snow, the city received comparatively less -- Central Park saw 2.9 inches, while Brooklyn saw the most with 4.1 inches in Sheepshead Bay, according to the National Weather Service.

West Orange received 13 inches of snow, according to the NWS, but other neighboring towns received 20 inches or more. North Caldwell, New Jersey, just six miles north of West Orange, received 23 inches of snow, according to the NWS. Roseland, New Jersey, a few miles west of West Orange, saw 19.7 inches.

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ABC News spoke to Rich Tropiano just after midnight, who said he had been sitting in traffic for "4 or 4 1/2 hours" with no movement and little sign of emergency personnel. He said he had no sense of when the massive traffic jam would be cleared.

"I've got to be at work at 6:30, so hopefully 5:30," Tropiano joked.

Route 280 was much improved by 4 a.m., with the road cleared and cars moving at a normal speed ahead of the morning commute.

Westbound 280 near West Orange where people had to abandon vehicles last night is much improved. Early morning crew seen in this video out getting the roads ready for the am commute. @ABC7NY pic.twitter.com/OI44EBAOuT
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New Jersey State Police said they responded to 506 vehicle accidents and 939 stranded motorists from midnight on Wednesday until about 11 p.m., as the storm moved out of the area.

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Hundreds of drivers were stranded overnight on highways in northern New Jersey after a nor'easter dumped 2 feet of snow on the region. Route 280 in the area of West Orange, New Jersey, was among the worst backups, with over 500 vehicles stuck, according to New York ABC station WABC.

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Former Clinton cabinet member, Donna Shalala is vying to win the Democratic nomination to flip a Florida district that's long held by a popular Republican congresswomen but mostly her sights are already set on President Donald Trump. She told The Associated Press that Trump is an "embarrassment" and Democrats must stop him "from making terrible decisions." She says that he needs to be checked by electing more Republicans and that we need more. As president of the University of Miami from 2001 to 2015, she received recommendations from Trump every time a coach position opened up.

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Former Clinton cabinet member Donna Shalala is vying to win the Democratic nomination to flip a Florida district long held by a popular Republican congresswoman, but her sights are already set on President Donald Trump.

President Bill Clinton's former Health and Human Services secretary is 77, a decade older than the retiring Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, and has never run for elective office before. But she told The Associated Press that Trump is an "embarrassment" and Democrats must stop him "from making terrible decisions."

"I don't like his politics at all. I don't like the fact he wants to cut food stamps. Who cuts food stamps in our society? Who beats up the most vulnerable?" she said. "We need to check him and the way to check him is to elect more Democrats; to take control of at least one House, hopefully two."

Shalala sat down with the AP on Wednesday after filing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to run in Florida's 27th district, which covers a large swath of Miami-Dade County, including Miami Beach and Coral Gables. Hillary Clinton beat Trump by 20 percentage points in the district, but Ros-Lehtinen kept the seat Republican with a 10 percentage lead.

Shalala says it will be no easy feat to replace Ros-Lehtinen, who is retiring after 30 years in Congress and is well loved among Miami's Cuban-American voters.

"Like everybody in this community, I love Ileana. She is a very good friend of mine. She has done a terrific job for the community," she said. "She has fought with her own party. She has a backbone. Succeeding Ileana is not easy. But I have the experience and the same kind of backbone. No one is going to bully me."

Shalala has dealt with Trump in the past. As president of the University of Miami from 2001 to 2015, she received recommendations from Trump every time a coach position opened up, she says.

Shalala suffered a stroke in 2015 while serving as director for the Clinton Foundation, but she says she "totally recovered." She also consulted with her doctors about her candidacy, and says they told her that her health was fine.

The Miami Herald reported that a poll in late January showed her ahead in a crowded Democratic field that includes Florida Sen. Jose Javier Rodriguez, Miami City Commissioner Ken Russell, former federal judge Mary Barzee Flores and four other contenders. At least two Republicans also are running.

Of Lebanese descent, Shalala says she can work with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and other Republican Cuban-Americans who represent neighboring districts in South Florida.

"I have Cuban cousins: The Lopez Shalalas" she says. "More importantly, I can work with everyone. And I've worked with the Cuban-American legislators in Tallahassee. I've worked with the national Cuban-American legislators that are members of Congress. I know Marco Rubio. Ask about me in the Cuban community. They call me 'La Shalala.'"

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An Oklahoma man was arrested at a casino for faking his own kidnapping to get money from his wife and friends. He had been missing for three days when his wife reported him missing. She said that she had been reviving text messages from her husband's cellphone demanding she put money in a PayPal account. One of the messages contained a picture of a broken finger saying they will continue to breaking fingers until you pay. Officers then tracked Davis’ cellphone to the River Spirit Casino in Tulsa, where they found him gambling alone at a table -- and carrying the cellphone used to send the ransom texts

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The plot for the next "Ocean's 11" sequel? Maybe not.

An Oklahoma man was arrested at a Tulsa casino last week for allegedly faking his own kidnapping in order to collect ransom payments from his wife and friends, authorities said.

Jonathon Michael Davis, 34, of Owasso, had been missing for three days when his wife reported him missing, according to the Owasso Reporter. She said she had received text messages from her husband's cellphone, purportedly from her husband's captor, police told the newspaper.

The messages demanded that money be deposited into a PayPal account, the report said.

One message contained a photo of a broken finger and said that "they were going to continue breaking fingers until they pay," Owasso police Deputy Chief Jason Woodruff told People magazine.

Officers then tracked Davis' cellphone to the River Spirit Casino in Tulsa, where they found him gambling alone at a table -- and carrying the cellphone used to send the ransom texts, police said.

"He wasn't very good at this," Woodruff told People. "I don't know if he was thinking about it long term."

"He wasn't very good at this. I don't know if he was thinking about it long term."
- Deputy Chief Jason Woodruff, Owasso, Okla., Police Department

Davis was arrested and charged March 1 with extortion and false reporting of a crime. He was scheduled to appear in court March 9.

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Oklahoma man found at casino after faking own kidnapping, asking wife for ransom money, police say

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Second nor'easter in a week blasts New England

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The storm dumped snow in several areas Wednesday, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. It shifted its focus to New England on Thursday, where it'll linger until Friday.

About 19 million people, from Connecticut to Maine, remained under winter storm warnings and watches Thursday, days after a deadly "bomb cyclone" hit the area.

Snow and rain are a concern along with the aftermath of fallen trees, knocked out power lines and slippery roads.

"New England will still be feeling the effects of the wind and residual snowfall (though light) through Friday," CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.

What states will be most affected?

The storm has mostly passed in most areas in the Northeast, and is expected to linger over northern New England on Thursday.

While this storm is not expected to be as strong as last week's as far as wind and waves, it will produce much more snow in some areas, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said.

"Bands of heavy snow have moved east of the Hudson River and will continue to move ... into southern and central New England during the next few hours," the National Weather Service said early Thursday. "Rain is changing to snow across southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island."

How much snow?

When it comes to snowfall, New York should breathe a sigh of relief. While snow continued to fall there overnight Thursday, it should be "completely out of the region" by morning, according to the weather service.

But parts of New England will see heavy to moderate snow overnight into Thursday morning, forecasters said.

It will linger the longest over eastern New England, which will see manageable light snow as late as noon.

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker urged residents to use caution and stay off the roads during the height of the storm.

The Boston area is forecast to receive 6 to 8 inches of snow by Thursday morning, and Mayor Marty Walsh announced public schools will be closed that day.

More blackouts

Winds and snow are bringing down more power lines, piling on to the crippling outages remaining from last weekend's storm.

By late Wednesday night, there were about 329,000 customers without power, from Virginia to New England.

The storm is expected to pack wind gusts of 30 mph to 50 mph. While a far cry from the 90-mph gusts recorded during theweekend, storm, they could impede efforts to restore power in the region.

The heavy, wet snow is not helping either, combining with the strong winds to heighten the risk of downed power lines and as a result, knock out power to more homes and businesses.

States affected

Philadelphia, New York and Boston are digging out from lots of snow.

Philadelphia was forecast to get between 6 to 8 inches Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf announced a state of emergency for several counties.

In New York, the town of Sloatsburg topped the list of most snowfall Wednesday night, with 26 inches within 24 hours, according to the National Weather Service.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo deployed 400 National Guard troops to conduct wellness checks and assist with storm recovery.

Boston faces coastal flooding Thursday due to high tide, the National Weather Service said.

"Already observing an over 3-foot storm surge at Boston; obvious concern with onshore wind gusts upon a weakened, vulnerable shoreline," it tweeted, referring to last week's storm.

The snowstorm also brought a rare phenomenon in some parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, the weather service said. Known as "thundersnow," it's snow paired with lightning and resulting thunder.

How is it affecting travel?

More than 400 flights -- including at airports in New Jersey, New York, Boston and Philadelphia -- were canceled within, into or out of the United States on Thursday, according to FlightAware.

As for ground travel, New York City's Office of Emergency Management issued a hazardous travel advisory urging residents to "take mass transit if possible and allow for extra travel time."

Amtrak has also canceled some services in the affected areas.

CNN's Joe Sutton, Madison Park, Jason Hanna and Amir Vera contributed to this report.

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Rockets extend winning streak to 17, beat Bucks 110-99

James Harden scored 26 points, Eric Gordon had 18 points and two momentum-swinging 3-pointers in the third quarter, and the Houston Rockets beat the Milwaukee Bucks 110-99 on Wednesday night for their 17th straight win.

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An officer in Clinton Missouri who was responding to a 911 call was shot and killed. Two other officers were injured and taken to the hospital. This is at least the 20th officer killed on the line of duty since the start of 2018.

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A Missouri police officer who was killed while responding to a 911 call Tuesday night had just returned to full-time duty to replace a recently fallen officer in his department, officials said.

Clinton Police Officer Christopher Ryan Morton's death comes after at least 20 officers have died in the line of the duty since the start of 2018.

Morton, 30, was shot and killed when he and two other officers responded to a 911 call at a home located 75 miles outside of Kansas City, Missouri State Highway Patrol said. Morton had been with the Clinton Police Department from February 2015 to January 2017. He stayed on as a reserve officer, but returned to full-time duty in the summer after fellow Officer Gary Michael was shot and killed during a traffic stop in August, FOX4 KC reported.

"Clinton, MO, Police Officer Christopher Ryan Morton, served with distinction for the citizens of Clinton as a full-time Police Officer from 2/12/2015 until 1/10/2017. He stayed with the department as reserve officer until he returned again to full time duty 9/24/2017. #ClintonPD," Missouri State Highway Patrol tweeted.

Sgt. Bill Lowe said early Wednesday that the three officers responded to a call where two women were heard screaming in the background late Tuesday night.

The suspected shooter, who was not identified, opened fire from inside the home while the officers attempted to apprehend the individual. Morton was fatally shot, while the two other officers, who were not identified, were wounded and taken to the hospital.

"It's a small department," Lowe said. "It's small enough that you know each individual officer and the community knows each individual officer, and it's hard to put into words when you're talking about an agency of this size, a community of this size where something tragic like this happened just seven months ago."

A SWAT team entered the home at 12:10 a.m. Wednesday and found the suspect dead. It's unclear how the suspect died. The women in the house at the time were not injured and were taken into custody.
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Morton's death marks the second Clinton police officer to die in the line of duty in the last seven months, FOX4 KC reported.

"It's just another tragic event for this community and especially this police department. They've endured a lot. They're going to endure more," Lowe told FOX4 KC.

Missouri Rep. Vicky Hartzler tweeted her condolences to the Morton family.

"Grieving for the families & the officers of the Clinton Police Dept who lost another one of their own last night in the line of duty. Officer Christopher Ryan Morton gave the #UltimateSacrifice," Hartzler tweeted.

The Republican congresswoman added: "Two others injured. It's 7 mo to the day from when Clinton Officer Gary Michael was killed. I met with the dept last year after that incident; they're an amazing, professional, dedicated, caring unit. My prayers are with them all. #thinblueline #nogreaterlove"

At least 20 officers across the United States have died while on duty this year, with at least 14 of the deaths caused by gunfire. In 2016, about 135 police officers were killed, making it the deadliest year for cops in at least five years. The number of officers killed in 2017 dipped, though not by much.

The Officer Down Memorial Page has 25 officers killed so far in 2018. This number includes accidental deaths and 9/11-related illnesses.

The number of cops killed has prompted President Trump to call for more protection for law enforcement officers. He said in December those who kill police officers should receive the death penalty.

"Anti-police sentiment is wrong and it's dangerous," Trump said during a speech at FBI National Academy. "Anyone who kills a police officer should get the death penalty."

Trump also previously tweeted in 2016: "Shooting deaths of police officers up 78% this year. We must restore law and order and protect our great law enforcement officers!"

Ian McCarthy was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Clinton Police Officer Gary Michael. Prosecutors are now seeking the death penalty in the deadly shooting case.
Fox News' Madeline Farber and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A Missouri police officer who was killed while responding to a 911 call Tuesday night had just returned to full-time duty to replace a recently fallen officer in his department, officials said. Clinton Police Officer Christopher Ryan Morton's death comes after at least 20 officers have died in the line of the duty since the start of 2018.

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Amazon's Alexa apparently has been malfunctioning -- and it's caused quite a shock.

The ecommerce giant's virtual assistant has been heard laughing in a creepy, maniacal way without being prompted -- and it became a trending moment on Twitter Wednesday.

"'Cameras and software do not have emotions, and it is safe to say that they never will.' one of my student arguments from their midterm that I put here to ponder in 10 years when my camera laughs at me... what is that?... Alexa already laughs at you randomly..." tweeted Andrew Bell, a "data nerd" in Richmond, Virginia.

Alexa allows customers to request information, play music from their library, make calls, listen to audiobooks, and control smart home devices.

Amazon said it's working to deactivate Alexa's response to the command "laugh."

"We're aware of this and working to fix it," Amazon reps told CNBC.

"In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase "Alexa, laugh." We are changing that phrase to be "Alexa, can you laugh?" which is less likely to have false positives, and we are disabling the short utterance "Alexa, laugh." We are also changing Alexa's response from simply laughter to "Sure, I can laugh" followed by laughter."

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Random, terrifying laughter from Amazon's Alexa creeps out its users

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Amazon's Alexa apparently has been malfunctioning -- and it's caused quite a shock. The ecommerce giant's virtual assistant has been heard laughing in a creepy, maniacal way without being prompted -- and it became a trending moment on Twitter Wednesday. "'Cameras and software do not have emotions, and it is safe to say that they never will.'

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A researcher claims that Cecil the lion was suffering 10-12 before dying. Dr. Andrew Loveridge spent years tracking Cecil. Palmer shot Cecil between 9-11 pm wounding Cecil. Around 9 am, the next day, Cecil was still suffering from the wound. Palmer then finished off Cecil. “Clearly, although the wound was severe, the arrow had missed the vital organs or arteries that would have caused rapid blood loss and a relatively quick death" said Loveridge

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Cecil the lion, who was killed with a bow and arrow in Zimbabwe in 2015 by an American dentist and trophy hunter, clang to life for 10 to 12 hours before his ultimate demise, a researcher who studied the animal claims in a new book.

According to an excerpt printed Saturday in National Geographic, Oxford University biologist Dr. Andrew Loveridge spent years tracking the lion and recounted details he uncovered about the animal's death, which sparked widespread outrage.

The book, "Lion Hearted: The Life and Death of Cecil and the Future of Africa's Iconic Cats," will reportedly be published in April.

In the July 2015 hunt, Walter Palmer of Minnesota was joined by local professional hunter Theo Bronkhorst who, with the help of tracker Cornelius Ncube, positioned elephant remains that would be used to coax Cecil out of Hwang National Park, Loveridge said.
MINNESOTA DENTIST WHO KILLED CECIL THE LION BROKE NO RULES, ZIMBABWE SAYS
At some point between nine and 11 p.m., the animal was "mortally wounded," according to data the researcher retrieved from Cecil's tracking collar.

Around 9 a.m. the following day, as Cecil was still reportedly suffering from his wounds, "Bronkhorst advised Palmer to 'finish the lion off'" with an additional bow and arrow shot, Loveridge said, citing a recount from Ncube.

Loveridge said that "the injured lion most likely was killed 10 to 12 hours after being wounded."

The researcher debunked a theory he said was previously reported claiming the lion suffered for 40 hours, arguing that it was unlikely Cecil could have survived that long. "However, he most definitely did not die instantly and almost certainly suffered considerably," he said.

"Cecil suffered incredible cruelty for at least 10 hours, severely wounded and slowly dying. Cornelius recalled hearing the animal 'struggling to breathe,'" Loveridge said. "Clearly, although the wound was severe, the arrow had missed the vital organs or arteries that would have caused rapid blood loss and a relatively quick death."
US DENTIST IN LION HUNT THAT PROMPTED OUTRAGE SAYS HE ACTED LEGALLY, WILL RETURN TO WORK
Loveridge mused that that Palmer was "hoping to submit this obviously large trophy to a hunting record book as a bow-hunted specimen," which would prevent him from using a gun to finish killing the animal, he said.

"If this was the case, Cecil the lion died slowly and painfully to allow a hunter the ultimate vanity of claiming he had killed a huge lion with a bow and arrow," Loveridge said.

Palmer, who was the target of significant backlash following the condemned hunt, previously told The Associated Press and the Minneapolis Star Tribune that he believed he acted legally and was stunned to find out that his hunting party had killed one of Zimbabwe's treasured animals.

"If I had known this lion had a name and was important to the country or a study obviously I wouldn't have taken it," he told the outlets. "Nobody in our hunting party knew before or after the name of this lion."

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Cecil the lion 'suffered incredible cruelty' for up to 12 hours before dying, researcher claims

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Cecil the lion, who was killed with a bow and arrow in Zimbabwe in 2015 by an American dentist and trophy hunter, clang to life for 10 to 12 hours before his ultimate demise, a researcher who studied the animal claims in a new book.

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Gold-medalist Lindsey Vonn recently revealed in her latest interview that shes struggling to find a date. Vonn most recently split up with NFL assistant coach Kenan Smith. Vonn said she hoped she would meet someone at the Oscar's after party but she complained "I didn't have one guy talk to me that wasn't married, or taken, the entire night, all after parties, not one guy." The talk show hosts suggested Brad Pitt, and recently divorced Chris Pratt. Vonn admitted that she had her eye on Micheal B. Jordan but the timing didn't work out.

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She may be lucky on the ski slope but she's not as lucky when it comes to finding love.

Lindsey Vonn revealed in a new interview she's struggling to find a date. The Olympian most recently dated former NFL assistant coach Kenan Smith.

"I really haven't had any offers," Vonn told "Access Live's" Natalie Morales and Kit Hoover Wednesday.

She added that she had hoped to meet someone at an Oscars after-party.

"I didn't have one guy talk to me that wasn't married, or taken, the entire night, all after-parties, not one guy," she complained.

The talk show hosts suggested Vonn date Brad Pitt who recently split from Angelina Jolie.

"If you want to facilitate that - 'Hey Brad let's go.' Brad's everyone's type," Vonn said with a laugh.

They then suggested Chris Pratt who is single after splitting from Anna Faris last year.

"I like Chris. He's very funny and [my sister] Karin says I need more funny in my life," she said.

The athlete admitted that she had her eyes on actor Michael B. Jordan after they met through their mutual stylist but the timing didn't work out.

"He's very cute. My stylist - he's trying to facilitate. I'm trying to get the ball rolling on this one, but it hasn't happened and he's already shooting his next movie," she said.

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Single Lindsey Vonn can't find a suitable date

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She may be lucky on the ski slope but she's not as lucky when it comes to finding love. Lindsey Vonn revealed in a new interview she's struggling to find a date. The Olympian most recently dated former NFL assistant coach Kenan Smith.